Cloud Native Tracing and Observability: Why You Care
Is observability the new monitoring? Or is observability, and tracing, fundamentally different? Like any IT industry trend, it can be difficult to discern as many jump on the trend bandwagon, appropriately or not. The Splunk .conf 2019 event presented Splunk with the opportunity to bring clarity to the terms and the reasoning behind the acquisitions […]
The Role of Containers in Business Transformation
Containers hold new promise for business and digital transformation. Yet many differences exist between monitoring containers and monitoring other elements of infrastructure, such as VMs, storage, memory and compute. Understanding those differences is vital for ITOps managers as they navigate their businesses’ digital transformation. Interestingly, the differences are as much technical as they are organizational. […]
Legacy Databases Are Holding Back Enterprise Digital Transformations
As enterprises rush to digitize their business operations and enhance customer engagement, few are seeing the success they hoped. A recent survey points to a couple of culprits, including the difficulty of utilizing data held in legacy databases. The survey, conducted by market research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf of Couchbase, of 450 heads of […]
What is so Special About AIOps for Mission Critical Workloads?
As the wave of digitization sweeps more enterprises with each passing day, the threats posed to organizations, particularly IT organizations, have never been more complex and pressing. With cybercrime statistics, including those for more targeted crimes (such as phishing) pointing towards an alarming frequency of attacks, the stakes for securing enterprises have been higher. However, […]
Low-Code Meets DevOps: A Smart Way to Manage Modern App Delivery Demands
In a fast-moving and often fiercely competitive marketplace, companies need to embrace technology to stay relevant and drive growth. To this end, the business community is increasingly placing a high priority on digital transformation. In fact, more than 80% of organizations believe that digital transformation is crucial to business success. Digitally driven processes can power […]
Building Effective Digital Transformations
Enterprises have reportedly spent upwards of $5 trillion on their digital transformation efforts, yet they’re also not hitting their objectives. In fact, in many industries, such as banking, health care and utilities, only half of organizations are keeping pace with their digital transformation expectations. According to Joe Garber, global head of strategy and solutions at […]
The Secret to Digital Transformation is Human Connection
We know digital transformation is no longer an option for today’s organizations–it’s a requirement. End-users have come to expect an easy, digital-native experience, whether they are ordering a pizza or automating an entire network infrastructure, which is why businesses and governments are throwing trillions of dollars at new technologies and related services. Organizations must build […]
Before We Burn the Martech Silo
There’s an ongoing debate about where marketing technology (martech) should sit in an organization. Does it live with the CMO, the CIO, the CXO–a hybrid strategist with both IT and marketing background–or some collaboration? As technology use grows, it’s tempting to move martech under another role. Before we burn the martech silo, like how McDonald’s, […]
The Bedrock of Digital Transformation
Trends come and go. I’m old enough to have been persuaded, twice, about the good sense of flared jeans. I had a space hopper. I had a Betamax video player. Fads and cool ideas are a constant white noise, vying for our attention. Some will stick, some won’t. And that’s true in technology. No-one admits […]
The Barriers to Robotic Process Automation, Part 2
Enterprises are rushing to embrace robotic process automation (RPA) but, as we covered in The Barriers to Robotic Process Automation, Part 1, they’re also hitting considerable challenges along the way. While we cited prominent barriers to the effective implementation of RPA in part one, here, we will provide practical ways organizations can overcome these barriers. […]
Successful Transformation: Challenge the Status Quo
If enterprises are going to succeed in their digital transformations, they need to be able to shake-up and challenge the status quo within their organizations. In fact, not being able to challenge the status quo is one of the biggest barriers to successful digital transformations. Yet, challenging the status quo is always a risky move […]
Leadership Drives Digital Transformation Success
When it comes to near-term survival, organizations know they are fighting for their digital existence. Still, despite 80% of organizations moving forward with their digital transformation efforts, very few have experienced the heights of success they hoped. In Digital Transformation: Coming from Behind, we reported consultancy McKinsey & Company found less than one-third of digital […]
Fujitsu: State of Digital Transformation Is…Mixed
According to the Fujitsu Future Insights Global Digital Transformation Survey Report 2019, nearly 90% of companies in a recent survey are already deep into their digital transformation efforts. While the survey did find broad movement toward digital transformation, there existed wide differences in the progress of transformation across industries. If digital transformation progress were a […]
Relentless Automation: The Roadmap to Success
As digital transformation continues to shape organization-wide initiatives, CIOs are recognizing the benefits and value of automation in reducing errors and process variability, leading to lower operating risks and faster execution and innovation. In fact, according to Gartner’s recent report, by 2023, 40% of I&O teams will use AI-augmented automation in large enterprises, resulting in […]
Aim to Be a Top 12% Global Testing Team
We know that you’re thinking, “Really? Another fluff post about the top people in my profession and what I need to do to be just like them?” Listen, we hear you, but this is not some fluff piece with vague ideas of what might (or might not) work. In case you missed it, on May […]
Digital Transformations Fall Short, Survey Claims
What is the nature of digital transformation? Is it a permanent shift in the digitization of business processes, or a race to a known destination? Should organizational investments in data analytics, continuous software development, business processes, culture, machine learning and shifting enterprise technology from a perspective of ownership and control to consumption be judged from […]
Digital Transformation Drives C-Suite Discord
In the sport of rowing, each crew member has to row in synchrony or the boat risks undesired turns and even potential tipping. It takes practice, communication and discipline for each crew member to raise their oar to the appropriate height and apply the appropriate power. Obviously, those crews who work best together are more […]
Collaboration Inside and Out for Innovation
Across all industries today, organizations increasingly are migrating their infrastructures to the cloud in a bid to boost agility, lower the cost of IT ownership and reduce the risk of outages. Firms are under more pressure than ever before to innovate new products to keep up with newer, more agile firms. But before they can […]
The Bumpy Rise of the Tech-Savvy CFO in Healthcare Organizations
The good news? The working relationship between technology leadership and financial officers in health systems organizations is improving. The bad news? Chasms between finance and IT remain, and they are common throughout health systems providers. Market Research firm Black Book Research recently found, in its “2019 Black Book CFO & Financial Leadership Survey,” that chief […]
Developers Have More in Common With Marketers Than They Think
Marketing professionals and developers together are critical in advancing customer experience More than a decade ago, in the early age of digital transformation, industry analysts and insiders began discussing the need for an increased focus on the collaboration between CTOs, CIOs and CMOs to achieve business goals. It was determined that CMOs would spend more […]
DevOps Chat: ‘War, Peace & IT’ With Marc Schwartz
Marc Schwartz is one of those rare individuals who is not only a great IT exec, but he also can analyze what works and doesn’t work and write it up in a way that helps others. His “A Seat at the Table” is still one of my favorite DevOps books. Marc’s new book is called, […]
How Not to Sabotage Your Multi-Cloud Strategy
The immense pressure for enterprises to deliver new applications and insights that exploit new business opportunities has been a driving force for digital transformation. This, in turn, has led IT leaders to embrace a multi-cloud strategy—whether that’s deploying a combination of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and Google, or extending private data centers to […]
The Human Value in Automation-Driven DevOps Testing
Enterprises are embracing DevOps underpinned by automation to ensure the quality of software across all digital touchpoints. In fact, automation has become the crux of continuous integration and delivery, the vital DevOps testing goals. Without automation, DevOps would become a distant dream, and businesses would struggle to keep pace with seamless delivery and integration. However, […]