Stellus Launches Next Generation NAS Platform
Stellus Technologies launched a network-attached storage (NAS) system capable of processing unstructured data at 10 times the speed of existing systems. Based on a software-defined file system written on top of a key-value store, the Stellus Data Platform can be acquired either as an appliance or in the form of a virtual image that IT […]
AIOps: The Path to Greater Resilience and Uptime
Large organizations with complex IT infrastructures are facing a significant challenge when it comes to data. The complexity is such that many IT operations teams are struggling to detect, or predict, the complex failure conditions and circumstances that can adversely impact resilience and uptime. Monitoring a multitude of systems is a complex task, as the […]
CAP Theorem No Match for Mainframes
One of the biggest problems in modern distributed computing is data management. These days data are spread out all over the place. As a result, getting the data you need, exactly when you need it, becomes a problem. Wider distribution creates more network latency. If you have a system in which some machines are in […]
Application Performance Management for DataOps
Over the years, application performance management (APM) tools have been utilized typically to measure and monitor the performance of software such as web applications. They do so by tracking such things as request response times and error messages, thus providing relevant data to be analyzed by the DevOps team, which then can make the appropriate […]
Adobe Strategy Revolves Around DevOps
At the Adobe Summit 2019 conference this week, Adobe detailed that its Adobe Experience Cloud customer experience ecosystem is reliant on a set of best DevOps processes that is wrapped around a modern microservices architecture and layered on top of big data platform deployed on the Azure cloud. Adobe last year acquired Magento, provider of […]
AIOps: How to Solve Performance Issues in Complex Data Pipelines
AIOps takes center stage to topple barriers as modern data application growth accelerates There seems to be a chasm between DevOps and big data teams in the enterprise, and the bridge over that chasm is long and treacherous. In fact, data analysts who are charged with managing and making sense of the growing volumes of […]
DevOps Chat: AIOps and APM with Unravel’s Kunal Agarwal
Unravel is making a name in the AIOps, APM and big data markets. In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Unravel CEO Kunal Agarwal about what makes Unravel a must-have for its customers. We also take a sneak peek ahead to what the near and not so near future holds for big data, AIOps and […]
5 Ways KPI Analysis Helps DevOps
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
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
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
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
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 […]
Creating a Better Plan with Agile Data
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
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 […]
Is AWS Cloud Per-Second Billing Boon or Bane for DevOps Engineers?
Amazon’s introduction of its AWS services in 2006 with a per-hour billing model for compute resources was a game-changer for the IT world. Since then, AWS has taken over the cloud computing market as a leader, while broadening the range of cloud services offered every year. However, the per-hour billing business model was one of […]
DevOps and Data Portability
You have a classic car. You’re in the middle of restoring it, and it looks mighty sweet. Paint is polished, wheels are stock, hubcaps (or spokes) are shiny, engine is completely restored to original spec. But it has no gas tank. A bit of a stark comparison, but that’s where we’re at with application release […]
Study: CIOs Want a Chief Data Officer
Quick, what does CDO stand for? Before you say chief digital officer, think again. A new study points to the chief data officer as the more important of the two titles, finding 82 percent of CIOs believe there is a compelling case to hire a CDO in most organizations. The survey, commissioned by Experian Data […]
4 Predictive Analytics Challenges Facing SRE Teams
“Predictive analytics” refers to the many techniques used to analyze data to make predictions about the future, such as data mining, statistics, modeling, machine learning and artificial intelligence. Being able to predict technical and business outcomes is one of the main promises of big data. Indeed, many businesses have invested heavily in infrastructure to anticipate […]
Gartner: Digital Business Driving Spending
With half the year gone, Gartner just revised its 2017 worldwide IT spending projection up 1 percent to 2.4 percent. That may not sound like a lot, but last year’s IT spending growth was effectively flat at 0.3 percent. It isn’t just the uptick in the overall spending level that’s interesting, it’s how Gartner predicts […]
Is DevOps Making Life Better for Data Scientists?
The path to success and happiness of the data science team working with big data project is not always clear from the beginning. It depends on the maturity of the underlying platform, their cross skills and DevOps processes around their day-to-day operations. The past few years have been like a dream come true for those […]
Backup: Not So Easy in Certain Environments
We discussed how backup needs to be reinvented for a new era cloud-native applications, and what you should look for in a modern database backup and recovery solution. But even if you scrap the traditional approach to back up and write scripts to handle the task, backup and recovery of next-generation applications and databases (Apache […]
Evolving Data Requirements in Multi-Cloud Environments
By design or by accident, multi-cloud is a reality that most enterprise IT teams have to cope with today. Multi-cloud (or, cross-cloud, as Dell EMC calls it) refers to an IT model where an organization uses services of one or more public cloud service providers, sometimes in addition to using its own data centers. In […]
Don’t Be Samsung: Here’s How You Can Protect Yourself
Imagine a factory building 100,000 units a day, and you can see how a small error can have huge consequences. Now imagine that factory is a database. The world’s top smartphone maker this month pulled the plug on its $882 Galaxy Note 7 after phones overheated and caught fire, concluding in a disastrous recall for […]