A New Era of Observability, Monitoring and Analytics for DevOps
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CloudBees Acquires Neuralprints to Shift Compliance Left
At the online DevOps World 2021 conference today, CloudBees revealed it has acquired Neuralprints to provide the core technology for CloudBees Compliance, a real-time compliance and risk analysis platform that it will roll out in the first quarter of 2022. At the same time, CloudBees has enhanced the feature management capabilities of its namesake continuous […]
The New(ish) Complexity
The API economy and microservices architectures, led by Agile and DevOps, have introduced a massive amount of hidden complexity. I call it hidden complexity because we have a tendency in IT to focus on the problems in front of us, resolve them, then focus on the new problem in front of us. This leaves technical […]
Relyance AI Shifts Compliance Left Using ML Algorithms
Relyance AI emerged from stealth this week to unveil a namesake platform for managing privacy and data governance in real-time within the context of a larger DevOps workflow. Fresh off raising $30 million in seed capital, Relyance AI co-CEO Leila Golchehreh said organizations can now quickly and accurately answer essential privacy questions and ensure compliance […]
DataOps: How to Turn Data into Actionable Insights
Enterprises have struggled to collaborate well around their data, which can impact everything from digital transformation to advanced concepts like AI and ML. DataOps is not without challenges; building, managing and scaling data pipelines requires careful thought around reusability, portability across infrastructure and applications and long-term maintenance and governance. And these are just a few […]
Google DORA Report Shows Modest DevOps Gains
Google today published the annual Accelerate State of DevOps Report created by its DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team that finds 26% of DevOps teams surveyed can now be classified as elite performers. That compares to 20% the last time the study was conducted in 2019. DevOps teams, made up of a total of 32,000 […]
Transposit Survey Shows DevOps’ Impact on CIO, CTO Relationship
A survey of 415 CIOs and CTOs conducted by Transposit, a DevOps process orchestration platform provider, finds that as organizations continue to adopt DevOps processes more widely, friction between these types of senior IT leaders is rising within many organizations. As a C-level role, ‘CTO’ first gained traction in the wake of the dot com […]
4 Benefits of Integrating a Language With a Database
One of the hallmarks of a truly modern programming language is the coupling of a language—for creating applications, devising algorithms and solving business problems—with an underlying database. When there is practically no separation between a database and its programming language, developers immensely increase their productivity, maximize the effectiveness of the code they write and provide […]
3 Building Blocks for Enterprise Digital Transformation
DevOps has gone from a new idea to a buzzword in every boardroom over the last decade. With society increasing its reliance on digitization and pushing their preferences for speed and convenience, enterprises of all types have had to change their business culture to help their teams to work together with greater speed and autonomy. […]
Google Donates Sqlcommenter to OpenTelemetry Project
Google announced today that Sqlcommenter, an open source project that provides access to an object-relational mapping (ORM) auto-instrumentation library, is being merged with OpenTelemetry, an open source project for building agent software to instrument applications. Nimesh Bhagat, a product manager for Google, said Sqlcommenter is designed to make it simpler to correlate application and database […]
Driving E-Commerce Transformation with Microservices
It’s no surprise that COVID-19 has accelerated digital transformation, but just how fast these changes have occurred is incredible. According to recent research, companies have accelerated their share of digital or digitally enabled products by up to seven years. These changes are impacting every sector in every region around the world, but they are being […]
DevOps World 2021: FinServ, Leadership, Practitioner and Government Tracks
What does it take to power a successful DevOps conference? For DevOps World 2021, it all starts with the ‘engine’—the content. This year’s event, hosted September 28-30, brings more than 100 sessions divided into a number of tracks designed to teach, inspire and guide the DevOps industry to the future. The diverse lineup includes financial […]
The Next Phase of Pandemic Tech Transformation
Last spring, we were inundated with headlines, tweets and Medium posts applauding the rapid digital transformation that businesses were going through—almost overnight—due to the pandemic and the shift to remote work. It made for an interesting feel-good narrative at the time, but it didn’t paint the full picture. Companies were thrown into the deep end; […]
Enterprise Blockchain Adoption Hinges on DevOps
There is a lot of excitement around blockchain right now, for a good reason. Production use cases continue to emerge across sectors such as manufacturing, energy, air travel, insurance and finance. Gartner predicts that by 2023, organizations using blockchain smart contracts will see a 50% increase in their data quality. Yet, Gartner also predicts that […]
DevOps World 2021: 3 Sessions for Successful Scaling
Your business has grown from a startup of five people to a full-blown organization of 100 … congrats! But, now what? The practices that worked for a smaller company may have worked as you first started growing, but now it’s time to scale operations to fit your new needs. Just like a kid outgrowing their […]
Avoid Security Apathy with DevSecOps
Against the backdrop of rapid digital transformation accelerated by the pandemic, every industry has seen an increase in high-level cybersecurity breaches. As organizations continue to support distributed and remote work, organizations must address the risk of incomplete security policies and procedures resulting in exposure to IT risk of all kinds. SolarWinds recently revealed findings of […]
How to Achieve Cloud Operational Excellence
Cloud operational excellence means delivering the right mix of cloud-based services at the optimal cost and quality to support your organization’s mission and strategy. You might be thinking, “Why go to the trouble? Isn’t ‘almost good enough’ sufficient?” It turns out that it matters—a lot. The difference between the top 10% and the bottom 10% […]
CNCF Advances OpenTelemetry Initiative
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has voted to accept OpenTelemetry as an incubating project as part of an ongoing effort to simplify instrumentation of software using open source agent software. OpenTelemetry is a collection of tools, application programming interfaces (APIs) and software development kits (SDKs) that can be […]
Federal IT Must Embrace Automation
In the private sector, an automation explosion is underway. One major retailer, for example, is using a new automated system to increase speed and accuracy in how freight is handled at its regional distribution centers. Another retail giant is relying on new automated processes to replenish store shelves more efficiently, reduce excess inventory and free […]
How to Achieve AWS Competency Accreditation
For businesses in the early stage of their ventures, proving that they have the expertise and technical know-how when it comes to cloud technology can be difficult. An acceleration toward digitization due to COVID-19 and an increasingly crowded cloud market, dominated by the big players, means that simply shouting about your skills in cloud engineering […]
GitHub Updates CLI to Make Creating Extensions Easier
GitHub this week made available an update to its command-line interface (CLI) that enables DevOps teams to add extensions to workflows. Billy Griffin, director of engineering for GitHub, said the company’s initial focus was providing DevOps teams with a set of workflows that could be invoked easily via a CLI. Now GitHub is encouraging developers […]
How to Optimize Data in Software Development
Data can drive significant business value for every company. Globally, we are collecting more of it than ever before, and it keeps growing—from 45 zettabytes in 2019 to a projected 175 zettabytes by 2025, according to IDC. However, companies are struggling to monetize all the personal, behavioral, engagement and transactional data from customers and operations […]
CloudBolt Survey Shows DevOps Frustration in the Enterprise
A survey of more than 200 senior IT leaders at organizations with more than 1,000 employees published today finds only 4% consider their organizations to be experts when it comes to continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD). Conducted by CloudBolt Software, a provider of a platform for many IT environments, the survey also found only 11% consider […]