As we close out 2020, we at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the third in our series of the Best of 2020. Software as a service (SaaS) in its purest form is amazing—like compound interest, it grows upon itself and just keeps growing. Given the current […]
ZeroNorth Adds Security Defect Density Dashboard
ZeroNorth today announced it has added a Defect Density Dashboard to its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing and orchestrating application security scans. Company CEO John Worrall said Defect Density Dashboard borrows a concept employed to measure software quality and applies it specifically to application security. The dashboard surfaces the number of application security defects per […]
Rubrik Looks to Meld Data Management and DevOps
During its FORWARD Digital Summit event last week, Rubrik made a case for the melding of DevOps and data management. The company announced that its Polaris Data Management Platform, delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, has added the ability to protect workloads running on virtual machines on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Rubrik already provides […]
VMware Makes vRealize Automation Framework Available via the Cloud
VMware this week announced it has made a software-as-a-service (SaaS) edition of its vRealize automation platform generally available. Taruna Gandhi, senior director for product and technical marketing at VMware, said VMware vRealize Operation Cloud will make IT automation more accessible to a broader swath of organizations that might not be able to implement IT automation […]
COVID-19 Response: Espressive Makes AI Help Desk Free for 90 Days
Espressive, a provider of a help desk software that makes extensive use of artificial intelligence (AI), announced this week it will provide free access to its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for the next 90 days. Company CEO Pat Calhoun said the COVID-19 Rapid Assistance Program is intended to provide a way to augment existing help desks […]
Zoho Offers Free SaaS Apps to Combat Coronavirus Spread
Zoho today announced it is making available for free a bundle of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications dubbed Remotely through July 1. Raju Vegesna, chief evangelist for Zoho, said Remotely is a humanitarian gesture to help mitigate the impact of a global coronavirus epidemic. Remotely comprises a set of productivity and collaboration applications that users can access […]
Castles in the Cloud: How to Take Your Business Kingdom Off-Prem with Confidence
Cloud transformation requires migrating all or part of an organization’s virtual assets off-premises, typically to a public cloud. This enables greater efficiency and cost savings, among other benefits, but it brings heightened risk as well. At the same time, many organizations moving to the cloud don’t fully understand the implications in terms of security. Consequently, […]
Observability-Driven Development: From Software Development to DevOps and Beyond
In today’s world of cloud platforms and applications, typically delivered as SaaS (Software as a Service), it is critical for organizations to ensure efficient collaboration between software development and operations teams. The software development team codes the software application or platform, while the DevOps team streamlines and automates the entire production lifecycle, from development and […]
Splunk to Acquire SignalFx to Gain APM Platform
Splunk today announced it will acquire SignalFx as part of an effort to extend its reach beyond IT operational analytics and into the realm of application performance management (APM). Valued at approximately $1.05 billion, the deal to acquire an APM platform delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering will expand and accelerate Splunk’s overall transition to […]
Virtual Instruments Acquires Metricly to Monitor Cloud Costs
Virtual Instruments has acquired Metricly, a provider of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application that help organizations to optimize the deployment of cloud application workloads. Tim Van Ash, senior vice president of products at Virtual Instruments, said Metricly employs machine learning algorithms to identify opportunities to improve performance and reduce costs. Those capabilities complement an existing VirtualWisdom […]