DevOps Chats: Simplifying Digital Adoption, With WalkMe
WalkMe recently announced a funding round of $90 million, bringing its total raised to over $300 million. But according to President and Co-founder of WalkMe Raphael Sweary, the real measure of WalkMe’s success is its annual recurring revenue being more than $100 million (which it is) and whether the company is helping its customers. WalkMe’s […]
Four Ways to Modernize Processes and Measure Performance With APM
Change is everywhere and the stakes are high. For 2019, businesses are on track to spend over a trillion dollars on digital modernization, according to a recent study from IDC. A crucial part of modernization is the growing number of IT organizations using the latest in dynamic, cloud-scale technologies to develop applications. As a result, […]
The Difference Between Capacity and Scalability Planning
Not only does the tech industry love terms, we love to make them super nuanced. For example SecOps versus DevSecOps, continuous delivery versus continuous deployment, hybrid cloud versus multi-cloud, etc. These terms may seem similar on the surface, but when you dig in they are quite different. Here are two more: capacity planning versus scalability […]
Five IT Ops-tackles that Stifle Business Growth
I was recently asked about the top five IT obstacles that stifle business growth, and I want to help clear a path too often lined with fear, uncertainty and doubt. In the not-so-distant past, IT was all about the tools. Solutions were more straightforward, teams were less globally connected, and the ever-present data deluge was […]
The Role of Developers in Digital Transformation
Developers are an integral part of digital transformation. They architect the modular systems that overcome legacy and build the applications and solutions that allow firms to deliver products and services in new and innovative ways. Yet, when it comes to business decisions, many organizations overlook their developer talent. Developers come from a variety of different […]
A Developer’s Task: Minimizing Challenges Created by Fragmentation
Over the past decade, there has been a wellspring of apps, services and platforms to help developers build custom solutions for businesses. Some are great, some not so much. Regardless of quality, the quantity of options and each one’s varying level of sophistication has made it difficult for developers to separate the wheat from the […]
The 2020 Digital Leader Priorities
When it comes to digital transformation, 2020 promises to be full steam ahead as many of the trends are already well underway. However, it’ll be those businesses that can execute at the quickening rate of technological change that will set the leaders and laggards apart for the years ahead. A survey conducted earlier last year […]
Best of 2019: The Time Has Come for an Engineering Approach to DevOps
As we close out 2019, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the third in our weeklong series of the Best of 2019. Do you want to know how to do DevOps? Are you doing DevOps but not satisfied with the results you are getting? DevOps […]
Predictions 2020: Application Trends, Opportunities and Challenges
Without wheeling out all the usual clichés, 2019 has been another whirlwind of disruptive innovation and opportunity–with plenty of challenges to tackle and circumvent along the way. The threat landscape mutated with predictable unpredictability, multi-cloud app deployments are becoming mainstream fixtures and DevOps methodologies started exerting a newfound influence on business plans. The big question […]
App Mobility Is the New Use Case
Selling increased investment in DevOps is not always easy. It takes time to implement, resource away from other projects and inevitably there is cash outlay. If not done carefully, it also appears to introduce chaos, something most of us in IT strive to avoid. But the benefits, at this point, are easy to document. Plenty […]
Chief Digital Officers Driving Digital Transformation
The chief digital officer has always been a position that has struck me as a bit awkward as part chief marketing officer and part chief information officer. Since the CDO position started gaining traction about five years ago, most industry watchers have pegged it as a temporary role that would be displaced after the urgency […]
Survey Sees Massive Adoption of Microservices
Under increasing pressure to innovate faster, a majority (84%) of organizations taking part in a recent survey have already embraced microservices. The survey, conducted by Vanson Bourne on behalf of API management platform provider Kong, polled 200 senior IT leaders in organizations with more than 1,000 employees. Among the results, 89% of technology leaders agree […]
The Next Frontier for Enterprises: Moving to a Product IT Operating Model
In the world of technology, there are few things as dramatic and impactful as enterprise IT’s recent ascent from an enabler to a strategic business driver. Tasked with powering next-gen digital business models, IT teams today are fast realizing the harsh truth that they must make a pervasive strategic shift from traditional project-based operating model […]
SMBs Struggle with Digital Transformation
It’s a cliché, but it’s as true now as ever: The only constant in business is change. Digital transformation efforts are as essential for small and mid-sized businesses as they are for large enterprises—and SMBs are engaged in their transformative efforts for largely the same reasons as large enterprises: to engage more effectively with customers, […]
Predict 2020: What Will the New Year Bring?
With the holiday season upon us, our thoughts naturally turn to the next year and what it has in store for us. Will we come into more money? Will we find true happiness? Will there be better integration between DevOps and security? Will there be more Kubernetes instances? The first two may be a little […]
Becoming a Data Company: Back to the Future
Transformations are complex, and it’s often difficult to see the big picture when you’re in the middle of one. The elegance of the end-state of harmonious synergy between software and data belie the complexity and chaos of the transition we find ourselves in the midst of. Not that long ago, there was a general balance […]
The Road Ahead for Security, DevOps Transformation
Qualys hosted its Qualys Security Conference 19 this week in Las Vegas. Hundreds of attendees from around the world have gathered at the Bellagio hotel to learn more about the current state of cybersecurity and what the future has in store. As you might expect, given the technology landscape today, many of the sessions and […]
Five Tips for Solving the Technology Skills Gap
The insightful, and sometimes breathless, predictions regarding digital transformation are everywhere. We are right to be mindful of both the potential and the challenges posed by digital transformation. Digital transformation is increasing the rate of change in every business, in every line of business and even in every role. Digital transformation requires new development practices, […]
IT Enables Scale in Digital Transformation
Few corporate functions have seen their role disrupted as much as IT these last few years. The help desk days are long gone. As digital transformation accelerates, IT is becoming less about outright technology and more about creating capabilities that enable the overarching business strategy. As such, IT is the engine behind any company’s digital […]
How DevOps Is Driving the Demand for Cross-Platform Tools
The demands of modern business mean companies today want choice when it comes to the technology they deploy. Gone are the days when they rigidly used a single environment–instead they want to be able to use the best of technology from vendors and be sure it will work across environments seamlessly. Whether it’s on-premises or […]
Achieving Organizational Change Through Scaled DevOps
The rapid pace of technological change has had a major impact on customer expectation, forcing IT decision-makers to adopt agile processes to ensure the continual delivery of innovation. This has led to the mass adoption of DevOps practices, with 77% of organizations indicating they rely on DevOps to deploy software, or plan to, in the near future. […]
Becoming a Data Company: A Tale of Two Trends
Data is back, baby! Well, that seems like an odd statement. It never quite left. Nevertheless, Google’s recent acquisition of Looker and Salesforce’s acquisition of Tableau seems to highlight this mindset in magnified ways. With eyes set on new leaps in data science and artificial intelligence, it’s easy to understand how our views on data […]
Getting RPA Right the First Time
Remember when every article you read about IT focused on digital transformation (DX)? Now the broad concept of DX seemingly has taken a back seat in the headlines to a number of hot technologies. One of these, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), is frequently positioned as the new next big thing of the tech world. But […]