Rackspace’s managed service takes an “Elastic Engineering” approach
Rackspace announced a new service model for delivering managed cloud services on Wednesday, to help its clients build and operate their cloud infrastructure with an extensive and scalable approach, aligned with DevOps’ best practices.
This new offering is a type of “elastic engineering,” w...
IBM offers quantum industry’s first developer certification
Big Blue is trying to attract developers to their Qiskit SDK by bribing them with a quantum certification
Last week IBM announced the launch of its first developer certification for programming quantum computers.
Quantum computing may still be in its infancy, but Big Blue is leveraging the t...
Low-code platform maker OutSystems raises $150 million
The Series E funding round yielded a valuation of $9.5 billion.
OutSystems announced this week that it had closed a funding round that netted the company $150 billion in cash and a valuation at almost 10 billion dollars.
The company specialises in "low-code" soutions that allow companies to b...
Atlassian announces four new features for Devops teams
New additions to Jira will anhance visibility for enterprise developers.
Atlassian this week announced four new feature additions to its popular Jira project automation software. The new features will give enterprise DevOps teams greater visibility into development pipelines. They will also decr...
Progress Telerik Test Studio speeds up test automation and productivity
Progress, provides products that develop, deploy, and manage the most crucial business apps. Progress has announced the R3 2002 release of Progress Telerik test Studio. The new platform is an enterprise UI test automation platform for WPF desktop, web, and responsive web apps.
The new rele...
Oracle announces new Cloud observability and management platform
Platform aims to help enterprises better manage increasingly diverse and distributed IT portfolios.
On Tuesday Oracle announced the release of their Observability and Management solution designed to deliver "visibility and insight cross cloud native and traditional technology."
Clay Magouyrk,...
Cisco to acquire PortShift for Cloud DevOp security
The acquisition reflects Cisco's focus on security for cloud-native development environments.
Cisco has announced its intent to acquire PortShift, an Israeli startup that has built a Kubernetes-native security platform.
Portshift uses Kubernetes and Service-Mesh to deliver a single source of ...
Appian continues to specialize in low-code automation and adds RPA
Appian wants to become the absolute leader in workflow automation using low-code, and if possible no-code. No matter what kind of business processes, Appian will automate them. At least that's the vision the company wants to spread. We spoke to Michael Beckley, Appian's CTO.
It's been over a yea...
Progress eliminates DevOps Barriers with DataDirect
Progress, the leading player in application development and digital technologies, unveiled a new set of new data connectors to enhance the integration of analytics as well as reporting within the DevOps process.
In addition to an extensive collection of pre-built, super-performing, standards-bas...
AWS emphasises the importance of a Well Architected Framework
Just like any other company, AWS held his virtual conference. At this virtual conference, CTO Werner Vogels had the most compelling story. He stresses the importance of a good foundation when developing applications. You can only innovate and develop quickly on a well-designed foundation.
Many d...
Salesforce announces new developer tools and serverless functions
Salesforce has good news coming from the virtual TrailheaDX conference that will take place later this week, commencing today with several developer tools. These developer tools are meant to provide developers with a more enhanced way of creating applications on top of the Salesforce platform.
T...
Survey: ‘Improved cooperation between security and engineering’
A new study by Cobalt.io shows that there is increasingly strong cooperation between security and engineering. This progress accelerates the transition from DevOps to DevSecOps.
The survey The State of Pentesting: 2020 looks at the state of affairs of application security and contains insights f...