IBM is changing the terms of its ubiquitous Passport Advantage agreement to remove entitled discounts on over 5,000 on-premises software products, resulting in an immediate price increase for IBM Software & Support (S&S) across its vast customer landscape.

TietoEVRY and Ayehu have announced a partnership. This partnership aligns with the strategic priorities of both companies.

Ayehu is expanding its footprint in automation in the applications space. Info-Tech expects that automation vendors will compete based on their application automation capabilities.

Ayehu is leveraging quality of service as a differentiator. Info-Tech expects that service will continue to become more important among software vendors.

TietoEVRY is using Ayehu for IT automation to avoid locking in its customers. TietoEVRY is betting on its relationship building and quality of service to retain accounts.

TietoEVRY is using Ayehu NG to automate activities in applications such as SAP. SAP automation has great potential to free up resources in applications teams.

Ayehu announced that it will be collaborating with Automation Anywhere, a robotic process automation (RPA) solution provider. This collaboration is a complementary marriage of opposites with the potential to benefit both vendors.

Ansible from RedHat has steadily gained market share since its introduction and has now surpassed its two main rivals (underscoring how quickly things change in DevOps). Will Ansible push Chef and Puppet out of the open-source configuration management tool market?

In its latest release, Ayehu has enabled users to create custom activities. This marks a significant shift in Ayehu’s product strategy.

Red Hat Ansible Automation’s latest features enable organizations to better manage and leverage existing automation playbooks, plug-ins, and modules as the depth and breadth of automation continues to expand.

Ayehu gives users a helping hand in building workflows. The firm’s strategy aligns with a trend in the automation market, in which vendors are competing over usability and ease of implementation.

Puppet has rolled out Remediate. This release aligns with the ongoing consolidation between IT Operations and IT Security.

Ayehu is working to bridge the gap between IT Operations and Security Operations. We expect to see more vendor product offerings follow suit.

Rundeck markets itself as an enabler of self-service IT operations. This marketing strategy aligns with the transition of IT operations from order-takers to engineers. But organizations must change their way of working to make self-service successful.

Enterprise IT environments are complex – and Puppet thinks that’s not going to change anytime soon.

IT automation tools such as Ayehu make automating easier than ever, leaving process work as the hardest part.

ConnectWise, a software provider for IT automation and management tools, has released three enhancements to streamline product management for its MSP clients.

On Feb. 12, Chef announced the appointment of Brian Goldfarb as its Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).

Organizations will often automatically assume that payroll is among their most critical process and first priority for recovery. However, workarounds and buffers in the payroll cycle make it far less time-sensitive than most organizations think.

Automation is seen as the next big transformative technology that may have a global impact on an unprecedented scale. How can you, as an individual and as part of a larger organization, stay competitive and valuable by working with automation technology?

Network attached file storage has been around for decades but it is having a renaissance with scale-out and software-defined technologies. In spite of a range of disruptive storage technologies, organizations continue to need ever bigger file storage buckets and NAS can fill the need.