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Humans: The Ultimate Exception Handlers. Until …

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Back at the turn of the century, I had a job working in the IT department of a Big Bank. The section I worked in was Mortgage Exceptions. My group’s task was to route exceptions that could not be addressed by the mortgage processing system to a human being for resolution. Most of the intelligence […]

BMC Pushes Automation to the DevOps Left

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Much of the inherent conflict that exists between developers and IT operations teams often comes down to how IT automation processes are implemented. IT operations teams generally have their own preferred tools for automating operations while developers have another. To resolve that issue, BMC Software unveiled Control-M Workbench, a set of development tools that extends […]

Embedding Ownership: A DevOps Best Practice

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From where I sit in the DevOps community, there is often more focus on dev than on ops. Damon Edwards (@damonedwards) of SimplifyOps sought to change that with his talk, “Ops Happens: DevOps Beyond Deployment,” at the All Day DevOps conference. Damon dove right into the primary, systemic force behind most DevOps problems: silos. The […]

Survey: DevOps Divide Grows a Little Wider

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The gap between the number of organizations that have invested in DevOps is starting to narrow, and IT organizations that made the transition to DevOps earlier are starting to see accelerated returns on that investment, according to the latest survey by Puppet. The annual “State of DevOps Report” finds that out of 3,200 IT professionals […]

VMware Moves to Automate Management of Hybrid Clouds

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Moving to expand the reach of its portfolio of IT management software well beyond virtual machines, VMware today announced that the vRealize suite of IT automation tools can be employed across containers and virtual machines running on-premises or in a public cloud. In addition to providing support for VMware’s Admiral container management portal, version 7.3 […]

Achieving True Automation is a Marathon, Not a Sprint

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But It Starts in the Cloud Arguably, the most important goals for companies seeking to get into cloud today are agility and flexibility to innovate at speed and scale. Adding cost savings to the mix makes the possibilities all the more attractive. And these three pillars can only be achieved with automation. But while many […]

7 Highly Effective Continuous Delivery Principles

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If you’re in the IT space and you weren’t born yesterday, then you understand the need for speed. Development and release cycles are now faster than ever as companies implement continuous integration and continuous delivery (CD). Browsers and social media sites, for example, are doing multiple releases a day, and organizations that want to keep […]

The Time Is Now for an IT Operations Revolution

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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 […]