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July 19, 2018 19 Jul'18
Container security emerges in IT products enterprises know and trust

Established IT security vendors add containers to their repertoire, and IT pros must decide between trusted platform integration and the latest features from startups.
June 29, 2018 29 Jun'18
Database DevOps tools bring stateful apps up to modern speed

Database DevOps is no longer a contradiction in terms, as enterprises roll out database management and persistent storage software that makes stateful apps more flexible.
June 28, 2018 28 Jun'18
IT infrastructure management software learns analytics tricks

Not every enterprise IT shop is ready to take the AIOps plunge, but IT ops automation is increasingly data-driven -- even at mainstream companies.
June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18
Docker roadmap champions multi-cloud container management

Docker Enterprise Edition will roll out multi-cloud container management in beta later in 2018 and go head-to-head with Red Hat OpenShift and Rancher.
June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18
Splunk's VictorOps acquisition extends alerts, but narrows lanes

Splunk's purchase of VictorOps, its fifth deal in the past year, adds DevOps incident management, on-call scheduling and alerting, and opens doors into adjacent markets.
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June 08, 2018 08 Jun'18
Reflect adds color to Puppet DevOps tools

Puppet plans to add data visualization and analysis to spruce up its DevOps tools now that it has acquired Reflect, but it's still playing catch-up in a crowded, noisy market.
June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18
DevOps shops weigh risks of Microsoft-GitHub acquisition

An online outcry about Microsoft's GitHub acquisition seems overblown to enterprise DevOps pros, but that doesn't mean there's no cause for concerns.
June 04, 2018 04 Jun'18
Microsoft-GitHub acquisition shakes up DevOps market

Microsoft's $7.5 billion blockbuster deal for GitHub is a sea change for the IT market, as an enterprise software bellwether with legacy baggage snaps up an open source DevOps darling.
May 30, 2018 30 May'18
Chef Habitat early adopters sing app automation praises

Chef Habitat can ease application deployments and updates, and ensure high availability, but there's still a lot of confusion among IT pros about precisely where it fits in the DevOps toolchain.
May 25, 2018 25 May'18
Chef InSpec users wrestle with compliance as code

Learning the ins and outs of the Chef InSpec product is only half the battle for compliance as code. The thornier task for some enterprises is to bridge the gap between compliance expertise and DevOps execution.
May 23, 2018 23 May'18
Chef Automate 2.0 renews appeal to DevOps shops

Chef Automate 2.0 lays the groundwork for tighter integration between the IT automation software and third-party tools, as Chef stakes its claim in the DevOps gold rush.
May 18, 2018 18 May'18
IT pros test out fresh crop of serverless monitoring tools

Serverless monitoring is still more of an art than a science, but tools that offer comprehensive insight into serverless infrastructure dependencies are in development.
May 17, 2018 17 May'18
Serverless infrastructure calls for updated IT ops expertise

IT ops participation is necessary for successful serverless infrastructure management, but operations pros will need to sharpen their skills in systems engineering and infrastructure as code.
May 15, 2018 15 May'18
Serverless deployment lifts enterprise DevOps velocity

Mainstream companies see mounting demand for serverless deployments for their new apps, but for existing apps, it's another story.
May 11, 2018 11 May'18
ServiceNow positions Now Platform as workflow engine

ServiceNow made a move to become a major player in the DevOps market by gearing up its Now Platform as a workflow engine that creates cloud-based applications quickly.
May 10, 2018 10 May'18
ServiceNow Virtual Agent looks to bolster AI strategy

ServiceNow's Virtual Agent technology is designed to automate routine IT tasks and free users and IT workers to focus on more important tasks.
May 08, 2018 08 May'18
APM strikes back in Kubernetes monitoring wars

New Relic and AppDynamics up the ante on Prometheus with dashboards that display Kubernetes time-series data, and monitoring alerts that sync with IT automation tools.
May 08, 2018 08 May'18
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform adds CoreOS automation

Red Hat plans to swiftly integrate technology recently acquired from CoreOS into its current product line, but the CoreOS name will stick around.
May 04, 2018 04 May'18
Cisco and CoreOS Kubernetes integrations swell IT buyer choices

Cisco and CoreOS added to a growing number of Kubernetes integration options, prompting enterprise IT buyers to consider whether they should rely on one vendor or take on heavy lifting themselves.
May 03, 2018 03 May'18
Google gVisor serves up container security isolation

There are other VM-like approaches for container security isolation, but Google's Kubernetes cred could make its gVisor a multi-cloud standard for security-sensitive enterprise apps.
April 26, 2018 26 Apr'18
Cloud Foundry users grapple with stateful cloud-native apps

Cloud Foundry shops can refactor stateless apps according to cloud-native principles, but would like to bring stateful applications on board as well.
April 24, 2018 24 Apr'18
CF community debates Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes integration

Cloud Foundry PaaS and Kubernetes container orchestration each appeal to DevOps shops, and users want consolidation, as the two camps continue to negotiate.
April 20, 2018 20 Apr'18
Cloud Foundry PaaS shops hone software delivery process

Enterprises that have deployed Cloud Foundry platform as a service found it catalyzed new thinking about the application delivery process and other organizational practices.
April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18
Docker vs. Mesosphere battleground shifts focus to Kubernetes

Kubernetes integrations in Docker and Mesosphere are generally available, vying for enterprise attention with a focus on ease of use.
April 16, 2018 16 Apr'18
Bharti Airtel overhauls test/dev with container infrastructure

Startup AppOrbit's approach to container infrastructure deployment beat out Red Hat's OpenShift as a large Indian telco overhauled its test environments for speedier development.
March 30, 2018 30 Mar'18
Microservices management tools harmonize polyglot chaos

IT ops must replenish its toolkit to standardize infrastructure management and let developers experiment with the latest programming languages and application designs.
March 30, 2018 30 Mar'18
Monoliths-to-microservices move refactors IT ops skills

As enterprises seek speed and efficiency with microservices, IT ops pros must learn skills and consolidate tools to deal with increased infrastructure and application complexity.
March 23, 2018 23 Mar'18
Kubernetes 1.10 release hits mature enterprise container market

Kubernetes 1.10 adds incremental feature updates, but enterprises will look to third-party products to integrate upstream code before they embrace it.
March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18
CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise snags raise roadmap questions

CloudBees' Jenkins software is slated for major updates after strong revenue growth in 2017, but customers and partners report struggles with upgrades, pricing and support.
March 12, 2018 12 Mar'18
EBay's Elasticsearch hack consolidates Kubernetes monitoring

EBay made Kubernetes monitoring more flexible for developers and consistent for ops through modifications that are now part of Elastic's Beats software.
March 09, 2018 09 Mar'18
Aqua Security 3.0 architecture supports AWS Fargate

Aqua Security's MicroEnforcer deployed without a sidecar container supports containers on public cloud services such as AWS Fargate and Azure Container Instances.
March 09, 2018 09 Mar'18
In Google Hangouts Chat, DevOps pros see ChatOps latecomer

Google Hangouts Chat could lead to interesting AI chatbot technology eventually, but G Suite users are already loyal to competitors, such as Slack.
March 07, 2018 07 Mar'18
Datadog log monitoring software branches out as DevOps spreads

Datadog joins competitors such as SignalFx and Splunk in the quest to create Swiss army knife-style tools that track logs, events and metrics in one place for DevOps teams.
March 02, 2018 02 Mar'18
DevOps incident management turns sys admins into SREs

DevOps practices begin with collaboration on application releases, but it's not until something goes wrong with those apps in production that true transformation takes place.
February 22, 2018 22 Feb'18
Container security tools abound, but IT pros await big vendors

Container security startups peddle unique approaches, but while some early adopters jump on board with fledgling vendors, a majority will watch for industry consolidation first.
February 21, 2018 21 Feb'18
Chef InSpec widens the compliance-as-code possibilities with v2.0

Chef InSpec 2.0 adds infrastructure tests for compliance policy enforcement, and the tool's expansion into more areas of the DevOps workflow won't stop there.
February 16, 2018 16 Feb'18
Enterprises identify 10 essential DevOps tools

Products branded with DevOps are everywhere, and the list of options grows every day, but the best DevOps tools are already well-known among enterprise IT pros.
February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18
Kubernetes hybrid cloud emerges from Google-Cisco partnership

A Kubernetes partnership from Cisco and Google widens IT pros' container orchestration options in hybrid cloud deployments, but its advantages depend on future software integrations.
February 01, 2018 01 Feb'18
Kubernetes storage projects dominate CNCF docket

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation will host the Rook distributed container storage project -- the first move in a pivotal year for Kubernetes stateful app support.
January 30, 2018 30 Jan'18
IT monitoring strategy, org discipline polish Nasdaq DevOps incident response

At Nasdaq, IT monitoring unified different teams' views of infrastructure, but cultural blocking and tackling are equally important to improve incident response.
January 26, 2018 26 Jan'18
ServiceNow Kingston troubleshoots IT tasks with AI, machine learning

ServiceNow delivers AI and machine learning capabilities to its core platform to eliminate time-consuming manual help desk tasks.
January 23, 2018 23 Jan'18
AI apps demand DevOps infrastructure automation

Businesses look to AI apps to gain a competitive edge, but IT teams must make rapid application changes through a DevOps process and embrace infrastructure automation.
January 18, 2018 18 Jan'18
Jenkins pipeline as code example demonstrates DevOps coordination

Ellucian, which makes software for colleges and universities, offers a pipeline as code example that unifies the release process for multiple generations of apps and brings IT security into the DevOps fold.
January 17, 2018 17 Jan'18
Docker Enterprise Edition prospects mull vendor strategy

Uncertain about Docker's future business growth, some enterprise IT pros are on the fence about whether to invest in its container orchestration tools.
January 12, 2018 12 Jan'18
Container infrastructure a silver lining amid Intel CPU flaw fixes

Containers aren't immune to Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, but they could lighten the operational burden of fixes for IT pros.
January 08, 2018 08 Jan'18
Time-series monitoring tools give high-resolution view of IT

DevOps monitoring tools based on time-series databases create a steeper learning curve than traditional monitoring software, but arm IT pros with richer data for troubleshooting.
December 21, 2017 21 Dec'17
Kubernetes networking expands its horizons with service mesh

Service mesh architectures, such as Istio and Conduit, help enterprise IT ops overcome the performance and reliability challenges posed by container networking.
December 14, 2017 14 Dec'17
Kubernetes roadmap looks to smooth container management bumps

Items coming on the Kubernetes roadmap zoom onto enterprise IT pros' radar, such as practical management for multiple Kubernetes clusters and improved container security.
December 14, 2017 14 Dec'17
Technology gifts 2017: Geeks want wireless headphones

Novel approaches to mobile audio get attention from geeks as they choose their most-wanted technology gifts in 2017. Our geek advisory panel said the most coveted gift this year is close to ...
December 11, 2017 11 Dec'17
Kubernetes 1.9 release matures, but devil's in the details

Kubernetes 1.9 shows the container orchestration platform is ready for enterprise production, its creators have said. Its users, however, still grapple with technical aspects.
December 07, 2017 07 Dec'17
Brendan Burns talks Kubernetes on Azure work, Windows beta

Kubernetes co-creator and Microsoft distinguished engineer Brendan Burns discussed how Kubernetes on Azure evolved and invited Amazon to an open source serverless project.
December 07, 2017 07 Dec'17
Containers vs. serverless: IT orgs seek ideal abstraction layer

The unending debate about the best place for abstraction in IT infrastructures begins a new chapter, as serverless hype starts to drown out container mania.
November 30, 2017 30 Nov'17
AWS Kubernetes service surfaces in EKS, alongside Fargate

An AWS Kubernetes service unveiled at re:Invent adds long-awaited support for the container orchestration platform, but a surprise offering in Fargate muddies the waters.
November 21, 2017 21 Nov'17
DevOps value stream mapping process plots course at Nationwide

Nationwide prepares for the final stage of a 10-year Agile, Lean and DevOps transformation with value stream mapping process that unites IT and business workflows.
November 16, 2017 16 Nov'17
Container security platforms diverge on DevSecOps approach

Two container security platforms released in the last week tie in to enterprise DevOps pipelines, but take different views on developers' involvement in their implementation.
November 15, 2017 15 Nov'17
DevOps transformation in large companies calls for IT staff remix

Large enterprises, such as Kaiser Permanente, base their moves toward DevOps practices on organizational changes that force a shift in IT team mindset.
November 13, 2017 13 Nov'17
DevOps pipeline tools sort out IT automation junk drawers

Enterprise IT shops have made sporadic forays into automation but now seek more mature DevOps pipeline practices with software that can make sense of it all.
November 10, 2017 10 Nov'17
Enterprise shops look to AIOps for IT root cause analysis

IT ops pros look to AIOps tools to help find the smoking gun in failing IT stacks, but some call automated root cause analysis more dream than reality.
November 08, 2017 08 Nov'17
AI's role in future of DevOps provokes IT industry agita

AIOps has become a white-hot IT buzzword, but whether smart machines can replace, rather than augment, human intelligence is a much thornier question.
November 08, 2017 08 Nov'17
Prometheus 2.0 tweaks Kubernetes monitoring, data storage

DevOps shops say an overhauled storage engine in Prometheus 2.0 will lead to new uses for the open source Kubernetes monitoring software.
November 03, 2017 03 Nov'17
How IT orgs make container management tools choices

There's no one best container management tool. Complexity to one org is flexibility to another. IT teams ask support, interoperability questions to know which technology is right for their org.
October 30, 2017 30 Oct'17
AIOps tools portend automated infrastructure management

DevOps monitoring tools that use machine learning to perform basic troubleshooting tasks form the vanguard of an AIOps trend in the enterprise.
October 20, 2017 20 Oct'17
AppDynamics Business iQ shuffles wild cards into DevOps deck

Collaboration between DevOps and business leaders is ideal, but how to organize enterprise teams around shared monitoring tools remains an inexact science.
October 20, 2017 20 Oct'17
Cisco buys Perspica to rev AppDynamics machine learning engine

Cisco will combine Perspica with AppDynamics as it preps DevOps monitoring tools that distill data from the end-user experience to individual network switch ports.
October 17, 2017 17 Oct'17
Docker with Kubernetes forges new container standard

Docker's support of Kubernetes alongside Swarm is a big shift for containers. IT pros see the benefits of this integration but question its effect on market competition.
October 13, 2017 13 Oct'17
Puppet roadmap tightens DevOps integrations amid wider use

Puppet Enterprise users plan to apply the tool's capabilities into new environments, and the vendor encourages that trend with additional tie-ins.
October 13, 2017 13 Oct'17
Distelli relaunch raises questions about Puppet vs. Jenkins

Customers reacted to new Puppet Pipelines tools with confusion about how the new software compares with Jenkins for CI/CD and concerns that Puppet will spread itself too thin.
October 11, 2017 11 Oct'17
Puppet automation tools widen config management's appeal

Puppet's enterprise customers can potentially winnow down their IT automation toolchains with Tasks and Discovery features for application automation.
October 11, 2017 11 Oct'17
Kubernetes adoption sends Rancher users back to eval mode

What happens when your container management tool switches to a new technology behind the scenes? Ops teams say Rancher's Kubernetes move adds features -- and trepidation.
October 11, 2017 11 Oct'17
Cloud Foundry Container Runtime eases Kubernetes ops

Enterprises such as Bloomberg use Cloud Foundry's integration with Kubernetes to ensure high availability for clusters of hosts and to support container orchestration.
October 10, 2017 10 Oct'17
CA Automic refines DevOps tools as enterprise market heats up

Expanded integrations between CA Automic tools should appeal to enterprise IT executives, amid anticipation that big companies will increase DevOps investments next year.
October 09, 2017 09 Oct'17
Chef fortifies its build automation tools with Habitat Builder

Build automation presents a steep learning curve for enterprise DevOps shops, but Chef Habitat Builder is based on accessible scripting tools and offered as SaaS.
October 06, 2017 06 Oct'17
Chaos engineering unearths IT deployments' dark debt

Technical debt is a burden that you can visualize and plan for. But what if problems come to light only when something goes wrong?
October 06, 2017 06 Oct'17
IT incident response ditches root cause analysis process

IT pros can improve monitoring and pare down alerts to get only actionable information, but then what? IT incident response is its own black art, and it's changing fast.
October 04, 2017 04 Oct'17
IT ops pros evolve into SREs with the right DevOps skill set

IT ops pros often hear that DevOps calls for them to script, code and serve up automated infrastructure for developers. But where should aspiring SREs begin?
September 27, 2017 27 Sep'17
Kubernetes 1.8 goes GA with RBAC, but security work remains

Production-ready role-based access control in Kubernetes is an important milestone for security-conscious IT shops, but other security features remain works in progress.
September 26, 2017 26 Sep'17
Rancher's Kubernetes strategy relieves container complexity

Rancher 2.0 offers Kubernetes by default, which follows a similar move by Mesosphere and furthers the container platform's momentum in 2017.
September 22, 2017 22 Sep'17
HashiCorp DevOps tools add Sentinel for IT policy management

As DevSecOps grows, policy as code will take over where infrastructure as code left off through new tools such as HashiCorp Sentinel.
September 21, 2017 21 Sep'17
An IT operations job description written for the future

Forward-looking IT ops jobs require more Python and less cable management. To reach valued positions in the IT organization, align your skills with these popular job requirements.
September 20, 2017 20 Sep'17
With Distelli, Puppet container management makes play for DevOps shops

As CI/CD pipelines go mainstream in the DevOps boat, Puppet shops will have a new option from a familiar vendor.
September 20, 2017 20 Sep'17
Jenkins' CI/CD moves transform DevOps tool landscape

User dissatisfaction with the complexity of the Jenkins CI/CD pipeline tool spurs both the open source community and CloudBees to offer streamlined GUIs and better metrics.
September 19, 2017 19 Sep'17
Microsoft empowers Windows containers to erase OS divide

DevOps and containers go hand in hand, and as Windows containers catch up with Linux they'll blur the lines for IT ops between historically divided OS environments.
September 15, 2017 15 Sep'17
Secure DevOps lengthens IT ops to-do list

It's not enough for DevOps to pump up app delivery speed -- in the wake of the Equifax breach, shoring up app security is in the spotlight and will require IT ops expertise.
September 15, 2017 15 Sep'17
Atlassian chat tool revamp faces long odds in ChatOps shops

Atlassian's successor to HipChat Cloud has plenty of work ahead of it to attract converts and migrate their data from de facto ChatOps market leader Slack.
September 08, 2017 08 Sep'17
Datadog deal echoes need for big-picture IT monitoring systems

Datadog's deal for Logmatic.io shows that full-stack monitoring is crucial to DevOps shops, but they also want analytics and automation for troubleshooting and business intelligence.
September 08, 2017 08 Sep'17
Windows DevOps tools rehab legacy enterprise applications

When Windows DevOps shops want to modernize legacy applications, third-party services and VM-based automation techniques can take them on the first steps.
September 07, 2017 07 Sep'17
Windows DevOps shops quickly gain on Linux counterparts

Early adopters of DevOps embrace open source software, but enterprise Microsoft shops have made strides in 2017, as have Microsoft's DevOps products.
August 18, 2017 18 Aug'17
IT pros get comfortable with Kubernetes in production

IT pros who have deployed Kubernetes in production reflect on the changes, challenges and capabilities they've seen, and predict what's next.
August 16, 2017 16 Aug'17
Docker-supported OS list expands with Enterprise Edition update

Docker Enterprise Edition fired back at Kubernetes with new support for mixed clusters and applications, as well as advanced security features that target large enterprises.
August 15, 2017 15 Aug'17
DevOps competency growth hindered by IT skills shortage

As a widespread labor shortage grips the U.S., IT organizations get creative to fill DevOps jobs and avoid overtaxing the employees they have.
August 15, 2017 15 Aug'17
DevOps tools training sparks IT productivity

New ways to recruit and train DevOps engineers won't fully compensate for the IT skills shortage, so use DevOps automation in lieu of manpower.
August 10, 2017 10 Aug'17
Kubernetes on AWS users cheer, as AWS joins CNCF

It's Christmas in August for DevOps shops that favor Kubernetes for container orchestration and AWS for public cloud infrastructure.
August 01, 2017 01 Aug'17
Q&A: Former RSA CEO's new venture takes on Linux container security

Industry executive turned venture capitalist Art Coviello on why he believes machine learning and containers offer a fresh start for enterprise IT security.
July 27, 2017 27 Jul'17
Ericsson revitalizes legacy infrastructure with database containers

A large enterprise dove into database containers for Oracle and SAP apps, and in the process displaced infrastructure incumbents such as VMware in its data center.
July 26, 2017 26 Jul'17
Azure puts a new twist on container management platforms

Azure Container Instances will mean customers can now use -- and pay for -- containers only, though some doubt this will dramatically change the competitive landscape.
July 21, 2017 21 Jul'17
Kubernetes on AWS still a work in progress as management tools emerge

Kubernetes and AWS are hailed as the leaders in their respective markets -- so why don't they work more closely together?
July 21, 2017 21 Jul'17
Kubernetes security updates appeal, but early versions must earn trust

Kubernetes 1.7 targets enterprises with added security features, but many of the updates are still too immature for production deployment.
July 19, 2017 19 Jul'17
OCI 1.0 container image spec finds common ground among open source foes

Touted as the USB interface of container management, OCI 1.0 will ensure consistency at the lowest levels of infrastructure, and push the container wars battlefront up the stack.
June 29, 2017 29 Jun'17
DevOps shops weather growing pains with infrastructure-as-code tools

Sys admins look to infrastructure-as-code tools, such as CloudFormation and Terraform, to keep up with rapidly changing infrastructure, but those tools are also evolving.
June 21, 2017 21 Jun'17
ServiceMaster polishes DevOps process for Linux container security

The parent company of Terminix and Merry Maids blended security with its app development pipeline as part of its DevOps transformation.

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