Linux Foundation Adds Entry-Level Certification
The Linux Foundation has announced the development of a new entry-level certification exam to complement their existing Linux Foundation Certified Sysadmin (LFCS) and Linux Foundation Certified Engineer (LFCE) exams. This new certification, the Linux Foundation Certified IT Associate (LFCA), targets people just moving into systems administration. The certification will focus on the test taker’s knowledge […]
TechStrong TV: Sumo Logic Goes the IPO Route
Sumo Logic has come a long way, becoming a public company with its IPO of 14.8 million shares at $22 per share. In this TechStrong TV interview Christian Beedgen, CTO and co-founder at Sumo Logic, joins Alan Shimel to discuss all the hard work that lead to this major accomplishment. Transcript Alan Shimel: Okay. Big […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: IPO Frenzy Heralds Consolidation
A spate of initial public offering (IPOs) has resulted in billions of investment dollars being poured into JFrog, Snowflake and Sumo Logic and is likely to fuel of wave of merger and acquisition activity in the months ahead. While each of these software companies addresses fundamentally different IT requirements, they are all tapping into a […]
ServiceNow Extends Reach Into DevOps Ecosystem
ServiceNow this week, as part of a massive Paris update to its core software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for managing IT operations, has extended its DevOps integration efforts by adding connectors for Microsoft Azure DevOps (ADO) and Atlassian Jira platforms. Pablo Stern, senior vice president for IT workflow products at ServiceNow, said those connectors are the latest […]
How Continuous Transformation Can Deliver More Value
Continuous transformation in IT operations is more than just an industry buzzphrase. In fact, continuous transformation is a critical survival tool for any cloud and IT solution landscapes today. To achieve continuous transformation, innovation must continue well beyond a migration to the cloud. This continuous innovation during day-to-day IT operations is the most critical aspect […]
3 Steps for Organizational Agility in the COVID-19 Era
While COVID-19 forced a fundamental shift in the way we work nearly overnight, many companies have been able to continue operations with minimal disruption, effectively transitioning to a remote workforce with speed and agility. These organizations that were further along in their digital transformation journeys before the start of the pandemic faced minimal disruption in […]
Consider DataOps for a Competitive Edge
DataOps seeks to eliminate existing barriers between people, technology, tools and data It’s no secret that COVID-19 has put the economy under enormous strain and future economic prospects are uncertain. A smart way to give your organization a leg up against competitors is DataOps. Adopting a DataOps culture makes the best use of your data—it […]
5 Myths About Software Development
2020 has broken many rules about software development. Some perceived trends, however, remain myths Some trends come and go, some trends stick. I remember when Docker launched and it was barely mature enough to run unit tests, and now containers are a common way for modern orgs to deploy applications. We’ve seen the rise of […]
7 Forces Driving the Low-Code Movement
Why low-code? Why now? Here are some of the driving forces behind the burgeoning low-code movement If you’re keeping an eye on the tech tooling landscape in 2020, you may have noticed the buzz around low-code. Countless low-code platforms are being funded and coming to the market. In fact, Forrester estimates that spending in the […]
The CMDB Is Dead – Long Live the CMDB
Many enterprise IT organizations have a configuration management database, or CMDB, in place. These systems are important for overall configuration management, governance and DevOps coordination. Yet, these legacy data repository systems can fall short in our dynamic IT environment. They require manual updating and can’t always support real-time decision-making. Furthermore, we have new requirements since […]
Pushing Beyond Agility: The Kanban Maturity Model
Kanban is not a novel idea. It is a well-practiced and known method for organizations to increase productivity and efficiency, reduce the lead time of processes and improve delivery flow. However, historically Kanban has been frequently misunderstood. Many people think that Kanban is just a whiteboard with stickies in columns of to-do, doing, and done. […]
Healthcare Increasingly Embracing DevOps
Speed and efficiency rank high as reasons why among respondents to a survey of healthcare organizations that have adopted DevOps While the novel coronavirus pandemic has hurt many industries, few have faced the immediate difficulties that the healthcare industry has had to manage. While trying to deliver care during one of the most significant healthcare […]
Government Has a DevOps Lesson for Private Sector
The missions of government organizations and DevOps are well-aligned, according to F5 system engineer Scott Van Kalken, who works with many organizations at various levels of government around Australia. That’s because government organizations provide services to the community, and DevOps is about providing services to a community of users. He sees more use of DevOps […]
GitLab Makes Economic Case for DevOps Platform
GitLab is advancing its case for integrating as many DevOps processes as possible on a single platform by making available an economic analysis that claims organizations can improve application development and delivery by 87%, resulting in a savings of more than $23 million. Based on an analysis conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of GitLab, […]
The IT Admin’s Checklist for a Newly Remote Company
A few simple tips can help keep your remote workers productive and relatively stress-free during the new WFH paradigm Months into adjusting to COVID-19 impacts, organizations are now living in the day-to-day that was built on—let’s be honest—somewhat rushed plans to get everyone remote as quickly as possible. The image of repairing a bus while […]
Engineering Productivity Lessons From COVID-19
The world became a different place post-COVID-19 and how we work, communicate and collaborate has been redefined, possibly forever. Our company has a distributed team across the U.S. and India for development and operations. When “shelter in place” hit the entire world, we were not sure how we’d be able to execute our projects, customer […]
APIs: The Secret Sauce for Low-Code Platforms?
As companies become increasingly talent-strapped, APIs are helping spur a low-code movement to help them remain competitive Low-code platforms have the potential to alter how software is built and delivered. By focusing on visual flows and drag-and-drop UIs, low-code platforms dramatically lower the barrier to software development. Yet, anyone with a toe in the no-code […]
DevOps Was Supposed to Kill Developer Jobs. Here’s Why it Didn’t
The rise of DevOps is more an evolution than a revolution, and developer jobs aren’t going anywhere Development died a long time ago and was replaced by DevOps. Or, at least that was the way it was supposed to happen. In reality, developers are doing just fine. There are currently almost 150,000 development jobs right […]
Bringing NetOps Up to Speed With DevOps
Automation can be an unwieldy topic for network operations and DevOps teams who have enough challenges working together cohesively. Networks have been traditionally viewed as the long pole in the tent for emerging DevOps practices. But for DevOps practitioners and business leaders alike, there’s good news: NetOps are more prepared than ever to embrace automation […]
Product vs. Project: Balancing Management Roles for Success
Many businesses today rely on project management to ensure that all the activities that are required to help the business function are able to do so efficiently. The importance of project management is ingrained into many businesses, and doesn’t need to be justified—or does it? For software development companies, product management also needs to be […]
HCL Software Expands DevOps Portfolio
HCL Software has launched a DevOps practice and portfolio along with three updates to HCL tools. Version 2.0 of HCL Accelerate 2.0 adds support for policy management and out-of-the-box reports to the value stream management platform, while version 7.1 of HCL Launch automates the application of corporate governance rules to the continuous delivery platform. HCL […]
How DevOps Can Save Your Business from COVID-19
COVID-19 drastically changed the landscape of the American workforce. Remote work went from something of a niche field to a way of life for millions of people. In fact, research shows that roughly half of all employed Americans began working from home as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. While some employers struggle to adapt […]
Report: Debugging Efforts Cost Companies $61B Annually
Undo, a provider of a software failure replay platform, this week published a report in collaboration with a Cambridge Judge Business School MBA project that estimates 620 million developer hours a year are wasted on debugging software failures, at a cost of roughly $61 billion. The report also notes software engineers spend on average of […]