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• March 15, 2019 15 Mar'19

  DevSecOps shift begins, but remains a work in progress

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

• March 15, 2019 15 Mar'19

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

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

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  F5-Nginx deal reflects mainstream trend toward microservices

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

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  Container management tools must overcome limitations

  As container adoption surges, the management tools organizations need to support these deployments at scale are still in their infancy.

• March 08, 2019 08 Mar'19

  Release automation tools link legacy, modern app management

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

• March 05, 2019 05 Mar'19

  Container security tools turn heads with expansion to hosts

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

• February 28, 2019 28 Feb'19

  Sensu architecture smoothes monitoring data workflow for NCR

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

• February 28, 2019 28 Feb'19

  Istio security drives Auto Trader UK move to GKE

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

• February 26, 2019 26 Feb'19

  VMware PKS adds Heptio IP, boosts container street cred

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

• February 25, 2019 25 Feb'19

  Mainframe DevOps forces platform reckoning for enterprises

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

• February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19

  Container security tools pitch service mesh integrations

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

• February 14, 2019 14 Feb'19

  Linkerd vs. Istio fray dominates service mesh battle

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

• February 11, 2019 11 Feb'19

  Container security vulnerability prompts call to patch runC

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

• February 08, 2019 08 Feb'19

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

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

• February 07, 2019 07 Feb'19

  AIOps wars heat up with New Relic-SignifAI deal

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

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  Uncertain future of open core software puts companies at risk

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

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  Open source in the enterprise presents a two-edged sword

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

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  AppDynamics AIOps injection sets the stage for IT automation

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

• January 22, 2019 22 Jan'19

  AthenaHealth picks SignalFx to smooth public cloud monitoring

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

• January 21, 2019 21 Jan'19

  VMware-Heptio roadmap to refine enterprise Kubernetes

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

• January 17, 2019 17 Jan'19

  VMware and Pivotal put NSX spin on Kubernetes security

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

• January 16, 2019 16 Jan'19

  Latest Kubernetes monitoring, AIOps features trace DevOps trends

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

• January 10, 2019 10 Jan'19

  Database DevOps tools ease app deployment at insurance firm

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

• January 02, 2019 02 Jan'19

  DevOps security model hits organizational snags

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

• December 28, 2018 28 Dec'18

  Major acquisitions, Kubernetes evolution top IT news in 2018

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

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

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

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

• December 14, 2018 14 Dec'18

  Istio service mesh tradeoffs prompt caution among IT pros

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

• December 14, 2018 14 Dec'18

  Knative project stokes interest in event-driven IT ops

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

• December 13, 2018 13 Dec'18

  Enterprise SREs guide devs through Kubernetes in production

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

• December 13, 2018 13 Dec'18

  Kubernetes 1.13 stabilizes storage, but Windows GA delayed

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

• December 11, 2018 11 Dec'18

  Kubernetes security issues raise concerns for enterprise shops

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

• December 04, 2018 04 Dec'18

  Microsoft and Docker CNAB takes aim at distributed computing

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

• December 04, 2018 04 Dec'18

  Kubernetes security vulnerability reveals fractured market

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

• November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18

  Istio service mesh vies for lead in microservices market

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

• November 20, 2018 20 Nov'18

  Gifts for geeks in 2018: analog edition

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

• November 20, 2018 20 Nov'18

  Kibana monitoring apps zoom in on Kubernetes infrastructure

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

• November 16, 2018 16 Nov'18

  AWS Lambda monitoring goes mainstream with New Relic beta

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

• November 15, 2018 15 Nov'18

  Container security tools push multi-cloud closer to reality

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

• November 09, 2018 09 Nov'18

  Docker on Windows Server helps legacy apps, with caveats

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

• November 09, 2018 09 Nov'18

  Terraform orchestration matures as multi-cloud lingua franca

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

• November 07, 2018 07 Nov'18

  Kubernetes on VMware gains a lifeline with Heptio acquisition

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

• November 02, 2018 02 Nov'18

  HashiCorp Vault maturity prompts strategy speculation

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

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  Grow rapidly into a continuous delivery pipeline

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

• October 30, 2018 30 Oct'18

  IBM Red Hat acquisition roils open source container management

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

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  Nomad vs. Kubernetes talk prompts HashiCorp managed service plan

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

• October 22, 2018 22 Oct'18

  IT pros shore up Prometheus monitoring via third-party tools

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

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Netflix Spinnaker pipelines tighten bond with Kubernetes

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

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Chef InSpec 3.0 horns in on Terraform territory

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

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  SRE model requires technical, organizational optimization skills

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

• October 12, 2018 12 Oct'18

  New Relic acquisition of CoScale boosts Kubernetes prowess

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

• October 10, 2018 10 Oct'18

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

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

• October 10, 2018 10 Oct'18

  Embrace DevOps innovation to modernize legacy applications

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

• October 05, 2018 05 Oct'18

  Users mull Ansible Tower features' config management controls

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

• October 05, 2018 05 Oct'18

  Automated root cause analysis moves into the mainstream

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

• October 02, 2018 02 Oct'18

  Kubernetes TLS tweaks whet user appetite for easier management

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

• September 28, 2018 28 Sep'18

  CloudBees sets a path to Cloud Native Jenkins

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

• September 20, 2018 20 Sep'18

  Jenkins on Kubernetes is promising, but integration needs work

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

• September 19, 2018 19 Sep'18

  CloudBees Core sets its sights beyond enterprise Jenkins

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

• September 18, 2018 18 Sep'18

  DevOps security takes on the dark side of digital transformation

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

• September 13, 2018 13 Sep'18

  IT experts exchange container security tips and caveats

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

• September 11, 2018 11 Sep'18

  PagerDuty incident response tools loop in business stakeholders

  PagerDuty follows Atlassian with incident response tracking for corporate management, while IT pros on the front lines of incident triage also seek enhancements to low-level alerting configurations.

• September 05, 2018 05 Sep'18

  Atlassian shops size up OpsGenie buy, Jira for incident management

  Atlassian snapped up OpsGenie and rolled out Jira Ops as part of a shift in focus to IT incident management. Users will follow the strategy cautiously.

• August 30, 2018 30 Aug'18

  Third-party Kubernetes tools hone performance for database containerization

  Kubernetes tools look to carve out a market niche in database containerization with performance monitoring and quality-of-service management features.

• August 29, 2018 29 Aug'18

  Kubernetes community takes over massive Google test bed

  Google will donate $9 million in GCP resources and undergo a three-year handoff process to put a massive Kubernetes test bed under CNCF control. Users wonder, what happens next.

• August 27, 2018 27 Aug'18

  Free Kubernetes security tools broaden enterprise choices

  Kubernetes security tools give enterprise IT shops strategic approaches to container security that go beyond shoring up individual container instances.

• August 27, 2018 27 Aug'18

  VMware vSphere update tweaks HTML5 client, bundles AppDefense

  Hoping to keep its broad base of vSphere users engaged, VMware debuted an updated version of the virtualization offering and a version bundled with AppDefense.

• August 10, 2018 10 Aug'18

  AIOps platforms delve deeper into root cause analysis

  AIOps tools offer fresh insights into the root cause of IT incidents, triangulating between application outages, code changes and infrastructure issues.

• August 06, 2018 06 Aug'18

  Enterprise IT struggles with DevOps for mainframe

  Mainframe automation tools are nascent, and many mainframe experts are reluctant to embrace DevOps. But large enterprises must address legacy platforms to realize app delivery goals.

• August 03, 2018 03 Aug'18

  IT pros debate upstream vs. packaged Kubernetes implementations

  As IT vendors race to package Kubernetes implementations, their fiercest competition is not from other vendors, but from pure upstream code and DIY container orchestration projects.

• July 27, 2018 27 Jul'18

  Atlassian HipChat shutdown surprises enterprise IT pros

  IT pros had been skeptical about Atlassian's Stride, but HipChat's disappearance leaves them with lingering questions about licensing and support.

• July 27, 2018 27 Jul'18

  Google Cloud Build puts GCP spin on cloud CI/CD

  Enterprise DevOps shops have yet another cloud CI/CD choice, as well as additional options for managed Kubernetes, function as a service and service mesh.

• July 25, 2018 25 Jul'18

  Insurer accelerates DevOps test data refreshes with Actifio

  Data-intensive applications can hobble DevOps velocity, but one IT team makes fresh test data available to its developers with a tool that makes rapid copies of large data stores.

• July 19, 2018 19 Jul'18

  GCP Marketplace beats AWS, Azure to Kubernetes app store

  Google is the first major public cloud provider to sell prepackaged apps for container orchestration clusters, but expect AWS and Azure to follow quickly with Kubernetes marketplaces of their own.

• 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.

• 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 15, 2018 15 May'18

  Red Hat Virtualization 4.2 updates include UI and DR enhancements

  The latest updates to Red Hat's virtualization platform enhance enterprise-grade features. But despite improvements, it's still not a VMware killer.

• 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.

• May 01, 2018 01 May'18

  VMware NSX portfolio aims to unify local and cloud workloads

  VMware's NSX strategy aims to help enterprises stitch together data centers and cloud environments, though it could be overkill for IT shops with simpler needs that are more specific.

• 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.