Dropping the gloves with hockey and SPE
Tuesday, June 29, 2021 by Shaun Walker
This is my favorite time of year -- the NHL playoffs and the sprint to hoist the Stanley Cup. Now, I recognize I’m biased, and with all apologies to football and futbol fans, the Stanley Cup is easily the most prestigious trophy in all of professional sports and the toughest championship to win. In the vein of a true hockey fanatic, I’d say ‘fight me&r...
Kubernetes advantages and challenges
Tuesday, August 25, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
In this exclusive Q&A with ADM, Sirish talks about how the pandemic accelerated the progression from cloud-enabled to cloud-native, he explains how 75 percent of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production, plus how Platform9 is the outperforming leader in the hosted Kubernetes space among the giants.
ADM: From a developer’...
Speeding up SaaS deployments with Platform.sh
Friday, November 23, 2018 by Richard Harris
Organizations spend an inordinate amount of time and resources developing and maintaining infrastructure, which distracts from what should be their core focus: providing customers with valuable and engaging applications and digital experiences. Platform.sh allows companies to direct their attention towards accomplishing this primary goal by relieving them of the burden ...
App development strategies from Swish's CTO Jeff Whelpley
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 by Richard Harris
Deciding on how to get your idea to the mobile market can be a long journey. Things like building your own infrastructure vs. a managed services approach, and leveraging open source technologies to keep dev costs down are just a few of the things to consider.We had a recent discussion with the CTO of Swish (a budgeting app founded by the guys who did Get Human) on mobil...
DNS security and why mobile app developers should care
Monday, February 5, 2018 by Richard Harris
DNSSEC is a DNS security extension specification for securing information provided by DNS. DNS has been a part of the global internet since the 1980s, but its authentication mechanisms are fairly weak. As a result, DNS is vulnerable to a form of attack called cache poisoning. Cache poisoning is a man-in-the-middle attack that implants false DNS information to redirect e...
Three key advantages when app and network teams unite
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 by Heidi Gabrielson
Customers today no longer tolerate outages or poor application performance. Other companies' comparable offerings are a mere click away, so ensuring optimal performance is one of the most important undertakings for keeping customers happy in the digital age. Traditionally, network and application teams have been siloed, with each focused just on their own goals an...
Solving the challenges of database DevOps
Monday, October 16, 2017 by Richard Harris
As companies look to the promises of DevOps to improve their applications' quality and delivery, obstacles still exist with relational databases that hinder adoption of this collaborative process. In this interview, Perry Krug, Principal Architect of Strategic Accounts at Couchbase, shares insight into why relational database management systems impede database DevOps, a...
Tips for securing container deployments
Friday, September 1, 2017 by Richard Harris
Container deployments are still susceptible to the regular threats that other types of deployments are - including DDoS and cross-site scripting attacks. In fact, hackers often take advantage of compromised containers to scan sensitive data, download malware, or privilegeunauthorized access to any of your containers, hosts or data centers.Fei Huang is the CEO of NeuVect...
Jenkins Blue Ocean helps DevOps adopt continuous delivery
Friday, April 7, 2017 by Richard Harris
The Jenkins project, comprised of a community of practitioners using Jenkins, has released (1.0) and general availability of Blue Ocean, its dramatic new UX implementation. The anticipated launch of Blue Ocean brings a new user experience to Jenkins based on a personalized, modern design that allows users to graphically create, visualize and diagnose continuous delivery...
How Fanatics gets ready for March Madness
Wednesday, March 29, 2017 by Richard Harris
When a team makes the playoffs, signs a player, or wins it all, Fanatics, a sports apparel company, wants to be first with the gear fans want. In order to maintain speed in the cutthroat world of e-commerce, the tools that Fanatics needs to use must be just as fast, reliable, and flexible as the current market trends. That's why Fanatics chose CircleCI Enterprise as the...
DevOps in the cloud
Monday, January 23, 2017 by Jeff Klaus
There’s no question that DevOps delivers significant benefits to enterprise IT, including improved productivity and efficiency, shorter time-to-market, more reliable releases and higher levels of end-user satisfaction.Meanwhile, enterprises, attracted by the flexibility and the lack of infrastructure overhead that Cloud solutions offer — advantages that are ever more ap...
iPaaS market to be worth $2.9B by 2021
Sunday, December 18, 2016 by Richard Harris
MarketsandMarkets has published a new report that shows the iPaaS(Integration Platform as a Service) market size is estimated to grow from $528.0 Million in 2016 to $2,998.3 Million by 2021. That's a 41.5% Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) during the forecast period. If this prediction comes to fruition, we can expect to see the Cloud Services industry become an e...
Isagenix deploys Actifio to build higher quality applications faster
Friday, December 16, 2016 by Richard Harris
Actifio, the copy data virtualization company, has announced that Isagenix, a global provider of products for healthy living, has deployed copy data management software. With Actifio, Isagenix has gained faster, flexible copy data access for DevOps, Business Intelligence (BI), reporting, and Help Desk functions, resulting in reduced infrastructure and operating costs.Is...
ClusterHQ uncovers that most developers spend half their day debugging errors
Wednesday, December 7, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
A recent study from ClusterHQ uncovered that 60% of developer team members spend up to half their day debugging errors, instead of developing new features – proving that debugging is a huge resource drain for DevOps team. To visualize the impact of ineffective application testing, ClusterHQ created an that shows the "silent resource drain" of constantly debugging y...
New VS plugin from Checkmarx lets DevOps teams to rapidly embed security
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
Checkmarx just announced a new Checkmarx plugin for the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services platform. The new Checkmarx (CxSAST) Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services Plugin allows organizations with agile development practices to embed security into their software development lifecycle (SDLC) without the delays traditionally caused by application security t...
Why Nearshoring is the solution to retaining your DevOps team
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 by Alejandro Vasquez
DevOps used to be in the domain of Silicon Valley innovators. But now the concept, which emphasizes tight integration between software developers and IT infrastructure professionals, has exploded into the mainstream. In fact, Gartner predicts approximately 25 percent of Global 2000 companies will have adopted DevOps in 2016, meaning more and more teams are now...
Should you buy or build a mobile app for your business
Friday, November 11, 2016 by Glenn Chenier
The question of whether a company should Buy or Build a mobile app for their business is often portrayed as a binary choice between picking an off-the-shelf app/solution, or building a custom solution from scratch, using an in-house developer team or contracted 3rd party.
The Build vs Buy landscape has many more options. Organizations looking to adopt a m...
HPE Study identifies significant barriers with integrating security and DevOps
Tuesday, October 25, 2016 by Richard Harris
The HPE Application Security and DevOps Report just released, which discusses in depth where organizations are at in their implementation of DevOps, and how application security fits within this new model. While there is a perception that security and DevOps go hand-in-hand, there are significant gaps between the opportunity of incorporating security as a natural part o...
Checkmarx Tells Us Why App Developers Should Care About App Security
Thursday, August 18, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently had a conversation with Emmanuel Benzaquen at Checkmarx to talk about how they are able to scrutinize code with a fine-toothed comb and find vulnerabilities early and why other developers need to be doing the same. With clients such as Coca-Cola, SAP, and Salesforce, they seem to be carving out a niche for application security in the crowded tech-s...
Quali Tells Us What the Coolest Thing About Sandboxing Is
Friday, August 12, 2016 by Richard Harris
Getting good quality software to the market fast is a big challenge, so we recently sat down with Joan Wrabetz, CTO of Quali to chat about Cloud Sandboxing, Community and the Hottest New Release for Full-Stack Application Environments.ADM: Tell me a little about Quali?Wrabetz: Quali is the leading provider of Cloud Sandboxes for automating the DevOps lifecycle. We give ...
Why Every DevOps Practice Needs NextGeneration Data Security
Monday, June 27, 2016 by Louis Evans
As engineers and managers, we live in a world of tradeoffs. A fast solution is usually a sloppy one; a cheap solution is often a fragile one. Any solution that breaks these tradeoffs is extraordinary. A major one can bring about a revolution. The DevOps transformation is just such a revolution. It offers orders-of-magnitude acceleration in software delivery, while ...
NS1's Kris Beevers Discusses DevOps Need for Dedicated DNS
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 by Richard Harris
We spoke with Kris Beevers, CEO of NS1, to learn more about how DevOps is changing the way applications are developed and how DNS technology is evolving to keep up with today’s application delivery challenges. These developments form the background for the introduction of NS1’s new offering, Dedicated DNS.Dedicated DNS is a managed DNS service for enterprises, service p...
Breaking Down the Essential Elements for DevOps Success
Thursday, January 21, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
We recently visited with Michael Madden, CA Technologies General Manager - DevOps, to tap into his expertise and insight into how companies can realize the full potential of adopting a DevOps Mentality. ADM: What is the difference between DevOpsSec, Secure DevOps and Rugged DevOps?Madden: There are many definitions around each of these movements, but fundamentally ...
OpsClarity CEO Dhruv Jain Explains How He is Bringing Machine Learning to DevOps
Thursday, December 3, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
OpsClarity just announced the launch of its Intelligent Operations Platform, which offers a suite of tools for visualizing, understanding, and troubleshooting performance issues for complex web-scale applications and infrastructure. We recently spoke with Dhruv Jain, CEO and co-founder of OpsClarity about the new company and its platform.Prior to founding OpsClarity, Dh...
New AppDynamics Study Shows Critical Failures Can Cost $1 Million Per Hour
Wednesday, February 11, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
AppDynamics and IDC released recently conducted a study which revealed that unplanned application downtime costs Fortune 1000 businesses between $1.25 billion to $2.5 billion every year.The study, DevOps and the Cost of Downtime: Fortune 1000 Best Practice Metrics Quantified, was conducted in December to examine challenges in incorporating best practice metrics for deve...
Logentries Offers New Capabilities for Enterprises to Analyze Machine Log Data
Friday, June 27, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Logentries, a connected log management and analytics service, has announced new capabilities for utilizing its platform to manage machine log data including real-time team annotations, shareable performance dashboards, and instant group notifications.Logentries’ now offers new team-based access to infrastructure, application and user log data. Users now have t...
The Rise of DevOps: From Backroom to Boardroom
Tuesday, April 1, 2014 by Dave Ewart
The world of online games isn't just pixel placement,
optimization tests, and timely calls to "grow revenue." The foundation supporting and delivering
those activities is an underworld built on data, and DevOps might just carry
more weight in revenue than Marketing.
In the competitive world of online games, you can’t succeed
simply having the freshest title or m...
