IT Automation Tools Are No Longer Enough
As Chris Gardner—who conducted the Forrester Wave on Infrastructure Automation Platforms—stated, “Infrastructure automation isn’t just on-premises or in the cloud. It’s at the edge and everywhere in between.” And that’s because, well, it needs to be. It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone reading this that IT automation is a must-have for organizations today. […]
How to Properly Approach Automation
Imagine if you backed out of your driveway, tapped the gas and BAM! You are at work. Nothing to worry about along the way, no traffic congestion, no other cars to worry about, etc. That is, unfortunately, how many of us approach automation. “Fire and forget” is real, until a problem crops up. I could […]
Moving from NOC to the SRE Model
Is Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) another case of “Do what Google does”? When viewed with a discerning lens, the practices and tooling high-performing engineering teams deliver to the market can be very beneficial. The SRE model is one of them and stands to benefit DevOps teams substantially. If I could change the name from Site […]
Atlassian Adds No-Code Automation Tool to Jira Cloud
Atlassian announced today it has added a no-code tool to enable DevOps teams to make it easier to customize Jira project management software without having to learn how to code. Sean Regan, head of growth for software teams at Atlassian, said Automation for Jira will now become a core part of Jira Cloud that will […]
DevOps Chats: Solving Complexity in Continuous Testing, with Sauce Labs
SauceCon 2020 by the good folks at Sauce Labs is just about a month and half away (April 27). As part of our lead-up to the show and our coverage including live broadcasting on Digital Anarchist, we caught up with newly minted Chief Product Officer, Matt Wyman. Matt discusses how continuous testing, automation and DevOps […]
Commercial Objectives in the Age of Automation
When I was 17 years old, back in 1971, I sold orange juice near a busy street corner in New York City. My job was to stand out in front of a fruit stand and dispense quarts of OJ from a machine. It was pretty simple: keep the hopper on the top of the machine […]
Rackn Extends Reach of IT-as-Code Framework
Rackn announced the Digital Rebar platform it created to automate the provisioning of bare-metal infrastructure now can be applied simultaneously across multiple physical sites. Company CEO Rob Hirschfeld said Digital Rebar 4.3 makes it possible to manage IT infrastructure as code across highly distributed computing environments. Previously, IT organizations would have needed additional versions of […]
Cohesity, HPE, Cisco Create ROBO Platform
Cohesity, in tandem with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Cisco Systems, today announced an integrated server and storage platform for remote office/branch offices (ROBOs) designed to be installed in a turnkey fashion. Rather than requiring IT staff to be present in a ROBO, the platforms are designed to be installed by a local office manager and […]
5G Security: Mitigating Threats in the Era of Hyperspeed and Hyperconnectivity
5G is one of the hottest industry buzzwords right now, and for good reason. Beyond its ability to deliver massive capacity, it is expected to be one of the fastest and most pervasive technologies of all time, fundamentally changing every sector of the economy. In recent years, we’ve lived through 3G and 4G. So what […]
Automation Hacks for DevOps Teams
DevOps teams are expected to do more work in less time. They need to plan, test, build, secure and release applications at a fast-paced rate. Of course, the DevOps team needs to achieve all of this while maintaining high software quality. This is why automation is a crucial part of the DevOps workflow. The goal […]
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 […]
Three Keys to Successful AI Adoption
Over the past several years, we have begun to see the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) in businesses. According to a study for the AI Index 2019 Annual Report, more than half of respondents report their companies are using AI in at least one function or business unit. Thirty percent report they have AI embedded […]
SIOS Technology Automates Rebooting of AWS EC2 VM Instances
SIOS Technology Corp. this week launched SIOS AppKeeper, a tool that automatically reboots instances of EC2 virtual machines anytime they fail. Michael Bilancieri, senior vice president of products and marketing for SIOS, said SIOS AppKeeper is an extension of the work SIOS has historically done to enable servers and clusters to failover. However, many organizations […]
Latest Chef Habitat Release Embraces On-Premises IT
Chef today announced that the Chef Habitat automation framework for building and deploying applications can now be used in on-premises IT environments. Mike Krasnow, a senior product manager for Chef, said version 1.5 of Habitat makes it possible to now store applications packages and their dependencies locally in addition to the cloud. In addition, pre-built […]
Are US Workers Threatened by Automation?
There’s been plenty of predictions about the impact of automation on the workforce: from enhancing the ability of workers to do their jobs to those who argue intelligent automation will eventually decimate the human workforce. The issue even made it to the Democratic presidential 2020 primary race with candidate Andrew Yang’s “Freedom Dividend.” Still, if […]
LogicMonitor Acquires Unomaly to Advance AIOps
LogicMonitor this week revealed it has acquired Unomaly, a provider of tools infused with machine learning algorithms that make it easier to analyze large volumes of log data. Tej Redkar, chief product officer for LogicMonitor, said the acquisition of Unomaly will advance a previously announced AIOps initiative through which LogicMonitor will embed advanced analytics and […]
The Difference Between Capacity and Scalability Planning
Not only does the tech industry love terms, we love to make them super nuanced. For example SecOps versus DevSecOps, continuous delivery versus continuous deployment, hybrid cloud versus multi-cloud, etc. These terms may seem similar on the surface, but when you dig in they are quite different. Here are two more: capacity planning versus scalability […]
SaltStack Extends IT Automation Framework
SaltStack today added three open source modules to its portfolio that make it easier to automate the management of IT at scale. Heist is a plugin that allows organizations to create agents that will dissolve after a specific amount of time. Umbra is a plugin that gathers data streams to make it easier for machine […]
How to Use DevOps for Compliance
Picture this: You’ve been working in an organization’s IT department for a couple of years and tasks have become quite a routine. Some documentation here and there, code reviews, end-user training, routine meetings with the developers and so on. You can do literally everything with your eyes closed. Then, all of a sudden, the company […]
Why Is QA so Important in Executing a DevOps Implementation Strategy?
In a rapidly growing global digital landscape, enterprises are facing many challenges. These include changing customer behavior and the need to be in line with the latest technology trends. To address these challenges and to stay up the competition curve, enterprises are adopting a slew of strategies. These comprise expanding the capacity of processes, quick […]