The State of Digital Innovation, One Year Into the Pandemic
It’s obvious COVID–19 accelerated digital reliance for many companies. And it’s no surprise that, according to a recent study, 89% of tech leaders believe digital experiences are critical to addressing new COVID–19 challenges. In this race toward 100% digital business, agile innovation is the new elixir of life — without it, a company may face an […]
Overcoming Cloud Asset Management Challenges
Twenty years ago, no one in IT could have predicted the monumental role that cloud computing would play in our everyday lives. To play off the words of Back to the Future‘s Doc Brown: “On-premises? Where we’re going, we don’t need on-premises.” As technology continues to evolve, though, security teams face greater challenges. Infrastructure is […]
An Analytics Workload is a Critical Data Management Tool
From an organizational perspective, an analytics workload is a way to gain a data-driven business advantage. Analytics workloads can serve a primary objective that translates to an actionable business impact (such as analyzing A/B testing results, understanding user retention or finding anomalies in a flow, for instance) or can serve in a supporting role for […]
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 […]
Plutora’s Bob Davis: Work From Home and Value Stream Management
American writer Orison Swett Marden said, “Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.” After the year that’s passed, with operations and development teams forced to scatter and work remotely, it’s a sentiment DevOps teams […]
Meet the Winners of the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards
This is the moment you have all been waiting for. It is time to announce the honorees for the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards, and we couldn’t be more excited to share the names of the most outstanding leaders and tools in the DevOps community. Although, I must say, all the finalists have done an amazing […]
BYOPC Solves Endpoint Provisioning Challenges
For many cloud-first companies, workstation imaging isn’t “a thing.” The notion that an IT organization might need several days – or even weeks – to onboard a new employee by provisioning an imaged laptop with correct security policies and only approved applications on it is absurd. The constraints of operating in an admin-centric model for […]
4 Ways to Scale DevOps in 2021
January is a month often dedicated to planning, setting intentions and preparing ourselves professionally and personally for a fresh year. In my own capacity as a DevOps and SRE leader, many of the clients I work with will reinvigorate internal efforts to streamline how they work in Q1. I often advise clients to make very […]
DevOps for the Development and Delivery of High-Performance Applications
Engineering teams that successfully implement DevOps practices often deliver software with higher business value. These organizations can easily identify areas where problematic code exists, quickly eliminate issues and deliver high-performance applications more quickly than their competitors that use traditional delivery methodologies. DevOps practitioners understand that creating an efficient model for performance testing goes hand-in-hand with […]
AIOps in Service Management: Removing the Noise
AIOps (artificial intelligence for IT ops) refers to the automation of IT operations through AI and machine learning. With every organization working rapidly toward the ultimate goal of digital transformation, there is a natural place for AIOps within service management as a means to automate processes and automatically spot and react to issues in real-time. […]
The Top Benefits of a Scrum Certification
The Scrum framework is a staple part of many businesses – and for good reason. The agile process is used to construct, deliver and iterate products and has proven to boost cross-functional teams’ productivity, as well as product quality. And, like most processes, Scrum can be mastered with the right training and commitment. Specifically, a […]
AI Everywhere Requires MLOps and NetDevOps to Intersect
As xOps workflows become more prevalent in IT, it’s inevitable to see overlap and intersection between them. In networking, NetDevOps has been a hot topic for the past three years. NetDevOps focuses on bringing automation, simulation and validation workflows to network operations. The goal is to reduce errors in production configuration deployment, reduce time to […]
Cloud Growth and Other 2020 Trends
Growth continued this year as even the COVID pandemic could not slow down the cloud The rise of COVID-19 defined 2020 for nearly every industry. Cloud computing is no exception, though growth in the sector continued this year. Gartner estimates that $257.9 billion will be spent on public cloud services in 2020, up 6.3% from […]
Rethinking Business Models for Digital Transformation
To keep pace with the swiftly changing digital ecosystem, organizations can’t afford to stand still. It’s vital for organizations to continually assess their business models as part of their digital transformation. Organizations must walk a difficult line between maintaining their core competencies while successfully anticipating what is ahead. The oft-cited Silicon Valley startup mantra of […]
Community Forums for Technical Support: Best Effort vs. Best-in-Class
Developer sites such as Stack Overflow have exploded in popularity with over 125 million active users per month; however, the large majority of questions are never answered. Vendor community forums lag further behind with significantly lower activity levels leading to costly support cases with average time to resolve of 14 days. As the pace and […]
Change Management in a Fast-Paced DevOps World
While DevOps speeds up software release cycles, change management often slows them down. So, how do you do change management in a fast-paced DevOps environment? Change control enables organizations to meet compliance and governance while managing changes at the speed of business. In this interview for TechStrong TV, Greg Sanker, former CIO, IT Operations specialist, […]
AI Automation Won’t Replace Jobs – It Will Replace Processes
As Software 2.0 takes shape, how are AI processes—and the jobs that go with them—changing? When it comes to new AI automation, the Software 2.0 movement can be seen as akin to the auto industry’s recent evolution. Beginning in the 1990s and rapidly progressing into the 2000s, the auto industry saw a huge rise in […]
Low-Code To Become Commonplace in 2021
A new study finds 85% of engineer leads predict low-code and no-code will soon become common New findings from an Internal-endorsed study suggest 2020’s software development challenges will undoubtedly carry into 2021. Many businesses are making immediate transitions to a digital-only economy, forcing a ton of new app development requirements. Yet, hiring top engineering talent […]
Global SKILup Festival: Not Your Ordinary Conference
Global SKILup festival offers the Humans of DevOps a career fair, numerous upskilling opportunities, and a full-day conference, featuring keynote speakers Mirco Hering and Patrick Debois and many more 2020 has been the year focused on the human. As the pandemic unfolded, the Humans of DevOps worldwide did their part to help mitigate the many […]
Announcing the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards Finalists
We are excited to announce the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards finalists. For six years in a row, we have been honoring the most outstanding leaders in the DevOps community. This year, we decided to expand our awards program to include two different sections: DevOps Dozen Tools and Services Awards and DevOps Dozen Community Awards. Those […]
Antipatterns That Hurt DevOps Implementations
Avoiding these DevOps antipatterns can help organizations reap the benefits of implementations faster It’s a given that all organizations at some point will suffer from poor development practices when trying to find the perfect balance between software development and IT operations. The good news, however, is that implementing DevOps can help you improve these processes […]
To Accelerate Digital Transformation, Accelerate Data Transformation
Successful digital transformations are not possible without successful data transformation. After all, it’s data—and the ability to analyze that data—about an organization’s customers, employees, infrastructure, market dynamics, supply chain, business-technology systems and more that make digital transformation possible. However, last year Gartner said that “information as an asset” is still in its infancy. “Data and […]
3 Steps to Turn a Data Deluge Into Actionable Intelligence
Digital transformation is creating even more data for organizations to manage effectively. Here’s how to find the intelligence needle in the data haystack Data and analytics transform how companies across all industries identify and act on opportunities to gain a competitive advantage. But many organizations are discovering that ever-growing volumes of the former make the […]