The bright future of software development
Wednesday, March 28, 2018 by Richard Harris
The now famous 2011 essay from Marc Andreessen titled “Why Software Is Eating The World” has become a bit of a staple when having a conversation about business, and software, and how they work together to solve problems. In a nutshell, Marc points out that software is still in a growth period and infiltrating businesses all across the globe and that it will contin...
Panaya makes strides in Agile delivery
Thursday, February 15, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Panaya has announced that Panaya has expanded its footprint in the Enterprise Agile Delivery market. Since RDx's (Release Dynamix) release last May, the company's cloud-based application lifecycle management solution has been adopted by over 70 customers including global names such as Repsol, Ralph Lauren, Loreal, Mercedes, and BioMarin. In efforts to keep pace wi...
Software testing using Artificial Intelligence
Tuesday, January 02, 2018 by Richard Harris
As the complexity of software continues to increase and release delivery cycles shorten, software testers need to provide quality feedback to developers nearly instantaneously. In this age of continuous testing, companies are adopting a new mantra: Test smarter, not harder. There’s simply no other choice, given the torrential pace of new software launches. Today, ...
StreamSets Control Hub adds DevOps sensibilities
Thursday, December 14, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
StreamSets Inc. has announced immediate availability of StreamSets Control Hub, engineered to streamline the development and operational management of many-to-many dataflows. Available in the Enterprise Edition, StreamSets Control Hub adds DevOps sensibilities to data movement architectures. It offers centralized collaborative design of dataflow topologies and enables t...
Hazelcast Jet 0.5 API unveiled to increases dev productivity
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Hazelcast has announced the 0.5 release of Hazelcast Jet - an application embeddable, distributed computing platform for fast processing of big data sets. New functionality in Hazelcast Jet 0.5 includes the Pipeline API for general purpose programming of batch and stream processing, and fault tolerance using snapshotting with the integrated Hazelcast IMDG. The overall f...
CA says you are probably missing out on the benefits of continuous testing
Friday, July 21, 2017 by Richard Harris
Results from a CA Technologies global study reveal that while 75 percent of organizations highlight continuous testing as critical or important, only a minority of survey respondents have made exceptional progress acquiring the necessary knowledge and key enablers to drive digital transformation. The 20 percent of survey respondents identified as continuous testing ‘Lea...
DevOps in the enterprise with new Shippable Server
Thursday, June 15, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Shippable announces the general availability of Shippable Server, the enterprise version of its popular DevOps platform, for organizations that want to ship code frequently and predictably but have strict security, compliance and control needs. The platform unifies all DevOps tools and processes into software “assembly lines” that provide complete visibility, traceabili...
Adopting DevOps should be a top priority for you right now
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
As DevOps becomes more mainstream, there has been a rush for companies to implement it and agile workflows. DevOps as a buzzword isn't going away anytime soon, but are companies truly "doing DevOps" to the best of their ability? Sacha Labourey, founder and CEO of CloudBees, a hub of enterprise Jenkins and DevOps, discusses the difference between companies claiming to do...
Electric Cloud has a new version of ElectricFlow
Monday, April 17, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Electric Cloud has a new version of ElectricFlow that makes it easier for developers to get started with the free Community Edition using Docker, and also deploy to a myriad of Container orchestration solutions and platforms. ElectricFlow provides broad support for the leading technologies in the Containers ecosystem. DevOps teams can now deploy to different enviro...
Battery Venture ranks top Open-Source projects in new report
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
As enterprise-IT departments become more enamored with - and dependent on - open-source software, investment firm Battery Ventures has released a new index ranking open-source projects according to their user activity, popularity, ability to create jobs and traction among developers.The Battery Open-Source Software (BOSS) Index highlights the increasing reliance on free...
Cloud native apps: Perspectives from Navisite
Thursday, March 16, 2017 by Richard Harris
There is much to be considered in the complex IT ecosystems that support modern enterprises. Just like a clock, each little cog and gear plays a critical role in making sure everything is on time and in working order. Unlike a clock, however, IT environments are far less predictable and must be built with more flexible, scalable parts and pieces to function at an optima...
Kinetica is now available on the Nimbix Cloud
Wednesday, March 08, 2017 by Michael Haynes
Kinetica, provider of the in-memory database accelerated by GPUs, has announced its real-time analytics and visualization solution is available on the Nimbix Cloud."Kineticas GPU accelerated database platform paired with Nimbixs Cloud is a natural fit for customers looking for performance and ease-of-use from a cloud deployment," said Steve Hebert, CEO, Nimbix. "Wit...
CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise announced
Monday, February 27, 2017 by Richard Harris
CloudBees, Inc. announced the availability of CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise to help enterprises accelerate software delivery and meet the rapidly growing volume of software development. Every company in every industry is dependent on software to support strategic initiatives and competitive differentiation. To support this business imperative, IT departments are ado...
Developing open source software defined standards
Thursday, February 16, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is announcing its new Open Innovation Pipeline made possible through the aligned operations of ONF and Open Networking Lab (ON.Lab) as these two organizations finalize their pending merger.ON.Lab, with CORD and ONOS, successfully brought together operators, vendors and integrators to build solutions for carrier networks by leveraging...
Capsule8 comes out of stealth to help protect Linux from attacks
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Capsule8 has emerged from stealth mode to unveil its plans for the industry’s first container-aware, real-time threat protection platform designed to protect legacy and next-generation Linux infrastructures from both known and unknown attacks. Founded by experienced hackers John Viega, Dino Dai Zovi and Brandon Edwards, Capsule8 is being built on the real-world experien...
Lencore to use FieldPoP device cloud as a foundation for its cloud strategy
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 by Michael Haynes
Sierra Monitor Corporation, a provider of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions that connect and protect high-value infrastructure assets, has announced that Lencore, a provider of comfort and safety solutions to modern commercial workplaces will use the FieldPoP device cloud as a foundation for its cloud strategy.Modern workspaces are moving towards ...
Software delivery pipelines to get help from Dynatrace and Electric Cloud partnership
Thursday, February 09, 2017 by Michael Haynes
Electric Cloud, a DevOps release automation, has announced a partnership with Dynatrace enabling organizations to uncover end user, performance and operational cost impacting issues in cloud environments and enterprise software much earlier in the delivery pipeline. The new bi-directional integration is the first of its kind - enabling closed feedback loop between ...
Why continuous delivery is key for developer career success
Monday, January 30, 2017 by Martin van Vliet
When people talk about Continuous Delivery, it’s usually in the context of how it improves the software delivery process and contributes to generating business revenue. Both are true and valid points, but they don’t directly address the opportunities for career growth Continuous Delivery offers for developers. But keep in mind that Continuous Delivery is not a flash in ...
Upcoming events for the DevOps industry
Tuesday, January 03, 2017 by Michael Haynes
Electric Cloud has announced two upcoming DevOps industry events in January 2017. DevOps luminaries who presented at DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco 2016 (DOES16) will join an online video podcast to discuss proven patterns and best practices for leading a successful DevOps transformation. Plus, industry experts on ITIL and DevOps will share their tips for i...
6 DevOps events coming in November
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
Event #1 Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016 at 10 a.m. PDT: LiveVideo Podcast: Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) Episode 56: Special Episode with Electric Cloud Customers Presenting at DOES16Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) is a live video podcast for discussing Agile, DevOps and Continuous Delivery. Each episode focuses on a different topic relating to modern software de...
Centralized or Siloed? Considering two test automation approaches
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 by Lubos Parobek
Today, software testing is undergoing a major shift. More and more teams are moving from a manual process to a fully automated approach that requires a more technical skill setNo two development environments are exactly alike and there is no cookie cutter approach to software delivery. But there are many standard approaches and methodologies to automated testing. ...
VictorOps announces a new JIRA service desk integration
Wednesday, October 12, 2016 by Michael Haynes
VictorOps announces a new bidirectional integration that connects Atlassian JIRA Service Desk with VictorOps’s real-time incident management platform. This integration adds to an already comprehensive set of integrations between VictorOps and JIRA Software, HipChat, Confluence, and StatusPage.JIRA Service Desk is Atlassian's modern service management offering providing ...
JFrog talks about Artifactory and Bintray for DevOps and developers
Wednesday, October 05, 2016 by Richard Harris
JFrog provides infrastructure for software build, management and delivery in open-source, on-premise and SaaS cloud solutions. Their technology helps enterprises accelerate software development cycles by changing the way developers and DevOps teams manage their binary artifacts. We sat down with Shlomi Ben Haim, CEO of JFrog, to find out more about the company, and to g...
XebiaLabs Releases New Integrations to Help Deliver Enterprise Software Better
Wednesday, September 28, 2016 by Richard Harris
XebiaLabs just announced the availability of several new integrations, including plugins for Kubernetes, Docker Compose, Docker and Ansible. These integrations help enterprise IT teams better manage container deployments and orchestrate complex DevOps tool chains across different technology platforms and application technologies. As a result, organizations gain the...
The Intersection of Big Data Analytics and Software Development: Why You Should Be There
Tuesday, September 27, 2016 by Don Vilsack
Despite the proven value of collecting raw software project data and analyzing it to create actionable, easily digested key performance indicators (KPIs), many firms still struggle to extract, analyze, and organize this data into reports—let alone dashboards or scorecards. If this sounds like your organization, don’t be surprised. In my experience, only a handful of fir...
Four DevOps Events in September From Electric Cloud
Thursday, September 01, 2016 by Richard Harris
Electric Cloud just announced four upcoming DevOps industry events taking place in September. These events feature DevOps and IT experts who will share best practices and insights for adopting DevOps in the enterprise. Topic of discussions will include advanced deployment patterns, artifact repositories in the Continuous Delivery pipeline, as well as speakers ...
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...
Scrum.org Announces Significant Updates to Its Professional Scrum Master Assessment and Certification
Tuesday, August 02, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Scrum.org has announced a restructuring of its Professional Scrum Master (PSM) assessment and certification products, as well as adding a new, additional level to the certification program. The purpose of these changes are to enhance the level of Scrum training and more clearly delineate certifications provided to Professional Scrum practitioners to demonstrate mor...
Why Every DevOps Practice Needs Next-Generation 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 ...
CloudBees Jenkins Platform Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace
Thursday, June 16, 2016 by Richard Harris
CloudBees has announced that its Jenkins Platform is now available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace allowing DevOps teams to host Jenkins based continuous delivery (CD) processes in their existing Microsoft Azure environment. With the pre-configured CloudBees Jenkins Platform for Azure, companies can use Azure can accelerate the delivery of their software includi...
HPE Releases New HPE ALM Octane Application Lifecycle Management Platform
Tuesday, June 07, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has released HPE ALM Octane, an application lifecycle management (ALM) software which provides access to a number of developer tools including Jenkins and GIT to offer continuous quality opportunities for companies leveraging Agile and DevOps.HPE ALM Octane utilizes Swagger-documented REST APIs and an open platform architecture built on ...
Why Agile Will Work This Time
Monday, May 09, 2016 by Ravi Verma
The Burning QuestionLast year, I was facilitating a workshop on Agile and began the conversation, as usual, with introductions. I asked each attendee what was the most important, burning question that brought them to the workshop. One of the attendees replied -“We have been trying to introduce Agile to our company for so many years and it does not seem to have help...
Automation's Role with DevOps and Continuous Delivery
Friday, April 29, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Todd DeLaughter, CEO of Automic, to discusses how application release automation can help simplify the DevOps journey to help enterprises of all shapes, sizes and ages scale in order to adopt digital transformation initiatives
ADM: Who is Automic? What does the company do?
DeLaughter: Automic is the largest pure-play auto...
First Major Release for Jenkins in 10 Years Now Live
Wednesday, April 27, 2016 by Richard Harris
Jenkins is an open source automation server offering hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project. It is offered through the Jenkins project, comprised of a community of practitioners and support companies.The Jenkins project has now announced the availability of Jenkins 2.0, the first major release after 10 years and 655 weekly releases...
Orasi Software Now a Certified Partner for Tasktop's DevOps Integration Technology
Friday, April 22, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Orasi Software has announced that it is now a Certified Services Partner for Tasktop, a provider of software lifecycle integration (SLI) solutions and creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source tool. As a Certified Services Partner, Orasi will provide consulting and deployment services for Tasktop and will be eligible for evaluation and non-production licenses to help cus...
A Deep Dive into Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
Friday, April 01, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with CloudBees CEO Sacha Labourey to discuss the growth of continuous delivery (CD) as companies continue to adopt a DevOps culture. The CloudBees Jenkins platform implements continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery utilizing the Jenkins open source automation and orchestration technology.ADM: What is Jenkins CI and how does it relate to C...
New xMatters Integration Platform Offers DevOps Intelligent Communication Connectivity
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
xMatters has announced the general availability of its integration platform offering intelligent communication connectivity technology that supports DevOps adoption.The xMatters’ cloud platform accelerates business processes through intelligent communication which pinpoints and alerts the individuals, teams and external service providers required to work together to qui...
Restlet Updates Its DHC Web-Based API Testing Tool
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 by Richard Harris
Restlet has released the latest version of its DHC by Restlet web-based API testing tool. Offered as an API Platform as a Service, DHC by Restlet now integrates with the other products that make up the Restlet Platform and provides capabilities for discovery, unit testing and functional testing of web APIs.DHC by Restlet provides developers with capabilities to discover...
CircleCI CEO Jim Rose Discusses New Continuous Integration and Deployment Platform
Thursday, December 17, 2015 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Jim Rose, CEO of CircleCI, about the company’s recent release of its new CircleCI Enterprise solution which offers a continuous integration and deployment platform that provides security and configurability that comes from running inside a private cloud or data center.ADM: Can you tell us about CircleCI?Rose: Put simply, we help modern software ...
Electric Cloud Releases New Application Lifecycle Management Tool
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Electric Cloud has announced the availability of ElectricFlow Release which helps companies speed application releases by streamlining and automating software deliveries into release pipelines. Aligning with the concept of DevOps, it replaces checklists and spreadsheets with a single, unified view across both traditional and continuous delivery style application release...
The Next Wave of Software Delivery: Integrating Agile and DevOps
Friday, September 11, 2015 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Pradeep Prabhu, Co-founder and CEO of CloudMunch, to discuss the opportunities and challenges of adopting Agile and DevOps methodologies. ADM: What is driving the next wave of software delivery?Prabhu: In the past five years, business cycles have greatly accelerated, forcing companies to respond faster to customer needs and competitive dema...
How Cloud Helps Agility
Wednesday, September 09, 2015 by Eric Naiburg
Most software development groups, whether they are within large Fortune 500 enterprises or the small shop around the corner, are looking to become more agile. You’ll notice I said the word “more” as many are already following a large portion of the elements of agility and are much further along than they were just a few years ago, but the goal to improve is always...
CloudBees Releases Kubernetes Plugins for Containerized Applications
Monday, August 03, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
CloudBees, in collaboration with the Jenkins open source community, has released three Kubernetes plugins to assist in the continuous delivery of containerized applications with Jenkins. Kubernetes, launched by Google, is used for managing containerized applications – such as those handled with Docker – in a clustered environment. It provides a way for teams to wor...
Continuous Delivery Drives Business Advantage: Six Leading Edge Companies
Thursday, July 09, 2015 by Dan Juengst
Several years ago, the application lifecycle process known as continuous delivery was a new concept being tried by a small group of early adopters. Things have changed. Now, continuous delivery, or CD, is a practice that companies big and small are not only trying out, but embracing as part of a new, faster moving, on-demand business culture. We’re now hearing the ...
Docker Plugins Released for Jenkins CI Continuous Delivery Platform
Tuesday, June 23, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Jenkins open source community, in collaboration with CloudBees have announced the availability of six Docker-related plugins to enable continuous delivery of containerized applications with Jenkins. Jenkins CI is an open source project developed for and by the Jenkins CI community and is the leading open source platform for continuous delivery. Built with Java,...
CloudBees Sees Industry Adoption of Its Enterprise Jenkins and Continuous Delivery Platform
Saturday, May 30, 2015 by Richard Harris
CloudBees, the Enterprise Jenkins and continuous delivery platform, has released a new case study on how company’s can accelerate software delivery by adopting continuous delivery with CloudBees and Jenkins. Continuous delivery is an IT trend that is becoming entrenched as a best practice in the delivery of software. It is a software engineering approach in which t...
Implementing Continuous Delivery: A Journey Worth Taking
Thursday, May 28, 2015 by Sacha Labourey
You’ve made a decision: You’re going to do continuous delivery (CD) as the first step in your DevOps transformation. You’ve laid the groundwork. You’ve established the basic prerequisites necessary for a shift to a CD mindset: everything from ensuring your teams have shared goals to automating and versioning everything – both the application and the environment supporti...
Continuous Delivery is Eating DevOps as Software is Eating the Business
Thursday, March 26, 2015 by Sacha Labourey
For years, IT has been automating business processes. Now IT is automating its own processes to keep up with the rapid pace of change and to meet the business demand for new software features and capabilities. Continuous DeliveryWhat if the business could release dozens of tested software improvements to production daily? Could the business respond to market and cu...
XebiaLabs Releases New Version of Continuous Delivery Management Platform
Tuesday, March 24, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
XebiaLabs has made available XL Release v4.5 for download offering a continuous delivery management platform that manages the end-to-end delivery pipeline for software applications, mobile apps and microservices to help deliver better software faster and at scale.XL Release enables DevOps teams to plan, visualize, and control the entire software delivery process. The ne...
Jenkins CI Open Source Project Passes 100,000 Active Users Worldwide
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The Jenkins CI community, which is made up of practitioners using open source Jenkins, has announced the Jenkins CI open source project has passed the 100,000 active user mark worldwide becoming one of the largest install bases of any open source continuous integration and continuous delivery platform.Ten years ago the Jenkins CI community launched the first version of ...
New CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise and Operations Center Announced
Saturday, December 13, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise and CloudBees Jenkins Operations Center was announced to extend and meet continuous delivery requirement of enterprises. Following the release of Cloudbees’ Jenkins Workflow last week, the company unveiled the two product enhancements which are both related to Jenkins.The new product releases provide more Jenkins Workflow features to vi...
Jenkins Workflow Sets The Tone For New Era Of Continuous Delivery Automation
Monday, December 08, 2014 by Richard Harris
CloudBees is an enterprise Jenkins company which released its general availability of Jenkins Workflow today. CloudBees offers continuous delivery solutions. Jenkins Workflow is a new offering that is helping to establish Jenkins in the continuous delivery (CD) space. Jenkins Workflow was also made widely available for enterprises today. Jenkin...
Continuous Delivery in a 100 Versions Per Minute World: Don’t Let Countless Apps, Components and Services Drive You Mad
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 by Andrew Phillips
Continuous Delivery (CD) is clearly a hot topic right now. Businesses know that getting new features out to their users faster is essential. However, finding information on how to start implementing CD in a real-world situation is something organizations still find challenging. CD is a set of patterns and best practices that can help software teams dramatically imp...
CloudBees to Focus Exclusively on Jenkins Market and Ecosystem
Saturday, September 13, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
CloudBees, an Enterprise Jenkins Company and continuous delivery provider, has announced plans to focus exclusively on the Jenkins market and ecosystem. To accommodate the strategic shift, CloudBees will discontinue its runtime PaaS, RUN@cloud, and will help existing RUN customers migrate their applications to other platforms.As CloudBees reports, Jenkins is b...
Codeship Releases Free Version of its Continuous Delivery Platform
Thursday, July 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Codeship, which offers a continuous delivery platform, has released a freemium version offering an entry-level plan that lets developers access its full suite of capabilities at no charge.Codeships continuous delivery platform acts as release engineers to help companies develop and release products quickly. Codeship turns a manual release process into an automated one b...
Orasi to Host Two Free Webinars in February for Enterprise App Developers
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 by Richard Harris
Orasi has announced two free webinars in February to help enterprises better understand how to leverage their ALM tools for their SAP environment and to increase testing efficiencies. Leveraging Your ALM Tools for Your SAP Environment – Feb 5Overview - Functional testing is a key piece of any SAP implementation and a piece that is often omitted due to time and...
