5 Ways KPI Analysis Helps DevOps

December 10, 2018 by Don Dingee 1 Comments

Four Vs drive big data solutions: volume, velocity, variety and veracity. Volume and velocity are technical considerations usually receiving a healthy dose of attention among architects and coders. However, variety and veracity often determine success or failure, and they tend to sneak up on teams who haven’t fully considered them. Key performance indicator, or KPI, […]

DevOps Chat: Instrumentation with Influx Data’s Evan Kaplan

November 9, 2018 by Alan Shimel 3 Comments

Evan Kaplan, CEO of Influx Data, is someone who knows his way around the technology world. In a lifetime of experience that has seen him found and manage several successful companies from startups to public entities, Evan has had a great track record of success. Influx Data is yet another success for Kaplan. Building on […]

DataOps: DevOps Plus Big Data

November 6, 2018 by Don Macvittie 3 Comments

In traditional DevOps, there are the complimentary forms of development operations (that I call DEVops), and development operations (that I like to call devOPS). Between them they automate the toolchain and bring the people working on getting an application out to users onto the same team—not necessarily the same organizational team, but using their strengths […]

DevOps Chat: CHAOSSEARCH New Spin on Big Data Analysis

October 19, 2018 by Alan Shimel 3 Comments

Analysis is the dark cloud overhanging big data — it’s difficult without the right tools. Elasticsearch by Elastic has become ubiquitous in helping organizations, but it can get unwieldy, as storage combining with compute is tricky. CHAOSSEARCH is an early stage startup designed to make searching massive amounts of data using elasticsearch and Amazon S3 […]

Moogsoft Extends AI Reach into IT Operations

September 5, 2018 by Mike Vizard 1 Comments

Moogsoft, at a Moogsoft 2018 AIOps Symposium last week, extended the reach of its IT operations analytics software out to where applications are deployed, rather than requiring data to be moved into a Big Data platform. Will Cappelli, CTO and vice president of product strategy for Moogsoft, said Moogsoft Observe, available in beta, discovers anomalies […]

How CJC built a performant big data visualization platform to be used by their capital market customers for ITOA with InfluxData

March 20, 2018 by Deborah Schalm 0 Comments

In this webinar, Steve Moreton, Senior Technical Director of CJC, will showcase how they built a big data visualization platform used in the capital markets for ITOA (IT Operations Analytics). MosiacOA uses InfluxDB to store metrics from hundreds of specialist servers, networking and middleware systems, with some firms doing 1 million database writes per minute. […]

Creating a Better Plan with Agile Data

February 22, 2018 by Brook Appelbaum 0 Comments

Agile methods help companies respond to change, beat the competition and build high-quality products that customers want by aligning development work to business priorities. But what happens when an organization is unable to align strategy to execution or align its departments or teams due to internal silos? As organizations advance in agile maturity, so do […]

Strap in, CIOs: Analysts Predict Wild Ride for 2018-2020

December 7, 2017 by Scot Finnie 0 Comments

Digital transformation is the underlying theme of many of the 2018 and beyond IT predictions made recently by analyst firms Forrester, Gartner and IDC. Technologies such as cloud, AI, data analytics, big data, blockchain, IoT, conversational interfaces, DevOps and cybersecurity will also force CIOs to perform a juggling act. The rapid evolution of these technologies […]