Ops: The Other DevOps

July 10, 2018 by Dominic Wellington 1 Comments

Much of the conversation around DevOps, including right here on DevOps.com, is about helping developers get easier access to production systems, increasing agility by shortening release cycles. Most of the time, this focus on developers leads to a concentration on so-called “Day One” tasks, the Dev side of the equation, to the exclusion of “Day […]

CA Technologies Looks to Shift Automation Left

July 2, 2018 by Mike Vizard 1 Comments

CA Technologies, at its recent CA Automation Summit, advanced its case for leveraging automation to create a software development factory via an update to the CA Automic One automation platform that adds automation-as-code functionality. Gwyn Clay, vice president of product management for the Automation Business Unit at CA Technologies, said the latest release of CA […]

The Need for a Command Center in Managing Complex IT Operations

June 29, 2018 by Neeraj Deuskar 1 Comments

A few days ago, I was traveling from Bangalore to Mumbai. It was an overcast and wet morning so I started out early to avoid having to battle traffic and worry about the prospect of being delayed. At the airport, I checked in, went through the usual formalities and boarded the flight. I was anticipating […]

Splunk Pushes Into the Realm of DevOps

June 25, 2018 by Mike Vizard 2 Comments

On the heels of its recent acquisition of VictorOps, provider of incident management software, for $120 million, Splunk is gearing up to expand its foothold in DevOps significantly. Rick Fitz, senior vice president of IT Markets for Splunk, said the provider of widely used operational analytics software in the enterprise sees a significant opportunity to […]

Benefits and Drivers of Full-Stack Monitoring

June 21, 2018 by Lavanya Subbarayalu 1 Comments

As organizations undergo digital transformations, there is increasing need to modernize the way IT operations is managed and to deliver applications faster, while at the same time delivering business value by managing applications’ availability, performance and outages in a cost-effective way. Because outages have a huge impact on revenue, there is a growing demand for […]

Riverbed Throws Down APM Gauntlet

June 12, 2018 by Mike Vizard 1 Comments

Riverbed Technology has expanded its approach to unifying application performance management (APM) and user monitoring based on a new architecture for its SteelCentral platform, now capable of supporting tens of thousands of agents monitoring billions of transactions per day. Nik Koutsoukos, vice president of product marketing and product management for Riverbed, said auto-tuning and data […]

AppDynamics Taps into SAP Applications

May 22, 2018 by Mike Vizard 1 Comments

Application performance management (APM) is starting to be employed more widely as more organizations embrace digital business transformation. As the number of digital business processes spanning multiple applications increases, so does the need to understand what’s occurring inside both greenfield and legacy applications. In fact, at the heart of many of those digital business processes […]

Red Hat Positions PaaS as Cure to Heal DevOps Divide

May 11, 2018 by Mike Vizard 1 Comments

Red Hat is making a strategic bet that IT organizations increasingly will rely on platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments to make a broad range of distributed services available to developers, which would eliminate friction without enabling IT operations teams to maintain control. Paul Cormier, president of products and technologies for Red Hat, said IT organizations are realizing […]