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• November 16, 2023 16 Nov'23

  Veteran platform engineers share lessons learned, wish lists

  Platform engineering is the new DevOps, but few companies have reached maturity; reps from early adopter orgs shared tips, caveats and a call to action at KubeCon.

• November 09, 2023 09 Nov'23

  Generative AI brings changes to cloud-native platforms

  Generative AI took over tech in 2023, and cloud-native platforms are no exception. The need to support LLMs is already affecting CNCF projects, including Kubernetes.

• November 08, 2023 08 Nov'23

  Intel exec affixes OpenSSF, CNCF open source security efforts

  Intel's Arun Gupta, now governing board chair of both the CNCF and OpenSSF, discusses his plans to bring all three organizations together to improve open source security.

• November 07, 2023 07 Nov'23

  Behind the scenes, Spotify's Backstage a work in progress

  Spotify-created Backstage, now a CNCF project, is popular as enterprises add developer portals to internal platforms, but setup is hard, and getting dev buy-in can be even harder.

• November 02, 2023 02 Nov'23

  IT pros size up Microsoft Radius app developer platform

  As the platform engineering era dawns, enterprises seek better ways to tie apps to distributed infrastructure across clouds. But can Azure's owner build multi-cloud consensus?

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• October 26, 2023 26 Oct'23

  LaunchDarkly feature management adds built-in workflows

  Large enterprises use feature management to cope with traffic spikes and speed up releases but must plan carefully to avoid technical debt. LaunchDarkly updates could help.

• October 26, 2023 26 Oct'23

  Rancher founders' new venture recasts Kubernetes management

  While Rancher focused on simplifying Kubernetes management, Acorn Labs looks to remove it entirely from developer workflows by embedding it within a new kind of application image.

• October 25, 2023 25 Oct'23

  Generative AI gets AIOps closer to ultimate goal

  BigPanda's generative AI-driven root cause analysis keeps it at crux of IHG's AIOps. Glean's natural language processing and suggestions will free up time for Cruise devx team.

• October 18, 2023 18 Oct'23

  Prisma Cloud analytics, automation boost DevSecOps speed

  Prisma Cloud's Darwin update looks to address DevSecOps communication and velocity lags with centralized analytics and by ditching tickets for automated pull requests.

• October 12, 2023 12 Oct'23

  Pulumi, HashiCorp competition expands to developer platforms

  Developer platform choices for enterprise IT continue to proliferate as infrastructure-as-code rivals rush to create tools targeting platform engineers.

• October 11, 2023 11 Oct'23

  Exec: Key new HashiCorp Terraform feature enabled by BSL

  HashiCorp Terraform Stacks will be available in the free Community Edition in part due to development funded by its recent license change, one company official says.

• October 11, 2023 11 Oct'23

  Terraform Registry TOS change stokes open source ire

  Community members allege that HashiCorp quietly changed the terms of service for its Terraform Registry in order to complicate efforts to fork the code.

• September 27, 2023 27 Sep'23

  Now a graduated CNCF project, Istio contests complexity rep

  Boasting a broader contributor base, including Microsoft, and with service mesh on the verge of going fully mainstream, Istio advocates look to shake the project's early image.

• September 21, 2023 21 Sep'23

  IT pros react to blockbuster $28B Cisco-Splunk deal

  Cisco goes through with its long-rumored acquisition of Splunk for security and observability. But the two aren't necessarily a perfect fit, according to some industry observers.

• September 20, 2023 20 Sep'23

  Linux Foundation ups ante on HashiCorp, hosts Terraform fork

  All eyes are on HashiCorp's response now that a community-driven fork of its Terraform infrastructure as code tool has been officially relaunched as a Linux Foundation project.

• September 14, 2023 14 Sep'23

  CloudBees scales its Jenkins CI, previews SaaS platform

  About a year after acquiring ReleaseIQ, CloudBees prepares the fruits of its integration for launch and adds long-awaited scale-out to its commercial version of Jenkins.

• September 14, 2023 14 Sep'23

  Generative AI emerges for DevSecOps, with some qualms

  New and developing tools use natural language processing to assist DevSecOps workflows, but concerns linger among developers about security risks as well.

• September 13, 2023 13 Sep'23

  Meet MLSecOps: Industry calls for new measures to secure AI

  Open source security, already in the software supply chain spotlight, must expand to include AI models, according to the OpenSSF and DevSecOps vendor JFrog.

• September 12, 2023 12 Sep'23

  Cisco Full-Stack Observability draws on channel clout

  Cisco's latest tie-in between app security and observability doesn't break new ground, but the vendor can use its network security cachet and partners to woo enterprise buyers.

• September 07, 2023 07 Sep'23

  Server-side WebAssembly takes shape, but faces challenges

  Server-side Wasm's release next quarter will provide a cleaner way to connect apps, followed by further improvements in early 2024. Will it be enough to convince skeptics?

• August 25, 2023 25 Aug'23

  OpenTF begins HashiCorp Terraform fork, pledges donation

  The vendor-led group says it wants to donate a fork based on the latest open source version of the infrastructure as code tool to a foundation, ideally the Linux Foundation or CNCF.

• August 24, 2023 24 Aug'23

  VMware, Cisco prep generative AI for SecOps

  Generative AI has the potential to go beyond identifying anomalies in known data to create new information, such as incident summaries or security policies -- as well as new risks.

• August 22, 2023 22 Aug'23

  VMware Tanzu portfolio reshuffled ahead of Broadcom close

  VMware Tanzu incorporates Aria AIOps and FinOps products as a $69 billion acquisition by Broadcom looms, putting the product line's future in question.

• August 17, 2023 17 Aug'23

  Vendor-led group vows to fork HashiCorp Terraform

  HashiCorp Terraform is a flashpoint of contention in the wake of the vendor's move to a Business Source License, including allegations that it ignored open source contributions.

• August 14, 2023 14 Aug'23

  Confusion mounts amid HashiCorp open source change

  Ripple effects from HashiCorp's switch to BSL spread through the industry, raising questions among enterprise users and trepidation about the future of corporate open source.

• August 11, 2023 11 Aug'23

  HashiCorp open source change targets competitors

  HashiCorp moves to a Business Source License for all its future product releases that prohibits use for commercial purposes, renewing questions about open core business models.

• August 03, 2023 03 Aug'23

  IT pros mull observability tools, devx and generative AI

  Observability as a common language for both developers and operations teams still has plenty of room for improvement in the era of platform engineering, according to experts.

• August 01, 2023 01 Aug'23

  Experts expect Sumo Logic match post-New Relic acquisition

  New Relic and Sumo Logic were both taken private by the same firm, as consolidation -- and attrition -- continues among observability tools.

• July 31, 2023 31 Jul'23

  Enterprises rework log analytics to cut observability costs

  Organizations such as Netflix could be a harbinger of an observability cost crisis, where monitoring cloud-native apps comprises an untenable portion of operational costs.

• July 27, 2023 27 Jul'23

  Industry tackles observability's data management problems

  Enterprises and the vendors they buy from have begun to fundamentally rethink data management for observability, including a new startup with close ties to Cisco.

• July 20, 2023 20 Jul'23

  Dell Moogsoft AIOps buy could start filling gaps post-VMware

  Dell's purchase of Moogsoft this week could help it regain some enterprise software appeal it lost when it spun out VMware. But the future is unclear for Moogsoft users.

• July 19, 2023 19 Jul'23

  Chainguard automates SBOMs, but has Images-based agenda

  Container images, that is. Chainguard Enforce now automates SBOMs, but execs and an early customer say they aren't the ultimate answer to software supply chain security.

• July 18, 2023 18 Jul'23

  Splunk AI update adds specialized models for SecOps tasks

  Splunk AI updates this week included specialized models for SecOps that detect and automatically respond to common issues such as DNS exfiltration and suspicious processes.

• June 29, 2023 29 Jun'23

  Cued by breach postmortems, fintech refines zero trust

  In a quest to continuously improve, Mercury's security leader takes inspiration from other companies' lessons learned, then updates tools and practices accordingly.

• June 28, 2023 28 Jun'23

  Banks dump Terraform for Crossplane infrastructure as code

  Two EU banks favor Crossplane's reconciliation approach over Terraform's dependency graph, saying the former hastens deployments -- with a few migration caveats.

• June 27, 2023 27 Jun'23

  HashiCorp Vault to expand in DevSecOps with BluBracket buy

  HashiCorp expands Vault's focus to include DevSecOps with the acquisition of a secrets scanning startup, setting the stage for a potential showdown with Microsoft and GitHub.

• June 21, 2023 21 Jun'23

  Chef founder's new venture: IT infrastructure digital twins

  System Initiative, out in private beta this week, visualizes complex IT environments in digital simulations where users can test updates before real-world deployments.

• June 19, 2023 19 Jun'23

  United Airlines clears CI/CD pipelines for takeoff

  In an industry heavily affected by pandemic disruptions, United Airlines brought in a new orchestration tool to navigate fluctuating software delivery requirements.

• June 15, 2023 15 Jun'23

  CISA SBOM standards efforts stymied by confusion, inertia

  Efforts to establish SBOM standards and guidance have progressed, but unanswered questions persist -- including how the federal government plans to enforce its own requirements.

• June 14, 2023 14 Jun'23

  HashiCorp Vault trims SaaS; Boundary hooks up Enterprise

  HashiCorp Vault's appeal to a broader field of users gets a boost from a new entry-level cloud service, while a new Boundary Enterprise targets the high end of the market.

• June 08, 2023 08 Jun'23

  Sysdig CNAPP runtime threat detection wins over BigCommerce

  Sysdig's fast, comprehensive data collection, now part of a larger CNAPP product, sealed the deal with the e-commerce company. Next, it might replace vulnerability management tools.

• June 05, 2023 05 Jun'23

  Atlassian cloud preps threat tool as security boss departs

  Atlassian Beacon shores up cloud security as it adds transparency around security issues, but the chief trust officer role at the company is also changing hands.

• May 25, 2023 25 May'23

  AI and automation take center stage at AnsibleFest 2023

  Amid excitement around the possibilities raised by AI and automation, experts at Red Hat Summit and AnsibleFest 2023 highlighted the importance of trust and responsibility.

• May 25, 2023 25 May'23

  Now a DevOps platform, OpenShift ups value -- and complexity

  Red Hat raises OpenShift's profile as a DevOps platform with software supply chain security but faces questions about networking strategy and observability staff departures.

• May 24, 2023 24 May'23

  Event-Driven Ansible early adopters share lessons learned

  Beta testers of the new Event-Driven Ansible tool from Red Hat said expanding automation and moving toward self-healing systems requires fresh skills and organizational shifts.

• May 23, 2023 23 May'23

  Ansible Lightspeed leads Red Hat generative AI agenda

  Red Hat leans on IBM's expertise in training Watson Code Assistant to write Ansible playbooks, as worries linger about AI-generated code risks and rivals hold a strong lead.

• May 10, 2023 10 May'23

  Cloud repatriation vs. multi-cloud: IT seeks cost relief

  Amid fiscal worries, IT orgs reassess cloud investments. Whether they go back on-premises or expand to multi-cloud, they face similar distributed computing management challenges.

• May 03, 2023 03 May'23

  Observability maven 'cranky' about AIOps embraces GPT

  Honeycomb's observability tools will add natural language queries via OpenAI's GPT API, a departure from its co-founder and CTO's broader stance on AI in IT ops tools.

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  Citing data privacy, GitLab syncs with Google generative AI

  GitLab's deal with Google lets it keep sensitive customer data in the GitLab cloud while training models, amid enterprise concerns about generative AI licensing and security risks.

• April 28, 2023 28 Apr'23

  Amid supply chain attacks, emerging vendor rethinks SBOM

  Early adopters such as Swisscom have used startup Codenotary’s notarization system to establish and track the provenance of software artifacts in pipelines and production.

• April 25, 2023 25 Apr'23

  KubeCon highlights open source to combat climate change

  Addressing climate change takes a community. At KubeCon Europe 2023, experts discussed how open source practices and projects can foster sustainability.

• April 20, 2023 20 Apr'23

  Sidecarless eBPF service mesh sparks debate

  As cloud-native service meshes expand beyond Kubernetes, open source community members raise concerns about the security and suitability of eBPF in sidecarless architectures.

• April 19, 2023 19 Apr'23

  Atlassian demos ChatGPT tie-ins for Confluence, Jira Cloud

  Atlassian teased early previews of cloud platform AI that supports natural language queries and automated links between Jira, Confluence and third-party products.

• April 19, 2023 19 Apr'23

  Server-side Wasm boosts K8s bonds, devx ahead of key update

  Early adopters await a WASI update this year before server-side Wasm can be ready for wider production use. For now, PaaS vendors have begun to bridge some of the gaps.

• April 13, 2023 13 Apr'23

  ChatGPT craze hits infrastructure as code

  From GitHub's Copilot to a purpose-built product from Pulumi, generative AI is emerging for infrastructure as code, with the same potential benefits and risks it presents for apps.

• April 06, 2023 06 Apr'23

  Mainframe modernization to AI apps: USPTO reinvents itself

  How the US Patent and Trade Office, founded in 1802, maintained IT resilience while managing systems ranging from mainframes to the cloud, AI and beyond.

• April 05, 2023 05 Apr'23

  Securing remote access grows crucial for DevSecOps

  Between remote work and hybrid cloud lies a menacing security gap that experts warn more and more businesses will fall into without a cohesive approach.

• April 03, 2023 03 Apr'23

  Istio service mesh doyen departs Google, touts Ambient Mesh

  After 16 years at Google, Istio's co-founder takes over as CTO at Solo.io and goes all in on a project he believes will determine the future of cloud-native networking.

• March 29, 2023 29 Mar'23

  Comcast subsidiary survives March Madness with AIOps

  AIOps alert reduction brought order to a chaotic environment at TV advertising specialist FreeWheel just in time for a big test of its resiliency during a wild NCAA tournament.

• March 20, 2023 20 Mar'23

  HPE to acquire OpsRamp for GreenLake IT ops tools

  IT automation specialist OpsRamp will become part of HPE's GreenLake portfolio, adding hybrid cloud visibility and notification tools to the IT conglomerate's SaaS offerings.

• March 17, 2023 17 Mar'23

  How ChatGPT and generative AI will affect IT operations

  As generative AI programs improve, they raise questions for many engineering disciplines about the future of work -- and IT operations is no exception.

• March 08, 2023 08 Mar'23

  White House cybersecurity plan collides with SecOps reality

  The White House Cybersecurity Strategy sets lofty goals. But recent market research suggests a significant number of enterprises don't follow existing SecOps best practices.

• March 01, 2023 01 Mar'23

  SBOM graph database aims to be cloud security secret sauce

  An open source consortium that includes Google plans to release a deployable beta of the GUAC project this month, a possible milestone for cloud-native SBOM.

• February 23, 2023 23 Feb'23

  CEO reflects on remote work, team-building amid Ukraine war

  A GraphQL API management company is on track for an official launch in the coming months, despite a year of massive challenges for its developer team in Ukraine.

• February 16, 2023 16 Feb'23

  Dynatrace security AI roots out Log4j, sets tone for roadmap

  Dynatrace must prove itself beyond application security, but its AI's effectiveness against the Log4j vulnerability has some customers receptive to its product expansion plans.

• February 16, 2023 16 Feb'23

  Dynatrace users make headway with AIOps

  Dynatrace's aggressive NoOps vision hasn't come to fruition, but some customers have begun to see real-world results with root-cause analysis and automated rollbacks.

• February 14, 2023 14 Feb'23

  Cribl Search marks fresh observability sortie for upstart

  The Splunk nemesis begins new forays onto the turf of incumbent vendors with federated search that doesn't require data migration or indexing -- and big roadmap plans.

• February 07, 2023 07 Feb'23

  Cisco samples OpenTelemetry-based observability tool blends

  Updates set to ship this week and next quarter will unify data collection for Cisco's observability and security tools and catch them up with full-stack competitors.

• January 26, 2023 26 Jan'23

  Lens Kubernetes developer portal expands with Shipa buy

  The early stage startup, co-founded by Juniper and CloudBees vets, adds a "stupid easy" option for application auto-discovery and ongoing management, according to Mirantis.

• January 25, 2023 25 Jan'23

  OpenSSF GM talks funding, legal software supply chain issues

  The OpenSSF leader lays out plans fund open source software supply chain security in a slowing economy and to speak out against the EU's Cyber Resilience Act.

• January 24, 2023 24 Jan'23

  IT budgets under pressure spur tool consolidation

  As the tech industry suffers layoffs and slowing growth, IT organizations such as Boeing are handing some of their IT vendors pink slips of their own.

• January 19, 2023 19 Jan'23

  Data pipelines feed IT’s observability beast

  Amid data growth, cloud complexity and demand for advanced automation, the data pipelines developed to satisfy the appetites of AI apps also serve observability tools.

• January 17, 2023 17 Jan'23

  CircleCI incident adds to SecOps toil

  SaaS CI/CD vendor CircleCI urged customers to rotate all secrets data, the latest of several security breaches weighing on SecOps pros charged with responding.

• January 12, 2023 12 Jan'23

  Startup's eBPF APM tools turn up heat on Datadog

  Lemonade plans to put tools from eBPF startup Groundcover in production this year in a bid to reduce instrumentation work and other overhead for its small DevOps team.

• December 21, 2022 21 Dec'22

  Dish Media swaps observability sprawl for Elastic Stack SaaS

  With fewer tools and data repositories to wrangle and Elastic cluster management outsourced to SaaS, Dish Media's ops teams reduced toil and achieved proactive incident response.

• December 20, 2022 20 Dec'22

  Review the top IT operations news stories of 2022

  2022 was full of industry updates, company shake-ups and emerging technologies. Review the highlights of this year's IT ops news to prepare for what's next in 2023.

• December 13, 2022 13 Dec'22

  Geek gifts 2022: Business travel essentials and music-making

  For better or for worse, the world re-opened this year, renewing geeks' need for business travel accessories, while others sought to explore their musical creativity.

• December 08, 2022 08 Dec'22

  GitOps hits stride as CNCF graduates Flux CD and Argo CD

  Flux and Argo CD earned graduated status within CNCF after a year in which platform engineering adoption and DevOps advances put both in the enterprise spotlight.

• November 18, 2022 18 Nov'22

  Knowledge graphs and GraphQL: What DevOps pros need to know

  New approaches to data management and business analytics have found their way into IT automation and observability tools -- now what?

• November 17, 2022 17 Nov'22

  Server-side WebAssembly prepares for takeoff in 2023

  Server-side WebAssembly is still a work in progress, but engineers at Adobe and BMW say it shows promise for fast, flexible app management among cloud and edge environments.

• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  New ServiceNow apps automate organizational productivity

  ServiceNow rolled out applications for the Now Platform that assists IT shops with organizational productivity planning and building flexible hybrid work environments.

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  Fresh crop of IT automation tools targets platform engineers

  As enterprise IT shifts from full-stack DevOps to platform engineering, IT automation tools reinvented for the Kubernetes era can reduce toil for operators.

• November 01, 2022 01 Nov'22

  Security AI shifts left into DevSecOps

  DevSecOps vendors such as GitLab and Palo Alto's Prisma Cloud embrace security AI throughout the software development lifecycle, as IT trust in AI grows.

• October 28, 2022 28 Oct'22

  Sidecarless service mesh: Fad or the future?

  Istio's experimental Ambient Mesh is gathering buzz with the promise of simpler operations, but Linkerd loyalists contend that the sidecar itself isn't the real problem.

• October 27, 2022 27 Oct'22

  Platform engineers plug abstraction leaks

  Platform engineers presented at KubeCon about how new tools have helped them better hide infrastructure complexity from developers. But a paradox of choice remains.

• October 25, 2022 25 Oct'22

  OpenShift roadmap preps for Kubernetes multi-cluster sprawl

  OpenShift now supports Kubernetes deployments from data centers to edge devices, which calls for fresh ways to scale out multi-cluster control planes.

• October 20, 2022 20 Oct'22

  Observability tools add FinOps amid macroeconomic worries

  FinOps features added to observability tools from Datadog and Sysdig this week reflect concerns about cloud cost management amid gloomy economic forecasts.

• October 18, 2022 18 Oct'22

  Enterprises learn the downsides of DevSecOps metrics

  DevSecOps metrics can be helpful, but they can also steer developer and security collaboration in an unproductive direction if they are over-emphasized, practitioners said.

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  HashiCorp Waypoint public beta adds fresh take on PaaS

  The sales pitch for HashiCorp Waypoint sounds a lot like traditional PaaS, but its technical approach may be uniquely well-suited to the recent rise of DevOps platform engineering.

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  ServiceNow buys Era Software to unify observability strategy

  ServiceNow's acquisition of Era Software looks to strengthen the company's position in the observability market and make digital transformation projects easier to implement.

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  Splunk suit claims Cribl built on stolen log management IP

  Former Splunk employees and industry watchers reacted to a lawsuit filed by Splunk this week alleging that Cribl's business is based on stolen log management code.

• October 06, 2022 06 Oct'22

  Terraform Cloud continuous validation inches toward GitOps

  Terraform is already part of the GitOps workflow for some enterprises, but a new continuous validation feature could increase its overlap with tools such as Argo CD and Flux.

• October 05, 2022 05 Oct'22

  HashiCorp cloud security evolves via Boundary, Consul, Vault

  With the debut of Boundary on HashiCorp Cloud Platform, along with updates for Vault and Consul, the vendor lays the foundation for a long-term product strategy.

• October 04, 2022 04 Oct'22

  Dynatrace overhauls AIOps back end, beefs up log analytics

  The AIOps vendor unveiled a new approach to data management that has enterprise customers such as BT hopeful it could eliminate the need for separate log analytics products.

• September 29, 2022 29 Sep'22

  Cloud Custodian spans FinOps, SecOps cloud policies

  Users such as Avalara and HBO Max use Cloud Custodian to manage cloud cost and security policies, as the project's founders prepare Kubernetes support to rival OPA and Kyverno.

• September 28, 2022 28 Sep'22

  CloudBees ReleaseIQ buy renews CI/CD pipeline, SaaS support

  The newly acquired startup adds SaaS-based low-code views into multiple tools and doesn't require upfront integration work, as CloudBees regroups after recent upheavals.

• September 22, 2022 22 Sep'22

  IT pros pan government software supply chain security advice

  As the prospect of federally mandated SBOM drives up usage of the software supply chain security tech, the government's documentation so far adds to risky confusion, experts say.

• September 20, 2022 20 Sep'22

  Aqua adds software supply chain security to DevSecOps mix

  A new software supply chain security module for Aqua's platform correlates runtime security monitoring with pre-deployment scans as IT pros look to merge disparate tools.

• September 19, 2022 19 Sep'22

  Dell Apex joins with OpenShift, deepens VMware uncertainty

  Dell jumps on the Red Hat OpenShift bandwagon with its Apex container management products, intensifying uncertainty about the future of VMware Tanzu under Broadcom.

• August 31, 2022 31 Aug'22

  VMware Tanzu sets up edge computing showdown with OpenShift

  Enterprise edge computing is still at a nascent stage, but a battle is brewing between Kubernetes platforms such as VMware Tanzu and OpenShift to support the emerging trend.