At the Open Infrastructure Summit conference, Mirantis today unfurled a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application through which IT administrators can employ modeling tools to configure private clouds based on either OpenStack or Kubernetes. Boris Renski, chief marketing officer for Mirantis, said rather than having to manually configure a private cloud for an on-premises IT environment using YAML […]
Bridging the Gaps in SaaS to Meet Business Needs
Today, software as a service (SaaS) is a mainstream model for application consumption, with industry-specific and business process-focused offerings increasingly available. Flexibility, reduced time to market and cost benefits are the top advantages and selling points of SaaS offerings. SaaS-powered business processes allow businesses to provide feedback in real time, thus enabling a smooth change […]
Red Hat Aims to Push IT Management to the Cloud
Red Hat at the Red Hat Summit 2018 conference this week showed a technology preview of an instance of Red Hat Insights, a predictive analytics IT management application capable of identifying operations issues before they become a problem, running as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application. The instance of Red Hat Insights will be extended to apply […]
SolarWinds Aims to Democratize Monitoring
In a move that has the potential to significantly expand the number of organizations embracing DevOps, SolarWinds announced it has expanded its IT management cloud service to include an integrated application and infrastructure monitoring offering dubbed AppOptics. Pricing for AppOptics starts at $7.50 per host per month. In addition, SolarWinds has updated Papertrail log management […]
Cloud Services Demand Security Up the DevOps Stack
In the era of soaring use of public cloud by companies, software delivery is moving away from an on-premises install approach to a cloud-based subscription model through software as a service (SaaS). Customers expect a lot when it comes to SaaS products and services. Whether they are investing in SaaS-first offerings or shifting workloads to […]
CA Technologies Extends DevOps Push
At its CA World 2017 conference this week, CA Technologies moved to tighten the integration between the various elements of its DevOps portfolio acquired over the last year and unveiled CA Digital Experience Insights, an analytics-infused monitoring tool delivered via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. The company also announced an instance of the CA Microservices Gateway […]
SAP Adds SDK to ERP Cloud Service
When most IT organizations think about DevOps it’s usually within the context of custom application development. But thanks to the rise of application programming interfaces (APIs), packaged applications are now becoming a much bigger factor. SAP, for example, just made available a software development kit (SDK) for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, an instance of its ERP […]
Software Security is an Engineering Problem
We live in a world where those who sell products are generally held accountable for defects. Automobile manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies and toy makers are among the businesses that have been handed fines and tarnished reputations for distributing items that were later deemed ineffective or dangerous. One notable exception to this “consumer first” ethos is the […]
SaaS-Powered FlightPartner Fueled by DevOps
Private jet charter company FlightPartner is reaping the benefits of DevOps to build a powerful software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering to keep its customers flying high with no delays. “FlightPartner does not own any aircraft but rather facilitates the travel needs of clients by offering air charter brokers (agents to the client) access to a global network […]
SaaS: Building Tools for the DevOps-Minded
DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing are no longer just methodologies and development strategies — they’re all a part of a growing economy within the tech industry. Great Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies such as Chef, Docker and New Relic have done an amazing job of spotting the trends early and building their tools and […]