CloudBees buys Electric Cloud to create continuous delivery ‘powerhouse’
Developer software and services firm CloudBees has acquired Electric Cloud, with the…
News
Curtail raises £2.4m in series seed funding
Curtail, a Santa Barbara, California based network traffic analysis solution and continuous…
Go with the flow: the secret to getting mobile testing right
Go with the flow: the secret to getting mobile testing right We…
Features
Will QA professionals get left behind?
Will QA professionals get left behind? The switch to DevOps is challenging software testing and QA professionals’ positions in the…
Product news
IBM launches cloud-based tool to monitor AI compliance
IBM launches a cloud-based tool which monitors artificial intelligence (AI) in order for enterprises to comply with regulations
Security
Rapid adoption of public cloud raises cybersecurity concerns
Survey findings indicate that cybersecurity is being overlooked and organisations may be vulnerable as a result
Tagging – the key element in enhanced cloud automation
Since the rise of DevOps practices and principles, the “automate everything” approach has become more and more popular. This is no surprise as it’s one of the main pillars of DevOps
DDoS attackers increasingly abuse public cloud services
Data from Link11’s Security Operation Center (LSOC) shows that the cloud services AWS, Microsoft Azure and Alibaba were used in 25% of recent DDoS attacks
Finance
Cloud computing leaves banks exposed to risks, EU regulators say
EU regulators say cloud computing leaves banks exposed to risks European Union watchdogs have released a report last Wednesday (April.10th) in which they state that the finance industry relies too much on third parties and that their concerns are “especially acute with regard to cloud services”. According to top European…
UK technology sector growth weakest for three years
Political uncertainty and global trade frictions have dented client confidence, but buoyant staff hiring and capital spending plans are still in place for 2019, according to a new quarterly survey of UK technology sector companies by KPMG. UK tech companies indicate loss of momentum in the final quarter of 2018…
Puppet report: DevOps salaries increase by 17%
Puppet’s Fifth Annual DevOps Salary Report has become available recently, providing information about salaries in the software development job market. According to the latest Puppet report, DevOps practitioners salaries have increased by 17% over the last 12 months. Software vendor Puppet surveyed 3,000 DevOps experts and found out that DevOps salaries…
Mphasis acquires Stelligent in £25m deal
Mphasis, an information and technology solution provider specialising in cloud and cognitive services, has acquired Stelligent Systems LLC for $25m (£19m) in an all-cash deal, according to a filing released on Friday. As stated in the filing, the acquisition is expected to provide access to a “strategic proposition in Cloud…
Public Sector
Xebia signs MoU with SRM University to launch DevOps curriculum
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between Xebia Academy Global and SRM University, which is based in India, to launch a B.Tech Computer Science Engineering programme specialising in DevOps for the academic year of 2019-20. As part of the MoU deal, Xebia Academy Global will design the course…
Smartbear integrates test tools with the Atlassian ecosystem
SmartBear, the Massachusetts-based provider of software quality tools, has integrated its testing portfolio into the Atlassian ecosystem with tools like Jira, Bitbucket, and Confluence, according to a press release. By leveraging Zephyr and creating new integrations, the company plans to provide Atlassian users with a native experience for their development…
Atlassian announces new updates for Opsgenie, AgileCraft, and Confluence
Atlassian on Wednesday (April.10th) announced several new features to its products at its 2019 Summit in Las Vegas, according to an SDTimes report. Atlassian also revealed that it has rebranded the AgileCraft business planning application that it acquired last month to ‘Jira Agile’. Opsgenie The software company also updated Opsgenie,…
Atos and CloudBees partner to provide modern application cloud development
Atos, CloudBees, and Google have announced an alliance to help customers modernise their application cloud development practices on Google Cloud, according to a press release. The solution is an integrated service that makes oversight of the software development environment easy and provides a managed platform for the software delivery process.…
Smart Cities
Microsoft Cloud ‘93% more energy efficient than traditional data centers’
Microsoft Cloud is 93% more energy efficient and up to 98% more carbon efficient than traditional enterprise data centers, according to Microsoft's study in partnership with WSP
Expectations of cloud computing, big data and analytics advancing smart cities
The National Software Testing Conference (NSTC) speakers explain how it would be difficult to collect, process and report analytics based on smart cities, without big data, analytics and cloud computing
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