The ‘Blockbuster Effect’ in the Age Of Automation
Saying that new jobs will always be created to replace those that have been eliminated by automation is a mechanism for avoiding a real problem that’s lurking on the horizon. In 2004, at the height of its popularity, Blockbuster Video had more than 9,000 stores and employed more than 80,000 people worldwide. About 50,000 of […]
CA Technologies Advances DevOps Automation Agenda
CA Technologies further advanced its staged goal of unifying its disparate portfolio of DevOps automation tools by announcing today a new release of CA Workload Automation AE (AutoSys) software now directly integrated with the CA Automic One Automation platform the company acquired early last year. CA AutoSys is the older of two offerings and is […]
Standardization, De Facto Style
The first decade or so of DevOps had one truth to it: It was about change. Not just change in the way that IT worked, but change in the way DevOps worked—particularly in the tools space, where products and product preferences both are in flux. We’re still seeing a massive change, but increasingly the effect […]
Automation Levels the Playing Field for Continuous Compliance
At this point, I doubt there is any company doing business anywhere that doesn’t fall under at least one compliance framework. One universal truth of compliance—in intent, if not in practice—is that it is a process, not an event. Checking boxes and passing an audit is a requirement of most compliance mandates, but the real […]
Survey: Not Much Compliance Progress in DevOps World
A survey of 1,500 customers conducted by Chef illustrates the lacking state of DevSecOps in the enterprise today, finding that nearly three-quarters of IT organizations still manually assess whether applications comply with various regulations before being deployed to production. Worse yet, half the respondents also manually remediate any issue once it arrives, which takes days […]
Testing and Certification in the Age of Automation
If we do not change the way we teach, 30 years from now we will be in trouble. Because the way we teach, the thing we teach our kids are the things from the past 200 years. It is knowledge based. And, we cannot teach out kids to compete with machines, they [machines] are smarter. […]
Red Hat Rises to Data Management Challenges
Red Hat is moving to reduce or eliminate many of the manual tasks DevOps teams routinely encounter via a beta release of an update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that addresses multiple data management issues related to DevSecOps and DataOps. Steve Almy, principal product manager for RHEL, said version 7.5 of RHEL adds support […]
The Case Against Human Employment in the Age of Automation
A few months back, the small Japanese restaurant down the street from me was renovated. The owner redesigned the layout of his business to solve a vexing problem: How to stay in business when faced with a continuing pattern of employees not showing up for work. The layout of his restaurant went from this: Figure […]
Predictions for DevOps Security in 2018
Automation continues to be a major driver of DevOps as a whole. In 2018, we’ll continue to see a shift in how and where automation is applied in the DevOps life cycle. More specifically, DevOps will move toward adoption of integrated automation and security orchestration solutions. The need to move away from a reactive DevOps […]
When is Big Automation Too Big for Comfort?
There’s a joke traveling around the tech-o-sphere that goes like this: How many software developers does it take to change a lightbulb? Answer: None, it’s a hardware problem. In the world of modern DevOps, physical infrastructure has been abstracted to code. I can count on my fingers the number of people I know who have […]
Is DevOps Transformation a Holy Grail?
Both development and operations teams are popping up in enterprises all over the world, and even though DevOps programs are still in the early stages, our ultra digital world calls for even more software applications. This is why many analyst and consultants alike believe that, in the near future, DevOps will be even more powerful […]
CA World 2017: DevOps As Far As the Eye Can See
The show floor for CA World 2017 had one inescapable, very obvious feature: There was DevOps as far as the eye can see. No kidding. It was a stunning reminder that this multibillion-dollar-revenue company has gone all-in on DevOps and related technologies. While we know CA has spent almost a billion and a half dollars […]
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 […]
Top 5 Best Practices for DevOps Monitoring
Today organizations are required to deliver on higher levels of customer satisfaction for their online services. Many, however, are forced to support these initiatives with an interrupt-driven approach as they react to fix things after they break. However, for a more proactive approach and to manage expected high levels of SLAs, organizations can opt to […]
Automation and Its Impact on Cultures
Let me tell you about my granddaughter. She’s 14 years old and wicked smart. For a while we did pair programming together online in Python. In the old days you took your grandkids fishing. Today we code. Go figure. These days, we don’t program together as much. She’s too busy preparing for math competitions. As […]
Survey Finds DevOps Teams Under Increasing Pressure
The fact that a much larger percentage of companies now recognize they are software companies that happen to specialize in a specific vertical industry is now putting a lot of pressure on developers, according to a new survey of 750 development team leaders in the United States and the UK conducted by Testplant, a provider […]
The Future of Continuous Testing: Fail Faster
In the early days of Agile and Lean development practices, a very noticeable gap appeared between dev teams and ops and QA. Development was accelerating at a lightning-fast pace, but testing processes could not keep up, slowing down the entire life cycle and preventing organizations from achieving continuous delivery. Traditional testing methods, which rely heavily […]
Oracle on the March Toward Automated CI/CD Services
At its OpenWorld 2017 conference today, Oracle charted a course forward that essentially creates a managed DevOps platform spanning a broad number of application types and styles. The Oracle Application Development Platform is a subset of the Oracle Cloud Platform optimized for application development. Siddhartha Agarwal, vice president of product management and strategy, says the […]
Get the Full DevOps Picture with our Continuous Delivery Map
Automation and continuous delivery are shifting from being industry trends to becoming industry standards for fast and effective app deployment. To compete in today’s market, organizations must adopt technologies and applications for more rapid deployment. But with so many tools available, this is incredibly challenging without knowing which specific tools and methodologies are most effective. […]
DevOps Predictions for the Future
Among the few powerful trends we had experienced in the recent times, one is undoubtedly the adoption of DevOps practices. As we are move closer to 2018, it is becoming more obvious that DevOps is becoming mainstream, with many large organizations getting on board with DevOps. DevOps Within Enterprises DevOps is becoming the standard way […]
Next-Generation DevOps: Self-Learning Systems
The massive enterprise movement toward all things “digital” has accelerated the adoption of DevOps in all kinds of projects, but particularly in digital transformation initiatives. Apart from the productivity benefits gained by automating software development and rollout, the increased agility has helped move DevOps adoption to gain critical mass in a relatively short time. However, […]
10 Rules for Writing Automated Tests
Over the recent months many of our customers asked for our guidance and building their test suites properly. Performance, ease of management and scalability were key priorities for them. We decided to share our suggestions with the broader audience. We came up with the list while building our own test suite. Since we strongly believe […]
Automation: Where Did My Mind Go? Or, No Need to Remember
Allow me to share a secret: My handwriting is atrocious. If it were not for the keyboard upon which my fingers are tapping and the laptop that is processing the result of my taps, this article would not be happening. I’ve always had poor handwriting. But, it’s gotten worse over time. Other than the occasional […]