The life of an acquired company can be an exciting one full of unexpected twists and turns, and that’s been true of Automic software. Scott Willson, a repeat podcast guest and longstanding member of the DevOps community, joins us again on DevOps Chats. He describes his acquisition journey as being akin to a “barracuda, eaten […]
CA Technologies Advances DevOps Automation Agenda
CA Technologies further advanced its staged goal of unifying its disparate portfolio of DevOps automation tools by announcing today a new release of CA Workload Automation AE (AutoSys) software now directly integrated with the CA Automic One Automation platform the company acquired early last year. CA AutoSys is the older of two offerings and is […]
CA Technologies Positions Automic at the DevOps Core
After acquiring Automic earlier this year, CA Technologies suddenly found itself with an embarrassment of IT automation riches. Now the company is moving forward by further integrating the Automic IT automation platform with the rest of the portfolio of tools and services that it says are required to construct a software factory. Ron Gidron, technology […]
Get the Full DevOps Picture with our Continuous Delivery Map
Automation and continuous delivery are shifting from being industry trends to becoming industry standards for fast and effective app deployment. To compete in today’s market, organizations must adopt technologies and applications for more rapid deployment. But with so many tools available, this is incredibly challenging without knowing which specific tools and methodologies are most effective. […]
Automic Chart Maps Out Its DevOps Ecosystem
Everyone who follows me knows that I’m a fan of XebiaLabs’ Periodic Table of DevOps Tools. It was the first attempt I am aware of to arrange things in a way that helped DevOps teams navigate the increasingly bewildering world of DevOps toolsets. In fact, my friend Colin Walker over at ExtraHop and I have […]
DevOps Chat: Dead-End Computer Languages with Scott Wilson
Scott Wilson from Automic is always a great source of knowledge around DevOps. I have spoken with him several times and he never disappoints. In this DevOps Chat, Scott talks to us about dead-end computer languages. Scott, who is a developer himself, often marvels at the explosion of languages available today and wonders how many […]
Automic Helps DevOps Transformation Sparkle
Working closely with Automic, an international wholesaler and retailer of jewelery transformed a department of project managers, developers and operations responsible for all of the customer-facing websites into a DevOps organization. As a result, project delivery was completed with 90 percent fewer delays, and first customer-facing releases of projects could be delivered in less than […]
CA Technologies Announces Intent To Acquire Automic
Acquisition to Provide Cloud-Enabled, End-to-End Automation and Orchestration Platform for Applications and Business Processes NEW YORK, December 1, 2016 – CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Automic Holding GmbH, a leader in business automation software that drives competitive advantage by automating IT and business processes. The transaction, valued […]
DevOps Chat: Lucas Carlson, VP Strategy, Automic, Can Ops Thrive In DevOps?
In this DevOps Chat our guest is Lucas Carlson, newly appointed VP of Strategy at Automic. Of course, Lucas has already had a distinguished career. Here is his bio from Linkedin: Lucas Carlson is an author, entrepreneur and executive. He also has a background of 20 years of programming to back it all up. He’s […]
Automic v12 Promises to Streamline Business Automation
Automic is in the business of automation. The company recently launched a unified suite of business automation tools called Automic v12 that promises to streamline operations even more. I wrote about Automic about a year ago. At the time, I noted how the name Automic is a sort of double entendre that has “auto” right […]