MLOps: More Than Automation
Recently, there has been a lot of talk about MLOps from the DevOps and software engineering perspective. The message often comes across as, “Hurry, DevOps community, let’s set some standards before MLOps reinvents the wheel,” or “The purpose of MLOps is to allow anyone who knows how to code to get ML into production.” Let […]
Oracle Launches Observability Platform
Oracle, at its online Oracle Live event today, unveiled the Oracle Cloud Observability and Management Platform, which combines newly added logging, log analytics, database management, application performance monitoring, operations insights and service connector hub services with existing Oracle monitoring, notifications, events, functions, streaming and operating system management capabilities. Dan Koloski, vice president of product management […]
AIOps and the Myth of ‘Move Fast and Break Things’
Observability through AIOps enables developers to find problems faster by cutting through the noise Years and years ago, a little-known entrepreneur named Mark Zuckerberg uttered the phrase, “Move fast and break things,” to his development team. Since then, dev teams have stuck to this “move fast and break things” mantra, where fast development far outweighs […]
Granulate Applies AI to Linux Server Optimization
Granulate today announced that a platform that leverages machine learning algorithms to optimize Linux server environments running on-premises or in the cloud is now generally available. The Granulate platform employs agents, dubbed gAgents, that install machine learning algorithms to continuously optimize deployments across a server environment, said company CEO Asaf Ezra. The company also launched […]
Snyk Acquires DeepCode to Apply AI to DevSecOps
Snyk today announced it has agreed to acquire DeepCode as part of an effort to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to DevSecOps. DeepCode has developed an interpretable machine learning semantic code analysis tool that scans code anywhere from 10 to 50 times faster than existing approaches. DeepCode currently supports Java, JavaScript, Python, TypeScript and C/C++ programming […]
PagerDuty Applies AIOps to IT Incident Management
PagerDuty, at its online Summit20 conference today, unveiled a bevy of updates that apply machine learning algorithms across a wide range of workflows across the PagerDuty incident response platform. In addition, PagerDuty today announced it will acquire Rundeck, a provider of an IT automation platform that auto-remediates incidents by enabling playbooks to automatically execute whenever […]
Puppet Deepens Windows Integration
Puppet today announced it has extended support for Windows environments across its portfolio of IT automation tools by adding a Group Policy Migration capability that enables multiple Windows configurations to be tracked simultaneously and offering to assist organizations seeking to deploy the open source Chocolately package manager. In addition, Puppet has extended its support for […]
NVIDIA to Create AI Powerhouse by Acquiring Arm for $40B
NVIDIA has announced its intention to acquire Arm from SoftBank for $40 billion as part of an effort to create a juggernaut that will build processors optimized for artificial intelligence (AI) applications that span edge computing deployment to the cloud. Under the terms of the proposed deal, Arm will operate as a subsidiary of NVIDIA […]
Algorithmia Looks to Meld MLOps and DevOps
Algorithmia, in the latest update to the enterprise edition of its namesake machine learning operations (MLOps) platform, is enabling software development lifecycle practices to be applied to the building of algorithms by making it possible to debug them using desktop tools that are widely employed. The enterprise edition of Algorithmia will enable users to write […]
OpsRamp Adds Synthetic Monitoring to AIOps Platform
OpsRamp has extended the capabilities of its namesake AIOps platform to include synthetic monitoring capabilities alongside existing tools for monitoring end user experiences. Bhanu Singh, senior vice president of engineering and DevOps for OpsRamp, said the Summer 2020 Release of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform adds synthetic monitoring that not only identifies bottlenecks across multi-step transactions […]
Micro Focus Extends AI Testing Tools Reach
Micro Focus has extended the capabilities of a family of Unified Functional Testing (UFT) testing tools infused with artificial intelligence (AI) to include support for both web-based and mobile applications. In addition, UFT testing tools will now allow a single script to automatically run on multiple platforms and browsers, eliminating the need to create multiple […]
VMware’s Blue Medora Buy Advances AIOps
VMware has announced it will acquire Blue Medora, a provider of a service for integrating data collected by IT monitoring tools, to expand its efforts to advance the adoption of artificial intelligence to automate IT operations (AIOps). Roy Ritthaler, vice president of cloud management for VMware, said Blue Medora provides VMware with a software-as-a-service (SaaS) […]
Eggplant Injects AI Into Application Testing
Eggplant has infused its automated testing platform with deep learning algorithms that automatically identify and classify user interface (UI) elements such as buttons and text fields across any platform and then generate all the automation assets needed to instantly run a test. In addition, Eggplant has made it easier to visualize the overlap between common […]
Appian Infuses Low-Code Platform With AI
Appian this week released an update to its low-code application development and deployment platform that employs artificial intelligence (AI) to recommend best next steps, including how to address cybersecurity issues. In addition, the latest version of Appian also makes it easier to incorporate robotic process automation (RPA) modules to automate rote tasks in addition to […]
How DevOps Powered by AI and Machine Learning Is Delivering Business Transformation
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is fundamentally changing the way we think about DevOps. Most notably, it is delivering a new form of DevOps that recognizes the need to have systems that are intelligent by design and underpinned by comprehensive security (DevSecOps). For many, this will be the crucial next […]
A Buyer’s Guide to AI and Machine Learning
B2B software sales and marketing teams love hearing the term “artificial intelligence” (AI). AI has a smoke and mirrors effect. It sounds impressive. But, when we say “AI is doing this,” our buyers often know so little about AI that they don’t ask the hard questions. In industries like the DevTools space, it is crucial […]
DevOps and AIOps: Better Together
DevOps is an attempt to scale technology with humans but AIOps is the ultimate answer. In today’s world, where so many essential business tasks have become digitized, IT teams must deal with constant change while ensuring zero downtime. The irony is that, although IT has become business-critical, the productivity and agility of the people building […]
IBM Launches Ambitious AIOps Initiative
IBM today announced it will apply a range of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to automate the management of IT operations and modernize applications, also known as AIOps. Announced at IBM’s Think Digital conference, Watson AIOps leverages algorithms to continuously optimize IT operations while Accelerator for Application Modernization with AI is a suite of tools that […]
Moogsoft Expands Reach of AIOps Platform
Moogsoft this week updated its AIOps platform to enable IT organizations to construct a virtual network operations center (NOC) that pulls in data from incident management and DevOps platforms for remote IT management. Adam Frank, vice president of product and design at Moogsoft, said version 8.0 of Moogsoft Enterprise enables IT teams to aggregate alerts […]
AIOps 2020: IT Talent Is the Game-Changer
Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) is a fairly new catch-all term for any multi-layered development initiative involving big data analytics, machine learning and/or AI to automate and solve business and IT problems. Definitions vary, but most support the notion that AIOps improve IT performance, infrastructure, cloud and operations. This is a dramatic shift in […]
6 Common Pitfalls to Avoid While Building Out Your AI Tools
Enterprise-level companies, with thousands of employees across the globe, can have their AI framework replicated by B2B companies of nearly any size. In fact, even without access to a ton of proprietary data and immense computational power, you can build out effective AI tools. To begin with, you can introduce publicly available datasets from movie […]
Build Better CX Across the Entire User Journey with AIOps
Ready or not, digital experiences are now the gateway to customers and the standard-bearer of a company’s brand. Yet, as apps become more distributed, more intelligent and more real-time, they continue to run on infrastructure that resides within on-prem data centers as well as multiple public clouds. This complexity is underscored by gaps across IT […]
Putting Customer Communication at the Core of New Apps
As developers and entrepreneurs create new products and services, it is critical for a powerful communication solution to sit at the heart of the solution and support all customer engagement. Reason being, when customers begin to engage with the application, they’ll expect easy access to troubleshooting tools like live support chat. Neglecting to offer such support could […]