VMware’s Blue Medora Buy Advances AIOps
VMware has announced it will acquire Blue Medora, a provider of a service for integrating data collected by IT monitoring tools, to expand its efforts to advance the adoption of artificial intelligence to automate IT operations (AIOps). Roy Ritthaler, vice president of cloud management for VMware, said Blue Medora provides VMware with a software-as-a-service (SaaS) […]
Data and Tools Don’t Solve Problems, People Do
When developing software, many managers believe that data and tools will solve all their problems. If they just have enough data or the right data analysis tools, development and delivery become automated and decisions are made without human input. But in reality, humans are a necessary part of the process. There are a few pieces […]
How to Calculate ROI on Infrastructure Automation
Infrastructure and cloud automation. You know you want it. Infrastructure as code and programmable infrastructure are hot topics these days. The possibilities opened by applying software development practices to infrastructure make the vision of transparent infrastructure closer than ever. But before you start automating, you may want to look at the value you get from […]
Puppet Launches Relay to Simplify Automating DevOps Workflows
Puppet today made available a public beta of Relay, an event-driven platform through which DevOps teams can automatically invoke pre-configured workflows. Company CTO Deepak Giridharagopal said Relay listens for DevOps events that can then trigger an automated workflow such as automatically deleting underutilized cloud resources, enforcing cybersecurity controls or remediating known issues. Relay connects to […]
SaltStack Looks to Automate DevSecOps Processes
SaltStack announced today it has integrated its automation framework with a variety of third-party security platforms to further the adoption of best DevSecOps processes. Mehul Revankar, director of product management for SaltStack, said version 6.3 of SaltStack Enterprise provides integration with offerings from Splunk, Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7 and Kenna Security. Data generated from vulnerability scans […]
The Secret to Winning at DevOps: Are You Up for the Challenge?
The main idea behind DevOps is to enable companies to keep up with the increased software velocity and advancements in agile culture for a smoother end-to-end software delivery cycle. The main goal of DevOps is to accomplish integration and automation, which is why implementing this philosophy can be challenging. Not only do you need to […]
DataStax Brings AIOps to Cassandra Database Management
DataStax today unveiled a private beta release of artificial intelligence tool dubbed Vector that provides advice on how to optimize clusters running the open source Cassandra wide column store database. Vector analyzes individual nodes and then compares behavior to other nodes in the cluster to identify opportunities to improve deployments. Ed Anuff, chief product officer […]
How DevOps Tools Are Contributing to Automation Initiatives Across the IT Landscape
Prolific advancements in IT, specifically in agile methods and culture over the years, has led to burgeoning needs for a more holistic end-to-end software delivery approach. Agile development is an umbrella term that encompasses numerous incremental and iterative software development practices — including Kanban, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Lean Development, among […]
Aruba Injects AIOps Into Network Management
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) company, this week launched a platform that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to identify and remediate networking issues before they have an impact on end users. Patrick LaPorte, senior director of cloud and software solutions marketing, said the Aruba Edge Services Platform (ESP) applies algorithms to data collected for customer […]
Using this Time to Optimize Your Dev Team’s Workflow
As Andy Warhol once said, “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” This more than ever resonates with the change that companies have found themselves experiencing of late. The more the world embraces digital methods of work, the more that change becomes paramount to a successful workflow. It […]
Morpheus Data Automates Hybrid Cloud Management
Morpheus Data has updated to its cloud management platform by making it easier to dynamically integrate different implementations of automation tasks created using different tools and frameworks any Git or GitHub repository. In addition, the company has expanded the operating systems it supports to include Amazon Linux 2, Red Hat Linux 8.x and SUSE Linux, […]
Driverless Cars May Become an Integral Part of Our Lives Soon
If you live in the downtown areas of Pittsburgh, Palo Alto, Miami or other AV hot spots, you’ve probably been missing the Ford Fusion Hybrids with the bulky lidar sensors in your neighborhoods. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in many job cuts as well as work from home orders from the government, and this has […]
F5 Networks Surfaces Application Insights
F5 Networks, at its Agility 2020 online event today, unfurled Beacon, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that enables IT teams to better monitor and troubleshoot applications using telemetry data collected from networking equipment from both F5 and third-party sources. In addition, the company announced an update to NGINX Controller that enhances application analytics along with improvements […]
Dell Advances Convergence of Compute and Storage
Dell Technologies today launched a revamped midrange storage platform that takes advantage of NVMe interfaces and solid-state drives (SSDs) to deliver 7x the performance of previous Dell EMC PowerStore platforms, in addition to allowing applications to run locally on an instance of a VMware virtual machine. Ben Jastrab, senior manager for storage product marketing at […]
HPE Extends Reach of GreenLake Central
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) has made available HPE GreenLake Central, a self-service portal through which IT teams can collaboratively manage and monitor instances of servers deployed in IT environments that are managed by HPE on their behalf. At its core, HPE GreenLake is a managed service that allows IT organizations to pay for IT infrastructure on […]
DevOps Trends for 2020 and Beyond
Since the ideation of DevOps, technologists have made great strides to benefit from it. Despite advancements and the success that teams have seen within pockets, many of its core challenges are still prevalent: scaling across the enterprise due to manual processes, poor visibility between dev and ops teams, and tool sprawl that hurts agility. Luckily, […]
Five Attributes of a Great DevOps Platform
As we move toward 2020, the expectations are high, the software industry is moving faster and the demand for rapid and continually improving digital experiences have raised the standard. To match the needs and demands of the market, firms around the world are embracing the DevOps culture to ensure and streamline the development, packaging, testing, […]
Metropolis Now: The Two Worlds of Employment in the Age of Automation
Current events have revealed that there are two worlds in the employment landscape. One is digital, the other analog. For the most part, those in IT—the digital workers—have been unaffected by the spike in unemployment due to the economic side-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. But, it doesn’t mean they’ll be untouched in the long-term. As […]
Debunking Five Common Automated Testing Myths
There is little argument that automated testing has emerged as an industry best practice. Yet, there remains a wide variety of adoption and maturity in the market. While automated testing is imperative for DevOps maturity and success, I see in my work several popular canards that often stand in the way. Reject these five common […]
VMware Extends Network Virtualization Reach
VMware today announced the general availability of an update to its NSX-T network virtualization software that adds support for NSX Federation, which enables IT teams to apply global policies and isolate domains to contain problems to a single zone. Other capabilities being added via NSX-T 3.0 include support for Level 3 Ethernet virtual private networks […]
Bridging the Network Automation Skills Gap
With the introduction of network programmability and APIs for everything from management systems to devices themselves, the modern network landscape has evolved to being managed like software. This shift from hardware-focused networks to software-centric functions has had a profound effect on network management techniques and skillsets required to keep pace with the changing ecosystem. A […]