Microsoft releases first preview of PowerToys utilities for Windows 10

Source: onmsft.com Microsoft is letting Windows Insiders know that they can get their hands on the first preview code release of it PowerToys starting September 5, 2019. While not the power saw or sandblaster as the name might imply, Microsoft’s PowerToys are instead a set of utilities designed for use by “power users” to help streamline the Windows experience and boost productivity that dates back to the Windows 95 era. Back in 1995, well adept Windows users were handed the first version

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ServiceNow Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Service Management Tools for Sixth Consecutive Year

Source: businesswire.com ServiceNow recognized for its ability to execute and completeness of vision ServiceNow named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Service Management Tools (Graphic: Business Wire September 05, 2019 12:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–For six years running, ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW), the company that makes work, work better for people, has been named a Leader in the 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Service Management Tools.1 In the 2019 report, ServiceNow is positioned the highest for

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Software Development Tools Market is Booming Worldwide | Atom, AWS, Linx Software, GitHub, NetBeans

Source: industrynewsstock.com The Exploration study offers deep assessment of the Global Software Development Tools Market and helps market participants to gain a solid base in the industry. The Research report presents a complete assessment of the market and contains Future trend, Current Growth Factors, attentive opinions, historical data, facts and statistically supported and industry certified market data. It delivers regional exploration of the Global Software Development Tools market to expose key prospects presented in different parts of the world. The study is

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DXC sets Origin Energy up for VMware Cloud on AWS

Source: arnnet.com.au Origin Energy has been leveraging its long standing relationship with DXC Technology to help achieve its 2022 ambition of shifting workloads into the cloud.  In a proof of concept (PoC), DXC’s vice president and general manager of VMware’s integrated practice Jeff Moyer said it had already begun moving roughly 100 workloads into the VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS environment for the energy provider with “little to no impact or outage as they made that move”. Specifically the DXC

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Catching the Second Wave With Kubernetes Open Source Products

Source: containerjournal.com As the Kubernetes ecosystem evolves, analysts are starting to talk about the “second wave” of cloud-native computing. A recent piece in Forbes highlights the increasing emphasis on cloud toolchains: “In the second wave of adoption 
 most companies find they have a swelling portfolio of cloud tools 
 and they need a plan to help contend with fragmented cloud environments and accommodate rapid cloud growth.” I’d like to add to that “second wave” sentiment. We’ve been making a case for

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10 pitfalls to avoid when implementing DevOps

Source : opensource.com Make your DevOps implementation journey smoother by avoiding the mistakes others have made. In companies of every size, software is increasingly providing business value because of a shift in how technology teams define success. More than ever, they are defined by how the applications they build bring value to their customers. Tickets and stability at the cost of saying no are no longer the key value of IT. It’s now about increasing developer velocity by partnering with

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Why and How to Collect KPIs for Z DevOps

Source: devops.com It can sometimes feel frustrating to try to figure out how to do DevOps. That’s because DevOps is not about tools—there are lots of different tools that can help you succeed at DevOps. Nor is it about any really specific set of practices; although DevOps prioritizes things like automation and communication, it does not prescribe specific processes for enabling them. Instead, DevOps is really just about cultural values, which is a rather vague guideline for people who want to do

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Pulumi Deepens Cloud Ties to DevOps

Source: devops.com Pulumi has made available a framework for automating the management of multiple cloud computing platforms using familiar programming languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and Go. Company CEO Joe Duffy said Pulumi 1.0 provides a framework that enables developers to automate the deployment of applications on public clouds in a way that eliminates having to learn another programming tool or manually employ YAML files that are often at the root of misconfiguration issues. Pulumi also provides access to a software

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Oracle and Microsoft expand OCI, Azure cloud connections

Source: searchoracle.techtarget.com The multi-cloud capabilities offered by Oracle and Microsoft are now available in the U.K. via a link between the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Azure platforms. Oracle and Microsoft have expanded the cloud computing partnership they formed in June, adding a direct connection between their cloud data centers in London to the initial one that was set up in a pair of Virginia facilities. The Oracle-Microsoft partnership brings interoperability between cloud systems that’s designed to make it easier for customers to

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Microsoft to acquire cloud migration tool provider Movere

Source:cloudcomputing-news.net Microsoft is to acquire Movere, a SaaS platform which increases visibility on IT environments, the companies have announced. Movere – whom industry watchers may remember until last year as Unified Logic – aims to ‘capture, integrate and analyse the data [companies] need to make smart decisions about their IT environment’, as the company puts it. The company’s dashboard organically scans global environments at a highest rate of 1,000 servers per hour and focuses across multiple parts of the cloud

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SD Times 2019 DevOps Showcase

Source: sdtimes.com Broadcom: With an integrated portfolio spanning the complete DevOps toolchain from planning to performance, Broadcom delivers the tools and expertise to help companies achieve DevOps success on platforms from mobile to mainframe. We are driving innovation with BlazeMeter Continuous Testing Platform, Intelligent Pipeline from Automic, Mainframe DevOps with Zowe, and more. CircleCI: The company offers a continuous integration and continuous delivery platform that helps software teams work smarter, faster. CircleCI helps teams shorten feedback loops, and gives them

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Dell credits VMware for beating analyst expectations

Source: crn.com.au Dell Technologies beat financials analysts’ expectations for its second fiscal quarter of 2020 and attributed its success in the quarter to its wide technology portfolio and related innovation. VMware is bringing increasing benefits to Dell Technologies as a whole, said Jeff Clarke, vice chairman of products and operations for the company. Clarke, speaking to financial analysts during the company’s Tuesday financial conference call to discuss its second fiscal quarter 2020 results, said that Dell Technologies has an incredible

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AIOps and the Kubernetes Revolution

Source: datanami.com Kubernetes has emerged as the defacto standard for container orchestration in the new cloud architecture. There’s no doubt about it. But hidden from view in the race to K8s adoption is a new form of complexity that threatens to overwhelm human operators. The way Kubernetes allows users to create, grow, move, and kill entire containerized Linux environments with a few button clicks is revolutionary. The software, which started out as a Google project called Borg, makes it stupidly

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Avoiding The Hidden Costs of Continuous Integration

Source: sdtimes.com In 2018, 38 percent of infrastructure decision-makers that implemented DevOps and automated their continuous deployment and release automation efforts saw revenue growth of 10 percent or more from the prior year. In contrast, only 25 percent of those that had not adopted DevOps reported comparable growth, according to Forrester Research, Inc. Continuous integration and continuous delivery provide teams with faster feedback, higher confidence in code, and the agility that can give them the competitive advantage to win. The overlooked reality is that

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Here’s A Reason To Own Microsoft’s Stock: Its Red-Hot Cloud Computing Business

Source: fool.com Rewind a few years and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) was written off as a distant third-place player in the cloud computing market. Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) dominated with its Amazon Web Services while Alphabet’s(NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google was its scrappy second-place rival.  But things have changed a lot since then. Amazon is still the leader, but Microsoft is chipping away at its lead. It has become the second-largest cloud computing provider on a worldwide basis and is growing at a rate that surpasses its rivals. It’s also operating in an environment that

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Elastic releases Elasticsearch Service on Azure

Source: helpnetsecurity.com Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, announced the launch of Elasticsearch Service on Azure will be welcome news for many of their managed service users who want more cloud provider options and value Azure’s powerful global reach. Organizations that have standardized on Azure will now be able to enjoy the convenience of a fully managed Elasticsearch service, from the creators of Elasticsearch, on their preferred cloud platform — something that was not previously possible. Elasticsearch Service users

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Accenture Google Cloud Business Group Expands to Indonesia: Sees Indonesia’s growing middle class consumers as potential

Source: finance.yahoo.com JAKARTA, Indonesia, Sept. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Accenture and Google Cloud today announced the strategic expansion of their global partnership to build intelligent solutions and local expertise in order to help Indonesian enterprises modernize and accelerate their adoption of cloud technology. Together, the two organizations will develop tailored offerings for Indonesian customers in three main areas: enabling multi-channel customer interactions, improving data management, and creating services for hyper-personalization in marketing, sales and services. This collaboration will also leverage Google Cloud’s

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GitHub and Hack Club team up to bring more computer science resources to high schools

Source: github.blog High school students can ship excellent code, build inspiring projects, and gain real-world skills before they graduate. But for many, the networks, events, and knowledge available in higher education are out of reach. We’re excited to announce our support of Hack Club to enrich high school hackathon communities. High school students level up with Hack Club Hack Club helps students think bigger, do things in the real world like running hackathons with real money, and connects them to  people who

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Baffle is now an AWS Database Ready Technology Partner

Source: helpnetsecurity.com Baffle, an advanced data protection company, announced it has been certified for the Amazon AWS Database Ready Program, which delivers an easy-to-operate, scaled database platform-as-a-service (DB PaaS) to help enterprises and SaaS providers host data services in the cloud to modernize their businesses and operate in a cloud-native manner. Baffle is now an AWS Database Ready Technology Partner Tis announcement comes on the heels of Baffle’s debut of its Cloud Data Protection Platform (CDPP) for AWS, which helps protect data

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From DevOps to DevSecOps: Owning Cloud Security

Source: devops.com The cloud is a complex environment, with different groups managing different cloud services and environments. The most basic division is between the cloud provider, who provides the core infrastructure, and the customer, who leverages services or builds their applications using resources leased from the provider. Within larger organizations, different cloud resources, data and applications may be owned by various lines of business, each with their own budget and development resources. From a security perspective, this sort of divided

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