VMware today rolled out a series of updates to its automation and monitoring portfolio as part of an ongoing effort to simplify management of highly distributed IT environments. Updates to the VMware vRealize Cloud automation portfolio include VMware vRealize Automation 8.4’s tighter integration with the open source Salt automation framework the company gained by acquiring […]
VMware Looks to Meld IT and Security Operations
VMware has acquired SaltStack as part of an effort to unify IT and security operations management. The announcement was made during the online VMworld 2020 conference this week. SaltStack has developed an open source IT automation platform to automate IT operations. In recent months it has been extended to also address security and compliance management. […]
Survey Surfaces Root Causes of DevSecOps Tension
Results of a survey published by SaltStack, a provider of IT automation tools, suggests tensions between cybersecurity and IT professionals on the one side and DevOps teams on the other are running high. According to the survey of 130 cybersecurity and IT leaders, 70% of respondents said their organization is sacrificing data security for faster […]
VMware Cloud on AWS Will Bring DevOps Issues to a Head
Now that instances of VMware are starting to become available on Amazon Web Services (AWS), a DevOps ecosystem is starting to emerge around the management of applications workloads moving into and out of AWS. Among the more than 4,500 applications that VMware claims already support VMware Cloud on AWS are those from Blue Medora, CA […]
SecOps: The Next Stride for DevOps
Global IT spending is now touching a figure of $4 trillion. In today’s technology-intensive environment, data is the biggest commodity, more valuable and powerful than ever. And like Peter Parker’s uncle Ben noted, “With great power comes great responsibility.” Security has always been a big concern for valuable things and IT is no exception. IT […]
Get Your DevOps Right With These 7 Technologies
Editors’ Note: As with all of our contributed articles, the views expressed in this article are of the author, not staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud. Due to its vendor-agnostic stance, staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud does not endorse any particular technology. There was a time when the operations team and the developers regularly were at each other’s throats. The developers were never satisfied […]
SaltStack Data-Driven Orchestration on Display at SCALE 14x
SaltStack sponsors the Southern California Linux Expo with talks and demonstrations highlighting event-driven infrastructure automation. Pasadena, CA (PRWEB) January 21, 2016 SaltStack®, the creators of data-driven orchestration software for the management of any infrastructure or application stack at scale, today announced it is a sponsor of the Southern California Linux Expo for the fifth year […]
6 things you didn’t know about SaltStack
I recently had the pleasure of moderating the first day of the DevOps track at Gluecon 2014. As I wrote about in a previous post, the good folks at CloudSoft were kind enough to have the days sessions video taped (OK I don’t know if they actually use tape anymore, but you know what I […]