DevOps and AIOps: Better Together
DevOps is an attempt to scale technology with humans but AIOps is the ultimate answer. In today’s world, where so many essential business tasks have become digitized, IT teams must deal with constant change while ensuring zero downtime. The irony is that, although IT has become business-critical, the productivity and agility of the people building […]
IBM Launches Ambitious AIOps Initiative
IBM today announced it will apply a range of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to automate the management of IT operations and modernize applications, also known as AIOps. Announced at IBM’s Think Digital conference, Watson AIOps leverages algorithms to continuously optimize IT operations while Accelerator for Application Modernization with AI is a suite of tools that […]
Moogsoft Expands Reach of AIOps Platform
Moogsoft this week updated its AIOps platform to enable IT organizations to construct a virtual network operations center (NOC) that pulls in data from incident management and DevOps platforms for remote IT management. Adam Frank, vice president of product and design at Moogsoft, said version 8.0 of Moogsoft Enterprise enables IT teams to aggregate alerts […]
AIOps 2020: IT Talent Is the Game-Changer
Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) is a fairly new catch-all term for any multi-layered development initiative involving big data analytics, machine learning and/or AI to automate and solve business and IT problems. Definitions vary, but most support the notion that AIOps improve IT performance, infrastructure, cloud and operations. This is a dramatic shift in […]
Despite Downturn, Enterprise IT Budgets Remain Intact
A survey of 137 IT operations leaders at companies in the U.S with at least 500 employees and an annual IT budget in excess of $5 million finds a surprising amount of resiliency at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Conducted April 1 by OpsRamp, a provider of IT operations tools, the survey finds more […]
Build Better CX Across the Entire User Journey with AIOps
Ready or not, digital experiences are now the gateway to customers and the standard-bearer of a company’s brand. Yet, as apps become more distributed, more intelligent and more real-time, they continue to run on infrastructure that resides within on-prem data centers as well as multiple public clouds. This complexity is underscored by gaps across IT […]
A Deep Dive Into AI for IT Operations
Traditional IT administration and management techniques are reforming. By employing artificial intelligence (AI), IT operations are taking an interesting turn in the field of advancements. The term “AIOps” stands for Artificial Intelligence for the IT Operations. AIOps uses AI techniques and algorithms to monitor the data as well as reduce the blackout times. The dominance […]
OpsRamp Adds Recommendation Engine to AIOps Platform
OpsRamp added a recommendation engine to its artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) platform that makes use of predictive analytics to suggest potential actions to either improve performance or avert downtime. The OpsRamp Winter 2020 Release also adds 19 cloud monitoring integrations for Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), along […]
Never Ignore the E-Factor
When cloud burst upon the scene, we were treated to wild-eyed prognosticators telling us about the death of the traditional data center. This is a trend in IT that you would think we’d learn from, but we repeat every couple of years. 4GLs, no, XML, no…Were all going to end development, and yet here we […]
Five IT Ops-tackles that Stifle Business Growth
I was recently asked about the top five IT obstacles that stifle business growth, and I want to help clear a path too often lined with fear, uncertainty and doubt. In the not-so-distant past, IT was all about the tools. Solutions were more straightforward, teams were less globally connected, and the ever-present data deluge was […]
The 2020 Digital Leader Priorities
When it comes to digital transformation, 2020 promises to be full steam ahead as many of the trends are already well underway. However, it’ll be those businesses that can execute at the quickening rate of technological change that will set the leaders and laggards apart for the years ahead. A survey conducted earlier last year […]
Predictions 2020: Key Trends that Will Shape the Autonomous Digital Enterprise
As 2019 comes to an end, and we look toward trends driving innovation in 2020 and beyond, technology advancements in hyper automation, AIOps, edge computing and the convergence of IT service management and IT operations management will be at the forefront. Autonomous Digital Enterprise In order to thrive in the 2025 futurescape, organizations will need […]
IoT, AIOps and OMG!
The task of keeping networking straight while expanding the definition of network to include both physical and virtual networking has fallen heavily upon the op-centric side of DevOps–or what I like to call devOPS. What is defined as networking has grown, sometimes at a ridiculous rate. While the terms are familiar, how you manage them […]
AIOps: The Path to Greater Resilience and Uptime
Large organizations with complex IT infrastructures are facing a significant challenge when it comes to data. The complexity is such that many IT operations teams are struggling to detect, or predict, the complex failure conditions and circumstances that can adversely impact resilience and uptime. Monitoring a multitude of systems is a complex task, as the […]
An Embarrassment of Riches
History says people rarely appreciate what they have in the heat of the moment. Our highly connected and high-speed world is no exception to this rule. The things that frustrate us are in our faces, while the things that make nearly everything better/safer/faster are taken for granted. That is every bit as true in IT […]
Virtual Instruments Changes Name to Virtana to Drive AIOps
With the formal launch of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) to monitor cloud platforms and optimize cloud, Virtual Instruments today renamed itself Virtana. The company’s CloudWisdom platform is based on technology Virtana gained via the acquisition of Metricly earlier this year. In addition to being integrated with existing on-premises offerings from Virtana, CloudWisdom has been expanded to […]
What is so Special About AIOps for Mission Critical Workloads?
As the wave of digitization sweeps more enterprises with each passing day, the threats posed to organizations, particularly IT organizations, have never been more complex and pressing. With cybercrime statistics, including those for more targeted crimes (such as phishing) pointing towards an alarming frequency of attacks, the stakes for securing enterprises have been higher. However, […]
Optimism Matters and so Does a Sense of Wonder
I’m a terrible video game player. For as much fun as people have with me at the table for Table Top RPGs (TTRPGs), I’m a pain when playing video games. As a guy with a masters in computer science, and years of experience ranging from embedded drivers to enterprise architecture, I see bugs or bad […]
Continuous Optimization: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
Agile makes development deliver code faster. CI makes testing move faster and CD makes delivery faster, but what keeps track of the volume of change all of this introduces and delivers optimizations faster? That is the question Opsani wants you to be asking. And it’s a valid question. Optimization in a complex and constantly changing […]
Virtual Instruments Aims to Meld DevOps, ITSM Worlds
Virtual Instruments today announced additions to an IT management platform that leverage machine learning algorithms to identify application drift and dynamically right-size virtual machines. Tim Van Ash, senior vice president of products for Virtual Instruments, said version 6.2 of the company’s VirtualWisdom platform is part of an ongoing campaign to meld the traditional world of […]
Resolve Acquires FixStream for $24M USD to Deliver Game-Changing Combination of AIOps and Advanced Automation in a Unified Platform
Acquisition empowers agile IT operations with the ability to predict, diagnose and automate resolution of complex infrastructure and application issues in seconds. Irvine, CA – August 20, 2019 – Resolve Systems®, the leading IT automation and orchestration platform, today announced the acquisition of FixStream, a pioneer in AIOps. The acquisition, expected to close by the […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: BMC Software Bets on AIOps Transformation
As BMC tests the AIOps waters, the company seeks to find a balance in serving both the DevOps and ITIL populations It’s clear in the enterprise IT space that artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to play a significant role in IT operations, a phenomenon known as AIOps. Often with this level of IT disruption, new […]
Kentik: Cloud Native Applications Need Network Analytics
Moving everything into the cloud seems to have taken the spotlight from the network. As the internet is ubiquitous, who worries about the networks? Kentik has a notion that in the age of cloud native, network analytics are as important as ever. In fact, network analytics may be more important than ever. I sat down […]