Topic: saas
Empowering SMBs to compete with big brands using AI and SaaS technology
Business is moving fast. In today’s evolving landscape, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are facing unprecedented challenges. However, they also have more opportunities to get creative and leverage technologies more so than ever before. As they strive to compete with larger brands, SMBs are increasingly turning to advanced technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and … continue reading
LeanIX launches Renewals Board to help companies predict SaaS contract spend
LeanIX announced a Renewals Board feature in its SaaS Management Platform (SMP) that enables companies to bring actionable visibility into the SaaS contract renewal process. Operating in a manner similar to a Scrum or Kanban board, this tool enhances interdisciplinary cooperation among IT, finance, procurement, and security departments, significantly improving an organization’s management of its … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Starbase
This week’s ITOps Times open-source project of the week is Starbase, a tool that collects assets and relationships from services and systems including cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications, security controls, and more into an intuitive graph view backed by Neo4j. The tool enables users to integrate Neo4j with JupiterOne open-source data ingestion plugins to manage their … continue reading
PagerDuty announces new SaaS offerings and features for automating IT
The digital operations management solution provider PagerDuty announced PagerDuty Process Automation On Prem 4.0 and PagerDuty Runbook Automation. PagerDuty Process Automation On Prem 4.0 includes new functionality that enables execution of end-to-end processes, such as adding new customer accounts into globally deployed systems. The new version also brings significant enhancements to distributed execution capabilities, making … continue reading
3 things to look for in a SaaS backup and recovery solution
Software as a Solution (SaaS) applications have taken the business world by storm – and there is no sign of their growth slowing anytime soon. Gartner recently reported that the SaaS market totaled $80 billion in 2018, and predicts it will grow by 80%, to $143.7 billion, by 2022. While software sectors including Customer Relationship … continue reading
SolarWinds Discovery aims to improve software delivery
IT management software provider SolarWinds announced the launch of SolarWinds Discovery, a SaaS-based solution designed to provide organizations with an efficient way to discover, map and improve their software delivery. The solution fully integrates with the SolarWinds Service Desk, allowing IT professionals to proactively address potential risks to IT and to stay compliant with software … continue reading
Catchpoint launches SaaS monitoring for Office 365 and Salesforce
Digital experience monitoring company Catchpoint is launching a new solution to provide in-depth monitoring for SaaS applications. According to the company, this is the first product in its SaaS Monitoring product line. The latest release introduces monitoring for Office 365 and Salesforce. The release is part of the company’s mission to help businesses cope with some … continue reading
Gartner: The future of infrastructure is always on, always available
The future of IT infrastructure is about being always on, and always available, everywhere, according to a presentation by Gartner at its IT Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Strategies, held this week in Las Vegas. With applications so critical to business today, any outage could spell disaster for those companies, according to a number of conference … continue reading
VMware Kubernetes Engine enters public beta
Cloud computing and platform virtualization company VMware launched the public beta of its VMware Kubernetes Engine today, the latest addition to its VMware Cloud Services line of SaaS offerings. The enterprise-grade Kubernetes-as-a-Service beta runs on AWS, with Azure support coming soon, the company says. William Shelton, VP of product management at VMware wrote in the … continue reading
JFrog brings Kubernetes registry to Amazon Web Services Marketplace
JFrog has announced it is bringing a Kubernetes registry with Helm, Docker, npm and universal repository to the Amazon Web Services Marketplace. According to the company, this is the first Kubernetes Registry available on AWS. The registry is available through JFrog Artifactory Cloud solution. Artifactory Cloud is a secure private Docker Registry for hosting local … continue reading
Companies want to take a more aggressive approach to networking and security, report says
A majority of network professionals want an aggressive approach for networking and security, according to Versa Networks’ report “Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD WAN) Adoption is Accelerating to Reduce Security Risk.” In the global study, conducted by Dimensional Research, 85 percent of companies believe that SD-WAN will increase security and reduce appliance sprawl, and 96 … continue reading
A majority of IT workloads will move to the cloud by 2020, report says
Advancements being made in artificial intelligence and machine learning are fueling a move to the cloud. A newly released report from LogicMonitor predicts enterprises will relocate a majority of their IT workloads from the data center to the cloud by 2020 as more intelligent devices, such as those used in IoT, begin to come online. … continue reading
