According to Information Technology Intelligence Consulting Research, 98 percent of organizations report that a single hour of downtime can cost upwards of $100,000. That doesn’t take into consideration the long-term effects on ...

The promises of DevOps are clear. They offer faster iterations, allowing ops to keep up with agile development and make an IT organization more responsive to business needs. DevOps doesn’t make less ...

Making the transition to DevOps requires as much a shift in cultural mindset as it does new platforms for building, deploying and managing applications. Between the two, however, it’s often the extent ...

We have all been there in a postmortem when someone says, “Let’s get to the root of the problem.” And, we all know what that means: Who or what is to blame? ...

Data protection is not a new issue. There have been numerous high-profile data hacks in recent years, with sensitive customer information released into the public domain, causing widespread condemnation and fury. Trust ...

I know far too many developers who cringe at the thought of continuous deployment. Thoughts of broken code and an endless stream of customer support requests puts continuous deployment into the "nice ...

DevOps adoption is all over the map. Just last year, xMatters and Atlassian surveyed more than 1,000 companies on their DevOps maturity and found only 65 percent were getting the benefits from ...

I spend my days discussing DevOps and digital transformations with companies of all sizes, from startups to some of the world's largest enterprises. I've found that many teams are still at a ...

When it comes to DevOps practices, adoption continues to lag intention by quite a bit. GitLab recently surveyed some 5,300 software developers and engineers from mostly small and medium businesses around the ...

What IT operations professionals can learn from the actual paths people take through tools and processes, and the differences from the expected usage model. It has been a snowy winter across much ...

Software defects have been with us forever, and while DevOps and agile can reduce the number of defects generated, it is unlikely this number will ever get to zero for a given ...

As organizations move to embrace DevOps, some have inadvertently left database administrators (DBAs) behind. As a result, developers increasingly find themselves managing databases, as DBAs can’t keep up with the rate of ...