Organizations tend to have a very predictable approach to security: reactive. Most don’t really care about security until something bad happens. But with data regulations and requirements becoming more rigid around the globe and cybercrime only continuing to escalate, the notion of security as an “add on” or an afterthought is quickly becoming outdated. Today, […]
Making the Data Work for You: Data Visualization Techniques
When Peter F. Drucker, the father of modern management, performed a two-year in-depth analysis of the General Motors corporation in the 1940s, he undertook what may have been the world’s most ambitious big data analysis ever at that time. However, when he gave the results to GM chairman Alfred Sloan, Al was not happy. In […]
CA Technologies Acquires Runscope for API Monitoring
There’s a pressing need for a variety of monitoring tools more than ever. But given the proliferation of application programming interfaces (APIs) inside the enterprise, demand for API monitoring tools in particular is rapidly expanding. To address that requirement, CA Technologies has acquired Runscope, a provider of an API monitoring service delivered as a software-as-a-service […]
OutSystems: Low-Code Apps Require Sound DevOps Processes
As more IT organizations embrace low-code application development platforms, many of them are discovering that accelerating the rate at which they develop applications can be too much of a good thing. António Barros, product manager for OutSystems, says most of the organizations that have adopted the company’s namesake low-code platform are just now coming up […]
VMware Ties Desktop Virtualization to DevOps Productivity
It’s no secret that when it comes to building applications, many developers prefer to use the Apple Macintosh. However, that preference can create multiple DevOps challenges. VMware is moving to reduce the friction with the release of VMware Fusion Pro 10, a desktop virtualization offering for Apple Macs that now supports REST application programming interfaces […]
Sonatype Report Spotlights Software Supply Chain Issues
Most application developers today don’t write much raw code. Rather, applications developed today are created mostly by combing various modules and widgets to create a custom application. But currently there is little oversight being applied to the provenance of application components, especially when it comes to open-source software. The third annual State of the Software […]
How AI Impacts DevOps Pipelines
The rise of machine- and deep-learning algorithms is about to create some interesting data-gravity challenges for IT operations teams. Over most of the last decade IT operations teams have been caught up in a public- versus private-cloud computing debate that has mostly been species. The truth is that most organizations wind up employing both. But […]
13 Best Practices of Successful Software Testing Projects
Thorough testing is vital for quality assurance, and best practices in software testing can yield high-end software at the end. The current post is giving fine clues regarding the prevailing best practices in software testing projects. Recent cyberattacks have proved that security has paramount importance for any software life cycle. The best QA and testing […]
Application Development: Ripe for Encryption
As businesses look to accelerate application innovation and move more and more workflows to the cloud, their needs can be at odds with the need to secure the data. This article will outline current challenges faced by application developers to protect data in this new cloud/DevOps environment. It will also provide insights on how to eliminate the burdens […]
DevOps Doesn’t Stop at the Database
DevOps has moved into the mainstream and practices such as continuous delivery now are being widely adopted. But what about the database? Applications often have a back-end database that needs to be developed and maintained at the same time. At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be an issue. The recent “State of Database DevOps […]