New Relic Delivers on AI Promise to Automate IT Operations
New Relic at a FutureStack 2017 conference unveiled an instance of its monitoring tools that employs machine learning technologies and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) to provide advice on how to optimize an IT environment. Nadya Duke Boone, director of product management for New Relic, says New Relic Applied Intelligence (NRAI) will be made […]
NodeSource, AppDynamics Ally for Node.js DevOps
The prevalence of Node.js as the most widely deployed instance of JavaScript is putting a lot of pressure on DevOps teams to find ways to automate the management of Node.js applications. To provide the visibility needed to achieve that goal, NodeSource has announced it has integrated its N|Solid development environment with the application monitoring tools […]
DevOps, Continuous Delivery – It’s All About Automation
I spent a large portion of my career in the networking industry, marketing routers, switches and other gear that makes the internet work. Networking—like many industries—is currently undergoing a revolution that is in large part driven by software. Functions that used to be delivered as a standalone device can now run in software (not unlike […]
Redefining NoOps to Better Inform IT Decision-Making
It is safe to say that since the term NoOps escaped from its confines as an assembly language instruction (NOP or NOOP mnemonic for no operation) and in microelectronics (NoOps or null instructions inserted into pipeline, creating bubbles*) into enterprise IT, it has caused more than its fair share of consternation and controversy in the […]
Automation: This Time, It’s Different
It took about 200,000 years for mankind to be able to figure out how to get an airplane to fly. The event took place Dec. 17, 1903, on a field in Kitty Hawk, N.C., when Wilbur Wright piloted the airplane he had made with his brother, Orville, into the air. The flight lasted for 12 […]
DevOps Proves No Coaster Ride for Roller
Keeping amusement parks running and the fun flowing is Roller‘s main job. The company provides software for the leisure and entertainment industries, notably theme parks, amusement parks and trampoline parks. Its core functions are ticketing, POS and CRM. Clients include Coney Island Luna Park, Aussie World and Twinlakes Park. When Roller decided to expand and […]
Automation: Critical Missing Pieces in the CD Puzzle
As enterprises accelerate the frequency with which they develop and release new code into production to meet the ever-mounting demands of their consumers, there’s growing pressure on networking and security operations teams to keep pace with their DevOps counterparts. And it’s not hard to see why. According to Forrester, nearly four out of five business leaders […]
Jobs-as-Code: The Business Processing DevOps Forgot
Developing web and mobile apps is cool. But in the words of a longtime ballad: “Don’t forget who’s taking you home and in whose arms you’re gonna be …” It’s the back-end services that underpin a lot of those cool apps and make them possible. So yes, servers and relational databases and enterprise applications and […]
Loom Systems Extends Reach of AI into DevOps Realm
One of the things that tends to hold back adoption of DevOps are all the low-level events that need to be correlated by an engineer to generate anything that approaches actionable intelligence (AI). To eliminate that requirement, Loom Systems created a Loom AIops platform to automate many of the tasks that normally would need to […]
4 Ways to Give DevOps Teams the Support They Need
If it weren’t hard enough for IT infrastructure teams to innovate and keep the lights on, a host of technologies designed to drive efficiencies are introducing new levels of complexity across the data center. Virtualization, cloud computing, software-defined storage and digital are making it much more difficult for the infrastructure team to control, manage and […]
Fighting Deployment Anxiety: 5 Tips from the Pros
You know the feeling: You’ve put in hours of work developing a new feature. It has gone through QA, been tested and passed all stakeholder inspections, and now you’re ready to deploy. Despite your experience and preparation, you have a pit in your stomach. What if something goes wrong and it brings your app to […]
UBI: Facing the Reality in the Era of Automation
Those of us working in DevOps make a good living. According to Glassdoor, the national average salary for a DevOps engineer in the United States is $100,000. Are we worth it? Of course we are; DevOps is hard work. The value we add to an organization more than justifies the salaries we can command. Nobody […]
When Automation Predictions Come To Be: Transportation as a Service
Back in December of 2016 I wrote an article for devopsy.kinsta.cloud titled, “What Do We Do When Everything is Automated?” in which I made a prediction: Also, think about this: As Uber and Lyft mature in the business landscape and self-driving cars become commonplace, the ride-share companies will replace human-driven vehicles with self-driving vehicles. Then, […]
Fleetsmith Pulls Apple into DevOps Orbit
For too long now Apple Macintosh systems have been the proverbial red-headed stepchild of DevOps. There are a lot of ways to incorporate Windows systems automatically into a larger DevOps pipeline, but Macintosh systems generally require a lot of manual intervention. As part of a larger effort to automate application deployments across Apple systems, Fleetsmith […]
Humans: The Ultimate Exception Handlers. Until …
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]
Automation: A Few Decades of Pain? Or, What Does Jack Ma Know That I Don’t?
Recently I came across three articles that gave me pause. Each article was a bit disconcerting on its own merit, but when I considered them together, the result caused more than a momentary worry. One article was report in Bloomberg Technology quoting Jack Ma, head of Alibaba, the second richest man in China and a […]