OpenShift 4.21 launches with unified platform for AI and modern apps
Wednesday, February 11, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 is now generally available, based on Kubernetes 1.34 and CRI-O 1.34. This release focuses on unifying AI training, containerized microservices, and virtualized applications on a single operational model to reduce costs and eliminate infrastructure silos.
Accelerated AI innovation
Streamlined training: Data scientists can use a sing...
QAD ignites a new era of operational AI in manufacturing
Tuesday, January 6, 2026 by Brittany Hainzinger
QAD has reached a moment that feels less like a product release and more like a change in posture. The company’s latest announcements point away from manufacturing systems that primarily document what has already happened and toward platforms designed to participate in what comes next. At first glance, the updates fit naturally into QAD’s long-standing focus...
DevOps migration index find big bang platform migrations drain budgets
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 by Richard Harris
CloudBees has released its first DevOps Migration Index, offering an in-depth examination of how large enterprises are managing modernization initiatives across their software delivery ecosystems. Based on a survey of more than 300 enterprise IT and technology leaders, the report reveals a consistent pattern of cost overruns, project fatigue, and diminished returns on l...
Relic research shows high impact IT outages carry $76M median year
Thursday, October 23, 2025 by Brittany Hainzinger
New Relic released its 2025 Observability Forecast, the industry’s most comprehensive report on the state of observability. Surveying over 1,700 IT and engineering leaders and team members across 23 countries and 11 industries, the report highlights key focus areas, challenges, and trends influencing observability investments like the growing adoption of enterpris...
Developer centric strategies for deploying AI models in production
Monday, October 13, 2025 by Austin Harris
Ed Charbeneau, in a recent discussion, highlighted practical strategies for deploying AI models in production. Known for his work as Principal Developer Advocate at Progress Software, Charbeneau emphasized managing non-deterministic AI behavior, integrating agentic AI into developer workflows, and optimizing tools and context management to enhance productivity and relia...
Java 25 focus on developers and AI in new Oracle release
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 by Austin Harris
The latest release of Oracle’s long-standing programming platform, designed to support both traditional and AI-enhanced applications. The update includes thousands of improvements, emphasizing productivity, performance, stability, and security, while providing long-term support for enterprises.
Enhanced support for AI integration
Java 25 includes updates aim...
Why SLOs are a key tool
Monday, August 18, 2025 by Austin Harris
Modern digital products now operate at scales that would have seemed impossible just a decade ago. YouTube processes over 500 hours of video every minute, Amazon processes around 12 million orders each day, and large cloud platforms and advertising systems serve billions of real-time requests.
At this level, a failure is a business risk, a user experience problem, an...
Index Engines wins prestigious industry recognitions
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 by Austin Harris
Cyber Resilience company Index Engines, announced that it received two major industry honors for its flagship product, CyberSense, recognizing the company’s innovation and impact in the cybersecurity space.
Index Engines received the 2025 Fortress Cybersecurity Award in the "Artificial Intelligence - Product or Service" category and was named a S...
Gen AI revolution accelerated by IBM
Monday, May 19, 2025 by Richard Harris
At the company's annual THINK event, IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled new hybrid technologies that break down the longstanding barriers to scaling enterprise AI – enabling businesses to build and deploy AI agents with their own enterprise data.
IBM estimates that over one billion apps will emerge by 2028, putting pressure on businesses to scale across increasingly ...
OCI and AWS capabilities released by Oracle
Friday, September 20, 2024 by Austin Harris
Oracle and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced the launch of Oracle Database@AWS, a new offering that allows customers to access Oracle Autonomous Database on dedicated infrastructure and Oracle Exadata Database Service within AWS. Oracle Database@AWS will provide customers with a unified experience between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and AWS, offering simpl...
Miniaturized AI solution from ASUS
Thursday, August 8, 2024 by Austin Harris
Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly transforming industries, with the potential to create entirely new content, from crafting hyper-realistic product prototypes to generating innovative marketing campaigns. However, a significant hurdle exists: unleashing the true power of GenAI often requires access to bulky workstations or cloud resources.
ASUS NUC 14 Pro+: Miniaturiz...
API management capabilities from Traefik Labs
Monday, November 13, 2023 by Richard Harris
Traefik Labs, the creator of Traefik Proxy, the ingress controller with more than 3 billion downloads, announced that they added new capabilities to Traefik Hub, the Kubernetes native and GitOps-driven Application Programming Interface (API) management solution. This latest update modernizes API runtime operations for platform teams that frequently encounter change...
SQL server modernization solution from SUSE and DH2i
Friday, June 23, 2023 by Austin Harris
DH2i is partnering with SUSE to offer the simplest route to Microsoft SQL Server container modernization. By combining DH2i's DxEnterprise Smart High Availability Clustering software with Rancher by SUSE, organizations can seamlessly migrate both physical and virtual SQL Server databases to availability groups in Kubernetes within minutes. This collaboration em...
Financial and operational planning have a love hate relationship
Thursday, May 11, 2023 by Stephen Dombroski
For many business organizations, internal departments working independently of one another is the norm. This norm creates siloed day-to-day functions and rigid disconnects in processes. This is especially true when it comes to sales and operations planning (S&OP). Low-maturity organizations allow budgets to dictate operational planning, and medium-maturity organizat...
TrueNAS R30 launches from iXsystems
Friday, December 23, 2022 by Austin Harris
iXsystems, the company behind TrueNAS, has announced the RELEASE of TrueNAS SCALE 22.12 "Bluefin", the second major version of TrueNAS SCALE and the industry’s most powerful open source hyper-converged storage OS. Developed in true open source fashion alongside the hundreds of thousands of members in the TrueNAS Community, this storage software release f...
Ransomware prevention platform ProLion sees large increase in revenue
Monday, October 24, 2022 by Austin Harris
ProLion has recorded an 80 percent increase in revenue for FY2022, driven by the addition of over 250 new customers worldwide. The uplift has been driven by demand for its ransomware protection solution CryptoSpike, which has soared as a result of the rise in ransomware and ransomware-as-a-service attacks.
The company also reported a renewal rate of 89...
Switching to a 4 day work week
Wednesday, October 12, 2022 by Richard Harris
Employees have increasingly voiced the value of their work-life balance throughout the past few years, and with Americans quitting their jobs at staggering rates, it’s becoming increasingly clear that employers will need to listen if they want to retain top talent. According to Gartner, a shortened workweek is the most-wanted recruitment and retention strategy by ...
TripActions has selected ReleaseHub
Monday, October 3, 2022 by Richard Harris
ReleaseHub has announced that TripActions has selected ReleaseHub to provide its developers with ephemeral, full-stack staging environments that can be spun up and down on demand.
Switching to ReleaseHub’s on-demand staging environments will allow TripActions to stand up and tear down identical production-like environments instantly, eliminating common delays t...
Building mentally fit workforces with Pulse
Tuesday, July 26, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
New Gallup findings from their latest annual global update determined, among other ominous results, that stress, sadness, and worry have all inched higher worldwide pushing Gallup's Negative Experience Index to yet another new high. Our career lives are certainly suffering in kind.
New ‘Pulse’ app helps build a more menta...
2022 software delivery report from CircleCI
Thursday, March 24, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
CircleCI has unveiled the 2022 State of Software Delivery Report.
Examining two years of data from more than a quarter-billion workflows and nearly 50,000 organizations around the world on the CircleCI platform, the report represents the largest analysis of developer productivity data and provides new insight into the DevOps practices being leveraged by elite softwar...
Why developers need security
Friday, February 18, 2022 by Ariel Shadkhan
They say that everything is personal. Well, so is code development. Since childhood, I was surrounded by developers my father was a developer, my uncle was a developer, and that was all I knew growing up. When people asked me what I wanted to do when I got older, the only answer was, well, to become a developer. Code development was very different back then, we lea...
Kubernetes operations platform gets more funding
Thursday, September 2, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Rafay helps platform teams move beyond traditional Kubernetes cluster management to streamlined Kubernetes operations for modern applications.
Rafay Systems Kubernetes operations platform gets $25M in funding
Rafay Systems, the platform for Kubernetes Operations, has announced a $25 million Series B funding round led by ForgePoint Capital, with participation from ...
Sumo Logic launches new capabilities
Thursday, July 29, 2021 by Richard Harris
Sumo Logic has announced new capabilities that augment analytics-powered use cases and capture the end-user experience as part of its Observability solution. As the requirements for modern application Observability push past the limits of traditional, siloed APM, monitoring, and logging tools, Sumo Logic is continuously investing to address the evolving needs of custome...
Couchbase accelerates enterprise applications for customers
Thursday, July 29, 2021 by Richard Harris
Couchbase, Inc., provider of a modern database for enterprise applications, announced the general availability of Couchbase Server 7. This landmark release bridges the best aspects of relational databases like ACID transactions with the flexibility of a modern database, allowing enterprises to confidently accelerate strategic initiatives such as more quickly moving busi...
NEM Group has launched Symbol
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
NEM Group announced the launch of Symbol, its next-generation Proof-of-Stake+ (PoS+) Public Blockchain. Boasting enterprise-grade programmability and security, Symbol from NEM brings cutting edge technical features which can be leveraged by innovative projects building fintech, healthcare and supply chain products at the heart of the new economy. With the launch co...
Mobile edge computing predictions for 2021 from FogHorn
Wednesday, January 6, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Today, many warehouse and logistics operations are under pressure to significantly reduce order-to-delivery timelines, driven by increasing consumer demand and expectations. To help organizations meet these vastly accelerated timelines and improve operational visibility, industrial mobile devices, equipped with specialized applications, will make it possible to track an...
Game development and Live Ops are evolving
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 by Richard Harris
We recently caught up with Carbonated and AWS Game Tech to discuss how Carbonated’s custom-built, live ops platform Carbyne enables game developers to bring fresh content to players in real-time, without engineering support or an office-based workforce.
While Carbonated is a relatively small gaming studio, they have the tools to become a major player among the ...
Is Your Enterprise CI CD Solution Up to Snuff
Thursday, October 22, 2020 by Austin Harris
The big question is: Is your CI/CD solution adept at adapting? Why not take a moment to examine your current solution and see if it has what it takes to meet today’s needs – and tomorrow’s.
Is it truly enterprise-grade?
Enterprise DevOps has its own set of complexities and challenges. You need an enterprise-grade CI/CD platform that can keep up. ...
62 percent of IT practitioners work 10 hours more a week since COVID19
Monday, September 14, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
PagerDuty, Inc. released a new worldwide study highlighting that more than 80% of organizations have experienced a significant increase in pressure on digital services since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. These same companies cited a 47% increase in the number of daily incidents, resulting in 62% of IT and DevOps practitioners spending more than 10 extra hours...
Developer kit with cloud-native support announced by NVIDIA
Thursday, May 14, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
NVIDIA announced availability of the NVIDIA® Jetson Xavier™ NX developer kit with cloud-native support — and the extension of this support to the entire NVIDIA Jetson™ edge computing lineup for autonomous machines.
The Jetson Xavier NX module is the ideal platform to accelerate AI applications, delivering greater than 10x higher performanc...
Developer survey report from HackerEarth
Monday, May 4, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
HackerEarth released its first-ever developer survey report titled “Behind the Code: HackerEarth Developer Survey 2020.” The report gives employers and recruiters a look into the minds and motivations of today’s most hard-to-recruit and highly coveted talent and provides developers with insights on upskilling and career development.
The survey resul...
webMethods AppMesh announced by Software AG
Friday, April 17, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Software AG unveiled webMethods AppMesh, a configurable control plane for microservices, APIs and service mesh. Built as an extension of Software AG’s industry-leading webMethods API Management Platform, webMethods AppMesh adds application context to service mesh, which provides better agility, management, and governance of microservices as business apps.
Desig...
Improve DevOps processes with API catalog
Thursday, March 26, 2020 by Richard Harris
One of the biggest trends in DevOps is the “shift left” approach when it comes to security, so much so that security conferences now host developer days, developer conferences host security days, and the two have melded into DevSecOps. But pragmatically, how do you implement security earlier into your development cycles? According to CloudVector VP of Engine...
Increasing speed of delivery features
Monday, January 13, 2020 by Austin Harris
A recent survey by Split Software has revealed that organizations are delivering features faster, but many are still struggling with increased downtimes of apps and services. The informal survey consisted of more than 120 DevOps and software engineering professionals and was conducted during industry events from July through November 2019.
According to respondents, a...
Volterra emerges from Stealth
Friday, November 22, 2019 by Austin Harris
Volterra​ announced it has launched from two years of stealth operations with over $50 million in funding to date. Investors include top-tier venture capital firms Khosla Ventures, Mayfield and M12 (Microsoft’s venture fund), as well as a growing set of strategic investors/partners including Itochu Technology Ventures and Samsung NEXT. Volterra’s launch come...
