CloudBees Harnesses Additional Cloud Bursting
At the DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 conference, CloudBees announced that the latest version of its CloudBees Accelerator platform now supports cloud bursting to all three of the major public cloud service providers. CloudBees Accelerator makes it possible to distribute the build, quality assurance and testing cycles across a large cluster of inexpensive servers. […]
CircleCI Adds Security Orbs to CI/CD Platform
CircleCI has extended the reach of its automated package manager, known as orbs, to cybersecurity software that can be integrated into a pipeline constructed within the company’s namesake continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform. Mike Stahnke, vice president of engineering for CircleCI, said extending orbs into the realm of cybersecurity will make it much easier for […]
OverOps Integrates AI Code Analyzer With CI/CD Platforms
At the DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 conference, OverOps announced it has integrated its namesake tools for analyzing Java and Microsoft .NET code at runtime with a variety of continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platforms, including Jenkins, JetBrains TeamCity, Atlassian Bamboo and Pivotal Concourse. Eric Mizell, vice president of solution engineering for OverOps, noted that […]
BMC Extends DevOps Reach to Db2 Databases
BMC Software is extending the reach of its campaign to bring DevOps to the mainframe to the IBM Db2 databases that run on the venerable platform. John McKenny, senior vice president, ZSolutions Strategy and Innovation at BMC, said BMC AMI DevOps for Db2 makes it possible for DevOps teams to automate changes to the Db2 […]
VMware Looks to Accelerate App Migration to the Cloud
VMware this week expanded the scope of its cloud migration efforts to include workloads that aren’t running on its virtual machine. VMware HCX leverages replication and virtual machine mobility technology to make it easier to automate the migration of either VMware-based workloads or those running on rival platforms to the latest generation of VMware platforms. […]
Embracing the Product Development Cycle
Nowadays, a truly successful product calls for purposeful investment in the people that will ultimately use it in their specific environments. We all know technological development is hyperactive and unpredictable. Ultimately, we want to be able to create cutting-edge tech, deploy it wherever it’s needed and have it operated by skilled staff that understand all […]
Principles Systems and Tools – What Shingo Can Teach Us About DevOps
In my last post, The Power of a Game: What I Learned from Facilitating the Phoenix Project Simulation, we explored how DevOps and Agile practices are built on underlying Lean principles that go back decades to a time before the Toyota Production System. When you look into the history of Lean, it is almost impossible […]
Twilio Adds DevOps Tool to Invoke Communications Services
At its annual SIGNAL conference, Twilio today launched an initiative intended to make it easier to embed a variety of communication services within an application in the context of a DevOps process. Quinton Wall, senior director of developer marketing at Twilio, said the open source Twilio Command Line Interface (CLI) tool, now available in beta, […]
Relentless Automation: The Roadmap to Success
As digital transformation continues to shape organization-wide initiatives, CIOs are recognizing the benefits and value of automation in reducing errors and process variability, leading to lower operating risks and faster execution and innovation. In fact, according to Gartner’s recent report, by 2023, 40% of I&O teams will use AI-augmented automation in large enterprises, resulting in […]
GitLab Research Reveals DevOps and Cybersecurity Disconnects
DevOps and cybersecurity teams have a complicated relationship, which impacts code quality, research shows Finger-pointing has long been the name of the game when it comes to cybersecurity failures. After all, who should be responsible when so-called bad code or bad practices are blamed for the latest incident? A recent survey by DevOps lifecycle tool […]
With Platform, Dotscience Applies DevOps to AI
Dotscience today launched a namesake platform for building and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) models based on a set of best DevOps practices. Company CEO Luke Marsden said that as organizations realize that AI models need to be trained and updated continuously, the need for a DevOps platform that accelerates that process will become more apparent. […]
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 […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: BMC Software Bets on AIOps Transformation
As BMC tests the AIOps waters, the company seeks to find a balance in serving both the DevOps and ITIL populations It’s clear in the enterprise IT space that artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to play a significant role in IT operations, a phenomenon known as AIOps. Often with this level of IT disruption, new […]
Is DevOps in the Enterprise Real?
Is DevOps in the enterprise real? The short answer is yes, but you may assume it’s only relevant to the world’s leading cloud companies because they’re the ones that make the headlines. DevOps offers the promise of agility, quality and ultimately better-performing software. While DevOps processes can increase agility, and agile approaches are a great […]
Mendix Injects More AI to Accelerate Low-Code Development
The rate at which low-code applications are built and deployed will accelerate as developers begin to rely more on artificial intelligence (AI) to write code. The summer 2019 release of the Mendix low-code platform includes a revamped instance of Mendix Assist, which employs machine learning algorithms to make coding recommendations. Those algorithms have been trained […]
Automated Certificate Management No Longer a Luxury
On December 6, 2018, approximately 32 million customers of the UK telecom provider O2 woke up to a frustrating reality: The most widely used mobile network in the country was experiencing a day-long outage of its 4G mobile network. For some, not being able to check the weather forecast, traffic report or football scores was […]
Stackery Smooths AWS Serverless Integration for DevOps
Stackery today announced a plug-in capability that will allow developers to build and debug code destined to run on the Lambda serverless computing service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) from within an integrated development environment (IDE) running on a local machine. Company CTO Chase Douglas said the latest Stackery tool can be dropped into […]
Consider the Role of Programmers as Storytellers
Every time I speak with the programmers of our team in casual conversation, I ask what they’re working on. Every time, I get the same kind of answer, “I’m building a dashboard,” or “I’m optimizing a database,” or “I’m testing the user interaction.” In other words, I get the same answer as the proverbial masons, […]
Why Did DevOps Become So Popular? 3 Theories
DevOps has now been a thing for a solid decade. As we look back at the history of DevOps, it’s worth asking: Where did DevOps come from, and why did it take off when it did? In honor of the 10-year anniversary of DevOps, I’d like to explore these questions. A Brief History of DevOps […]
DevOps Chat: Enterprise Multi-Cloud Backbone With Aviatrix
Our podcast guest believes the world changed “on a Tuesday” six months ago when the enterprise move to the cloud became imperative, not just an aspirational goal. That eureka moment was enough to pull Steve Mullaney off the sidelines and back into the game as CEO of Aviatrix after successful executive gigs at Palo Alto […]
Chef Brings DevOps to Windows Platform Migrations
Chef and Microsoft revealed today that they are working together to apply DevOps processes to accelerate the migration of Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 to more current versions. Announced at the Microsoft Inspire conference, the goal is to enable organizations to leverage Chef Enterprise Automation Stack (EAS), which includes an EAS Migration Accelerator […]
Transforming the Security Team Into a DevOps Partner
Securing DevOps environments is an increasingly important concern for chief information security officers (CISOs) and security teams. While developers often recognize security is important, it is not their top priority. More typically, the DevOps team prioritizes delivering new capabilities and features to the business and customers, often as part of a larger digital transformation initiative. […]
3 Reasons Why DevOps Is More Popular Than Ever
How popular is DevOps? More popular than ever, if Google Trends is to be believed. Here’s a look at how the popularity of DevOps has increased over time, and what has driven the change. The Spiking Popularity of DevOps Here’s what Google Trends tells us about interest over time of the term “DevOps” over the […]