Logz.io Taps AI to Surface Incident Response Recommendations
Logz.io this week added a supervised machine learning capability to its observability platform that reduces mean-time-to-remediation by surfacing recommendations for resolving incidents. Asaf Yigal, vice president of product for Logz.io, said the Alert Recommendation capability added to the Logz.io Open360 platform uses artificial intelligence (AI) to model the steps a DevOps team needs to complete […]
Boomi Brings Generative AI to Integration Platform
Boomi announced today it is applying generative artificial intelligence (AI) to enable organizations to automate integrations via a natural language interface. Boomi CEO Steve Lucas said Boomi AI makes it much simpler for professional and citizen developers alike to create integrations at scale using generative AI platforms to invoke the low-code engine that Boomi already […]
7 Benefits of Self-Contained Apps for BPM
According to Gartner, “As business needs change, organizations must be able to deliver innovation quickly and adapt applications dynamically—reassembling capabilities from inside and outside the enterprise. To do this, organizations must understand and implement the ‘composable enterprise.’” This is an appealing concept for companies looking for a good balance between highly centralized and highly distributed […]
Optimizing SaaS With Automation and Zero-Touch IT
For the first time in 10 years, businesses have slowed their frenetic pace of SaaS adoption. Based on recent BetterCloud research, the average enterprise today uses 130 SaaS applications. While that represents an 18% increase from last year, it’s worth noting that it’s the slowest annual growth rate since we began tracking SaaS usage in […]
Start Automating Now
A bit of feedback I received from last week’s post is that I didn’t provide any background, I just jumped right in with examples. So let’s take a step back and talk about the bigger picture. It is always a surprise to me when I talk to enterprise friends and associates and hear that automation […]
PagerDuty Bets on AIOps and Automation to Simplify IT Management
PagerDuty this week made generally available an artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) platform that leverages the data model embedded in its incident management software to reduce the amount of time required for an AI platform to learn how an IT environment operates. Jonathan Rende, senior vice president and general manager for PagerDuty, said that […]
The Now and Next of Automation
Today’s never-ending flood of data has many of us drowning in noise. And while humans are still essential for thoughtful analysis and driving action, it’s no longer possible for a human to parse gigabytes of data alone. How do you begin to filter out the noise and then understand what to do with it? How […]
Automation Relation
One thing that is absolutely true: This latest iteration of IT improvement is about automation. Whether making DevOps more automated, working on any of the various “X-as-code” movements or implementing AI, the idea is to create what one vendor portrayed as a “human-free zone.” A space where automation does everything that needs doing. And the […]
Orgs Shift Toward Centralizing Automation Initiatives
A survey published today found that 75% of respondents recognized that automation silos hamper their ability to unify cloud operations across functions. Conducted by CloudBolt Software, the survey polled 350 senior IT and DevOps leaders at organizations with more than 3,000 employees. On a positive note, the survey found 57% of respondents were starting to […]
How to Supercharge Your Engineering Teams
With the economy still bleak, data and engineering teams that were already struggling to keep pace with business needs are now facing a potential hiring freeze or worse in 2023. That’s why there’s never been a more important time to maximize the productivity and impact of your teams, but the question is how to identify […]
Large Organizations Are Embracing AIOps
A survey of 265 IT leaders found the primary reason organizations are applying artificial intelligence to IT operations (AIOps) is to improve service and application availability and performance (60%), followed closely by automation of operations (58%) and processes (54%). Conducted on behalf of OpsRamp, a provider of an AIOps platform, the survey polled 138 IT […]
What NetOps Teams Should Know Before Starting Automation Journeys
Automation has captured the human imagination since the earliest days of recorded history. A fanciful example of this comes from Homer’s classic “The Iliad” in the form of a bronze robot called Talos, which was designed to automatically monitor and defend the island of Crete from marauding intruders. The appeal of automation for IT organizations, […]
Before ChatGPT, AIOps Powered Enterprises for Years
Led by OpenAI and its ChatGPT software, a new era of consumer use cases for artificial intelligence is here. These exciting new tools have made AI more accessible to more users than ever before. No longer is this technology the exclusive domain of wealthy corporations. However, while the world is now focused on the potential […]
Six Mainframe DevOps Predictions for 2023
DevOps, or the automation of application development and hand-off to operations, is more prevalent than ever on the mainframe. As we begin 2023, below are six predictions for what the coming year will bring. The composite themes will undoubtedly be speed, alignment and experience. 1. Enterprise DevOps Will Break Down Silos Across Core Systems DevOps […]
Understanding the Infrastructure Automation Maturity Model
Nearly every company wants to evolve its digital transformation and increase the pace of software delivery and operations. And infrastructure automation is a new means to achieve these ends. It supports the emerging discipline of platform engineering and can increase scalability and reactivity to unforeseen events, enabling software ecosystems to be more anti-fragile. Increased infrastructure […]
Graduating From DevOps to MLOps? 5 Tools to Help
DevOps is a set of practices that aims to bridge the gap between software development and operations. It aims to improve collaboration and communication between these two teams and to automate the process of software delivery so that changes can be made and deployed more quickly and easily. This can include continuous integration, continuous delivery […]
Red Hat Brings Ansible Automation to Google Cloud
Red Hat today announced that the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is now available on Google Cloud to simplify the management of yet another cloud platform. Using the Ansible Automation Platform, it’s now possible for IT teams that invoke Google Cloud to access pre-integrated services such as Google Virtual Private Cloud, security groups, load balancers […]
Automation Challenges Holding DevOps Back
A survey of 500 IT and engineering leaders in the U.S. published today finds organizations build an average of 6.7 internal applications per year themselves in addition to investing in 7.7 separate platforms to build applications. Commissioned by Internal, a provider of platforms for building application development environments, the survey also found organizations are spending […]
Looking Ahead, 2023 Edition
DevOps is in a perpetual state of change that keeps all of us engaged and busy, but makes a mess of things overall. Do you cloud-first? Are your APIs GraphQL yet? Are you doing SDN to connect to the VPN so you can put files on the CDN and build closer to the market? Sorry, […]
Atlassian Extends Automation Framework’s Reach
Atlassian this week extended its namesake automation framework to include its Confluence collaboration software. In addition, it’s now possible to automatically create bi-directional branches in Bitbucket, GitHub or GitLab platforms from within the company’s Jira project management application. At the same time, it’s now possible to automatically generate feature flags from within Jira through integration […]
State of DevOps Report Finds a Rise in Platform Engineering
The speed of software development velocity is increasing, and to enable this, platform engineering is emerging to evolve the DevOps practice. Interest in platform engineering is rising—so much so that Puppet emphasized platform engineering in its 2023 State of DevOps Report. A whopping 94% of respondents agreed that platform engineering is helping their organizations better […]
DevOps Must Embrace Automation in 2023
A survey of 500 engineering and software development professionals in the U.S. suggests more DevOps teams than ever need to resolve to embrace automation at a deeper level in the new year. The survey, sponsored by Chronosphere, a provider of an observability platform, found engineers spend, on average, more than 10 hours per week attempting […]