9 Essential Ingredients for Modern Enterprise Applications
Digital transformation. It’s the latest in a series of buzz phrases intended to describe how enterprises are embarking on top-to-bottom modernization of their IT environments. It’s easy to see why it’s a hot topic. Emerging technologies including cloud, containers, microservices and distributed applications hold the promise of greater flexibility, lower cost and faster release cycles. […]
Automation: Critical Missing Pieces in the CD Puzzle
As enterprises accelerate the frequency with which they develop and release new code into production to meet the ever-mounting demands of their consumers, there’s growing pressure on networking and security operations teams to keep pace with their DevOps counterparts. And it’s not hard to see why. According to Forrester, nearly four out of five business leaders […]
Jenkins World Preview: Q&A with Jez Humble
As we approach Jenkins World, scheduled for later this month in San Francisco, we sat down with Jez Humble, author of “Continuous Delivery” and one of the best-known names in DevOps. Jez will be keynoting this year’s event, along with CloudBees CEO and founder Sacha Labourey. Here’s what he had to say. Alan Shimel: What […]
Loom Systems Extends Reach of AI into DevOps Realm
One of the things that tends to hold back adoption of DevOps are all the low-level events that need to be correlated by an engineer to generate anything that approaches actionable intelligence (AI). To eliminate that requirement, Loom Systems created a Loom AIops platform to automate many of the tasks that normally would need to […]
IBM: DevOps Challenges Require Managed Services
The DevOps complexity associated with determining which classes of application workloads are best-suited to run on certain platform types will push an increasing number of IT organizations to embrace managed services. That’s the premise put forth by IBM, which provides such a service. Steve Robinson, general manager for IBM Cloud Platform Services, says it’s becoming […]
Jenkins World: Q&A with CloudBees CEO Sacha Labourey
The Jenkins Community and DevOps professionals around the world are excited for Jenkins World, coming up in just a month, Aug. 28-31 in San Francisco. CloudBees, the hub of enterprise Jenkins and DevOps, is the lead organizer and premier sponsor of the event. We sat down with CloudBees CEO Sacha Labourey to discuss everything Jenkins […]
Yahoo7 Uses DevOps to Speed Website Redevelopment
Yahoo7 is a joint venture between Yahoo and Australian entertainment and TV company Seven West Media. Seven is one of Australia’s three major TV networks. The company has completely replaced its technology stack and is in the process of revamping its seven consumer sites to take advantage of the new platform. The first cab off […]
NetOps vs. DevOps: New Data is Enlightening
Traditionally, we have seen development—and, by extension, DevOps—as having a less-than-cordial relationship with network operations (NetOps). Since the goals of the two groups are sometimes at cross purposes—DevOps wants access to make everything run automated, and NetOps wants to control a production environment so that it is stable—we’ve naturally talked in those terms. I’m a […]
Survey: Inviting Security into DevOps Promotes Effective Agility
Two of the biggest trends in business technology are seemingly at loggerheads with one another. Many companies are under severe pressure to digitally enable their businesses. At the same time, the need for hardened application security has never been more critical than it is now. You can deliver apps quickly and you can deliver apps […]
Why Your Manager Will Want to Send You to Jenkins World 2017
Jenkins World 2017 is right around the corner. The conference will be held in San Francisco Aug. 28-31 and will be the biggest event of the year for Jenkins users, with approximately 2,000 people expected to be in attendance! You will not want to miss out on this event, full of learning and networking opportunities. […]
4 Ways to Give DevOps Teams the Support They Need
If it weren’t hard enough for IT infrastructure teams to innovate and keep the lights on, a host of technologies designed to drive efficiencies are introducing new levels of complexity across the data center. Virtualization, cloud computing, software-defined storage and digital are making it much more difficult for the infrastructure team to control, manage and […]
Move the Needle in DevOps with Continuous Testing
Shift-left testing, risk based testing, early testing and technical debt reduction are all predicted to be some of the most sought-after trends in product development life cycle. All of these can be achieved with continuous testing through DevOps, as it emphasizes quicker transitioning of quality products to production environment at a reduced business risk. Software […]
Kanban for Operations and Traffic Court
Howard stepped off the elevator and into the lobby. His eyes were puffy and felt like someone had scrubbed them with sand paper. Looking around the office, he made a beeline for the coffee machine. It was one of those fancy jobs where you use a touch screen to select all the different flavors, textures […]
The Role of QA in the DevOps World
The need for faster time to market and superior quality is getting intense in the software development process. Software trends for 2017 suggest that DevOps will grow as a trend and become more widely accepted across enterprises. Organizations are reaping the benefits of DevOps approach and are incorporating the rules within every aspect of software […]
Top 5 Reasons to Attend Jenkins World
The countdown is on! Jenkins World 2017 is coming to downtown San Francisco, Aug. 28-31, for the annual opportunity to learn about all things Jenkins, DevOps and continuous delivery. This year’s event will be held at the Marriott Marquis and will bring together approximately 2,000 Jenkins users, comprised of Jenkins experts, IT executives, DevOps practitioners […]
DevOps Assessment: Assess, Analyze, Implement, Achieve!
DevOps has taken hold in IT. A growing number of organizations are adopting DevOps to deliver applications and services at higher speed; evolve and improve products at a faster pace than in a traditional software development and infrastructure management environment; and better serve their customers. After realizing the benefits of development and operations teams working […]
Lack of Continuous Testing Mastery Slows DevOps Progress
Progress in achieving the maximum benefits to be gained from investing DevOps processes appears to be held in check by a failure to master the art of continuous testing. A new survey of 923 IT and testing professionals published this week by CA Technologies suggests that only 20 percent of the respondents could be classified […]
Pivotal Enlists Rackspace to Advance DevOps in Cloud Foundry Environments
In a sign of the level of complexity now associated with managing DevOps, Pivotal has partnered with Rackspace to create a managed services practice for its distribution of the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment. Ian Andrews, vice president of product for Pivotal, says that at least half of the company’s customers have a least one […]
Microsoft Woos Development Partners
If Microsoft has its way, many more DevOps processes will revolve around the cadence at which the company upgrades its applications. At its Inspire 2017 conference, the tech behemoth announced an ISV Cloud Embed initiative designed to entice more developers to add value by extending application functionality it has already developed and deployed in the […]
Career Lessons Learned from Top Tech Leaders
In the technology world, we are in a time of incredible disruption and innovation. Many years ago, my friend and “DevOps Handbook” co-author John Willis predicted that a decade from now, academics will call this period the “Cambrian explosion” — it was an incredibly vibrant 25-million year period that resulted in an incredible diversification of […]
appOrbit: End-to-End Hypercloud
As cloud and DevOps have heated up, enterprise need for cloud portability and deeper DevOps integration have become pretty clear. The need for portability to avoid cloud lock-in has been a desire of enterprise cloud users from day one. A variety of people are attempting to address this need, but the market is still very […]
DevOps Chat: DevOps, Cognitive, IoT & Blockchain
In this DevOps Chat we sit down with Cliff Utstein, director of Offering Management, IBM Cloud DevOps and CJ Paul, distinguished engineer and chief architect, IBM Cloud DevOps. Cliff and CJ give us some insight into how some of the biggest trends in technology today—DevOps, cognitive, IoT and blockchain—are connected. It is a great discussion […]
Sprinting in a DevOps Marathon: Tips for Success
Remember the good old days of 2007, when Heroku was the shiny toy everyone wanted? Thanks to Moore’s law and the evolution of tech, 2007 seems like a lifetime ago. In fact, 2015 seems like a lifetime ago, now that machine learning has advanced for artificial intelligence to “wake up”—but I digress. DevOps and building […]