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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.
This increased strain has increased the need for DevOps and database DevOps processes, with 41% of respondents in the healthcare sector saying they have adopted DevOps across some projects to free up developer time and increase the speed of delivery. "We know that the healthcare sector is facing unprecedented demands from the pandemic and other regulatory struggles, and DevOps is the best way to tackle these issues," said Kendra Little, DevOps Advocate, Redgate.
Source code belonging to tens of companies, including several major organizations, has been leaked online after it was found on unprotected DevOps infrastructure. Kottmann told SecurityWeek that the source code they've made public, much of which appears to be proprietary, mostly comes from improperly configured or exposed DevOps infrastructure.
Sysdig announced a 5-minute setup for the Sysdig Secure DevOps Platform, a fast path to delivering container and Kubernetes security and visibility with a SaaS-first offering. The latest release by Sysdig helps organizations of all sizes get results quickly and efficiently by giving customers guided onboarding as well as out-of-the-box dashboards and integrations.
ServiceNow announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Sweagle, a Belgium-based configuration data management company. The transaction will extend ServiceNow's DevOps and IT Operations Management capabilities, giving customers the ability to leverage machine learning to identify and help prevent potential misconfigurations from causing outages in production and speeding up remediation.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the world has made a growing number of people realize how many of our everyday activities depend on software. DevOps has become the software delivery methodology of choice for many organizations.
Basis Technologies, creators of the most complete DevOps and test automation platform engineered specifically for SAP systems, announced the introduction of ActiveControl 8.3, the newest version of the company's innovative DevOps automation solution. This market-leading technology enables on-demand delivery of SAP change through the adoption of agile, DevOps and CI/CD. ActiveControl 8.3 helps companies with SAP systems to achieve greater business agility and faster delivery of innovation by enabling adoption of new development methods, improving the quality of SAP change, and increasing productivity through elimination of manual effort.
An overwhelming majority of organizations prioritize software quality over speed, yet still experience customer-impacting issues regularly, according to OverOps. The report, based on a survey of over 600 software development and delivery professionals, revealed that the current level of DevOps investment is not sufficient for ensuring software reliability.