Cisco has launched an open source project, dubbed FunctionClarity, that makes it possible to verify signatures before code is deployed in a serverless computing environment. Vijoy Pandey, vice president of emerging technologies and incubation at Cisco, said that one of the application security issues that has emerged in serverless computing environments is the lack of […]
AppDynamics Partners With Cisco to Secure Application Runtimes
AppDynamics today announced its agent software, which it provides as part of its observability platform, now has the ability to enforce application security policies. Developed in collaboration with the security business unit of parent company Cisco, the Cisco Secure Application offering, available from AppDynamics, can detect attacks, identify deviations in application behavior and block attacks […]
OpsRamp Extends AIOps Reach to the Network
OpsRamp today announced its AI-enabled IT operations management (AIOps) platform now has the ability to analyze network flows and communications traffic. Ciaran Byrne, vice president of product management for OpsRamp, said the new analytics capabilities will make it possible for IT teams to correlate the IT events OpsRamp already tracks on servers and storage systems against […]
Cisco Moves ACI Strategy Forward
Cisco is advancing its hybrid cloud computing strategy with release of version 5.0 of Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), a software-defined networking (SDN) that can be deployed on cloud platforms or networking equipment deployed in an on-premises IT environment. The latest version of Cisco ACI adds support for a transit gateway between virtual private cloud […]
Survey: Rapid Automation of IT Ops Looms Ahead
The rate at which IT operations will become automated is about to accelerate significantly over the next two years. A global survey of 1,500 senior IT leaders conducted by Cisco Systems finds that 64 percent of respondents today would describe their approach to IT operations as either reactive (26 percent) or proactive (38 percent), but […]
Cisco Looks to Bridge Gap Between Networking and DevOps
Networking in the enterprise has always stood apart. It might take two minutes or less to spin up a virtual machine, but it can take two weeks to set up the network connections. To help bridge some of the gaps between networking and the rest of the DevOps team, Cisco Systems this week unveiled a […]
AppDynamics Buy Expands Cisco’s DevOps Agenda
AppDynamics’ $3.7 billion acquisition by Cisco Systems has two major implications for the DevOps space. On a tactical level, Cisco has committed to distributing AppDynamics’ agent software everywhere from the public cloud to individual devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) and in between. On a more strategic level, the company is positioning itself […]