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• April 16, 2020 16 Apr'20

  COVID-19 remote work forces shift on SecOps strategy

  Security risk was mostly an afterthought as businesses scrambled to support remote work in response to COVID-19, but SecOps is now at the top of IT shops' priority lists.

• April 09, 2020 09 Apr'20

  HashiCorp Vault secrets manager ups Enterprise edition value

  HashiCorp Vault 1.4 sweetens the deal for users of the paid Enterprise version, which had been subject to questions about differentiation from the free version in the past.

• April 08, 2020 08 Apr'20

  Foundation exec seeks Cloud Foundry vs. Kubernetes detente

  New Cloud Foundry Foundation Executive Director Chip Childers plans to steer the community into the next phase of cooperation with Kubernetes, Knative, Istio and more.

• April 03, 2020 03 Apr'20

  As Atlassian cloud push ramps up, users assess migration

  Atlassian's cloud products offer sought-after enterprise features and extend integrations, but some organizations will still struggle to transition from its on-premises tools.

• April 03, 2020 03 Apr'20

  SysAid announces launch of new workflow tool, Workflow Designer

  Workflow Designer uses a drag-and-drop process to make workflows easier to create with less training and can be crucial with the rise of employees working from home.

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• April 02, 2020 02 Apr'20

  IT service desks rush to support remote work amid pandemic

  IT service desks bore the brunt of the sudden transition from centralized business locations to remote work for most white-collar employees, as COVID-19 forced social distancing.

• March 31, 2020 31 Mar'20

  Rancher plots enterprise Kubernetes management takeover

  Flush with funding, Rancher hopes to win deals away from major IT software vendors such as VMware as enterprises seek help with Kubernetes management.

• March 31, 2020 31 Mar'20

  Log monitoring refinements control data growth, costs

  Whether it's pricing according to access frequency or reducing the volume of logs sent by IT infrastructure, fresh IT monitoring approaches make cloud-native visibility manageable.

• March 25, 2020 25 Mar'20

  HashiCorp Nomad vs. Kubernetes matchup intensifies with 0.11

  HashiCorp Nomad may not overtake Kubernetes but could capture broader enterprise attention with container-like orchestration features for legacy apps in VMs.

• March 20, 2020 20 Mar'20

  Las Vegas shores up SecOps with multi-factor authentication

  AI-driven SecOps tools spared Las Vegas from a major data breach in January. The city now bets that two-factor authentication can stop future attempts.

• March 17, 2020 17 Mar'20

  Coronavirus forces switch to remote work for DevOps teams

  The new coronavirus pandemic will force most DevOps teams to work remotely and may also interfere with work schedules. Experts share advice on how to weather the disruption.

• March 12, 2020 12 Mar'20

  AWS Bottlerocket container OS locks down hosts

  AWS Bottlerocket puts the cloud giant's spin on the container OS, and container host security, but the company will have to overcome a generally poor reputation in the open source world.

• March 11, 2020 11 Mar'20

  Continuous delivery pipeline transforms hotel chain's IT ops

  As Choice Hotels moved away from homegrown scripting tools for continuous delivery, it fundamentally shifted the daily duties of its IT ops teams.

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  Istio service mesh revamp may ease use, or sow confusion

  Istio 1.5 reworks a microservices-based control plane into a monolith as the service mesh project seeks to simplify management and improve performance.

• March 05, 2020 05 Mar'20

  Biometrics firm fights monitoring overload with log analytics

  Log analytics tools have become more popular as enterprise IT pros contend with complex, continuous microservices application deployments at scale.

• February 28, 2020 28 Feb'20

  Top 5 container software trends to watch in 2020

  Container software, namely Kubernetes, has become a staple of modern enterprise IT infrastructure -- here's what's coming next for the technology in 2020 and beyond.

• February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20

  Kubernetes edge computing takes shape on container frontier

  Kubernetes at the edge has emerged as an early stage trend among enterprises that want to push the boundaries of software automation.

• February 26, 2020 26 Feb'20

  JFrog touts DevSecOps edge in CI/CD tools

  JFrog hops aboard a crowded CI/CD bandwagon, but its expertise in artifact and package management could appeal to security-conscious DevOps shops.

• February 25, 2020 25 Feb'20

  Mirantis marshals reinforcements for Kubernetes management

  Mirantis adds engineering staff and revives Docker Swarm as it plans to do battle in container orchestration against Red Hat, Pivotal and Docker itself.

• February 21, 2020 21 Feb'20

  Massive DoD DevSecOps standards push may aid enterprise IT

  The CNCF, defense contractors and IT vendors have joined forces with the Department of Defense to establish NIST security standards and best practices for DevSecOps.

• February 21, 2020 21 Feb'20

  GKE Application Manager does GitOps for Kubernetes config

  GKE Application Manager, rolled out in beta this week, bakes in an open source Kubernetes configuration management tool to simplify application deployments to GKE.

• February 14, 2020 14 Feb'20

  Chef IT automation invigorates legacy apps amid cloud surge

  Chef Software's Habitat tool carved out a niche as it matured, among enterprise IT pros tasked with modernizing legacy data center apps.

• February 13, 2020 13 Feb'20

  Ad firm gets Kubernetes management boost from Agile Stacks

  With a small staff of engineers responsible for all of IT, a digital advertising firm needed help to smooth out the learning curve as it migrated from Mesosphere to Kubernetes.

• February 12, 2020 12 Feb'20

  Grafana Loki users reap log data savings, with tradeoffs

  Grafana Loki won't replace advanced log analytics tools, but it may be a boon for shops that want to collect massive amounts of log data for troubleshooting applications.

• February 07, 2020 07 Feb'20

  Retail software firm takes broad view of Kubernetes security

  Kubernetes platform security has supplanted container-level security for enterprises such as retail software vendor Aptos as they deploy microservices in production.

• February 07, 2020 07 Feb'20

  Dynatrace deepens AIOps ties with Kubernetes monitoring

  Dynatrace has expanded the number of metrics it can feed into its Davis AIOps engine from Kubernetes infrastructure, thereby enhancing autoremediation features for container workloads.

• February 06, 2020 06 Feb'20

  Enterprise service management blurs business, IT operations

  IT-style automated workflows are expanding to non-IT departments, even as business initiatives fuse with software projects. IT ops will support both, often with the same toolset.

• January 28, 2020 28 Jan'20

  Cisco folds AppDynamics AIOps into its infrastructure tools

  Cisco shops might welcome new integrations between AppDynamics AIOps tools and Cisco Intersight management software, but whether they will draw in other users is uncertain.

• January 21, 2020 21 Jan'20

  PE firm merges XebiaLabs, CollabNet for new DevOps toolchain

  XebiaLabs will join with CollabNet VersionOne to form a new DevOps platform vendor that will compete with Atlassian, GitHub, GitLab and CloudBees.

• January 17, 2020 17 Jan'20

  AIOps exec bets on incident response market shakeup

  Resolve Systems, under a newly appointed CEO, will soon roll out a new product based on its FixStream acquisition that combines AIOps and IT automation.

• January 16, 2020 16 Jan'20

  SaltStack infrastructure-as-code tools seek cloud-native niche

  SaltStack, like other infrastructure-as-code tools, must reinvent itself as cloud-native IT automation approaches such as containers, serverless and Kubernetes Operators grow.

• January 14, 2020 14 Jan'20

  Kubernetes security gets an assist with bug bounty program

  The Kubernetes Security Product Group will outsource bug triage to HackerOne under a new bug bounty program that will offer rewards for bug reports up to $10,000.

• January 13, 2020 13 Jan'20

  SecOps and IT ops merge revs IT monitoring platform rivalry

  Enterprises want consolidated monitoring platforms for SecOps and IT ops data. Here's how Sumo Logic plans to compete in that market in 2020 with IP from its JASK acquisition.

• January 07, 2020 07 Jan'20

  Alaska Airlines plans to switch IT onto autopilot with AIOps

  Alaska Airlines' e-commerce division will chart a course for hands-off IT ops and a sharper focus on strategic SRE duties through AIOps tools.

• December 18, 2019 18 Dec'19

  Ex-PayPal pros shun AI with SecOps IT automation firm

  Machine learning and AI are all the rage in IT automation tools -- except for the one produced by a new startup founded by two former PayPal cybersecurity engineers.

• December 18, 2019 18 Dec'19

  New Kubernetes security tools abound as container deployments grow

  As Kubernetes use expands in production, enterprises have a number of IT security tools to choose from for centralized, policy-based control over container clusters.

• December 17, 2019 17 Dec'19

  Verizon, Walmart embrace DevOps dojo for IT training

  Some IT training experts say 'Dojo is a no-go,' but companies such as Verizon and Walmart say the DevOps dojo approach has been well worth it for them.

• December 16, 2019 16 Dec'19

  Ramp up carefully during AIOps implementation

  Sound IT automation and data management practices -- along with a healthy dose of patience -- are prerequisites for a smooth AIOps implementation.

• December 13, 2019 13 Dec'19

  Put infrastructure automation at the heart of modern IT ops

  IT automation, DevOps at scale and hybrid infrastructure management are three critical -- and interconnected -- IT operations initiatives for 2020.

• December 13, 2019 13 Dec'19

  Geek gifts 2019: Think Opex, not Capex with subscriptions

  Why manage buying your own gifts for geeks, when there are so many subscription gift box services that will do that kind of undifferentiated heavy lifting for you?

• December 12, 2019 12 Dec'19

  Dynatrace monitoring faces market ambivalence in NoOps push

  Dynatrace is gung-ho about NoOps with training services and an open source tool for CI/CD automation, but may face skepticism from a wary enterprise IT audience.

• December 06, 2019 06 Dec'19

  10 DevOps tools vendors to watch in 2020

  A vast market for DevOps tools includes every major IT vendor and many up-and-comers. A panel of industry experts say these 10 are most likely to shift the market in 2020.

• November 22, 2019 22 Nov'19

  Kubernetes release gets little fanfare as IT looks toward GitOps

  Kubernetes is considered stable enough to be boring. The latest beta release was barely mentioned at KubeCon, where IT pros focused on advanced uses such as GitOps and other cloud-native projects.

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  Linkerd vs. Istio battle heats up as service mesh gains steam

  Service mesh has gone from a relatively unknown entity to a mainstream topic in 2019, but it's too early to declare a TKO in the Linkerd vs. Istio prizefight.

• November 21, 2019 21 Nov'19

  Kubernetes Helm Tiller is dead, and IT pros rejoice

  The latest version of the Kubernetes Helm package manager promises better security and stability in version 3, which removes the Tiller server component from Helm's architecture.

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Kubernetes security opens a new frontier: Multi-tenancy

  Enterprises have grown used to managing Kubernetes in production for some of their workloads, but broadening those deployments can bring multi-tenant security challenges.

• November 15, 2019 15 Nov'19

  D2iQ latest to seek Kubernetes management niche

  D2iQ's CTO says it will use its enterprise experience with Apache Mesos container orchestration and big data apps such as Kafka to compete in a crowded market for Kubernetes management.

• November 13, 2019 13 Nov'19

  Docker Enterprise spun off to Mirantis, company restructures

  In an unexpected move, Docker sells off its Docker Enterprise business -- including customer support -- to Mirantis and refocuses on Docker Hub and Docker Desktop.

• November 12, 2019 12 Nov'19

  Aqua Security buys CloudSploit, expands into cloud security

  Amid consolidation and chaos in the cloud security market, Aqua snaps up CloudSploit and sets the stage for increased competition with traditional IT security vendors.

• November 08, 2019 08 Nov'19

  Microservices security calls for zero-trust, data classification

  Sanity in a zero-trust world for microservices security calls for IT teams to prioritize the assets they must protect, and that starts with data classification.

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  JASK buy may boost security analytics in Sumo Logic SIEM

  Sumo Logic has acquired JASK, an automated SOC that will be most useful for security analytics and alert reduction features within Sumo Logic's SIEM.

• November 01, 2019 01 Nov'19

  New Relic catches up in serverless monitoring with IOpipe

  IOpipe's IP and expertise will help New Relic catch up with the latest serverless monitoring trends, such as AWS Lambda Layers support and event-driven frameworks.

• October 28, 2019 28 Oct'19

  DevOps security shifts left, but miles to go to pass hackers

  DevSecOps has gone mainstream as companies bake security automation into app development, but experts say the toughest cybersecurity challenges remain unsolved.

• October 25, 2019 25 Oct'19

  Enterprise IT weighs pros and cons of multi-cloud management

  IT ops pros are getting used to multi-cloud management, especially for disaster recovery, but moving from cloud to cloud via container portability is still rare.

• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  Elastic SIEM spring release will complete Endgame tie-in

  Endgame agents can now send endpoint security data to the Elastic SIEM, but UI and data schema integration -- and the ability to take action on endpoints -- will come next year.

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  Security automation charges IT ops to build the 'paved road'

  As IT ops pros evolve into SREs, they play a key role in security automation and create secure paths to production deployment for application developers.

• October 18, 2019 18 Oct'19

  Red Hat OpenShift Tekton pipelines reflect strategic platform focus

  OpenShift and its competitors now offer enterprises soup-to-nuts DevOps platforms, rather than simple Kubernetes management tools, that are based on different points of strategic lock-in.

• October 11, 2019 11 Oct'19

  Ticketmaster unifies DevOps monitoring with Confluent Kafka

  Ticketmaster troubleshoots and secures distributed applications using Kafka stream processing as a central hub for data collection.

• October 10, 2019 10 Oct'19

  Kubernetes on Windows nodes hits GA in Rancher, Amazon EKS

  Windows host support in Kubernetes reached a milestone with general availability from container management vendors, which makes containers more accessible for legacy apps.

• October 08, 2019 08 Oct'19

  Google sparks open source unrest over Knative, Istio

  Google is keeping its Knative and Istio projects close to the vest, which could limit their reach long term, early adopters say.

• October 07, 2019 07 Oct'19

  Docker Desktop asset, fiscal stress prompt acquisition buzz

  Docker has tried to differentiate itself as a Kubernetes competitor, but amid reports of financial headwinds, it should return to its roots in the developer desktop, analysts say.

• October 02, 2019 02 Oct'19

  Chef outage fuels technology ethics debate

  Software companies have been embroiled in high-profile ethical controversies in the past two years, driving industry debate about just how extensively politics should influence tech.

• September 26, 2019 26 Sep'19

  Turbonomic adds features to Application Resource Management

  The new features include continuous service optimization in Kubernetes and accurate container planning to ensure that applications have sufficient resources to perform.

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  Ansible Tower revamp adds analytics, security automation

  Ansible Tower and Ansible Engine are now one product, Ansible Automation Platform, which also includes automation analytics, security automation integrations and certified content.

• September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19

  BizDevOps, DevOps feedback loops guide IT transformation

  BizDevOps has been the priority for Dynatrace customer American Fidelity the last four years, guiding the company's IT priorities amid ever-increasing technical complexity.

• September 18, 2019 18 Sep'19

  DevSecOps veterans share security strategy, lessons learned

  DevSecOps practitioners imparted dos and don'ts for newbies and urged them to think strategically as well as tactically about improving IT security.

• September 17, 2019 17 Sep'19

  New application security risks lead IT teams to DevSecOps

  Once a bleeding-edge concept, DevSecOps has gone mainstream following high-profile security breaches that proved simply installing automated security tools doesn't go far enough.

• September 13, 2019 13 Sep'19

  Google Cloud tackles Spark on Kubernetes

  Google Cloud Dataproc is the first major cloud provider to integrate Apache Spark with Kubernetes as a managed service, but work remains to better link the two projects upstream.

• September 11, 2019 11 Sep'19

  HashiCorp Consul plays to multi-platform strength with Azure

  HashiCorp's Consul service mesh will be offered as a hosted service on Microsoft Azure, where it can link container clusters along with VMs in multiple regions.

• September 11, 2019 11 Sep'19

  New HashiCorp Terraform pricing aims for midsize firms, teams

  HashiCorp Terraform Cloud's new pricing tier reflects a shift in how software vendors market to large enterprises.

• September 09, 2019 09 Sep'19

  ServiceNow adds mobile app to 'New York' Now Platform

  ServiceNow released the latest version of its Now Platform that features a mobile application giving remote users access to the core capabilities of the platform.

• September 06, 2019 06 Sep'19

  Feature flags emerge as enterprise DevOps must-have

  CloudBees and Atlassian have feature flags on their near-term product roadmaps, as enterprise DevOps shops seek to lower the risk of continuous code deployment to production.

• September 05, 2019 05 Sep'19

  Atlassian cloud woos enterprises with SLA, security boost

  Large enterprise users of Atlassian's on-premises software say the vendor's cloud tools have piqued their interest with updates to security and support.

• August 28, 2019 28 Aug'19

  Knative serverless Kubernetes bypasses FaaS to revive PaaS

  Knative's emerging claim to fame is that it can turn Kubernetes into a next-gen platform as a service with both a Heroku-like developer experience and deep infrastructure control.

• August 27, 2019 27 Aug'19

  IT training programs stall amid search for best practices

  Without a standard set of best practices to refer to for IT training programs, or any industry consensus on the best general approach to training, large enterprises have begun to trail smaller, more nimble counterparts in the efficiency of their ...

• August 23, 2019 23 Aug'19

  SolarWinds Discovery offers low-cost way to manage IT assets

  SolarWinds expands its IT service management offerings with a software service that lets IT teams locate, map and manage their software and hardware assets.

• August 22, 2019 22 Aug'19

  Istio service mesh hits OpenShift GA, but upgrades are slow

  Istio service mesh, Kiali and Jaeger are generally available for Red Hat OpenShift 4, but it will be some time before users are ready for the latest version of the platform.

• August 22, 2019 22 Aug'19

  Splunk pricing worries some users amid SignalFx monitoring buy

  Splunk wants to collect more data via SignalFx, but some users wonder how much it will cost to keep up with the proliferation of logs and metrics in the age of cloud monitoring.

• August 16, 2019 16 Aug'19

  IT pros contend with the future of continuous delivery

  Continuous delivery tools are poised to add comprehensive breadth and analytical depth, but whether most enterprises can assimilate them is another matter.

• August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19

  Jenkins X gears up for SaaS version, GitOps standards

  With key maturity milestones behind them, the maintainers of Jenkins X prepare a SaaS version, and plan to collaborate with Google's Tekton and Netflix's Spinnaker.

• August 14, 2019 14 Aug'19

  CloudBees CEO reveals plans for CI/CD tools, Google project

  CloudBees CEO Sacha Labourey puts his roadmap cards on the table for the next generation of the company's CI/CD tools and an upcoming project to co-develop CI/CD for Anthos with Google.

• August 14, 2019 14 Aug'19

  IT training flaws compound DevOps skills shortage

  Before investing in an online course to learn new IT skills, heed this warning from brain scientists: there is a big difference between knowing what to do and knowing how to do it.

• August 08, 2019 08 Aug'19

  Mesosphere's Kubernetes pivot sets stage for IT vendor attrition

  Mesosphere becomes D2iQ, and affirms that Kubernetes is eating the world. Is IT entering a golden age of interoperability, or on the verge of mass consolidation?

• July 31, 2019 31 Jul'19

  SaaS management tool eases merger transition for IT

  When European car-sharing startup Drivy becomes Getaround this fall, a SaaS management tool will integrate the two companies' IT systems, an increasingly common need for businesses.

• July 30, 2019 30 Jul'19

  GitOps path puts CI/CD ahead of infrastructure automation

  Which comes first -- automated app deployment pipelines, or automated infrastructures on which to deploy? At GitOps shop Procore, the answer is emphatically the former.

• July 26, 2019 26 Jul'19

  BizDevOps tools await enterprise maturity

  PagerDuty, Splunk and other vendors have added BizDevOps features to their IT management tools, but if they build it, will enterprises come?

• July 25, 2019 25 Jul'19

  Kubernetes authentication project wrestles with migration problems

  GKE users like the Workload Identity feature for Kubernetes authentication with GCP services, but similar improvements to core cluster security present a potential market-wide migration headache.

• July 24, 2019 24 Jul'19

  Compliance-as-code tool hits DevSecOps sweet spot for MSP

  There are almost as many tools to assist with DevSecOps as there are definitions for the term – how one managed service provider that serves federal agencies chose a compliance-as-code vendor.

• 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.