XebiaLabs, a recognized leader in enterprise-class DevOps and Continuous Delivery software tools, today announced that Robert (Rob) Stroud, DevOps thought leader and former Forrester analyst, has joined XebiaLabs as Chief Product Officer. Rob Stroud is an expert in the areas of DevOps and Continuous Deployment. Prior to joining XebiaLabs, he served as Principal Analyst for … continue reading
CollabNet has announced the VersionOne Lifecycle and Continuum Winter 2018 Release with a number of new features and capabilities. VersionOne Lifecycle for Agile ALM is the company’s agile lifecycle management solution while VersionOne Continuum for DevOps is a continuous delivery solution that allows teams to speed up software deployments while reducing risk and ensuring quality. … continue reading
The triple effect of cloud adoption, DevOps and CI/CD has dealt a blow to the old tried-and-tested means of infrastructure provisioning and configuration. Thanks to the increasing size of software, its dependencies and support of various platforms, these predominantly manual and script-based tasks have been getting increasingly cumbersome, time-consuming and error-prone. This is where Infrastructure … continue reading
Redgate today acquired the SQL Manager tool from SharePoint and SQL Server solution provider SysKit. The tool will allow Redgate to provide the data privacy and protection needed within databases as well as help meet the requirements of the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The regulation will be enforced on May 25 and organizations … continue reading
In an effort to make application release automation easier for DevOps teams, Red Hat has announced DeployHub OSS and Pro by OpenMake is now certified by the company and available in its Connect Container Catalog. DeployHub OSS is an “open source continuous deployment tool built by developers for developers to achieve agile DevOps,” according to … continue reading
Infostretch has announced a free Jenkins plugin and service intended to assist enterprises with streamlining DevOps development. The plugin will significantly decrease the time needed to code DevOps pipelines and migrate to Jenkins 2.0. It will be able to auto-convert about 90 percent of freestyle Jenkins jobs. Now, instead of developers having to go through … continue reading
Google and Pluralsight are teaming up as part of Google’s Reskilling India Program to address the technology skills gap in India. India’s IT trade association, NASSCOM, says that India will add 150,000 new tech workers in 2018, but there are still 3.9 million employees in the country with aging technology skills that will need to … continue reading
Operations engineers have a few complaints about working with developers that shouldn’t be dismissed as merely rants because they are very real issues that Ops faces. Granted, developers have their own gripes, although this article is meant to provide some insight about what developers should know about operations, not the reverse. Three common complaints from … continue reading
Operations is going through a fundamental shift as infrastructure itself shifts from hardware to software. The “software-defined” future has arrived and it’s something enterprises must embrace if they want to deliver Internet-scale applications and pivot as quickly as today’s business environment requires. Software-defined architecture uses a virtualization layer to optimize the use of resources. … continue reading
Jeff Scheaffer, general manager of continuous delivery, CA Technologies To achieve true continuous testing, it’s not sufficient to take a piecemeal approach. Your ability to deliver—and test software—will only be as fast as the weakest link in your toolchain. That means testing has to occur early, often, and incorporate all aspects of security, performance, functional … continue reading
DevOps continued to dominate development teams and businesses throughout the year with organizations trying to reap the benefits. A Logz.io study found that despite DevOps being a well-known phenomenon, 50 percent of respondents are still in the process of implementing DevOps or have just implemented it within the past year. In the past year, many … continue reading
WhiteHat Security has announced the addition of Sentinel Source for Microservices to its portfolio of static application security testing services. The solution allows organizations to consume the SAST services they need for microservices-based applications. The solution allows users to assess code anywhere in the development cycle; run continuous, scheduled, or on demand assessments; preserve an … continue reading
