Atlassian’s Shift to the Cloud Gets Underway
Atlassian today announced the general availability of Cloud Enterprise, a cloud-based service through which organizations can mix and match the company’s various offerings under a single subscription. The company has signaled its intention to shift toward cloud services for months; now, the initial Cloud Enterprise subscription will cover the company’s Jira Software, Confluence and Jira […]
Esri Unveils PaaS Environment for Calling Geospatial Data via APIs
Esri today unveiled a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment through which developers can embed geospatial capabilities into their applications by making an application programming interface (API) call to a cloud service. Euan Cameron, CTO for developer technology at Esri, said the ArcGIS Platform will make it simpler for developers to incorporate mapping capabilities enabled by a geographic […]
DevSecOps Implementation: SIEM
The world is filled with events. Our inbox floods with events that marketers really want us to pay attention to, while news feeds flood us with events they’re trying to raise above the background noise, but then, the dog barking interrupts our consumption of that information. Our family is, meanwhile, texting us about events on […]
TechStrong TV: How to Build and Refine Your DevOps Skills with OpsCompass
The role of DevOps is constantly evolving as new technologies and trends keep emerging and reshaping the business. It is critical for DevOps engineers to continuously learn about the latest tools, best practices and technology, and be able to adapt to change. There are many ways for DevOps teams to refine their skills in order […]
Operations Model: DevOps, NoOps, AIOps or None of the Above Ops?
Within an organization, an operations model must be fit-for-purpose and be able to adapt as business needs change. At the same time, changing technology necessitates an advancement in how an organization operates. Small and medium-sized enterprises are faced with the difficult choice of how much to invest in operations and which approach to choose. In […]
Enterprise Software Development Will Break the Speed Limit in 2021
For some, 2020 was the year for software development speed … but not for everyone. Startups and SMEs climbed on board the CI/CD, shift-left and agile development train en masse – and reaped the benefits of faster iterations and tighter release schedules. But the “big kids” got left behind. Core enterprise applications – the legacy […]
Measuring the Business Benefits of AIOps
Staffing levels within IT operations (ITOps) departments are flat or declining, enterprise IT environments get more complex by the day and the transition to the cloud is accelerating. Meanwhile, the volume of data generated by monitoring and alerting systems is skyrocketing, and Ops teams are under pressure to respond to incidents more quickly. Faced with […]
Red Hat Expands RHEL Subscription Program for Developers
Red Hat is extending its developer program to make it simpler for both individual developers and small teams to access a free Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system subscription. These programs are launched in the wake of Red Hat’s decision to no longer invest in an open source CentOS Linux distribution project. Many developers […]
DevSecOps Implementation: Intrusion Detection
Originally, this series was just going to be four articles on the DevSec side of DevSecOps. There are many reasons for this, but primarily because that side is cleaner. The other reason is that these topics are beyond the work we were doing at Accelerated Strategies Group. But we’ve had a number of requests to […]
How MLOps Can Help Get AI Projects to Deployment
Did you know that most AI projects never get fully deployed? In fact, a recent survey by NewVantage Partners revealed that only 15% of leading enterprises have gotten any AI into production at all. Unfortunately, many models get built and trained, but never make it to business scenarios where they can provide insights and value. […]
Rapid Strategic SRE Assessments Accelerate IT Transformations
A Strategic SRE Assessment is critical in helping organizations successfully transform traditional IT operations to SRE Site reliability engineering (SRE) is rapidly becoming more important to organizations that need to scale IT operations while maintaining or improving reliability and security, and to modernize operations to match the growth of DevOps in the organization. Without sufficiently […]
Legacy Systems: Should They Stay or Should They Go?
Digital transformation requires new technologies. But does that mean legacy systems should be replaced? Survey after survey has shown that IT and business leaders have had to drastically rethink priorities, strategies and spending in the wake of the global pandemic. A survey our company conducted last October showed that technology spending hasn’t taken a terrible […]
Winning DevOps in the Finance Industry
DevOps is making its impact on almost every software-powered company these days. Companies in the finance domain, however, have been perhaps the slowest to embrace DevOps because of concerns regarding governance, security, compliance and regulatory regulations. But it is safe to say that they are currently leading the digital innovation in this era of cloud-native […]
New Survey Highlights Codebase Size Problems
Sourcegraph and Dimensional Research have released a survey of developers at large organizations, which shows a massive growth in codebase size, number of repositories in use and complexity concerns. “The Emergence of Big Code – A 2020 Survey of Software Professionals” is definitely intriguing reading, and a few of the results are eye-opening—such as the […]
Z is for Zowe – the Open Path to Mainframe DevOps
The energy and excitement in the IBM Z mainframe community during the two years since the announcement of Zowe have not been seen in a generation. By enabling mainframers to work like technologists who work on the cloud, mobile and distributed platforms, Zowe unlocks the power of DevOps for mainframers, ensuring the vitality of the […]
Microservices vs. Monoliths: Which is Right for Your Enterprise?
With microservices projected to grow globally at a 22.5% rate between 2019 and 2025, the choice between monolithic and microservices architectures needs to be carefully considered. If you are wondering what microservices are best suited for, or whether your business should stick to monolithic or switch to microservices, here are a few cardinal points to […]
COVID-19 Long Tail Budget Impact
Technology budgets have shifted dramatically since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent study from online CIO networking and information hub, Pulse. The pandemic, and its resulting shutdown, will likely continue to have a substantial impact on technology budgets for some time. The initial budgetary impact was substantial. When COVID-19 first arrived, […]
What Developers Really Think About Pentesting
A developer in their natural habitat is often spotted in a state of deep concentration, coding awesome features to tight deadlines. Feature-building is often our favorite part of the job, and really, it’s the fundamental outcome of the software development life cycle (SDLC). However, as we have discussed before, many of us are still prioritizing […]
Falling Back in Love with Data Pipelines
It’s Spring 2020, and even in challenging and unprecedented times, love continues to bloom. That said, data pipelines are never far from my thoughts and the confluence of those two things got me thinking about data engineers and how their initial love for creating data pipelines often turns to loathing. Data pipelines are the backbone […]
Need for Increased Training — Strained Budgets Strain Enterprise IT Teams
As enterprises have increasingly embraced cloud, hybrid IT environments and DevOps methodologies, many of the old siloes associated with IT departments have crumbled—while demand for training and skills that reflect new technology requirements have risen considerably. This new reality was reflected in the findings of a new survey from IT management software provider SolarWinds, and […]
Metropolis Now: The Two Worlds of Employment in the Age of Automation
Current events have revealed that there are two worlds in the employment landscape. One is digital, the other analog. For the most part, those in IT—the digital workers—have been unaffected by the spike in unemployment due to the economic side-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. But, it doesn’t mean they’ll be untouched in the long-term. As […]
Bridging the Network Automation Skills Gap
With the introduction of network programmability and APIs for everything from management systems to devices themselves, the modern network landscape has evolved to being managed like software. This shift from hardware-focused networks to software-centric functions has had a profound effect on network management techniques and skillsets required to keep pace with the changing ecosystem. A […]
What the Best Developers Do to Be Great at Their Jobs
Good developers are in demand—great ones, even more so. With software development employment in the U.S. expected to grow by 21% by 2028, the need for engineers is only going to surge further. But this doesn’t mean that the labor landscape will become uncompetitive: Now more than ever, individuals with a passion for software are entering […]