News

News

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  Terraform Cloud adds enterprise support, usage-based pricing

  Terraform Cloud's new Business tier is a sign of what's to come for both Terraform Enterprise and IT ops teams overwhelmed with tools to manage, industry analysts say.

• August 07, 2020 07 Aug'20

  Value stream management tames DevOps chaos at Eli Lilly

  The pharma firm straightened out disorganized DevOps processes, which now include data management for COVID-19 clinical trials, with a Plutora value stream management tool.

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  DevOps pipeline consolidation continues among CI/CD tools

  Bespoke DevOps pipelines are becoming a thing of the past as specialist vendors such as Harness and Drone.io merge to compete with large platform vendors.

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Microsoft unveils Open Service Mesh, vows donation to CNCF

  Microsoft pledged to donate its service mesh to the CNCF in a stab at Istio, setting the stage for potential vendor collaboration around multi-cloud interoperability standards.

• July 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  New Relic pricing plummets with product overhaul

  New Relic dropped pricing for a newly unified set of IT monitoring tools, as it faces fresh competitive pressures and users adjust to cloud-native complexity.

• Sponsored News

  • A New Vision for Storage and Data Management: DataOps

    Sponsored by HPE - IT is at an inflection point. The combination of cloud computing, exponential data growth and artificial intelligence is forcing organizations to fundamentally change how they manage data and infrastructure across the board, with particular regard to storage. The imperative is to shift away from the concept of managing storage and instead focus on how to unleash the power of your data to accelerate digital transformation. See More

  • How Modern Converged Infrastructure Can Help You Achieve a ‘Mission-Critical Cloud’

    Sponsored by Dell Technologies - Among the most common and important challenges facing IT teams as they seek to modernize business-critical applications is this: How do you leverage cloud capabilities without sacrificing the benefits of traditional on-premises infrastructure or walking away from existing investments? See More

  • Three Ways to Beat the Complexity of Storage and Data Management to Spark Innovation

    Sponsored by HPE - Complexity is the enemy of innovation—particularly in today’s environment where speed, agility and the ability to leverage data and intelligence are among the key factors accelerating digital transformation. One of the areas of chief concern to IT leaders is the complexity of storage and data management. In fact, 93% of decision-makers surveyed by Enterprise Strategy Group say complexity in storage and data management is impeding transformation. See More

  • How to Derive Exceptional Business Value from Your Hyperconverged Infrastructure

    Sponsored by Dell Technologies - IT decision-makers are increasingly turning to hyperconverged infrastructure as the go-to solution for a wide range of use cases and workloads from the data center to the hybrid cloud to the edge. See More

  View All Sponsored News
• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Styra policy builder eases access to IT compliance as code

  Styra's Rego Policy Builder guides novice users through the process of rendering OPA policies, part of the vendor's push to broaden the audience for its commercial software.

• July 16, 2020 16 Jul'20

  Google's OUC play muddies Istio service mesh outlook

  Google surprised even major partners with the transfer of Istio's trademark to a new organization it launched last week, leaving some key governance details undefined.

• July 07, 2020 07 Jul'20

  Open source license issues stymie enterprise contributions

  Business and ethical pressures have given rise to new types of open source licenses in the last year, presenting challenges to enterprises that want to contribute to projects.

• July 06, 2020 06 Jul'20

  Open source contributions face friction over company IP

  Software engineers who want to contribute to open source projects must convince conservative corporate legal departments it's worth the potential risk to corporate IP.

• July 02, 2020 02 Jul'20

  AIOps tools expand as users warm slowly to autoremediation

  AIOps tool vendors keep expanding the environments they can support with automated remediation features, but users are taking their time to move beyond root cause analysis.

• July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20

  Kubernetes complicates Cloud Foundry platform development

  The Cloud Foundry community has begun to port its developer interface onto Kubernetes infrastructure, but there are multiple approaches to sort out amid the transition.

• June 25, 2020 25 Jun'20

  Puppet unveils event-driven IT automation plans

  Puppet's IT automation system Relay, now in beta, offers an event-driven take on IT workflows, but the vendor must clearly establish the product's value over competing DevOps systems.

• June 24, 2020 24 Jun'20

  HashiCorp Consul 1.8 aims to smooth service mesh transition

  HashiCorp Consul users are mulling how to extend service discovery into service mesh. The vendor has added gateway support to ease this transition.

• June 24, 2020 24 Jun'20

  HashiCorp Terraform beta brings long-awaited features

  Terraform 0.13, recently released to public beta, includes support for complex infrastructure deployments that users have eagerly awaited.

• June 22, 2020 22 Jun'20

  HashiCorp shops hope new Consul service comes at lower cost

  Multi-cloud hosted services planned for HashiCorp products, including Consul, Vault and Nomad, would reduce IT ops overhead, users say, but prices must be affordable.

• June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20

  DevOps pros rethink cloud cost with continuous delivery tool

  Cloud cost management is a new task for developers under DevOps, and a continuous delivery add-on presents a new way to show them infrastructure inefficiencies.

• June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20

  New ServiceNow workflows extend into more markets

  ServiceNow continues to direct its workflows toward vertical markets with new offerings for telecommunications, financial services and healthcare markets.

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  Atlassian takes on DevOps pipeline tools integration

  Pre-built hooks between Atlassian DevOps tools are in demand among IT teams that must manage an overwhelming number of cross-functional projects and vendor products.

• June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20

  Chef software broadens scope amid IT automation disruption

  Chef seeks a new niche as IT automation shifts toward Kubernetes and cloud-native tools, but IT pros have many options, with some more appealing than Chef in high-scale scenarios.

• May 22, 2020 22 May'20

  Facebook to launch Workplace Rooms in challenge to Zoom

  Workplace Rooms, a new video conferencing service for Facebook's business customers, falls short of competitors on features.

• May 21, 2020 21 May'20

  IT pros clamor for Kubernetes multi-cloud deployment API

  Enterprise IT pros who want a standard approach to Kubernetes multi-cloud deployment say the Cluster API project shows promise, but it needs work to be production-ready.

• May 21, 2020 21 May'20

  Linux kernel utility could solve Kubernetes networking woes

  Linux kernel utility eBPF gets new life as a more effective means to scale Kubernetes networking than native Kubernetes tools, and in some cases, service mesh.

• May 20, 2020 20 May'20

  Fintech firms prove IT compliance via security automation

  Security automation tools proved useful for two highly regulated fintech firms, that use them to protect cloud-native infrastructure and demonstrate their security to auditors.

• May 15, 2020 15 May'20

  Essential firms forge on with AIOps for incident response

  AIOps systems for incident response have helped a bank and a provider of care services in the home streamline operations amid a pandemic emergency and an ongoing IT skills shortage.

• May 08, 2020 08 May'20

  Puppet Labs CTO eyes IT automation amid COVID-19

  An entirely new executive leadership team is the latest of several upheavals at Puppet Labs over the last four years, but CTO Abby Kearns says there's a clearer path ahead in 2020.

• May 07, 2020 07 May'20

  VMware Tanzu beta project melds Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes

  VMware Tanzu Application Service for Kubernetes, now in public beta, intrigues PKS users by combining Kubernetes infrastructure components behind a Cloud Foundry developer interface.

• April 29, 2020 29 Apr'20

  Red Hat OpenShift to inject IBM Kubernetes management IP

  IBM and Red Hat have begun to blend both business priorities and software code, including a forthcoming multi-cluster Kubernetes management tool for OpenShift users.

• April 27, 2020 27 Apr'20

  IT compliance-as-code tool makes Kubernetes security inroads

  Open Policy Agent has turned heads among IT shops for Kubernetes compliance as code, and its commercial backer looks to capitalize on that momentum with new enterprise features.

• April 24, 2020 24 Apr'20

  HashiCorp Consul service leads off post-funding roadmap

  HashiCorp CEO David McJannet discusses the company's future, including a Consul managed service headed for public beta this week, overlap with Kubernetes and building a sustainable open source business.

• April 23, 2020 23 Apr'20

  Infrastructure-as-code competitor challenges Terraform

  Pulumi 2.0 ratchets up the heat on HashiCorp's rival Terraform IaC tool, adding policy as code, test automation and secrets management features to its mainstream language support.

• 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.

• 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.