DevSecOps: Security Needn’t be Sacrificed for Speed
With the right practices, security needn’t be an impediment to continuous development and rapid improvement. The same cycle keeps repeating, according to IT security and risk management consultancy Sense of Security co-founder and CTO Murray Goldschmidt. A new technology is hyped, leading to rapid adoption, but security is left as an afterthought. It happened with […]
CA Technologies Extends DevOps Push
At its CA World 2017 conference this week, CA Technologies moved to tighten the integration between the various elements of its DevOps portfolio acquired over the last year and unveiled CA Digital Experience Insights, an analytics-infused monitoring tool delivered via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. The company also announced an instance of the CA Microservices Gateway […]
6 Must-Haves When Using Chat for Incident Management
Over the last few years, teams have realized the benefits of sharing and distributing knowledge in chat applications such as Slack. Today, teams are extending the use of these applications beyond collaboration by embracing ChatOps. ChatOps empowers teams by bringing complex day-to-day operational work into shared chat channels. If done correctly, it drastically reduces context […]
SAP Adds SDK to ERP Cloud Service
When most IT organizations think about DevOps it’s usually within the context of custom application development. But thanks to the rise of application programming interfaces (APIs), packaged applications are now becoming a much bigger factor. SAP, for example, just made available a software development kit (SDK) for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, an instance of its ERP […]
Top 5 Best Practices for DevOps Monitoring
Today organizations are required to deliver on higher levels of customer satisfaction for their online services. Many, however, are forced to support these initiatives with an interrupt-driven approach as they react to fix things after they break. However, for a more proactive approach and to manage expected high levels of SLAs, organizations can opt to […]
Automation and Its Impact on Cultures
Let me tell you about my granddaughter. She’s 14 years old and wicked smart. For a while we did pair programming together online in Python. In the old days you took your grandkids fishing. Today we code. Go figure. These days, we don’t program together as much. She’s too busy preparing for math competitions. As […]
Gene Kim, DOES17 Speakers Discuss the Deployment Age
In a special episode of Electric Cloud’s Continuous Discussions (#c9d9), Gene Kim and speakers from the upcoming DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco (DOES17) discussed the deployment age, and how DevOps practices and automation can unburden teams and boost productivity. The panel included: Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop; Robin Yeman, fellow at Lockheed Martin; Courtney Kissler, […]
MongoDB Addresses Host of DevOps Issues
At its MongoDB Europe conference this week, MongoDB updated its open-source document database with the addition of MongoDB Ops Manager to simplify management of distributed instances of version 3.6 of its database. In addition, the company has added a capability that enables all updates to the database to be automatically reflected in the application in […]
Nutanix Extends DevOps Ambitions
Nutanix at its .NEXT Europe conference has signalled its ambitions now extend into the realm of DevOps. The company announced it will make available an Acropolis Compute Cloud (AC2) and an Acropolis Object Storage Service on top of its Enterprise Cloud OS software that creates an instance of a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform that can […]
AT&T Democratizes Acumos Code for AI
AT&T and India IT outsourcing company Tech Mahindra announced that code the companies jointly developed to drive artificial intelligence (AI) applications is being contributed to the Linux Foundation. Mazin Gilbert, vice president of advanced technology for AT&T Labs, says the goal of Acumos is to not only democratize access to AI software, but also consume […]
How to Succeed with DevOps by Outsourcing Software Development
The DevOps journey can be successful when you use offshore outsourcing software partners, but it requires careful attention from your IT leaders. The old saying, “The only constant is change,” has never been more true for software development, whether your company is a SaaS provider or a manufacturer of discrete products that rely heavily on […]
Puppet CEO Sanjay Mirchandani Reflects on a Year at Puppet
As Mike Vizard detailed, this year’s Puppet Conference featured an impressive lineup of new products and services brought to market. The company appears to be firing on all cylinders. The event also marked the first anniversary of Sanjay Mirchandani as Puppet CEO. I had a chance to sit down with him to review the past […]
Node.js Foundation Embraces HTTP/2
The latest version of Node.js will significantly increase the DevOps challenges surrounding the most widely used version of JavaScript in the enterprise. Node.js 8 adds the ability to support HTTP/2, a major revision of the core internet protocol that, in addition to being significantly faster, enables developers to make multiple requests over a single connection […]
DevOps in the Age of Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is one of the hottest buzzwords in the technology industry today. While it tends to be overused, the term does represent a widespread, ongoing movement that will set a standard for the next generation of enterprises. Digital transformation is all about keeping up with the pace of innovation and using technology to achieve […]
Building a Services and IoT Platform with DevOps, Part 3
Business needs and IoT demands are taking new dimensions in connecting millions of devices, people, process, tools and systems. With endless possibilities of creating new IoT solutions, DevOps teams are the key players who handle the challenges in successfully rolling out a IoT solution while handling the business, development, operations and infrastructure demands in the […]
Case Study: DevOps Key to AWS Cloud Migration
DevOps practices halved the time it took this SaaS company to migrate to AWS Australia-based Whispir provides communications applications as a service. One of its goals is to get products into users’ hands as soon as possible, and that requires development, operations and product staff working together, said Jonathan Swift, head of product and operations. […]
Survey Finds DevOps Teams Under Increasing Pressure
The fact that a much larger percentage of companies now recognize they are software companies that happen to specialize in a specific vertical industry is now putting a lot of pressure on developers, according to a new survey of 750 development team leaders in the United States and the UK conducted by Testplant, a provider […]
3 Practical Steps to Employing DevOps
Everyone seems to be talking about DevOps but, if you are new to it, it might all seem a little overwhelming. One of the hardest things about DevOps is knowing where to begin. This is because to “do DevOps” its seems you have to suddenly start using a lot of new processes and tools at […]
Akamai Gives DevOps Teams More Control
When most DevOps teams think about platforms, it’s usually a conversation about some form of software sitting on a server in a data center. But many web and mobile applications employ a content delivery network (CDN) as the platform on which they depend most to run. Akamai Technologies is moving to provide DevOps teams with […]
Standardizing a Process that Drives Secure-By-Design
In “Building Security into Code + Culture,” I described how our culture of coding is predicated on chaos, and the critical challenge for organizations is to establish the right mix of processes and tools that support a smarter, risk-based approach to development. A key aspect of this strategy is, of course, to implement a sense […]
Building a Services and IoT Platform with DevOps, Part 2
BCG’s latest IoT market research finds that predictive maintenance, automated inventory and self-optimizing production are some of the top use cases driving the need to build internet of things (IoT) platforms by 2020. As we think of building IoT solutions, it’s important to have a deep understanding of the business-level considerations and architectural design-level considerations […]
Testing’s Role in Delivering Digital Transformation
“We have a quality philosophy now…but it took the rise of the middle child to make it happen.” Ann Lewis, ExxonMobil Ann Lewis’ metaphor of testers being the “middle child” between software development and IT operations was present throughout Accelerate 2017, Tricentis’ annual user conference. Nearly every head in the room nodded as Lewis described […]
The Need for Speed Demands New-Era APM
Applications have become the primary conduit by which customers experience a brand, making the application experience critical to business success. As such, continuous delivery and highly available systems that deliver optimal end user experiences at lightning speed have become top priorities for organizations. Modern IT is all about speed, efficiency and customer experience. Simply put, […]