Splunk Pushes Into the Realm of DevOps
On the heels of its recent acquisition of VictorOps, provider of incident management software, for $120 million, Splunk is gearing up to expand its foothold in DevOps significantly. Rick Fitz, senior vice president of IT Markets for Splunk, said the provider of widely used operational analytics software in the enterprise sees a significant opportunity to […]
Picking a Git for the Enterprise
Some of my Agile and DevOps transformation work, not surprisingly, involves helping clients with tooling adoption—to set up, scale and operate across the organization. This blog piece is about a recent experience of setting up Git across a client organization. Git, as most of you are aware, is a fundamental building block for many of […]
Splunk Acquires VictorOps: The End of the Road for Standalone IT Alert Management Tools?
This week, Splunk, the leader in machine data intelligence, announced the acquisition of IT alerting solution VictorOps for $120 million. My congratulations to the VictorOps team for building a solid product for alert management and collaboration, demonstrating a wicked sense of humor and creating some cool T-shirts. While the acquisition makes sense on many levels, […]
Oracle Advances AI Effort to Automate DevOps
Oracle today announced the general availability of an expanded Oracle Cloud Platform service that promises to automate most back-end DevOps processes by relying on a combination of machine learning algorithms and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI). The Oracle platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment has also been expanded to include Oracle Mobile Cloud Enterprise, Oracle Data Integration […]
Riverbed Throws Down APM Gauntlet
Riverbed Technology has expanded its approach to unifying application performance management (APM) and user monitoring based on a new architecture for its SteelCentral platform, now capable of supporting tens of thousands of agents monitoring billions of transactions per day. Nik Koutsoukos, vice president of product marketing and product management for Riverbed, said auto-tuning and data […]
Wavefront by VMware Extends Monitoring Reach
The gap that exists between the DevOps tools typically made available to traditional enterprise IT sites that have standardized on VMware and what’s typically employed by web-scale companies continues to close. The latest edition of the Wavefront analytics and monitoring tools from VMware now comes with pre-packaged support for a range of services running on […]
Can EV Certificates Improve Brand Value and Increase Trust?
Most people know the difference between a website that is completely insecure and unencrypted and one that offers an encrypted session for security. You simply look for whether the URL starts with HTTP and the address bar displays an open padlock, or the URL starts with HTTPS and shows a locked padlock. Within the realm […]
CA, IBM Partner to Drive DevOps on the Mainframe
CA Technologies and IBM announced today at the Built to Change Summit they are combining their tools and platforms to bring DevOps process to mainframe environments. The two companies are extending their existing relationship to include a partnership to jointly develop and sell new services for IBM’s Cloud Managed Services on z Systems (zCloud). Included […]
Eggplant Extends Scope of AI Applied to Application Testing
Reliance on machine learning algorithms and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) to not just run application tests at scale but actually construct them may be about to increase. The latest release of a Digital Automation Intelligence (DAI) Suite from Eggplant enhances the AI capabilities baked into the testing tool to include the capture and […]
ChefConf 2018: Chef Grows Beyond Infrastructure to Apps
Here I am in Chicagoland for my third ChefConf. I caught the keynotes today with Nathan Harvey, Barry Crist, Adam Jacob, Corie Scobie and more. The big news at this year’s event is that Chef is focused on more than just infrastructure and compliance—Chef is bringing automation to apps and the entire software delivery life […]
Chef Embraces Microservices to Advance IT Automation
Chef at the ChefConf 2018 conference today unveiled a series of DevOps offerings, including a revamped version of Chef Automate that has been rewritten using the Go programing language to improve performance and scalability. Now based on a microservices architecture, Chef Automate 2.0 a new user interface based on a REST application programming interface (API) […]
Functional Programming: Island of Misfit Functional Programming
The age of functional programming is dawning. The hype cycle has heated up, and IT departments are getting both real and perceived benefits out of the idea that a function runs on demand only. For some, the benefits are very real. Bursty processing, or things that are frequent and quickly resolved, see a benefit from […]
AppDynamics Taps into SAP Applications
Application performance management (APM) is starting to be employed more widely as more organizations embrace digital business transformation. As the number of digital business processes spanning multiple applications increases, so does the need to understand what’s occurring inside both greenfield and legacy applications. In fact, at the heart of many of those digital business processes […]
The Past, Present and Future of DevOps Infrastructure
Infrastructure automation enables organizations to set up operating frameworks that allow smooth functionality with enhanced usage, minimal scope for error and faster deployment of code. The process of infrastructure automation eases development and operations processes by introducing good deployment practices such as computerized testing and versioning. The need for automation was realized when the demand […]
More App Dev Models Increase DevOps Pressure
A bifurcation in types of developers will become more pronounced in the years ahead as more application code moves to the network edge. As that transition continues occurring, the pressure on IT operations to be able to be able to flexibly manage different classes of applications by embracing DevOps processes will correspondingly increase. Mike Piech, […]
From One-Size-Fits-All to Custom-Fit for IT Ops
The downfall of the all-in-one IT management suite and the rise of the customized IT Ops toolchain Here is how enterprise IT Ops used to work: you would make your choice among the Big Four vendors and buy in (quite literally!) to their strategy. This meant a suite of products that came preintegrated (more or […]
Red Hat Aims to Push IT Management to the Cloud
Red Hat at the Red Hat Summit 2018 conference this week showed a technology preview of an instance of Red Hat Insights, a predictive analytics IT management application capable of identifying operations issues before they become a problem, running as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application. The instance of Red Hat Insights will be extended to apply […]
Oracle Adds Low-Code Tool to Autonomous Platform
Oracle this week extended the scope of the cloud services it manages on behalf of customers to include a low-code application development platform based on the company’s Visual Builder development tools. Jeff Price, vice president of product Management at Oracle, said Oracle Autonomous Visual Builder (VB) Cloud makes it possible to employ a tool based […]
Google Looks to Simplify Building of Workflows
Google this week launched the beta of Cloud Composer, a managed Apache Airflow service for building workflows that promises to simplify management of integrated DevOps processes. Apache Airflow is an incubation project being developed under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation that enables IT teams to programmatically author, schedule and monitor workflows using directed […]
Dell EMC Bets on Machine Learning to Drive IT Agility
Dell Technologies announced it is infusing machine learning algorithms across its portfolio of server and storage infrastructure to optimize the performance of each individual application using artificial intelligence (AI). At the Dell Technologies World 2018 conference, the Dell EMC arm of Dell Technologies announced it has joined the Intel AI Builders program. Dell EMC and […]
Puppet Expands Scope of Pervasive Automation Initiative
Puppet today unveiled a series of initiatives as part of a continuing campaign to make IT automation available pervasively across the enterprise. Omri Gazitt, chief product officer for Puppet, said the first step in that effort is making it easier for IT organizations to discover what assets they need to manage. Puppet Discovery is an […]
Eclipse Foundation Charts Cloud-Native Path Forward for Jakarta
A new era begins for the Java community today with a commitment to a Jakarta EE specification that the Eclipse Foundation expects will become cloud-native in short order. Jakarta EE formally marks the end of a Java era. While the term Java will still apply to any technologies developed prior to Oracle transferring stewardship of […]
How Python is Transforming the DevOps Landscape
DevOps is the combination of operations and software development which reduces or almost eliminates the disconnect between systems administrators who run the infrastructure and software developers who develop applications. During software development, when the Agile methodology is utilized properly, a bottleneck often occurs during the frequent operations and deployment phases. New fixes and updates are […]