Accelerating AIOps with the Mainframe
AIOps uses artificial intelligence by combining big data, analytics and machine learning to enhance IT operations. To successfully adopt and scale AIOps, it is critical for enterprises to add the mainframe to the equation. Adopting AIOps requires a holistic approach focused on business processes and workflows. The resiliency of a workflow depends on the health […]
Using Automation to go All-Digital, Fast
Before the pandemic, digital transformation was a five-year plan for many companies — or in some cases, a distant vision that kept getting kicked down the road. Now, companies in every industry face an urgent imperative to adapt to an increasingly online-first world: If you don’t go digital, fast, you’re simply out of the game. […]
Atlassian’s Shift to the Cloud Gets Underway
Atlassian today announced the general availability of Cloud Enterprise, a cloud-based service through which organizations can mix and match the company’s various offerings under a single subscription. The company has signaled its intention to shift toward cloud services for months; now, the initial Cloud Enterprise subscription will cover the company’s Jira Software, Confluence and Jira […]
OpsRamp Extends AIOps Reach to the Network
OpsRamp today announced its AI-enabled IT operations management (AIOps) platform now has the ability to analyze network flows and communications traffic. Ciaran Byrne, vice president of product management for OpsRamp, said the new analytics capabilities will make it possible for IT teams to correlate the IT events OpsRamp already tracks on servers and storage systems against […]
Measuring the Business Benefits of AIOps
Staffing levels within IT operations (ITOps) departments are flat or declining, enterprise IT environments get more complex by the day and the transition to the cloud is accelerating. Meanwhile, the volume of data generated by monitoring and alerting systems is skyrocketing, and Ops teams are under pressure to respond to incidents more quickly. Faced with […]
DARPA Enlists GrammaTech to Apply AI to Reverse Engineer Code
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a research contract to GrammaTech for low code technology that will make it possible for end users to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) without requiring intervention from the original software developer. GrammaTech’s AI tool, dubbed ReMath, aims to ease application updates by automatically inferring high-level mathematical representations […]
AI Everywhere Requires MLOps and NetDevOps to Intersect
As xOps workflows become more prevalent in IT, it’s inevitable to see overlap and intersection between them. In networking, NetDevOps has been a hot topic for the past three years. NetDevOps focuses on bringing automation, simulation and validation workflows to network operations. The goal is to reduce errors in production configuration deployment, reduce time to […]
BMC Expands Scope of Mainframe Management Portfolio
BMC this week updated its portfolio of mainframe tools as part of an effort to make mainframe platforms more accessible to IT operations teams and developers. At the core of these offerings is BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI), which embeds machine learning algorithms in mainframe platforms to automate a wide range of processes. BMC AMI […]
AIOps: Enabling the Customer Experience Evolution
How can IT organizations make sure they’re equipped to resolve operational issues quickly and drive better business outcomes? That’s where artificial intelligence for IT operations, or AIOps, comes in. With the increasingly vast amounts of data generated by infrastructure and business applications, and teams often working in disconnected silos, managing and improving operations through automation […]
Reserved.ai Applies Machine Learning to Rein in Cloud Costs
Reserved.ai has added a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool to more accurately predict cloud computing workloads and rein in cloud spending. The company says its Purchase Planner tool uses machine learning to optimize cloud computing workloads by automatically purchasing cloud reserve instances based on the forecasts it generates. Purchase Planner leverages the machine learning algorithms […]
AWS Looks to Meld MLOps and DevOps
The rate at which machine learning operations (MLOps) and DevOps best practices are converging is poised for rapid acceleration in 2021. At the recent online AWS re:Invent conference, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it is adding a bevy of capabilities to Amazon SageMaker, a managed MLOps service, that includes a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) service […]
5 Reasons Why DevOps Needs AI
AI and DevOps together make a powerful combination of efficiency and intelligence Supervising and managing a DevOps environment can be complex. The proliferation of data has made it challenging for DevOps teams to effectively absorb and implement information to evaluate and tackle customer issues. Imagine a team navigating through data in exabytes to search for […]
AI Automation Won’t Replace Jobs – It Will Replace Processes
As Software 2.0 takes shape, how are AI processes—and the jobs that go with them—changing? When it comes to new AI automation, the Software 2.0 movement can be seen as akin to the auto industry’s recent evolution. Beginning in the 1990s and rapidly progressing into the 2000s, the auto industry saw a huge rise in […]
Broadcom Extends AIOps Platform Reach
Broadcom today extended the reach of its artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) platform to provide full-stack observability via integrations with 15 third-party data sources including Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics, PagerDuty, Splunk, ServiceNow, SolarWinds and Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager. In addition, Version 2.0 of AIOps from Broadcom now captures data at the chip level to […]
Building Your Own AIOps Platform Is a Bad Idea
It takes considerable expertise to not only build, integrate and maintain an AIOps platform In the wake of the economic downturn brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, investments in digital business transformation have accelerated. The applications that drive those processes are not only highly distributed, but they also operate at a level of scale that […]
OpsRamp Makes AIOps Platform Simpler to Configure
OpsRamp today took the wraps off an update to its namesake artificial intelligence platform for IT operations (AIOps) that makes it easier for IT organizations to declaratively configure the software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Ciaran Byrne, vice president of product management for OpsRamp, said the goal is to enable IT teams to embrace AIOps without having to […]
Want To Deliver Better Software Faster? Use Automation
Despite the evident evolution of the software industry, many enterprises continue deploying testing practices that require intensive time and effort, while also facing increased pressure to do more and work faster. I like to call this phenomenon “scattered islands,” as it describes the disconnect in maturity and capability across the testing landscape. The key differentiator […]
Red Hat Automates More Operating System Tasks
Red Hat today announced an update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that automates a wide range of manual tasks. Scott McBrien, a principal product manager for Red Hat, said RHEL 8.3, available in a few weeks, expands the Red Hat System Roles capability that provides a prescriptive and automated means of managing operating system […]
Going Through a Cloud Migration? AIOps Can Help
AIOps can help ease many of the challenges associated with cloud migration As businesses seek to compete in the digital economy and better engage with customers through new digital experiences, they have become increasingly reliant on cloud as a critical component of their digital transformation strategies. This has never been more true than during the […]
Tricentis Applies Visual AI to Improve Application Testing
Tricentis this week announced it has added visual test design and automation technology based on artificial intelligence (AI) to its Tosca platform. Dave Colwell, vice president of AI and machine learning at Tricentis, said Tosca 14 automatically recognizes and identifies visual user interface elements and controls across any form factor to identify the most appropriate […]
Harness to Apply AI to DevOps
Harness, at its {Unscripted} 2020 conference today, announced its plans in the fourth quarter to make available as a beta a module that leverages machine learning algorithms to optimize build and test cycles on the Harness Continuous Integration (CI) Enterprise platform. At the same time, Harness is adding a beta of a Continuous Features module […]
ServiceNow Partners With IBM on AIOps
ServiceNow and IBM this week announced that the Watson artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) platform from IBM will be integrated with the IT service management (ITSM) platform from ServiceNow. Pablo Stern, senior vice president for IT workflow products for ServiceNow, said once that capability becomes available later this year on the Now platform, IT […]
Has the Time Come for IT Predictive Analytics?
Predictive analytics technologies have become critical to compete in manufacturing (predicting machine failure), banking (predicting fraud), e-commerce (predicting buying behavior) as well as to address horizontal use cases such as cybersecurity breach prevention and sales forecasting. Using data to predict and prevent IT outages and issues is also a growing best practice—especially as advances in […]