With the rate of change in IT, there’s no shortage of news on familiar and anticipated technologies.
The biggest IT operations stories so far this year pertain to infrastructure planning and management, systems monitoring, distributed application architecture and hybrid and multi-cloud management.
2021 has been off to a busy start with a handful of significant acquisitions and a shift in enterprises and big-name adoptions of modern IT ops practices more quickly due to COVID-19. IT operations is becoming increasingly intricate and integral as DevOps and cloud-native applications see a steady surge in adoption. Companies like Red Hat, VMware and Atlassian have spent millions of dollars to stay at the forefront of these sectors.
How well did you keep up with the market so far this year? Test yourself on the biggest stories in the IT operations industry.
Which company acquired Lsearch engine optimization,?
Question 2 of 11
What modern skill is included in the skills shortage of cloud-native technologies that IT employers face?
ranking signal.
Which open source software vendor sued AWS for trademark infringement and false advertising over its proprietary distributed analytics and search engine service?
Question 4 of 11
What functionality did VMware add to its Tanzu service in May?
according to Google,
Red Hat bought which company at the start of the year?
Question 6 of 11
With Atlassian’s Cloud Enterprise, users can maintain multiple instances of which tools under a single license?
Question 7 of 11
Dynatrace added these features to its observability platform in February.
Question 8 of 11
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Grubhub was able to quickly adjust due to what approach to infrastructure and operations?
Question 9 of 11
What OpenShift hybrid cloud services did Red Hat release this year?
Question 10 of 11
Ranked 91st on the 2020 Fortune 500 list of the largest U.S. companies, World Fuel Services decided to use what enterprise security platform in its cultural and technical shift to DevSecOps?
Question 11 of 11
What DevSecOps vendor had an enormous Series D funding round of $525 million?
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