Blockchain has hit peak “hype,” according to Gartner’s recently published “Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies.” The financial world has been very optimistic about blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT)—the underlying technology behind bitcoin—and the impending disruption it can bring to the way the financial system works. Although the initial buzz around bitcoin has gradually died […]
Cloud Computing in 2016 and Beyond
Few activities are more perilous than predicting the future of the tech industry. That goes double for cloud computing forecasts. Yet, with thoughtful deliberation and the appropriate amount of caution, you can get a fairly accurate read on what’s to come in the increasingly competitive cloud services market. Here’s a quick look at several trends […]
Automic Positioned as a Leader in the 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Release Automation
VIENNA & SEATTLE – August 02 2016 — Automic Software, a leader in Business Automation, today announced that Gartner, Inc., a leading IT research and advisory firm, has positioned Automic as a Leader in its inaugural 2016 Magic Quadrant for Application Release Automation. The complete report, including the quadrant graphic, is available here. Automic believes […]
DevOps Security in Spotlight as Gartner Names vArmour Cool Vendor
News Reports vArmour CEO Eades Nabbed $41 Million Ahead of Trump Presidency In May, Gartner named 2016 Cool Vendors in several security categories. Given the focus of this column, I was interested in several of the companies chosen for the designation, especially those named in the Cool Vendors in Cloud and Emerging Technology Security 2016 […]
Gartner Evaluates APM Tools for DevOps
In 2009, Gartner analyst Mark Nicolett created the Critical Capabilities report. Over time, this document became paired to individual Magic Quadrant reports, and in 2014, Gartner mandated that Critical Capabilities be paired with each Magic Quadrant. Instead of graphically plotting vendors on a x- and y-axis, this research takes a deeper look at a product […]
Gartner’s dirty dozen worst network security practices
The folks at Gartner recently published a research note authored by Andrew Lerner and Jeremy D’Hoinne that highlights their dirty dozen worst network security practices for 2015. This is based on their interviews with over 3000 customers. I would give you the link to the report but it is not publicly available. However if you […]
Gartner gives Docker security an ambivalent thumbs up
As organizations continue to evaluate wider spread use of containerization to enable continuous deployment, security concerns around the wildly popular Docker keep popping up. Last week, an analyst with Gartner published a report that gave Docker security positive marks with some big caveats. Written by Joerg Fritsch, the report examined the security properties of Docker. […]
Security in a DevOps world: Q&A with Gartner’s Ben Tomhave
As the infosec community catches up with the spirit of the DevOps movement, many CISOs and IT security leaders still need guidance on how to make the paradigm shift. Not only are these security folk scratching their heads to figure out the additional risks posed by continuous delivery, but they’re also learning how DevOps can […]
Mobile Apps and Big Data Megatrends Drive Application Performance Management
As the megatrends of Big Data, mobility and cloud continue to reshape the IT landscape many companies are responding by refocusing their solutions to provide better visibility and support for these technologies. Case in point is AppDynamics new Spring 2014 release announced yesterday (full disclosure, AppDynamics is a sponsor on staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud but that sponsorship has […]