JFrog this week announced it has integrated its DevOps portfolio with Microsoft Teams to enhance collaboration. Deep Datta, a senior product marketing manager for JFrog, said JFrog Artifactory repository and the JFrog Xray software composition analysis (SCA) tool have been integrated via a JFrog App for Microsoft Teams tool that is now available. The goal […]
Private and Virtual Private LTE/5G Challenges Network Visibility
Digital transformation continues to disrupt the entire IT stack by shifting nearly every paradigm, including the new blurring lines between network infrastructure. New mobile network technologies are at the cusp of adaption in the enterprise networks with a growing number of innovations poised to enable expanded and more flexible connectivity with a gradual displacement of […]
AWS Aligns With Slack to Foster Dev Team Collaboration
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Slack Technologies have formed an alliance through which they are moving to transform the way development teams collaborate. Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, Slack will migrate voice and video calls to the Amazon Chime real-time communications service. In addition, AWS and Slack are integrating Amazon AppFlow integration with […]
LaunchNotes Adds Communications Tool for App Release
LaunchNotes today launched a namesake software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing the communications surrounding the release of an application. Company co-founder Jake Brereton said LaunchNotes streamlines internal and external communications for DevOps teams, eliminating the need to employ a collaboration tool such as Slack or a project management application. Each message can be designated as either […]
Twilio Adds DevOps Tool to Invoke Communications Services
At its annual SIGNAL conference, Twilio today launched an initiative intended to make it easier to embed a variety of communication services within an application in the context of a DevOps process. Quinton Wall, senior director of developer marketing at Twilio, said the open source Twilio Command Line Interface (CLI) tool, now available in beta, […]
DevSecOps Survey Finds Failure to Communicate
While it’s generally agreed that shifting more cybersecurity responsibility onto the shoulders of developers is a good idea, a failure to communicate across application development and cybersecurity teams has contributed to little progress in achieving DevSecOps. A survey of 1,310 IT decision-makers conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf of Trend Micro […]
With DevOps Culture, It’s Mind Over Matter
There is quite a bit of conversation about tools versus culture, and sometimes, those constantly involved in the back-and-forth forget that not everyone is so steeped in the finer points of the conversation. Tools is the easy part. There are a ton of tools available to optimize IT operations, from small bespoke products such as […]
Bridging the Gap Between ITSM and Software Engineering
Considering the individual roles of IT service management (ITSM) and software engineers, it seems obvious they should work closely together. ITSM tracks internal and external customer issues and engineering fixes code-related issues (such as defects) that IT cannot fix on its own. However, more often than not, coordination between these two departments is poor, which—critically—undermines […]
5 Team Skills That Make DevOps a Success
When starting their DevOps journey, your team will discover it needs to develop some new skills. Most likely the team is good at typing code and solving issues, but what about the soft skills? Many teams have to learn how to deal with issues themselves—as self-supporting teams, there is no longer a manager who will […]