F5 announced the general availability of F5 NGINXaaS for Azure, an integrated solution co-developed by F5 and Microsoft that empowers enterprises to deliver secure, high-performance applications in the cloud.
Designing and deploying complete software-defined data centers (SDDCs) can be complicated because each implementation requires a broad range of infrastructure to support heavy demands for compute, networking, storage, applications and security.
Many of the problems are caused by human errors of IT managers as they develop complex multi-vendor environments spanning public clouds, private clouds, hybrid clouds and legacy systems. Such users often have expertise with server virtualization, but they lack the deep skills to build large scale software-defined networking and storage systems – hence, the insertion of costly human mistakes.
Pensa just released a new survey of IT executives which details the current challenges of building DevOps platforms. The online survey of 200+ IT decision-makers cited limited budgets as the top barrier to DevOps success by 19.7 percent of respondents; followed closely by the constraints of legacy systems (17.2 percent); application complexity (12.8 percent); difficulty managing multiple environments (11.3 percent); and company culture (9.4 percent).
For DevOps projects underway this year, survey respondents have been mostly active on public clouds including Microsoft Azure (30.5 percent) and Amazon Web Services (26.6). However, many other teams are using virtualization platforms including VMware virtualization (19.2 percent); Microsoft virtualization (15.3 percent); and OpenStack (7.4 percent).
Fully 35 percent of respondents have been driven by a need to deploy applications once a day or several times a day; followed by those who deploy apps once a week or more (24.1 percent); once every few weeks (16.7 percent); or once a month or greater (24.2 percent).
A majority (51.7 percent) of respondents said that it takes them hours to set up infrastructure for specific applications, compared to just 11.8 percent who said it takes them minutes to spin up new application environments. Another 35.0 percent said it takes them days or even weeks to set up the needed infrastructure. As we all know, business no longer moves at the pace of days or weeks because the DevOps lifecycle involves continuous improvements for application development and deployment.
Industry News
Tenable announced Tenable Ventures, a corporate investment program.
Ubuntu Pro, Canonical’s comprehensive subscription for secure open source and compliance, is now generally available.
Mirantis, freeing developers to create their most valuable code, today announced that it has acquired the Santa Clara, California-based Shipa to add automated application discovery, operations, security, and observability to the Lens Kubernetes Platform.
SmartBear has integrated the powerful contract testing capabilities of PactFlow with SwaggerHub.
Venafi introduced TLS Protect for Kubernetes.
Tricentis announced the general availability of Tricentis Test Automation, a cloud-based test automation solution that simplifies test creation, orchestration, and scalable test execution for easier collaboration among QA teams and their business stakeholders and faster, higher-quality, and more durable releases of web-based applications and business processes.
Couchbase announced its Couchbase Capella Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) offering on Azure.
Mendix and Software Improvement Group (SIG) have announced the release of Mendix Quality & Security Management (QSM), a new cybersecurity solution that provides continuous deep-dive insights into security and code quality to immediately address risks and vulnerabilities.
Panaya announced a new Partnership Program in response to ongoing growth within its partner network over the past year.
Cloudian closed $60 million in new funding, bringing the company’s total funding to $233 million.
Progress announced the R1 2023 release of Progress Telerik and Progress Kendo UI.
Wallarm announced the early release of the Wallarm API Leak Management solution, an enhanced API security technology designed to help organizations identify and remediate attacks exploiting leaked API keys and secrets, while providing on-going protection against hacks in the event of a leak.