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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.
Aptum, a global hybrid cloud and managed services provider, launched its Managed DevOps Service in partnership with CloudOps, a cloud consulting and professional services company specializing in DevOps. The Managed DevOps Service offers a cloud-based DevOps platform that allows customers to automate their development pipelines and reduce application delivery times.
Roles across software development teams have changed as more teams adopt DevOps, according to GitLab. The survey of over 3,650 respondents from 21 countries worldwide found that rising rates of DevOps adoption and implementation of new tools has led to sweeping changes in job functions, tool choices and organization charts within developer, security and operations teams.
The good news: Developers are finally having their DevOps day. According to the developers, just 35% of them are deep into DevOps.
Everyone is having trouble keeping cloud deployments secure, according to a new report from Oracle and KPMG. The "Threat Report 2020: Addressing Security Configurations Amidst a State of Constant Change" found that 92% of IT professionals do not think their organization is well prepared to secure public cloud services. Misconfigured cloud services are prevalent, problematic, and the top cloud security priority.
Teams are deploying software from DevOps teams at an accelerated rate, according to Sonatype, providers of the Nexus platform for application security, which recently released the 2020 DevSecOps Community Survey. The survey also showed that teams with mature DevOps support were happier in their jobs.
Businesses in financial services are ahead of the government sector in adopting DevOps to increase their speed of development and free up developer time, but hurdles still remain, according to Redgate. "At the heart of what makes the financial services sector so interesting is its willingness to adopt a generative culture, which focuses on breaking free of siloes and promoting a proactive, collaborative atmosphere," notes Kendra Little, Redgate DevOps Advocate and author of the report.
It introduced technology that protects the cloud native infrastructure throughout the DevOps lifecycle, and reconciles risk posture drift between infrastructure defined through code and infrastructure running in the cloud. In contrast, there are disparate tools that can be embedded earlier in the DevOps lifecycle but they only protect parts of the cloud native stack and solve point problems such as infrastructure as code scanning and vulnerability management.
CTERA, the edge-to-cloud file services leader, announced DevOps tools that allow enterprises to automate file services delivery on a global scale. The CTERA Software Development Kit for Python and the CTERA Ansible Collection enable engineers to rapidly provision hybrid cloud storage services across distributed topologies with thousands of edge locations, applications and users in just a few lines of code.