Untapping the Potential of DevOps, Part 3: Keys to Success
Over the course of this series, we’ve talked about some of the common mistakes we have seen organizations make as they either launch or continue their journey into the world of DevOps. But just as it is important to understand the pitfalls that may happen during a DevOps transformation, it is perhaps even more important […]
Testing Emerges as DevOps Hurdle in Mainframe Shops
A survey of 400 senior IT leaders responsible for application development using mainframes finds 90% believe automating more test cases could be the most important factor in their success, as the pressure to accelerate innovation increases. However, the same survey finds only 7% of organizations automate the execution of test cases involving mainframe code today. […]
The Automated Data Center Emerges
Hyperscale and automation seem to go hand-in-hand, at least when it comes to the data center. Synergy Research reported that, at the end of 2017, there were 390 web-scale data centers worldwide, up from 300 a year earlier. IDC identified that hyperscale data centers “have a minimum of 5,000 servers and are at least 10,000 […]
Extending Automation to Your First Code Commit
I am a big advocate for software reuse, and an even bigger advocate if that reuse comes in the form of software automation. My team and I rely on reusable software processes that accept simple inputs to produce predictable results. We have tight deadlines with requirements that often seem impossible. Automation makes us more efficient […]
Five Don’ts When Scaling DevOps
The DevOps market is expected to reach $50 billion by 2022. However, despite the growing market, many organizations are struggling to make the transition from the successful implementation of a DevOps project to scaling across an organization. Gartner anticipates that 75% of DevOps initiatives will fail to fully meet expectations through 2022. If organizations are […]
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 […]
Automation Anywhere Brings Bot Development to the Cloud
We’re in the midst of a bot uprising. According to a recent survey from Deloitte, 53% of survey respondents have embraced robotic process automation and 72% are expected to do so in the next two years. Whether it will be a successful uprising, one where productivity rises, remains to be seen, as the barriers to […]
Maintaining Exceptional Quality Despite Shrinking Delivery Deadlines
My first article in this series focused on the need for continuous improvement across three key dimensions of software development–velocity, quality and efficiency. While these are all equally important, in this piece we’re going to focus more specifically on quality. The past few months—what you might call the summer of outages—have been troublesome for many […]
Implementing DevSecOps Goes Beyond Technology
While technology is crucial for implementing DevSecOps, it is the people, processes and culture that drive it forward. As recently as last year, a survey found 58% of technology leaders cited existing culture and lack of skills as hurdles to being able to embed security testing and evaluation within software development processes. That report found […]
Before We Burn the Martech Silo
There’s an ongoing debate about where marketing technology (martech) should sit in an organization. Does it live with the CMO, the CIO, the CXO–a hybrid strategist with both IT and marketing background–or some collaboration? As technology use grows, it’s tempting to move martech under another role. Before we burn the martech silo, like how McDonald’s, […]
There’s No Silver Bullet for 5G Deployment
When it comes to 5G, a common mistake is to think there is a silver bullet for successful deployment. Often operators assume there is one magic remedy that if introduced to their network, will see them succeed. For example, automation is a key pillar of the 5G era; end-to-end automation maximizes the efficiencies and responsiveness […]
GitHub Actions Advances Automation Strategy
GitHub Actions, a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) through which DevOps tools can automate workflows, is now available in beta. Previewed last year at the GitHub Universe event, GitHub Actions is intended to provide not only a way to automate responses to events occurring within a GitHub Repository but also share those workflows across […]
Relentless Automation: The Roadmap to Success
As digital transformation continues to shape organization-wide initiatives, CIOs are recognizing the benefits and value of automation in reducing errors and process variability, leading to lower operating risks and faster execution and innovation. In fact, according to Gartner’s recent report, by 2023, 40% of I&O teams will use AI-augmented automation in large enterprises, resulting in […]
Automated Certificate Management No Longer a Luxury
On December 6, 2018, approximately 32 million customers of the UK telecom provider O2 woke up to a frustrating reality: The most widely used mobile network in the country was experiencing a day-long outage of its 4G mobile network. For some, not being able to check the weather forecast, traffic report or football scores was […]
HashiCorp Tools Bridge DevOps, Legacy IT Environments
At its HashiConf EU 2019 conference this week, HashiCorp extended the reach of its Terraform Enterprise tools for automating the management of IT infrastructure beyond the realm of DevOps into legacy IT environments. Via integration with the Service Catalog from ServiceNow, IT administrators working with a traditional ITIL-based framework now can invoke Terraform Enterprise to […]
How Systemic Approaches to ITOps Impact the Business Culture
We are at an inflection point in the rise of big data. Enterprise IT infrastructure is producing data at a scale like the world has never seen before. IT operations (ITOps) management has accelerated past the notion of data storage and processing (vis a vis the Hadoop model) and into the world of analytics-as-a-service. We […]
Agile Stacks Extends Reach of DevOps Automation Platform
Agile Stacks this week announced it is extending the reach of its namesake DevOps automation platform to Kubernetes and additional cloud services. Company CEO John Mathon said that by extending the reach of the company’s platform to include Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure and Red Hat’s OpenShift distribution of Kubernetes alongside existing support for […]
Building a Security Feedback Process for DevOps
The last few years have seen some major slip-ups in the security space among all major cloud providers, resulting in uncertainty and speculation. That’s understanding; cloud security is an extremely complicated subject as enterprises build and deploy applications faster than ever before to keep up with business requirements. Most of the security issues that occur […]
Unravel: A System Architect’s Guide to Data Operations
Big data is an older fashionable term that, when combined with agile methodology, AI and ML and analytics, has become a powerful trend once again in data operations (DataOps). If you’re a systems architect, it pays to understand the philosophies, benefits and tools to power DataOps and improve your data-driven applications. This article serves as […]
How to Automate an API Security Program Without Adding Staff
In today’s information economy, data is a primary raw material and a source of value to both providers and consumers. For many companies, entire business models are built on the exchange of information. Consider a ride-sharing business that owns no vehicles of its own. What the company does possess, however, is a database of private […]
The DevOps Security Stack
The whole idea behind DevOps is automation. DevOps automates the development process by eliminating or minimizing human error. If an error occurs, the applications fail quickly so the errors can be resolved promptly on a smaller scale. DevOps and cloud-native applications complement each other perfectly. Even though DevOps offers a more efficient and faster way […]
The Human Value in Automation-Driven DevOps Testing
Enterprises are embracing DevOps underpinned by automation to ensure the quality of software across all digital touchpoints. In fact, automation has become the crux of continuous integration and delivery, the vital DevOps testing goals. Without automation, DevOps would become a distant dream, and businesses would struggle to keep pace with seamless delivery and integration. However, […]
Scalability in the Age of DevOps: A Must for Success
DevOps seems to be an emerging topic “du jour” in the world of software development. And like it or not, it is showing no signs of slowing down. If used correctly, DevOps can be helpful—from making teams (developers and testers) work seamlessly to automating routine tasks, DevOps has proved its awesomeness in just a few […]