What Amazon’s New CEO Means for IT’s Future
Amazon is placing its bets on the future of cloud. The announcement that CEO Jeff Bezos will be stepping down and passing the torch to Amazon Web Services (AWS) leader Andy Jassy at the start of Q3 2021 signals a major shift in the future of technology – and not only for organizations specializing in […]
Empowering DevOps With Cloud Desktops
Today’s organizations need to enable their IT teams to rapidly deploy, manage and maintain their applications and services. This is a primary driver behind the growth in adoption of DevOps. By uniting the IT operations and software development teams, organizations are helping to provide continuous delivery and accelerating the systems development life cycle. At the […]
Continuous Testing: The Quest for Quality at Speed
The DevOps goal to reduce lead times by accelerating software deliveries presents a serious challenge for assuring the quality of the software that is delivered. As I indicated In my SlideShare post, “The Quest for Quality at Speed,” testing activities span end-to-end software value streams and often account for more than 50% of bottlenecks. The […]
How lulu Became a Lemon: A Digital Transformation Fail
Many people sometimes have a tough time figuring out what exactly digital transformation is and why it’s so important. I want to tell you a real-life story of how a once-respected brand, lululemon, has failed the digital transformation journey and, as a result, may fail in a new retail landscape. The story starts innocently enough […]
Languages and DevOps: Network
It is fun to discuss the changes in network operations over the last couple decades. We’ve come full circle, and, honestly, ended up in a better place. Network specialists were super command-line wizards who kept us going, with few GUIs in sight. Everyone thought the next iteration would be GUIs, so network operations could be […]
DevOps Skills Increasing Among Salesforce Developers
A survey of 521 attendees at a recent online Future of Salesforce DevOps Summit event hosted by Gearset, a provider of a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform for Salesforce developers, found just under half (47%) of respondents now release software at least multiple times a week, with another 29% releasing software weekly or biweekly. More […]
Enterprise ML Investments on the Rise
The second wave of enterprise artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) adoption is building, and is expected to crest in 2021, as many organizations increased and accelerated their investments in tools and people. That was one of the unmistakable conclusions of our 2021 enterprise trends in machine learning report: 83% of the companies we surveyed […]
BMC Tightens Integration Across DevOps Tools for Mainframes
BMC has extended its BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI) and BMC Compuware portfolios as part of an ongoing effort to make mainframes just another platform for DevOps teams to build and deploy applications on. John McKenny, senior vice president and general manager for Intelligent Z optimization and transformation at BMC, said the DevOps technologies that […]
AlmaLinux Foundation Delivers on CentOS Promise
A nonprofit organization launched this week to oversee future development of AlmaLinux, a distribution of Linux based on code originally contributed to the open source CentOS project. At the same time, CloudLinux, which created AlmaLinux in response to a decision by Red Hat to pull financial support for CentOS, announced that a stable version of […]
Red Hat Survey Reveals More Confidence in Open Source
A recent Red Hat survey revealed how DevOps teams increasingly depend on open source to support their shift to cloud-native environments and digital transformations, and to maintain security in these highly distributed environments. Based on a survey of 1,250 IT professionals, Red Hat maintains that the survey respondents — from organizations that were Red Hat […]
Linux Foundation Takes Control Of AsyncAPI Specification
The Linux Foundation announced today that it now plays host to an AsyncAPI Initiative that has developed a specification and a suite of open source tools for asynchronous application programming interfaces (APIs) and event-driven architectures. Founding sponsors of the AsyncAPI Initiative include Ably Realtime, Apideck, Bump, IQVIA Technologies, Slack, Solace and TIBCO. Most recently, Postman, […]
Why a Unified Enterprise DevOps Platform is Necessary
As a senior DevOps consultant working with large organizations over many years, I have been involved in more than 70 digital transformation projects, with hundreds of applications. While many things have changed over time, one thing has been a consistent source of problems that presents a formidable impedance to these transformations. The diverse number of […]
Ambassador Insights: Value Stream Management
Value stream management is the next critical evolution for enterprises and organizations that want to further mature their efforts toward smart, efficient and effective software development and delivery. The need for ongoing software innovation and delivery is becoming a top priority for all businesses today, thanks to the new digital demands organizations are facing from […]
ServiceNow Acquires Intellibot to Gain RPA Capabilities
ServiceNow’s acquisition of Intellibot, a provider of a robotic process automation (RPA) platform, this week is part of a larger effort to automate the development of applications that are driving digital business transformation within enterprise IT environments. Earlier this month, ServiceNow unfurled a set of revamped low-code tools that both professional and so-called citizen developers […]
Languages and DevOps: To The Cloud!
Cloud and DevOps are almost a match made in heaven. Cloud started truly gaining steam in the age of DevOps and Agile, and has adapted – or grown up in it – well, depending on your viewpoint. If not for the combined issues of data gravity and data (im)mobility, we might have gone even farther […]
Eclipse Foundation Creates Adoptium Working Group for OpenJDK Binaries
The Eclipse Foundation announced today a working group that will establish a governance framework for an Eclipse Adoptium project that enables developers to download compatible runtimes based on OpenJDK source code. Members of the Adoptium working group include Alibaba Cloud, Huawei, IBM, iJUG, Karakun AG, Microsoft, New Relic and Red Hat. OpenJDK is a free […]
Open Source Vs. Proprietary DataOps
Core DataOps concepts are making their way into data engineering teams and, from there, into the broader enterprise. Data engineers are retooling how they create data products, and much of this work revolves around creating data pipelines. DataOps pipelines offer the kind of observability that traditional data integration and ETL processes don’t or can’t. They […]
Oracle Updates Java Development Platform
Oracle announced today the availability of Java 16, which adds 17 enhancements to a software development kit that is now being updated every six months. Georges Saab, vice president of development for the Java Platform Group at Oracle, said while most Java development teams are still using Java 8 or earlier editions of the platform, […]
Tackling Audit Compliance as Code
Do the words, “It’s audit time!” make your stomach sink? If so, you’re not alone. Assisting with evidence collection for compliance audits around PCI DSS, SOC-2, ISO 27001, NIST and HITRUST is a drain on DevOps teams’ time and resources at companies of all types and sizes – time and resources that could be better […]
Measuring the Value of DevOps-as-a-Service (DaaS)
The late great W. Edwards Deming, statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and consultant said, “In God we trust. All others must bring data.” The point is, if you want people to trust your information, then you need to present measured data. This is true for countless circumstances. As a DevOps consultant, I am often asked by […]
IBM Deepens DevOps Insights on Mainframes
IBM today extended its effort to enable IT organizations that have mainframes to embrace DevOps best practices by updating the analytics tools it provides. Tom McPherson, vice president for IBM Z Software, said a version 6.0 update to the suite of IBM application discovery and delivery intelligence (ADDI) for IBM Z tools surfaces more granular […]
Languages and DevOps: Traditional
For quite a while now, all the cool kids have been going on and on about “full stack development,” “API first,” and a ton of similar methodologies/practices. And yet, a huge swath of applications are still targeted at a single system to do a specific job. There are fat clients, there are internal servers, there […]
5 Steps to Successful DevOps Culture
The late business management guru Peter Drucker coined the phrase, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast,” and the phrase has endured through the years. Your people must be passionate and enthusiastic about executing business strategy, or it – and your business – is doomed to fail. But remember that company culture itself needs a strategy to […]