Leveraging Automation for Your Business
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the capability to change the way we work, the way we manage, and the way we conduct research. As automation processes improve, businesses increasingly are looking for ways to leverage the new technology to help with their own goals. There are certain risks posed by the advancement of artificial intelligence, and […]
Splunk Acquires VictorOps: The End of the Road for Standalone IT Alert Management Tools?
This week, Splunk, the leader in machine data intelligence, announced the acquisition of IT alerting solution VictorOps for $120 million. My congratulations to the VictorOps team for building a solid product for alert management and collaboration, demonstrating a wicked sense of humor and creating some cool T-shirts. While the acquisition makes sense on many levels, […]
Eggplant Extends Scope of AI Applied to Application Testing
Reliance on machine learning algorithms and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) to not just run application tests at scale but actually construct them may be about to increase. The latest release of a Digital Automation Intelligence (DAI) Suite from Eggplant enhances the AI capabilities baked into the testing tool to include the capture and […]
The Role of DevOps in Building an AI-Ready Infrastructure
The successful application of machine learning for artificial intelligence (AI) requires several contexts to be addressed, primarily the technical, data and business considerations. The Technical From a technical standpoint, in building an AI-ready framework there are choices to be made such as which machine learning framework to select, the type and structure of learning function […]
IBM Advances DevOps for AI Applications
IBM today made its first foray into applying DevOps methodologies to building artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Announced at the IBM Think 2018 conference, the latest IBM tools and services for building AI applications include a Deep Learning as a Service capability that has been embedded with IBM Watson Studio development tools and Watson Data Kits […]
Applitools Advances AI Testing of User Interfaces
Given the number of platforms applications now need to be able to run on, it’s little wonder that mistakes and errors that compromise the graphical experience of the end user appear all too regularly in production. Keeping up with all the various nuances of each platform is just too much to ask of the average […]
Focusing on the Real Value of AI for IT Ops
In all the hype over AI, let’s concentrate on the real value it can provide, especially for busy IT Ops teams. 2018 is already shaping up to be the year when AI and machine learning (ML) go mainstream—at least in terms of public awareness, if not yet of actual usable products. As I write this, […]
NASA/JPL Tech-Incubation CEO Talks Artificial Intelligence, Part II
This is the second installment of a two-part Q&A series on artificial intelligence (AI) with AJ Abdallat. It covers AI’s potential significance to computing; how AI affects jobs; the employee specializations needed to fuel AI; big data; and cultural challenges in the enterprise. Be sure to check out Part 1 as well. AJ Abdallat is […]
NASA/JPL Tech-Incubation CEO Talks Artificial Intelligence
AJ Abdallat is a serial entrepreneur who worked on artificial intelligence (AI) projects and commercializing smart sensors at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) from 1998 until 2011. Later he founded, launched and ran several spinoff companies from Caltech/JPL, doing AI work in support of the space program and various […]
VC Predicts Major Shift to AI-Infused Applications in 2018
Thanks to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), the nature of DevOps is about to change as developers spend less time writing code in favor of training models based on various types of algorithms to accomplish a task. Dan Scholnick, general partner with Trinity Ventures, an early investor in companies such as New Relic and […]
The Impact of DevOps and Continuous Testing in 2018
At its core, DevOps is meant to touch an entire organization; however it’s heavily weighted in the software development life cycle (SDLC). That’s why DevOps is going mainstream in 2018. Companies are making the business benefits of DevOps a top priority—it’s all about delivering value to the customer faster through maximum automation of the release […]
IPsoft’s 1Desk Advances AI Labor Force Reality
IPsoft wants to put a digital face on the future of IT operations that will be infused by artificial intelligence (AI). Its recently launched 1Desk service desk combines the Amelia digital assistant with IPsoft’s Apollo virtual engineer technology to automate multiple backend processes. Allan Anderson, director of enterprise solutions for IPsoft, says 1Desk effectively combines […]
AT&T Democratizes Acumos Code for AI
AT&T and India IT outsourcing company Tech Mahindra announced that code the companies jointly developed to drive artificial intelligence (AI) applications is being contributed to the Linux Foundation. Mazin Gilbert, vice president of advanced technology for AT&T Labs, says the goal of Acumos is to not only democratize access to AI software, but also consume […]
The Need for Speed Demands New-Era APM
Applications have become the primary conduit by which customers experience a brand, making the application experience critical to business success. As such, continuous delivery and highly available systems that deliver optimal end user experiences at lightning speed have become top priorities for organizations. Modern IT is all about speed, efficiency and customer experience. Simply put, […]
Research Firms Agree, Cloud Growth Continues to Soar
Investment in all the various types of cloud computing has gone gangbusters in recent years, and for good reason: Cloud computing helps to cut cost, shorting time to market, provides unrivaled scale and reliability. This will only continue as enterprises continue to divest from on-premises infrastructure over the long term while seeking to scale the […]
BMC to Infuse AI Across Software Portfolio
At its recent BMC Exchange event, BMC Software announced it will be infusing machine learning algorithms and other artificial intelligence (AI) technologies across its entire portfolio of IT operations software. The first instance of BMC software to make use of machine learning algorithms is the latest version of TrueSight AIOps platform, which ingests data from […]
Using AI to Automate Incident Management Sparks Debate
When it comes to incident response with an integrated DevOps environment so much depends on the ability of an IT team to respond quickly and consistently to a specific set of events. Because of that requirement, many IT organizations have invested in incident management systems that everyone in IT can consult whenever an issue arises. […]
New Relic Delivers on AI Promise to Automate IT Operations
New Relic at a FutureStack 2017 conference unveiled an instance of its monitoring tools that employs machine learning technologies and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) to provide advice on how to optimize an IT environment. Nadya Duke Boone, director of product management for New Relic, says New Relic Applied Intelligence (NRAI) will be made […]
DevOps, Security, AI Convergence on Horizon
DevOps is regarded as practice that can drive performance advantages. Artificial intelligence is showing very real promise across the security market. Most public and private-sector organizations know that they must explore new and different ways of defending their networks against modern threats. These three factors make it clear that DevOps, AI and security are ripe […]
Loom Systems Extends Reach of AI into DevOps Realm
One of the things that tends to hold back adoption of DevOps are all the low-level events that need to be correlated by an engineer to generate anything that approaches actionable intelligence (AI). To eliminate that requirement, Loom Systems created a Loom AIops platform to automate many of the tasks that normally would need to […]
How AI Impacts DevOps Pipelines
The rise of machine- and deep-learning algorithms is about to create some interesting data-gravity challenges for IT operations teams. Over most of the last decade IT operations teams have been caught up in a public- versus private-cloud computing debate that has mostly been species. The truth is that most organizations wind up employing both. But […]
IBM: DevOps, AI to Drive Digital Business Transformation
Conventional wisdom holds that one of the biggest challenges organizations face today is a chronic shortage of application developers. But as artificial intelligence (AI) advances, the process of writing code will become more automated. But rather than there being not enough developers to write all the code necessary, the shortage will be in software engineers […]
The Time Is Now for an IT Operations Revolution
There’s a level of frustration starting to build inside IT operations teams that’s about to boil over. Lucas Carlson, vice president of strategy for Automic, a unit of CA Technologies that provides an IT automation platform, says developers are bullying IT operations teams by programmatically invoking application programming interfaces (APIs) exposed by public cloud service […]