Using ML/AI to Support Infrastructure Monitoring
Successful infrastructure monitoring enables IT teams to ensure constant uptime and performance of their company’s systems. Technologies like machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) benefit infrastructure monitoring by more quickly collecting and analyzing data from all of the hardware and software components that comprise the IT stack. Infrastructure changes are occurring faster than ever […]
Leveraging the Cloud for Mainframe Access
Now more than ever, organizations around the world are looking to extend their existing mainframe investments as part of larger digital transformation initiatives. As core systems of record and reliability, mainframes continue to run many organizations’ most important applications and the idea of replacing these systems comes with greater risk than reward. While organizations are […]
The Importance of NetSecOps in Network Management
The IT landscape has changed beyond recognition in the past decade or so. The vast majority of businesses now operate largely in the cloud, which has had a notable impact on their agility and productivity. A recent survey of 1,900 IT and security professionals found that 41% of organizations are running more of their workloads […]
Private and Virtual Private LTE/5G Challenges Network Visibility
Digital transformation continues to disrupt the entire IT stack by shifting nearly every paradigm, including the new blurring lines between network infrastructure. New mobile network technologies are at the cusp of adaption in the enterprise networks with a growing number of innovations poised to enable expanded and more flexible connectivity with a gradual displacement of […]
4 Ways SASE Fuels DevOps Productivity
Many enterprises are adopting secure access service edge (SASE) solutions as part of their digital transformation efforts. SASE, in a nutshell, merges together SD-WAN and security stacks to deliver secure networking and improved WAN performance, making it a logical choice for cloud-enabled businesses going through the throes of digital transformation. However, SASE offers other benefits, […]
Cisco Leans on HashiCorp to Manage Infrastructure as Code
HashiCorp and Cisco today announced a Cisco Intersight Service for Terraform offering based on HashiCorp Terraform Cloud Business software. Cisco Intersight is an IT operations management platform that enables IT teams to manage IT infrastructure across a hybrid cloud computing environment. Open source Terraform tools have emerged as the dominant tool for provisioning infrastructure as […]
Progress Unveils First Update to Chef Automation Portfolio
Progress today announced it has enhanced its Chef Enterprise Automation Stack (EAS) and released a new version of Chef Infra Client that promises to make the programming language on which EAS relies more accessible. Sudhir Reddy, vice president of engineering for Progress, said the latest versions of both offerings are the first updates to the […]
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 […]
SolarWinds Unveils Revamped APM Platform
SolarWinds is unifying its various application performance management (APM) tools within a single suite accessed via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. Denny LeCompte, senior vice president for products at SolarWinds, said the APM Integrated Experience offering combines the company’s AppOptics, Loggly and Pingdom tools to collect metrics, traces and logs along with real user monitoring capabilities […]
AppDynamics Survey Reveals High IT Stress
A global survey published today by AppDynamics, a unit of Cisco, suggests the last year took a substantial toll on IT teams at a time when many organizations either launched or accelerated digital business transformation initiatives. The survey, of 1,050 IT professionals in organizations with revenue of more than $500 million, finds organizations, on average, […]
The Digital Transformation of Decision-Making
The ability to make effective business decisions has historically relied on factors such as experience, qualifications, talent and, in many cases, luck. Strategic and tactical choices are also informed by ‘borrowing’ the insight and knowledge of others. In many situations, ‘follow the leader’ can be an effective approach, and one need only study any sector […]
EraDB Launches Log Management Alternative
EraDB today launched EraSearch to provide IT teams with an alternative to open source ElasticSearch software for managing logs at scale. Todd Persen, EraDB’s CEO, said EraSearch is based on a modern database that decouples storage and compute. In this way, EraSearch can scale more efficiently than ElasticSearch, while providing IT teams with the same […]
Dynatrace Extends Reach of Observability Platform
Dynatrace this week updated its observability and software intelligence platform as part of an effort to expand its reach across modern enterprise IT environments. Announced at the online Dynatrace Perform 2021 conference, the company’s namesake platform can now capture logs from Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift as well as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform […]
New Relic Adds Visualization Tool to Observability Platform
New Relic announced today it has added a visualization tool, dubbed New Relic Explorer, to make it simpler for IT professionals to discover the root cause of issues that adversely affect application performance. Buddy Brewer, global vice president and field CTO for the Americas, New Relic, said the goal is to make it simpler for […]
Understanding Data Storage: Lakes vs. Warehouses
Now more than ever, companies are looking for new ways to incorporate data analytics into their daily operations and leverage data-driven insights to improve business functions. They are frequently turning to complex data for tasks like machine learning and artificial intelligence, which are becoming necessary to understand and reach customer segments across industries. However, understanding […]
Thread is the Future of Wireless Mesh
Over the last decade or so, interest in IoT technology and connecting devices to one another, and to the internet, has increased. Of course, one of the key elements necessary to connect devices is wireless communication. There are several wireless interfaces, such as cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, LoRa etc., that are prominently used in different […]
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 […]
Moving Legacy Applications to the Cloud
Even in 2021, many companies still run business-critical, legacy applications on-premises, just as they have for the last 20 to 30 years. The midrange server hardware, and their unique architecture, on which many of these applications run is both their biggest drawback and biggest advantage; the benefits of being able to vertically scale a platform […]
OpsRamp Extends AIOps Reach to the Network
OpsRamp today announced its AI-enabled IT operations management (AIOps) platform now has the ability to analyze network flows and communications traffic. Ciaran Byrne, vice president of product management for OpsRamp, said the new analytics capabilities will make it possible for IT teams to correlate the IT events OpsRamp already tracks on servers and storage systems against […]
Improving Mainframe Agility With DevOps
Mainframe workloads were on the rise even before the coronavirus pandemic, and transaction-processing mainframes became vital as lockdowns went into effect and every aspect of business and personal life occurred online. Mainframes are reliable, secure, highly available and affordable, and it is essential for organizations to ensure their mainframe can achieve peak agility to enhance […]
Cloudflare Lays Out GitOps Ambitions for CDN Platform
Cloudflare’s acquisition of Linc is the latest move in the hosting provider’s move to better align its content delivery network (CDN) service with the tools and frameworks organizations rely on to build modern applications using GitOps processes, according to CEO Matthew Prince. Cloudflare also announced other updates and automation-related features, including a way to automatically […]
BMC Expands Scope of Mainframe Management Portfolio
BMC this week updated its portfolio of mainframe tools as part of an effort to make mainframe platforms more accessible to IT operations teams and developers. At the core of these offerings is BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence (AMI), which embeds machine learning algorithms in mainframe platforms to automate a wide range of processes. BMC AMI […]
The Biggest Motivators and Barriers for SD-WAN Adoption in 2021
The SD-WAN market has exploded in 2020, driven by the need to support increasingly remote workforces, the emergence of the AI-driven WAN and the requirement to deliver branch performance that matches campus networks. As enterprises look at the year ahead, support for the distributed workforce remains a top priority, and SD-WAN is a crucial technology […]