Azul this week acquired Payara, a provider of a Java-based application server and microservices framework that extends the scope of the company’s portfolio beyond Java runtimes. The two companies were previously allied in 2018 when Payara embedded the Azul Platform Core into Payara Server Enterprise. In addition, both companies have a long history of contributing […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: IPO Frenzy Heralds Consolidation
A spate of initial public offering (IPOs) has resulted in billions of investment dollars being poured into JFrog, Snowflake and Sumo Logic and is likely to fuel of wave of merger and acquisition activity in the months ahead. While each of these software companies addresses fundamentally different IT requirements, they are all tapping into a […]
CloudBees’ Acquisition of Rollout: The CEOs’ View
As Mike Vizard reported yesterday, CloudBees, as part of its mission to build “the world’s first end-to-end automated software delivery system,” announced another acquisition: Rollout, a developer of a feature flag application that allows for simplified testing of new modules within an application. Not to repeat the gist of Vizard’s article; you can read it […]
Datadog Acquires App Dev Testing Platform Madumbo
Datadog announced it is extending its reach beyond IT monitoring to include application testing by acquiring Madumbo. Madumdo CEO Gabriel-James Safar said it’s become increasingly apparent that application testing needs to be more informed by the metrics gathered by IT monitoring tools. The combined Datadog/Madumbo will bring intelligence to automated testing processes using both application […]
Atlassian Acquires OpsGenie to Automate Incident Management
Atlassian this week announced its plans to acquire OpsGenie as part of an effort to apply DevOps principles to incident management. The announcement was made at the Altassian Summit Europe 2018 conference. Atlassian plans to integrate OpsGenie, which provides incident alerting and communications software, with its Jira service desk software to enable organizations to automate […]
Tricentis, QASymphony Merge: The Age of Continuous Testing Is Upon Us
Big news in the world of continuous testing today as continuous testing market leader Tricentis announced it is merging with QASymphony. Tricentis, a leader of continuous testing, is adding QASymphony’s leading testing automation platform to the mix. The full text of the press release is below. With the worldwide testing market pegged at more than […]
Microsoft Is Acquiring GitHub for $7.5B, Becomes Steward of Leading Open Source Repository
As part of its effort to get even closer to the developer community, Microsoft is acquiring GitHub for $7.5 billion. GitHub controls the open source repository that is at the center of millions of DevOps processes and is home to up to 28 million developers worldwide. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said GitHub will remain an open […]
CollabNet Merges with VersionOne for ALM Supremacy
Thanks to the rise of DevOps, there has been a lot of focus on various forms of application lifecycle management (ALM) spanning multiple application development methodologies. But as IT organizations become more comfortable with multiple methodologies, it turns out they are not replacing one with another as much as simply trying to figure out where […]
PagerDuty acquires Event Enrichment HQ to speed incident resolution
Together PagerDuty and Event Enrichment HQ Integrate Event and Incident Management I had a chance to speak yesterday with CEO Alex Solomon, PagerDuty’s Product VP Jonathon Wilkinson and Ophir Ronen, Event Enrichment HQ Co-Founder and now Product Director at PagerDuty. They all believe that this is a significant move by PagerDuty to help overcome the desensitization that […]
CA beefs up DevOps offerings with Grid-Tools acquistion
After a relatively long hiatus from the M&A scene CA seems to be back with bang. Following on the heels of its nearly half a billion buy of Rally Software, CA yesterday announced the acquisition of Grid-Tools. Grid-Tools is a test data management market leader. Prior to the acquisition they were a partner of not […]