SaaS ServiceNow under siege as Atlassian adds to ITSM take-outs CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes touts 'largest ever quarter for competitive displacements'
SaaS Atlassian’s new data collection policy protects rich customers while AI eats the rest From August 17, the outfit will collect customer metadata by default unless you pay for the top tier
AI + ML Atlassian gussies up Confluence for the AI era Helps employees present data in Confluence in various ways
AI + ML OpenAI now gets to decide which type of product assassin it will become AWS, Google, Broadcom, or Netscape?
SaaS Atlassian to shed ten percent of staff, because AI Company is ‘reshaping our skill mix’ amid long share price slide and SaaSpocalypse whispers
SaaS Atlassian built a tool to migrate Jira users to the cloud and it made the move slower Fixed it amid user ire, swears new tool for bigger shifts is up to the job
SaaS Atlassian swears it can handle AI without blowing out costs, or being swamped CEO feels under-appreciated amid year-long value slump
PaaS + IaaS Atlassian ran a tabletop DR simulation that revealed it lived in dependency hell Four-year effort replaced spaghetti tangle with more robust and recoverable cloudy layer cake
AWS Re:invent Atlassian twice shunned AWS Graviton CPUs, but now runs Jira and Confluence on them Bills fell 10 percent after granular tests suggested JVM tweaks that improved performance
Devops Atlassian drops $1B on company that helps measure dev productivity Aussie CEO promises AI everywhere, and clearer views of what your devs are up to
Devops Atlassian's move to cloud-only means customers face integration issues and more First, server products go end of life, now datacenter gets the chop, and larger customers will pay more
Software Atlassian acquisition drives dream of AI-powered ChromeOS challenger 'A cross-platform browser as an OS is now closer than ever,' claims $610M richer cofounders of The Browser Company
SaaS Atlassian's Trello redesign may be 'worst in tech history' say frustrated users Customers compare upgrade to Microsoft's mega-messy Windows 8
Networks China's IPv6 adoption takes a decent leap forward, especially on fixed networks PLUS: Nightmare insect found in Australia; Arista makes more stuff in India; Atlassian job cuts; And more!
Databases Atlassian migrated 4 million Postgres databases to shrink AWS bill PLUS: Lexmark’s Chinese owners sell to Xerox; India, Australia, target underwater drones; JPMorgan drops custom TLDs; and more!
Software Atlassian tweaks licenses to reward those who buy more, but gets its sums wrong Happy to bill for parts of a month when you buy, not when you say goodbye
AI + ML Atlassian makes its Rovo AI free, for now, to reduce 'friction' holding you back from agentic nirvana Apparently it's time to assume you will work with AI and must 'move from doing the thing to being the architect of the thing'
AI + ML China announces plan to label all AI-generated content with watermarks and metadata PLUS: Foxconn wants 40 percent AI server market share; Atlassian CEO jets into controversy; Starlink reaches 800 million in India; And more!
Devops You have issues with 'Issues' always being called 'Issues' in Jira, so Atlassian now allows them to be called ‘Tasks’ Developers get auto-coding ideas drawn from bug reports, and more AI besides
Offbeat Atlassian CEO's idea to build 4,000-kilometer extension cord plugged in Giant solar farm in Australia will make 'leccy that flows under the ocean to Singapore
Applications Atlassian softens its cloud-first approach for remaining on-prem customers Happy to have 'em go hybrid as it wises up to the enterprise
SaaS After 13 years, Atlassian delivers custom domain names for Jira Customers aren't thrilled at double subdomain or need for Premium license
Devops Atlassian outsources office drudgery to GenAI agents Rovo will write to-do lists, create graphics, become virtual colleagues to whom you offload scutwork
Software Atlassian loses half its CEOs, but customers stay solid after Server products exit support Discloses ongoing experiments with usage-based pricing
Security Atlassian Confluence Server RCE attacks underway from 600+ IPs If you're still running a vulnerable instance then 'assume a breach'
Patches Patch now: Critical VMware, Atlassian flaws found You didn't have anything else to do this Tuesday, right?
Security Atlassian security advisory reveals four fresh critical flaws – in mail with dead links Bitbucket, Confluence and Jira all in danger, again. Sigh
Cyber-crime Novel backdoor persists even after critical Confluence vulnerability is patched Got a Confluence server? Listen up. Malware said to have wide-ranging capabilities
Cyber-crime Atlassian cranks up the threat meter to max for Confluence authorization flaw Attackers secure admin rights after vendor said they could only steal data
Software Atlassian predicts its on-prem products will grow faster than cloud That is not the plan – nor was a larger loss – so investors whacked the Aussie’s share price
Patches Stop what you’re doing and patch this critical Confluence flaw, warns Atlassian Risk of ‘significant data loss’ for on-prem customers
Software Atlassian users complain of cloud migration dead ends, especially in UK Lack of local clouds and inflexible offers see users depart. Maybe the new ‘Compass’ developer experience tool will be more to their liking
Patches US cybercops urge admins to patch amid ongoing Confluence chaos Do it now, no ifs or buts, says advisory
Software As it prepares to abandon its on-prem server products, Atlassian is content. Users? Not so much Massive price rises are coming for smaller holdouts, and Australian vendor knows its bottom line could hurt
SaaS Atlassian buys 'asynchronous video' outfit Loom for almost $1 billion Imagine a Jira bug report with an embedded video explaining the situation
Patches IT networks under attack via critical Confluence zero-day. Patch now 'Handful' of customers hit so far, public-facing instances at risk
Software Red Hat bins Bugzilla for RHEL issue tracking, jumps on Jira Just in time to get Atlassian’s latest cross-team collab bits
Research Microsoft: Russia sent its B team to wipe Ukrainian hard drives WhisperGate-spreading Cadet Blizzard painted as haphazard but dangerous crew
Off-Prem WFH mandates bad for staff morale and stunt innovation Opportunistic Atlassian highlights problems in wake of move by Meta, Dell, Google and others
Devops Atlassian pipes software flaw reports into Jira, so the boss can see them too This could be a useful way to show what you’re up against, or give the clueless a stick to beat you with
Devops Atlassian says 'Don't #@!% the Planet' so it can keep making money Which when you think about it, is a pretty good reason to build a sustainable business
Devops How does Atlassian hope to actually improve Confluence and Jira? AI, of course! A bot shows up to help with a problem. Hopefully that's not two problems now
Software After 11 years, Atlassian customers finally get custom domains ... they don't want Oz upstart promised jira.domain.com, now offers something.jira.domain.com
Software Atlassian to dump 500 – by email – in the name of 'rebalancing' Collaboration upstart previously said it would 'moderate' hiring and use layoffs elsewhere to boost its talent pool
Devops 'Private cloud server' Jira upgraded for wider teams, dragged into culture wars Atlassian wants it used more widely … but probably not for reporting misinformation to social networks
Security School laptop auction devolves into extortion allegation Also: Atlassian says Jira has a 9.4 severity bug and the TSA issues milquetoast no-fly list security advisory
Devops Developers: What if someone said you’d never have to meet with marketing again? Atlassian thinks it’s made that possible by extending automation from Jira to Confluence
On-Prem Atlassian CEO's bonkers scheme to pipe electricity from Australia to Singapore collapses 4,000km extension cords are hard to build
Off-Prem You fire 'em, we'll hire 'em: Atlassian sees tech layoffs as HR heaven But investors aren't impressed by losses and unpleasant outlook
Patches Atlassian, Microsoft bugs on CISA’s must-patch list after exploitation spree Some days, security just feels like a total illusion. OK, most days...
Devops Atlassian smartens up security, licensing admin tools And bundles its best bits at bargain price in case someone wants you to work their way for a while
Software Dead people could be designated authors of Atlassian Confluence docs and that can't be changed 16-year-old feature request to fix it judged so hard it doesn’t offer bang for buck – to Atlassian
Patches Critical hole in Atlassian Bitbucket allows any miscreant to hijack servers Grab and deploy this backend update if you offer even repo read access
SaaS After eleven-year wait, Atlassian customers promised custom domains in 2023 Some got so cranky waiting they made a t-shirt celebrating the 'CLOUD-6999' Jira ticket
Patches Atlassian reveals critical flaws in almost everything it makes and touches Fixes issued, warns it 'has not exhaustively enumerated all potential consequences'
Patches Atlassian: Unpatched years-old flaw under attack right now to hijack Confluence One option: Take the thing offline until Friday patch applied
Devops Atlassian boasts strong Q3 revenue growth in wake of two-week outage Customer credits unlikely 'to be material to the financial statements'
Devops Atlassian comes clean on what data-deleting script behind outage actually did Day 10 of ongoing disruption: Have some sympathy for admins, it's a difficult read
Devops At last, Atlassian sees an end to its outage ... in two weeks Cloud collaboration biz says script deleted data that's so far been restored via backups
Devops Day 7 of the great Atlassian outage: IT giant still struggling to restore access Majority of affected users still wondering where their data went
SaaS Atlassian outage lingers, sparking data loss fears Microsoft OneDrive: Missing documents? Hold my beer
SaaS Atlassian adds Analytics, Atlas, Compass to line up One hopes they can stay online long enough for customers to evaluate
SaaS Atlassian Jira, Confluence outage persists two days on 'Routine maintenance script' blamed for derailed service for unlucky customers
Security Atlassian flags Bitbucket and Confluence Data Center flaws Cluster tech vulnerability means either patching or port tinkering could be on the cards
On-Prem You need to shift millions of repos to AWS without any downtime. How? Bitbucket engineering chief tells all And you need to do it during a pandemic while working from home
Off-Prem JumpCloud hooks investment from Atlassian Ventures and CrowdStrike Falcon Fund for $225m total funding round Cloud directory start-up valued at $2.65bn
Security Jenkins struck by 'Confluenza' as US Cyber Command warns Atlassian flaw 'cannot wait' How was your weekend? Got some patching done?
Security Atlassian warns of critical Confluence flaw 9.8-rated bug allows arbitrary code execution – possibly without authentication
Software Looks like people now pay for Trello, meaning 'ripper' fourth quarter at Atlassian Business Class a bit too costly but Free a little limited? Here comes Standard
Devops Jira Data Center user? Here's a critical Ehcache vulnerability to spoil your day Update now – and maybe firewall the thing off while you're at it
Software There is no escape: Atlassian to send Jira into places only Excel dares to tread HR, finance, marketing and more in the crosshairs for Jira Work Management
Devops GitLab latest to ditch 'master' as default initial branch name: It's now simply called 'main' Only for new projects, but beware the hardcoded references
Software You like Jira that much? Atlassian goes full Service Management with platform, promises Service Desk is fine We've heard that one before...
On-Prem More evidence your work/life balance has gone to $%£*: Atlassian says user-interface interactions show hours tacked on to workday You're probably reading this on your work laptop when you should have been down the pub
Systems Atlassian pulls the plug on server licences, drags customers to the cloud Pricey Data Center editions remain but customers complain that 'this is insane'
AI + ML Atlassian sprays more machine learning over its cloudy BitBucket, Jira, Confluence wares Ouch, that 'smarts'
SaaS ‘IT professionals increasingly define themselves by capabilities they excel at managing’ says Atlassian chap Cloud magically means ‘Microsoft expert’ is less valuable than ‘sales tech expert’, apparently
Software Atlassian to offensively price itself through the post-pandemic patch Claims to be ‘unscathed’ last quarter, will keep hiring and maybe acquiring
Legal Trello! It is me... you locked the door? User warns of single sign-on risk after barring self from own account Atlassian awards personal account to bloke's former employer
Security Atlassian issues advice on how to keep your IT service desk secure... after hundreds of portals found facing the internet amid virus lockdown Alarm sounded after orgs open up internal platforms for work-from-home staff
Software Atlassian finally unleashes free Jira tier – nearly six months late yet just in time for coronavirus crunch Still, could be worse, Bono might starting singing about COVID-19. Oh
Devops Atlassian anticipates $1.6bn total revenue for fiscal 2020 as subscriptions make it rain Can you hear the cloudy cash registers ringing?
Security Atlassian scrambles to fix zero-day security hole accidentally disclosed on Twitter Exposed private cert key may also be an issue for IBM Aspera
Devops Freebie tier coming to issue-tracking Jira, but you'll have to cough up to unlock the good stuff Atlassian would love it if you joined its glorious cloudy future
SaaS DevOpsery-dispenser Atlassian's customers settle into the cloudy subscription world Don't ask about profit, but over half cash came from subs in FY2019
Devops Fsck it, we've lost Bitbucket: Quay.io webhook integration fails after API tweaked Get thee down to the pub, fix out over the weekend maybe
Devops Atlassian bats eyelashes at the enterprise with AgileCraft acquisition 166 million reasons to keep tabs on all those agile projects
Software Stop, collaborate, and listen: Microsoft Teams gets an Atlassian glisten Forget Skype for Business, we have Jira and Confluence integration
Devops Atlassian barges into the billion dollar club with a cheery G'Day! Aussie Jira flinger celebrates a bonzer quarter
Devops Bitbucket wobbles but it won't fall. Oh, snap... Atlassian's code shack goes TITSUP*, has a coffee and feels much better now, thanks
