SolarWinds Acquires Loggly to Add Analytics to DevOps Portfolio
An ongoing SolarWinds effort to drive down the cost of implementing DevOps has been extended by acquiring Loggly, a provider of log analytics software provided as a cloud service. Christoph Pfister, executive vice president of products at SolarWinds, says the Loggly service rounds out a portfolio of DevOps offerings spanning application and infrastructure monitoring, website […]
Ten ways DevOps will benefit your IT department
When implemented properly, DevOps can transform your software engineering process and create value for both employees and customers, producing business performance and value. A fully working DevOps methodology will bring the following benefits: Increased service quality Perceived service quality and reliability depend on both the availability of a service in the absence of error (MTTF: […]
The real cost of downtime
Stephen Elliot and the IDC team recently released a report (registration required) sponsored by AppDynamics that examines the true cost of downtime and infrastructure failure, as well as DevOps adoption. The headline numbers are pretty eye-opening: For the Fortune 1000, the average total cost of unplanned application downtime per year is $1.25 billion to $2.5 […]
Why DevOps is like fitness or religion
What is DevOps? I noted in a blog post last summer that limiting DevOps to a single definition is challenging. The Wikipedia entry for DevOps contains a variety of possible explanations that seem to disagree in some ways: It’s a “software development method that stresses communication, collaboration and integration between software developers and information technology […]