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Cloudreach announced the launch of Cloudreach DevOps as a Service. DevOps as a Service is the first of its kind in the market, and fundamentally changes how cloud IT services are consumed to make it easy for enterprises to adopt cloud native technologies and practices.
RunSafe Security announced a partnership with ReleaseTEAM, a full-service DevOps consulting firm. With this relationship, ReleaseTEAM delivers even more security options to its DevOps clients.
With just a few clicks in the Amazon DevOps Guru console, historical application and infrastructure metrics like latency, error rates, and request rates for all resources are automatically ingested and analyzed to establish normal operating bounds, and Amazon DevOps Guru then uses a pre-trained machine learning model to identify deviations from the established baseline. Together with Amazon CodeGuru - a developer tool powered by machine learning that provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an application's most expensive lines of code - Amazon DevOps Guru provides customers the automated benefits of machine learning for their operational data so that developers can more easily improve application availability and reliability.
In 2021, corporate big data leaders will be looking to improve data quality and turnaround of big data projects, as well as performance in meeting business objectives. Big data continues to enter corporate networks at torrential rates, with the amount of poor data that companies obtain or use costing the US economy an estimated $3.1 trillion annually.
ZeroNorth announced the availability of its Defect Density Dashboard, a new capability within its SaaS-based application security automation and orchestration platform. A new variant of the widely used metric for measuring software quality, the ZeroNorth Defect Density Dashboard highlights the number of application security defects per thousand lines of code.
Checkmarx announced major milestones in its relationship with Amazon Web Services, bringing its software security solutions to AWS Marketplace and earning AWS DevOps Competency status. With these moves, Checkmarx is delivering greater simplicity, flexibility, and confidence to customers looking to deploy application security testing solutions into their AWS CI/CD pipelines.
The importance of monitoring is often left out of discussions about DevOps, but a Gartner report shows how it can lead to superior customer experiences. Automate the transmission of embedded monitoring results between monitoring and deployment tools to improve application deployments.
The financial services sector is outperforming other industries, both in its adoption of database DevOps, and its use of monitoring to track database performance and deployments, a newly released edition of Redgate's 2020 State of Database Monitoring Report has revealed. The report shows that 61% of those in financial services deploy database changes once a week or more, compared to 43% across other sectors, and 52% deploy multiple times per day or week, up from 35% in other sectors.
Datadog Incident Management brings data, documentation, and collaboration together in a single location which all engineers and security team members can jointly work from. "With these new Incident Management features now available alongside our powerful tools for alerting, monitoring, and collaboration, Datadog customers can manage and resolve incidents in a single, unified platform, saving time when it matters."
Even though operating in the cloud offers many advantages to developers, security is often seen as an obstacle that prevents developers from truly embracing the speed and agility of the cloud. DevOps teams are challenged by the rapid nature of change in the cloud.