Can Videoconferencing Solve the DevOps Collaboration Conundrum?
Every DevOps expert has their own definition of what DevOps really means, but a common thread running through each definition is that it is based on collaboration and evolution of a culture of sharing and communication between IT and operations. How that collaboration is achieved has evolved rapidly, and in today’s most successful digital transformation […]
DevOps and Cloud: A Symbiotic Relationship Aimed at Business Success
DevOps and cloud computing are not mutually exclusive, though their relationship has often been uncertain and confusing from a layman’s perspective. While cloud computing relates to technology and services, DevOps is more about processes and process improvement. However, both DevOps and cloud computing are vital in every organization’s journey toward an effective digital transformation. Cloud-centric […]
Google Unveils Suite of APM Tools
Google today announced that it is making available application performance management (APM) tools based on the same technology it employs to manage its internal IT environment. Morgan McLean, a product manager at Google, said Stackdriver APM is based the open source StackDriver Trace and Debugger tools Google originally developed for its DevOps teams. The APM […]
Integrating ITIL Change Management and DevOps
A DevOps solution to the DevOps problem Intel IT’s Enterprise landscape is highly complex and diverse. The Enterprise Change Management team has the responsibility of managing the changes in this landscape, which is of the order of hundreds of changes every week. On one hand, we had to make sure we keep the change management […]
Beware the Blind Spot in Performance Testing for DevOps
According to Forrester, 64 percent of businesses are dissatisfied with the time it takes to release new features for customers. Brand loyalty has given way to customer loyalty; to drive it, organizations must focus on customers and their experiences using their products and services. As a result, organizations of all sizes need to make customer […]
5 Things That Will Be Automated in 2018
We may not have fleets of robots waiting on us hand and foot yet, but the automation revolution is in full swing. With automation becoming more apparent in daily life, some of the misguided fears over the concept and its potential to eliminate jobs are slowly being replaced with the view of automation as an […]
Transition to DevOps Increasing Across IT Firms
Demand for faster product development and quick market release created a need for increased collaboration between Development (Dev) and Operations (Ops) teams, which eventually led to “DevOps.” With this, transition to DevOps has become one of the key points of discussion across many IT firms. This article gives you an overview of the demand and […]
A Saner Way to Build a DevOps Cloud
There’s a popular definition of insanity: doing the same thing repeatedly but expecting different results. Yet, too many enterprises implementing digital services and apps in the cloud fail to heed this warning as they turn to point-to-point integration of their cloud components. In the process, they’re introducing tremendous complexity that looks eerily similar to the […]
Barracuda Networks Survey: DevSecOps Is Hard
Organizations that have adopted DevSecOps processes may be making progress when it comes to improving cybersecurity, but it’s far from easy. A survey of 618 IT decision-makers conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of Barracuda Networks, a provider of IT security software and appliances, finds half have adopted either DevOps, DevSecOps or a continuous integration/continuous […]
The Role of DevOps in Building an AI-Ready Infrastructure
The successful application of machine learning for artificial intelligence (AI) requires several contexts to be addressed, primarily the technical, data and business considerations. The Technical From a technical standpoint, in building an AI-ready framework there are choices to be made such as which machine learning framework to select, the type and structure of learning function […]
IBM Advances DevOps for AI Applications
IBM today made its first foray into applying DevOps methodologies to building artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Announced at the IBM Think 2018 conference, the latest IBM tools and services for building AI applications include a Deep Learning as a Service capability that has been embedded with IBM Watson Studio development tools and Watson Data Kits […]
How to Get More Visibility Into Your Continuous Deployment Process
I know far too many developers who cringe at the thought of continuous deployment. Thoughts of broken code and an endless stream of customer support requests puts continuous deployment into the “nice to have, but not right now” pile. But, it might just be a case of clearing the fog on process so you get […]
Is DevOps Really Necessary?
I spend my days discussing DevOps and digital transformations with companies of all sizes, from startups to some of the world’s largest enterprises. I’ve found that many teams are still at a very early stage in modernizing their technology, culture and practices. However, I’m surprised at the number of the organizations that don’t believe in […]
Sneckdowns In IT Operations
What IT operations professionals can learn from the actual paths people take through tools and processes, and the differences from the expected usage model. It has been a snowy winter across much of Europe, and although the snow is now beginning to melt in most places, there are still substantial sneckdowns to be seen across […]
How the Cloud is Reshaping IT
The cloud has been rapidly reshaping and redefining IT as we know it, from the language we use to describe it to the management models and infrastructure itself. Providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure have transformed cloud computing, giving businesses access to IT resources anytime, anywhere. At the same […]
DevOps: Bringing People, Process and Technology Together for Digital Transformation
DevOps principles are built on an effective, continuous cycle of improvements—key factors that help drive digital transformation for companies large and small. Inserting this agile mindset into culture and operations, however, can be challenging, as the approach sometimes conflicts with the more the methodical ways of IT. So how can people, process and technology be […]
Integrating Security into DevOps: The Benefits and Drawbacks
The efficiency of DevOps for your enterprise will depend on the level of security you integrate in it. The integration of security into DevOps is new to many enterprises, but is highly important because the speed of DevOps can make the apps in development vulnerable to malicious attacks. This can be prevented with the help […]
Can Agile and DevOps Get Along?
There is a common misconception that Agile and DevOps cannot work together, which does a disservice to everyone in the software development and delivery field. In fact, both approaches can significantly add to the Scrum pillars of transparency, inspection and adaption to better enable product teams to develop, deliver and sustain complex products. Both Agile […]
How DevOps-Savvy Are You? (Quiz)
As DevOps tools become more and more prominent in the IT landscape, it wouldn’t hurt IT professionals to brush up on their knowledge. DevOps has helped IT departments that are grappling with mobility, cloud and other methods which are revolutionizing how companies create and deploy applications. Traditional silos are being demolished and, for many, DevOps […]
CI/CD and its Effects on Release Managers
The role of release management in the development of any software package has drastically changed with the introduction of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). CI/CD has made the development process more agile, and it has made the role of release management significantly more challenging. To understand and grasp the changes brought into the role […]
What Can Conway’s Law Teach Us About DevOps?
I first heard about Conway’s Law from reading the “DevOps Handbook” (an excellent read, by the way, if you want to dive head-first into DevOps). I was intrigued by how this idea came from slightly left field, yet seemed to have big implications for businesses on their journey to increased efficiency. In this blog, I […]
DevOps in the Cloud: Security’s Groundhog Day
Throughout the internet age, enterprise IT has given security a lower priority than qualities such as speed-to-deployment, scalability, availability and usability. We first saw this in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when IT teams rushed applications onto the web. Amid the glee surrounding the potential of fancy new internet architectures, few thought about the […]
Dev vs. Ops Needs for Large-Scale Version Control Systems
Distributed version control systems (DVCS) such as Git (introduced in 2005 by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux) rapidly gained worldwide acceptance by the global software development community. DVCS offer very fast, lightweight and local software change control capabilities that support many parallel code branches across large project code bases. These are compelling benefits for […]