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• July 23, 2019 23 Jul'19

  ManageEngine Analytics Plus upgrades with AI assistant Zia

  With Zia, IT teams can ask questions via voice or text to quickly access data and insight. Available with ManageEngine Analytics Plus, the AI intends to increase productivity.

• July 19, 2019 19 Jul'19

  Kubernetes policy project takes enterprise IT by storm

  A Kubernetes-friendly compliance as code project hosted by the CNCF has caught on among large enterprises in the first half of 2019, largely through word of mouth.

• July 17, 2019 17 Jul'19

  Container security improves overall enterprise IT posture

  Enterprise IT pros worried about security when containers were first introduced, but as containers are put into production, they can actually present ways to tighten security practices.

• July 17, 2019 17 Jul'19

  AWS OpsCenter and Moogsoft AIOps integrate for IT productivity

  By integrating AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter and Moogsoft AIOps platforms, the vendors hope to reduce alert noise, automate remediation and solve incidents faster.

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

  Snow Software launches new tech management suite

  The new intelligence suite has six main tools that help manage the challenges due to growing IT operations, from spending and productivity to monitoring risk.

• July 02, 2019 02 Jul'19

  Kubernetes security tool gives IT a leg up on DevSecOps

  An emerging real estate firm tasked with DevSecOps sought an assist from startup Alcide, which bakes Kubernetes security best practices into its software.

• July 01, 2019 01 Jul'19

  Elastic SIEM woos enterprises with cost savings

  Elastic SIEM gains interest from former Splunk users, with the promise of cost savings and the prospect of centralized security analytics and IT monitoring data repositories.

• June 26, 2019 26 Jun'19

  LogicMonitor wades into AIOps with anomaly detection

  Another country heard from in AIOps: LogicMonitor rolls out anomaly detection and alert dependency correlation, but can it rise above the noise?

• June 26, 2019 26 Jun'19

  SysAid launches Automate Joe for ITSM platform automation

  Integrating Automate Joe with the SysAid ITSM platform will boost automation, minimize repetitive tasks for service agents and improve productivity, according to the vendor.

• June 21, 2019 21 Jun'19

  AI help desk software frees IT ops to take on SRE skills

  A financial services company will retrain its help desk staff to be app developers and SREs, while AI handles the grunt work for the company's call center employees.

• June 20, 2019 20 Jun'19

  IT pros brace for wave of M&A in microservices security

  Microservices and DevOps have made IT security a shared responsibility among enterprise stakeholders, and experts expect this shift to prompt mass consolidation among vendors.

• June 20, 2019 20 Jun'19

  Alaska Airlines charts course for DevOps security

  As Alaska Airlines plots a flight path to a hybrid cloud infrastructure, it will navigate with an automated DevOps security tool that spans multiple IT environments.

• June 13, 2019 13 Jun'19

  AIOps tools beef up insights, but long-term scope unclear

  AIOps tools present a way to cope with IT infrastructure sprawl and complexity, but how far they can go with hands-off automation features is still a topic for debate.

• June 12, 2019 12 Jun'19

  AIOps early adopters tackle data quality issues

  AIOps is new in many ways, but early adopters must also heed a time-honored IT maxim: garbage in, garbage out.

• June 06, 2019 06 Jun'19

  UPS delivers Agile plan for legacy application modernization

  As UPS moved its package-tracking system from mainframe to open systems, it drew on the old adage about how to eat an elephant: one small bite at a time.

• May 31, 2019 31 May'19

  Palo Alto Networks buys Twistlock, PureSec for container security

  Palo Alto Networks snaps up Twistlock and PureSec to broaden its cloud security portfolio and give enterprise IT shops more options for container and serverless security.

• May 22, 2019 22 May'19

  DevSecOps evolution changes the game for IT ops

  A DevSecOps shift and a move to public cloud have precipitated a sea change in what's expected of IT ops pros at a mobile video on-demand company.

• May 21, 2019 21 May'19

  Enterprises anticipate IT ops benefits from GitOps

  Infrastructure as code, configuration as code, security as code -- enterprise SREs set their sights on everything as code in pursuit of GitOps efficiency.

• May 21, 2019 21 May'19

  GKE, Azure roll out Windows Kubernetes support

  Cloud service providers rolled out Windows Kubernetes support this week, which may take some of the burden of Linux container management requirements out of the hands of Microsoft-only shops.

• May 17, 2019 17 May'19

  Former Chef Software CTO talks IT automation, open source

  Chef Software's founder, Adam Jacob, built widely used IT automation software for the enterprise. Now that he's no longer CTO, he's taking a break and pondering what comes next.

• May 17, 2019 17 May'19

  Mainframe DevOps gets fresh integration option in LzLabs

  Most mainframe DevOps tools make open source app delivery pipelines speak mainframe's language, but LzLabs brings mainframe apps to a Linux-based platform without recompilation.

• May 14, 2019 14 May'19

  Application dependency mapping expands in New Relic One

  DevOps monitoring vendors rev their engines as enterprises take on more sophisticated IT monitoring practices to reach the next major phase of app modernization.

• May 10, 2019 10 May'19

  OpenShift shops chart a course for advanced IT automation

  IT teams tackled containerization, developer self-service platforms and infrastructure provisioning automation in 2018. So, what's next?

• May 09, 2019 09 May'19

  Ansible roadmap offers open source automation with assurances

  Ansible users can expect some key updates around the tool's certified content program, along with more options to assess the performance of their automated infrastructure.

• May 08, 2019 08 May'19

  OpenShift architecture bakes in CoreOS Operator automation

  OpenShift 4.1 promises easier container management for IT ops pros, but getting there from OpenShift 3 could be tricky for enterprises with large deployments.

• May 08, 2019 08 May'19

  Snow Software SAM expands Microsoft, Oracle and Adobe support

  Snow Software's SAM platform has expanded to include new compliance and manageability capabilities for Microsoft Windows, Oracle and Adobe Creative Cloud.

• May 08, 2019 08 May'19

  OpenShift-Azure ties deepen as IT sets sights on multi-cloud

  Enterprises will consider an OpenShift managed service on Azure as part of a multi-cloud strategy, but Kubernetes won't necessarily make workloads cloud-agnostic.

• May 02, 2019 02 May'19

  Docker Enterprise pricing shake-up leaves unanswered questions

  IT pros begin to evaluate the long-term budget implications of a significant change to the Docker Enterprise pricing scheme.

• April 25, 2019 25 Apr'19

  Experian credits incident management tool for IT efficiency

  When Experian deployed xMatters, the IT landscape was very different. But the incident management tool's adaptability kept it useful through shifts in tech trends.

• April 23, 2019 23 Apr'19

  Rancher's Kubernetes updates boost security, UI performance

  Enterprise IT pros expect changes to Rancher's Kubernetes management tools to bolster security configuration and UI performance.

• April 18, 2019 18 Apr'19

  CloudBees' acquisition of Electric Cloud broadens focus

  CloudBees folds in Electric Cloud and pledges to broaden its focus beyond Jenkins, while customers wait and see how that might impact long-term roadmap plans.

• April 12, 2019 12 Apr'19

  Opsgenie integrations expand under Atlassian

  Opsgenie's induction into the Atlassian fold reflects a trend of incident management tools' absorption into broader DevOps platforms, but not every user prefers a one-stop shop.

• April 10, 2019 10 Apr'19

  Cloud Foundry PaaS undergoes seismic shifts as IT evolves

  Cloud Foundry undergoes drastic changes as infrastructure automation technology develops, to the point where some industry experts see more erosion than evolution.

• April 08, 2019 08 Apr'19

  Users forge ahead with Cloud Foundry-Kubernetes integration

  Complementary roles for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes are clear to IT pros, and the community plans to knit the two more closely together with the Eirini project.

• April 02, 2019 02 Apr'19

  Chef licensing changes prompt debate among IT pros

  IT pros who use Chef automation software have mixed reactions to the company's plan to revamp its software licensing strategy.

• April 01, 2019 01 Apr'19

  Google SREs test the limits of infrastructure automation

  Google SRE veterans spoke publicly about infrastructure automation work, its future and its limitations.

• March 26, 2019 26 Mar'19

  Site reliability engineer shift creates IT ops dilemma

  Aspiring SREs find it hard to move away from tactical tasks to focus on strategic projects. Veteran SREs say the path to less toil begins with prioritization and automation.

• March 25, 2019 25 Mar'19

  Kubernetes for Windows hits GA, with limitations

  Kubernetes support for Windows nodes was declared stable in Kubernetes 1.14, but extensive fine print remains.

• March 25, 2019 25 Mar'19

  SRE software refines DevOps incident response for enterprise

  SRE workflows often emerge organically within enterprise IT teams, but software tools add measurability and automation for incident response and review in one DevOps shop.

• March 22, 2019 22 Mar'19

  Kubernetes management for 'Minecraft' has enterprise IT traits

  What do 'Minecraft' servers and enterprise databases have in common? In the realm of Kubernetes management, more than you might think.

• March 21, 2019 21 Mar'19

  IT security monitoring at golf club lets IT ops play through

  ClubCorp took stock of its IT security strategy last year, which led to freedom from grunt work and renewed focus for the IT ops team.

• March 15, 2019 15 Mar'19

  DevSecOps shift begins, but remains a work in progress

  DevOps security has shifted left, but IT pros disagree on just how far into application design and away from infrastructure security practices will go.

• March 15, 2019 15 Mar'19

  DevOps security tools 'shift left' into CI/CD pipelines

  DevOps security remains a work in progress, but many enterprise IT shops already plug collaboration points for IT security and operations pros directly into the app development pipeline.

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  F5-Nginx deal reflects mainstream trend toward microservices

  F5 snaps up Nginx for cloud-native app support, and analysts predict a microservices gold rush as modern application architectures catch on in enterprise IT shops.

• March 08, 2019 08 Mar'19

  Release automation tools link legacy, modern app management

  Release automation tools will evolve in 2019 to embrace advanced application development and infrastructure automation techniques.

• March 05, 2019 05 Mar'19

  Container security tools turn heads with expansion to hosts

  Vendors that sell container security tools now face off against traditional security tool providers, as both vie for the attention of IT pros who look to fortify their cloud-native infrastructure.

• February 28, 2019 28 Feb'19

  Sensu architecture smoothes monitoring data workflow for NCR

  Sensu Go's architecture and monitoring as code prompted NCR to switch away from Zabbix and pass on SolarWinds, as it sought to collect data from 80,000 restaurant customers.

• February 28, 2019 28 Feb'19

  Istio security drives Auto Trader UK move to GKE

  The U.K.'s largest online automotive marketplace put Istio security features in place before it adopted containers and GKE, rather than the other way around.

• February 26, 2019 26 Feb'19

  VMware PKS adds Heptio IP, boosts container street cred

  VMware adds bare-metal Kubernetes and an elite support squad from Heptio, but it's unlikely to get widespread interest with bespoke container orchestration on premises.

• February 25, 2019 25 Feb'19

  Mainframe DevOps forces platform reckoning for enterprises

  DevOps has reached the mainframe world, where a few enterprise 'unicorns' have blazed a trail with new tools for the rest of the IT industry.

• February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19

  Container security tools pitch service mesh integrations

  Container defense in depth is a hot topic, and some IT pros approach it with a combination of third-party container security tools and service mesh security features.

• February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19

  Linkerd vs. Istio fray dominates service mesh battle

  Linkerd's maintainers admit it has a narrower range of features than buzz machine Istio. But after failed attempts to set up Istio, some early adopters believe less is more.

• February 11, 2019 11 Feb'19

  Container security vulnerability prompts call to patch runC

  The discovery of a container utility flaw means IT pros must patch most container runtimes, as well as practice defense in depth and beware of strangers with sketchy container images.

• February 08, 2019 08 Feb'19

  Rancher's Kubernetes multi-cluster app support fuels IT debate

  To federate or not to federate cloud-native apps? As Kubernetes becomes ubiquitous, that is the question that more IT shops must answer.

• February 07, 2019 07 Feb'19

  AIOps wars heat up with New Relic-SignifAI deal

  An already heated struggle between DevOps monitoring vendors becomes an all-out rumble, as New Relic acquires SignifAI and ups the AIOps ante for rivals.

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  Uncertain future of open core software puts companies at risk

  Many enterprises rely on commercial vendors for open source software support, but the open core business model isn't always a solid bet for longevity.

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  Open source in the enterprise presents a two-edged sword

  The price is right for pure upstream open source IT management software, which also offers IT pros control over their own destiny. But some enterprises aren't prepared for the long-term costs.

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  AppDynamics AIOps injection sets the stage for IT automation

  AIOps IP from Perspica broadens AppDynamics' automated root cause analysis features, but enterprises must evaluate IT and business analytics options carefully before they commit.

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  AthenaHealth picks SignalFx to smooth public cloud monitoring

  IT monitoring through SignalFx's Prometheus and AWS CloudWatch integrations helps AthenaHealth manage multiple public cloud environments from a central interface.

• January 21, 2019 21 Jan'19

  VMware-Heptio roadmap to refine enterprise Kubernetes

  Heptio founder Craig McLuckie, now VP of R&D at VMware following a 2018 merger, anticipates hard work ahead to get enterprises to adopt Kubernetes in their production environments.

• January 17, 2019 17 Jan'19

  VMware and Pivotal put NSX spin on Kubernetes security

  VMware and Pivotal mix NSX network segmentation into PKS 1.3 to appeal to large, advanced users of vSphere and Kubernetes who manage multi-tenant container clusters.

• January 16, 2019 16 Jan'19

  Latest Kubernetes monitoring, AIOps features trace DevOps trends

  It won't be long before Kubernetes and AIOps support are standard features among familiar DevOps monitoring tools, which will ease the learning curve for cloud-native infrastructure.

• January 10, 2019 10 Jan'19

  Database DevOps tools ease app deployment at insurance firm

  Colonial Life brought its SQL-based enrollment app into the DevOps fold with a tool from Datical to replace its faulty manual update process.

• January 02, 2019 02 Jan'19

  DevOps security model hits organizational snags

  DevOps security tools are on the market, and IT pros are acutely aware of the need to update their practices. But alignment with business teams hasn't gotten any easier.

• December 28, 2018 28 Dec'18

  Major acquisitions, Kubernetes evolution top IT news in 2018

  In the second half of 2018, IT industry vendors and their users worked to tame Kubernetes and containers, and inject open source innovation into tried-and-true enterprise IT.

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  IT industry trends home in on containers, AIOps and CI/CD

  IT ops pros should be on the lookout for enterprise-wide production container deployments, real-world AIOps usage and new approaches to CI/CD in 2019.

• December 14, 2018 14 Dec'18

  Istio service mesh tradeoffs prompt caution among IT pros

  Istio can boost the security and observability of Kubernetes environments, but some IT pros question whether the perks are worth a steep learning curve.

• December 14, 2018 14 Dec'18

  Knative project stokes interest in event-driven IT ops

  The Knative project is nascent, but Kubernetes users said they believe it could facilitate the next generation of IT infrastructure management.

• December 13, 2018 13 Dec'18

  Enterprise SREs guide devs through Kubernetes in production

  Behind most enterprise developers that own and operate the services they create stands a platform engineering team that's teed up Kubernetes in its most manageable form.

• December 13, 2018 13 Dec'18

  Kubernetes 1.13 stabilizes storage, but Windows GA delayed

  IT pros with Kubernetes in production welcomed stable releases of cluster install and container storage utilities in version 1.13, but they'll have to wait for some key features.

• December 11, 2018 11 Dec'18

  Kubernetes security issues raise concerns for enterprise shops

  As Kubernetes enters the enterprise mainstream, it has early adopters abuzz about security issues in the platform and the containers it orchestrates.

• December 04, 2018 04 Dec'18

  Microsoft and Docker CNAB takes aim at distributed computing

  Microsoft and Docker want to push container-like abstraction up the stack with the CNAB open source spec, which has piqued enterprise interest in its early stages.

• December 04, 2018 04 Dec'18

  Kubernetes security vulnerability reveals fractured market

  Enterprises that pay for Kubernetes support will respond differently to this week's critical security vulnerability than lean DevOps teams that use upstream distributions.

• November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18

  Istio service mesh vies for lead in microservices market

  Istio's integration into Google Cloud will give it momentum, but service mesh competition remains fierce, as HashiCorp Consul makes strong inroads with early adopters.

• November 20, 2018 20 Nov'18

  Gifts for geeks in 2018: analog edition

  Gifts for geeks don't have to be digital. This year's suggestions feature a decidedly analog theme.

• November 20, 2018 20 Nov'18

  Kibana monitoring apps zoom in on Kubernetes infrastructure

  A new set of time-series Kubernetes infrastructure monitoring and APM tools in version 6.5 of Elastic Stack take their place among many choices for IT pros.

• November 16, 2018 16 Nov'18

  AWS Lambda monitoring goes mainstream with New Relic beta

  New Relic users and prospects will investigate AWS Lambda monitoring features released in private beta, as serverless usage filters in to enterprise IT shops.

• November 15, 2018 15 Nov'18

  Container security tools push multi-cloud closer to reality

  Container security tools, such as StackRox and Aqua Security, offer DevOps shops that want multi-cloud portability a centralized way to reduce the risk of complex infrastructures.

• November 09, 2018 09 Nov'18

  Docker on Windows Server helps legacy apps, with caveats

  Windows-only Docker Enterprise Edition prospects struggle with Linux requirements and a shift to a container-first mindset as they plan to modernize legacy Microsoft applications.

• November 09, 2018 09 Nov'18

  Terraform orchestration matures as multi-cloud lingua franca

  Terraform offers cloud-agnostic infrastructure as code to highly skilled DevOps pros, and its latest release looks to extend its appeal beyond early adopters.

• November 07, 2018 07 Nov'18

  Kubernetes on VMware gains a lifeline with Heptio acquisition

  VMware's Heptio buy brings it Kubernetes chops that will help it make a multi-cloud bid, but it will struggle to raise its profile in open source container management, industry watchers predict.

• November 02, 2018 02 Nov'18

  HashiCorp Vault maturity prompts strategy speculation

  HashiCorp is valued at $1.9 billion for its IT management software, such as Vault 1.0, and the IBM-Red Hat merger has set off speculation about the firm's future.

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  Grow rapidly into a continuous delivery pipeline

  IT organizations that undertake continuous delivery and deployment initiatives must find strategies to enable that nonstop rush into production without any space for massive or prolonged user-facing problems.

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  IBM Red Hat acquisition roils open source container management

  IBM agreed to buy Red Hat with Kubernetes in mind for its multi-cloud management strategy, and it'll have far-reaching implications for the open source container management community, especially Cloud Foundry.

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  Nomad vs. Kubernetes talk prompts HashiCorp managed service plan

  HashiCorp's founders say Nomad and Kubernetes are not mutually exclusive, but the company will launch a Nomad managed service to match cloud providers' turnkey Kubernetes services.

• October 22, 2018 22 Oct'18

  IT pros shore up Prometheus monitoring via third-party tools

  Upstream Prometheus monitoring isn't ready for prime time in enterprise environments, but it gets by with a little help from its friends, such as Sysdig and Rancher Labs.

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Netflix Spinnaker pipelines tighten bond with Kubernetes

  The Netflix- and Google-led Spinnaker continuous deployment software project has added enterprise appeal with revamped Kubernetes integration.

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Chef InSpec 3.0 horns in on Terraform territory

  Chef InSpec 3.0 can scan Terraform infrastructure-as-code files for security and compliance gaps, which knocked HashiCorp Sentinel off the evaluation list at Chef customer Pacific Life.

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  SRE model requires technical, organizational optimization skills

  Practitioners categorize SRE job descriptions two ways -- by distributed systems architecture design that evolves rapidly, and also by the ability to optimize human workflows.

• October 12, 2018 12 Oct'18

  New Relic acquisition of CoScale boosts Kubernetes prowess

  Kubernetes monitoring is all the rage, and New Relic's CoScale buy gives it an edge in an increasingly noisy market for container monitoring tools.

• October 10, 2018 10 Oct'18

  Puppet Enterprise updates give IT ops pros a leg up on DevOps

  Puppet Enterprise 2019, Puppet Bolt 1.0 and Puppet Insights broaden enterprise IT ops pros' options for DevOps support and infrastructure automation tools.

• October 10, 2018 10 Oct'18

  Embrace DevOps innovation to modernize legacy applications

  To bring legacy applications into the DevOps fold, IT teams must be creative and collaborate in ways that may differ sharply from approaches to greenfield projects.

• October 05, 2018 05 Oct'18

  Users mull Ansible Tower features' config management controls

  Ansible users know their way around a CLI, but some envision an all-inclusive IT automation platform based on the Ansible Tower management console UI and features.

• October 05, 2018 05 Oct'18

  Automated root cause analysis moves into the mainstream

  DevOps monitoring tools that offer automated root cause analysis are now in production within mainstream enterprises. When it comes to their ease of use, however, there is still room to improve.

• October 02, 2018 02 Oct'18

  Kubernetes TLS tweaks whet user appetite for easier management

  Kubernetes TLS bootstrap improvements in version 1.12 tackle container management complexity, and users hope there's more where that came from.

• September 28, 2018 28 Sep'18

  CloudBees sets a path to Cloud Native Jenkins

  CloudBees advanced its core CI/CD platform to broaden developers' options to create apps and access additional services in the cloud.

• September 20, 2018 20 Sep'18

  Jenkins on Kubernetes is promising, but integration needs work

  Jenkins and Kubernetes are a natural fit for automated application development and delivery, and the open source community has plans to improve how Jenkins runs on containers.

• September 19, 2018 19 Sep'18

  CloudBees Core sets its sights beyond enterprise Jenkins

  CloudBees and its competitors vie to offer the visibility and data-driven performance measurement into CI/CD processes that enterprises need to strive for better DevOps governance.

• September 18, 2018 18 Sep'18

  DevOps security takes on the dark side of digital transformation

  Without better organizational discipline, digital businesses are at risk for massively disruptive data breaches and attacks. Can DevSecOps transform IT in time to avert disaster?

• September 13, 2018 13 Sep'18

  IT experts exchange container security tips and caveats

  Real-world container security requires users to dig in to the finer points of container, host, Kubernetes and application configurations.