Tag: Enterprise IT Operations

Are ERP-Centric Enterprises Being Left Behind?
Many large enterprise companies are rife with departments that depend on customized ERP software applications. These systems accommodate vital business tasks ranging from inventory management to ordering capabilities to accounting programs to ...

4 Steps to More Agile Operations
After over a year of business disruptions, modern enterprises have realized that speed and agility are the only way forward. In fact, according to Gartner’s Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2021 eBook, “Organizations that don’t focus on efficiency, ...

Documenting: Don’t Build Your Replacement’s Nightmare
Want to reduce headaches tomorrow? Document everything today About once a year I feel the need to remind you that you are creating technical debt. DevOps is good stuff, and most shops ...

Why ITOps Is Moving to the Cloud
There’s been a lot of movement in the IT operations management (ITOM) business lately, from the acquisition of SignalFx by Splunk to the PagerDuty IPO, and all signs point to a Datadog ...

Measure What’s Important: DevFinOps
Lately there seem to have been quite a few DevSomethingOps terms being coined. However, I do think we need one more: DevFinOps. Dev-What-Ops? One of the biggest problems in IT is working ...

AIOps: Managing the Second Law of IT Ops
Or, why IT systems keep breaking The tension between the two halves of DevOps is long-standing, going back long before the term was even invented. What underlies the split between Development and ...

From Waterfall Incident Management to Collaborative IT Operations
What can Ops learn from Dev in the transition from sequential, reactive IT support to real-time DevOps? One of the signature ideas of DevOps is right there in the name: the blurring ...

Dev & Ops: These Are Reconcilable Differences
The new world of IT requires a different approach from what worked in the past. As usual, the technology is the easy part, but without people and processes being aligned, it won't ...

Site Reliability Engineering: How to Make the Operations Side of DevOps Actually Work
The DevOps movement often has been accused of focusing too much on the first half (Development) and not enough on the second half (Operations). Certainly there has been more attention paid to ...

Tuning in to the real pain of customers
In my product management and marketing experience, I discovered that I carry a deep bias about our product capabilities and why it’s special -- before a launch. On a whiteboard, in a ...

Time-Sharing to Unicorns: The DevOps Problem Facing Enterprise IT
How did we in Enterprise IT get to this point? There's a lot of talking and writing about the value of adopting DevOps but very little analyzing the problem domain we're trying ...