Report: Confidence in Digital Transformation Lacking
Results of a recent survey conducted by the Corporate Board Member Institute shows a majority of respondents see their organizations’ digital transformation efforts aren’t keeping pace with the current business environment. The survey polled more than 200 directors of public companies in February, before the global COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States, and the results […]
How DevOps Tools Are Contributing to Automation Initiatives Across the IT Landscape
Prolific advancements in IT, specifically in agile methods and culture over the years, has led to burgeoning needs for a more holistic end-to-end software delivery approach. Agile development is an umbrella term that encompasses numerous incremental and iterative software development practices — including Kanban, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Lean Development, among […]
How DevOps Powered by AI and Machine Learning Is Delivering Business Transformation
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is fundamentally changing the way we think about DevOps. Most notably, it is delivering a new form of DevOps that recognizes the need to have systems that are intelligent by design and underpinned by comprehensive security (DevSecOps). For many, this will be the crucial next […]
Surviving Through the New Normal
As enterprises move from the first phase of the pandemic to the reopening phase, they’re going to have to determine what tech investments going forward will provide the most value in the their new normal. Emad Georgy, founder and CTO at consulting firm Georgy Technology Leadership, said that while overall tech spending will remain down, […]
5 Reasons Your Legacy IT Management Tools Are Holding You Back
Even before the onset of a global pandemic, IT professionals were coming to the conclusion that their legacy tools were no longer fit for the demands of today’s modern organizations. Their tools have likely met the needs they were originally purchased for, but chances are they’re insufficient to help organizations grow, innovate and move their […]
LogicMonitor Releases IT Downtime Detection and Mitigation Study
Although 99.999% availability may be IT’s ambition, it’s far from reality. In March 2019, Google’s Gmail experienced a 4.5-hour global outage. In the same month, Facebook suffered a 14-hour outage, its most massive outage to date, crippling app-accessibility worldwide. Downtime and low availability will likely occur to all systems eventually, especially when introducing code changes. […]
Digital Transformation Is More About a BizDevOps Culture than Tech
Digital transformation is top of mind for every organization now. The problem is, many of these organizations take the phrase too literally and think it’s all about adopting new technical capabilities and tools. Tech is certainly a part of it, but real digital transformation is also about changing company cultures and ways of working. Tech […]
The Way Forward: Digital Resiliency Wins
As we wrote in Digital Transformation: Digitally Resilient Organizations, digitally resilient enterprises have built themselves business-technology platforms that are elastic, agile and can correctly position themselves to securely meet current business demands. These enterprises are also constantly learning from their data and adjusting as markets, workforce and customers demand. These enterprises have also eliminated the […]
Embracing the Journey to Public Cloud
One of the fascinating competitions in today’s business world is the one between the digital disruptors—companies whose business vision is rooted in technology and driven by the cloud—and the so-called incumbents. One sector where this competition is particularly intense is financial services. In this sector, the digital-first companies typically don’t compete with banks and other […]
Coronavirus Economic Shutdown: Analysts Hit the Brakes on Global IT Spending Estimates
By most accounts, 2020 was set to be a pretty good year for U.S. gross domestic product and enterprise IT budgets. That was before the novel coronavirus, and the subsequent economic shutdown that is designed to blunt its spread and avoid overwhelming the nation’s health system. Analysts are now slashing their economic growth rates and […]
Laying the Foundation for a Successful Digital Future
Digital infrastructure is under mounting pressure from a variety of powerful technology trends. Whether that pressure stems from DevOps, the cloud, AI, mobile or big data, almost every organization is looking to the future with an eye on modernizing their mission-critical IT systems. Unfortunately, the challenge of future-proofing IT infrastructure is often exacerbated by the […]
How to Build Creativity into Distributed DevOps Teams
Today, more people than ever work remotely or are part of distributed teams. The DevOps world is no different. While working remotely has definite advantages, it also poses distinct challenges for teams trying to build strong internal cultures, coordinate product launches and hit shipping deadlines. It’s not enough to just slot in a communications app […]
How to Compare and Contrast APIs to Improve DevOps Processes
The cloud is driving digital transformation, from web applications to mobile applications, from partner integrations to API monetization. Even custom applications are moving into the cloud. If you draw a line through all these trends, APIs would be at the heart of it all. We know we need to eat our vegetables to keep our […]
EP 6: How to Lead a DevOps Transformation
Is C-level support required to have a successful digital transformation? In the sixth episode of DevOps Unbound streaming broadcast on TechStrong TV and DevOps.com’s sister site Digital Anarchist, Mitchell Ashley of ASG and Alan Shimel are joined by Eveline Oehrlich of the DevOps Institute, Louise McCarthy of Bain & Company and Mark Settle, author of “Truth from the Valley, A Practical Primer on IT Management for the Next Decade,” to discuss DevOps and digital transformation at the C level.
Digital Transformation Efforts Hindered by Lack of Upskilling
There’s no digital transformation without a staff transformation. The people skills that helped bring successful enterprises to where they are today won’t be the skills that will make them successful tomorrow. Fortunately, Leadership Suite readers are well aware at how important it is for the success of their organizations to close the gaps between the […]
A Deep Dive Into AI for IT Operations
Traditional IT administration and management techniques are reforming. By employing artificial intelligence (AI), IT operations are taking an interesting turn in the field of advancements. The term “AIOps” stands for Artificial Intelligence for the IT Operations. AIOps uses AI techniques and algorithms to monitor the data as well as reduce the blackout times. The dominance […]
Challenges with the Rapid Adoption of Cloud-Native Technologies
To keep pace with the ever-changing digital landscape, today’s enterprises are trying to move to the cloud as fast as possible. As more and more companies move toward implementing cloud native and open source technologies to enable agility and increased time-to-value, the operational impacts to the business can be significant. While these challenges can cause […]
Survey Finds IT Modernization Efforts Reap Significant Benefits
When it comes to the state of IT, few questions weigh more substantially on the minds of CIOs and other business-technology leaders than the degree of success they see in their digital transformation efforts, and foundational to that their efforts to modernize their technology stack. In a survey recently released by market research firm IDG, […]
Why Enterprise Survival Depends on a Context Driven Approach to Data
Enterprises are sitting on an enormous amount of data that could be fueling their automation journey. Much of the information needed to run a business is existing data. However, much of an organization’s data is inaccessible and unsearchable. This so-called “dark data” is hidden away in paper forms, spreadsheets, emails and literally billions of PDF […]
What Makes Digital Transformation a Success?
Despite more than $5 trillion having been spent on digital transformation efforts, survey after survey shows that successful digital transformations are far and few in-between. By many estimates, more than 50% of digital transformation efforts failed in recent years. While a recent survey conducted by Hanover Research and commissioned by AHEAD, the State of Enterprise […]
The Definition of Faster in the Age of App Capital
Businesses want speed. One of the impacts of digital transformation—and the associated pressure to succeed in an app economy—is the desire to move at speed. Nearly half (48%) of organizations are driven by digital transformation to deploy faster according to our State of Application Services 2019. But it’s not all about deployment. It’s also about […]
Survey: Internal IT Teams Embrace ‘DevOps Inspired’ Processes
The “2020 State of Application Services” survey published today by F5 Networks suggests more IT organizations than ever are adopting some elements of DevOps principles to manage an increasingly diverse application portfolio. Based on a global survey of 2,600 IT professionals, the report finds 63% of organizations still place primary responsibility for application services within […]
Cloud Center of Excellence: Pivot for Enterprise Digital Transformation
Across industry verticals, enterprise cloud adoption has increased significantly. Enterprises are leveraging cloud models to transform applications, infrastructure and operations. According to a survey by LogicMonitor, 83% of enterprise workloads will be in the cloud by 2020. This, however, is also giving rise to concerns across areas such as security, cost management, compliance, governance, lack […]