Before We Burn the Martech Silo
There’s an ongoing debate about where marketing technology (martech) should sit in an organization. Does it live with the CMO, the CIO, the CXO–a hybrid strategist with both IT and marketing background–or some collaboration? As technology use grows, it’s tempting to move martech under another role. Before we burn the martech silo, like how McDonald’s, […]
There’s No Silver Bullet for 5G Deployment
When it comes to 5G, a common mistake is to think there is a silver bullet for successful deployment. Often operators assume there is one magic remedy that if introduced to their network, will see them succeed. For example, automation is a key pillar of the 5G era; end-to-end automation maximizes the efficiencies and responsiveness […]
Why COBOL Still Matters After 60 Years
In the world of DevOps, the Agile Manifesto and countless other application delivery frameworks, one has to wonder how an anachronism such as the programming language COBOL (common business-oriented language) has managed to remain relevant. After all, COBOL has its roots back in the 1940s, and was built upon Rear Admiral Grace Hopper’s work on […]
Cisco Extends Ansible Support to Advance DevOps
Cisco Systems announced today that it is further embracing the open source Ansible automation framework on its storage area network (SAN) platform as part of an effort to extend best DevOps practices to IT infrastructure. The latest version of the Cisco MDS 9700 platform modules automates tasks such as VSAN configuration, device-alias and zoning configuration. […]
When Shift Right is Shift Left
In some areas of IT, we utilize the idea of shift right quite a bit. Testing and security are two areas where it comes up often. The idea is that tracking late in the process–usually while the application is in production–leads us to find more insidious issues that might have remained hidden, and gives us […]
Pulumi Deepens Cloud Ties to DevOps
Pulumi has made available a framework for automating the management of multiple cloud computing platforms using familiar programming languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and Go. Company CEO Joe Duffy said Pulumi 1.0 provides a framework that enables developers to automate the deployment of applications on public clouds in a way that eliminates having to […]
Why and How to Collect KPIs for Z DevOps
It can sometimes feel frustrating to try to figure out how to do DevOps. That’s because DevOps is not about tools—there are lots of different tools that can help you succeed at DevOps. Nor is it about any really specific set of practices; although DevOps prioritizes things like automation and communication, it does not prescribe […]
CollabNet VersionOne Picks Up $500M to Fuel Value Stream Management
CollabNet VersionOne today announced it has picked up an additional $500 million in funding to help fuel what is rapidly becoming an arms race to drive adoption of value stream management in DevOps environments. TPG Capital, the private equity arm of TPG, signed a definitive agreement to acquire CollabNet VersionOne. Terms of the acquisition were […]
Virtual Instruments Aims to Meld DevOps, ITSM Worlds
Virtual Instruments today announced additions to an IT management platform that leverage machine learning algorithms to identify application drift and dynamically right-size virtual machines. Tim Van Ash, senior vice president of products for Virtual Instruments, said version 6.2 of the company’s VirtualWisdom platform is part of an ongoing campaign to meld the traditional world of […]
The State of DevOps Report 2019 Is Out
The Accelerate State of DevOps Report 2019 is out like every other year. Now, let’s talk about the key findings of this year’s survey: The Industry Continues to Improve, Particularly Among the Elite Performers: Proportion of high performers have tripled, now comprising 20% of all teams. This shows the improvement is real for those who […]
From DevOps to DevSecOps: Owning Cloud Security
The cloud is a complex environment, with different groups managing different cloud services and environments. The most basic division is between the cloud provider, who provides the core infrastructure, and the customer, who leverages services or builds their applications using resources leased from the provider. Within larger organizations, different cloud resources, data and applications may […]
GitHub Enterprise Server Update Extends Enterprise Push
GitHub has expanded its push into the enterprise with the 2.18 release of GitHub Enterprise Server, which includes a bevy of updates intended to make administrators’ lives easier. Mario Rodriguez, head of product for GitHub Enterprise, said the enterprise edition of GitHub is seeing triple-digit growth as large companies more aggressively embrace DevOps tools and […]
Atomist Takes on Application Drift Management
Atomist today announced it is extending the capabilities of its software delivery automation platform to include drift management tools that make it easier to identify changes to code. Now in beta, that capability is based on an open source project dubbed Org Visualizer, which makes it possible to clone an entire project hosted in a […]
Aspects of Machine Learning on the Edge
Machine learning (ML) is hard. Making it work within the confined environment of an embedded device can easily become a quagmire unless we consider, and frequently revisit, the design and deployment aspects crucially affected by ML requirements. A bit of upfront planning makes the difference between project success and failure. For this article, our focus […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: VMware Transformed
At the VMworld 2019 conference this week, VMware in no uncertain teams made it clear it wants to become a major DevOps force. Following the acquisition of sister company Pivotal Software last week, VMware is moving to build out an application development framework for building and deploying cloud-native applications based on Kubernetes. That effort coincides […]
Radical Transparency in DevOps and ITSM Helps Achieve Excellent Customer Experience
Here’s what I’ve noticed after spending several years in service management: DevOps is coming up more in the conversations I’m having with service desk leaders. Usually, these conversations start with one of the similar questions: DevOps is going to be the death of ITSM, correct? Alternatively, some consider DevOps as a challenge, and ITSM doesn’t […]
Achieving Open and Integrated Development with IBM Z
“DevOps” and “mainframe” are not words you often hear in the same sentence. Yet, the reality is that even in our current age of DevOps, mainframes remain the mainstays of many companies’ IT infrastructure. That’s why it’s critical for organizations to find ways to bring mainframe software delivery up to speed with modern DevOps practices, […]
Splunk to Acquire SignalFx to Gain APM Platform
Splunk today announced it will acquire SignalFx as part of an effort to extend its reach beyond IT operational analytics and into the realm of application performance management (APM). Valued at approximately $1.05 billion, the deal to acquire an APM platform delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering will expand and accelerate Splunk’s overall transition to […]
Catchpoint Expands Network Monitoring Service Reach
Catchpoint has expanded the number of locations worldwide from which it is gathering telemetry data for its networking monitoring service to more than 825 sites. Drit Suljoti, chief product officer for Catchpoint, said as applications continue to become more distributed, the worlds of DevOps and network operations (NetOps) converge. DevOps teams need more visibility into […]
Bringing 5G-Enabled Digital Services to Life Calls for Cloud-Native Operations
Spotify, Netflix, IoT connectivity and cloud storage are a few examples of the digital services providing new options for fun and function to consumers and businesses alike, while representing a growing boon for communications service providers (CSPs). Gartner predicts by 2020, nearly one quarter (23%) of CSPs’ large enterprise business communication revenues will be driven […]
Autonomous Security in Containers
With the advent of DevOps, the development world has quickly moved to agile development practices and containerized applications. At Forum Systems, we have responded to this trend by putting our API security software, Forum Sentry, into virtual form factors such as Amazon Machine Image, Azure Image, VMware Image, Linux, Windows and Docker. Why do we […]
DOES London 2019: Better Value, Sooner, Safer, Happier (BVSSH)
One of the key themes for this year’s DevOps Enterprise Summit in London was BV-S,S,H. It stands for Better Value, Sooner, Safer, Happier. It gets to the heart of what DevOps is trying to do: Deliver better value, sooner, safer and it results in happier people and organizations. Gene Kim mentioned this several times on […]
The Impact of DevOps on Database Monitoring and Management
The rise of DevOps has broken down silos and brought database administrators (DBAs) and application developers closer together to deliver software faster and in a more agile manner. This near-constant change driven by DevOps is reflected in the results of the Redgate 2019 State of SQL Server Monitoring Report. It reveals that 73% of organizations […]