I’ve been thinking about the news from last week that OpenText acquired Micro Focus for what seems to be $6 billion in cash. Mike Vizard did a nice write-up on the news with his take on it here on staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud (and if you’re interested in the security industry implications, Techstrong Research’s Mike Rothman talked about […]
OpenText to Create Software Powerhouse – Acquires Micro Focus for $6B
OpenText this week announced it will acquire Micro Focus for $6 billion. The acquisition is part of an effort to reinvigorate a broad portfolio of information management, application development and testing, integration and cybersecurity platforms by accelerating the rate at which they are transitioned to OpenText’s managed private cloud. The acquisition is expected to close […]
Micro Focus Announces Expanded AI-Powered Capabilities for the UFT Family
Functional Testing Portfolio Receives Enhanced Artificial Intelligence Support to Accelerate Test Automation, Improve Resiliency, and Reduce Test Maintenance for Application Teams Santa Clara, Calif. – July 6, 2020 Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO; NYSE: MFGP) today announced AI-powered enhancements to the intelligent testing capabilities of the UFT Family, a unified set of solutions designed to reduce the overall complexity […]
Micro Focus Announces Major Enhancements to DevOps Governance in Latest ALM Octane 15 Release
Update Introduces New Capabilities for Enterprise Readiness and Application Delivery Santa Clara, Calif. – December 17, 2019 Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO; NYSE: MFGP) today announced the general availability of ALM Octane 15, the comprehensive DevOps governance solution for high-quality application delivery. The newly improved Micro Focus ALM Octane 15 release provides added capabilities for […]
Micro Focus Advances Capabilities for DevOps in Latest Deployment Automation Release
Update Enables Rapid Enterprise-wide Adoption for Release Teams and DevOps Transformation Projects Santa Clara, Calif. – September 30, 2019 Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO; NYSE: MFGP) today announced the general availability of Deployment Automation 6.3, offering new deployment improvements for its Release Orchestration solution set. The newly enhanced Micro Focus Deployment Automation product provides essential tooling […]
Micro Focus Announces Vertica in Eon Mode for Pure Storage
Industry’s First and Only Analytical Database Solution with Separation of Compute and Storage Architecture Available for On-Premises Environments AUSTIN, TX – September 17, 2019 – Today at Pure//Accelerate 2019, Pure Storage’s annual user conference, Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO; NYSE: MFGP) announced the general availability of Vertica in Eon Mode for Pure Storage. The industry’s first and only […]
Micro Focus Lays DevOps Foundation for RPA
Micro Focus has announced the general availability of Micro Focus Robotic Process Automation (RPA), which sets the stage for employing DevOps processes to construct highly automated business processes. Thanks to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital business transformation initiatives, interest in RPA has increased significantly. However, rather than merely using RPA to build […]
Micro Focus Introduces New Robotic Process Automation Product, Ignites Enterprise Productivity
Designed for the enterprise, the scalable and resilient solution is first to deliver UI and API-based RPA SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 15, 2019 – Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO; NYSE: MFGP) today announced the general availability of Micro Focus Robotic Process Automation (RPA) which gives companies the power to build, secure, and scale automated business processes, […]
DevOps Chat: Enterprise DevOps Adoption, with Micro Focus’ Mark Levy
Adopting DevOps means changes from how you build software to organizational processes and cultural behaviors. Large enterprises have even greater challenges to overcome, including supporting a large number of applications and addressing technical debt while also taking on new development initiatives like digital transformation. What can we learn from experienced DevOps practitioners? In this DevOps […]
SUSE Preps Independent DevOps Path
Once SUSE completes a separation from Micro Focus sometime next year, the goal for the again independent company will be to drive continued investments in a range of open source technologies that collectively advance DevOps. Michael Miller, president of strategy, alliances and marketing for SUSE, said the acquisition by EQT, a private investment firm, is […]