The Role of Soft Skills in Building Strong DevOps Leads
As an industry, we spend a lot of time talking about the process and technology that make up a good DevOps practice. We have a strong focus on the development, IT operations, QA” and security roles. We debate tools and automation strategies. We wax philosophical about DevOps culture. What is either lacking entirely or simply […]
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 […]
OpsRamp Adds Recommendation Engine to AIOps Platform
OpsRamp added a recommendation engine to its artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) platform that makes use of predictive analytics to suggest potential actions to either improve performance or avert downtime. The OpsRamp Winter 2020 Release also adds 19 cloud monitoring integrations for Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), along […]
SaltStack Updates Enterprise IT Automation Framework
SaltStack has partnered with Tenable.io to make it possible to pull vulnerability data into the enterprise edition of its namesake IT automation framework. In addition, version 6.2 of SaltStack Enterprise now integrates with the IT operations analytics platform from Splunk to make it possible to configure the Splunk Universal Forwarder to index and analyze events […]
F5 Networks Launches Next-Gen ADC Based on NGINX
F5 Networks this week launched version 3.0 of its NGINX application delivery controller (ADC) that adds application programming interface (API) management tools, analytics and monitoring tools, a service mesh, a certificate manager, a developer portal and integrations with multiple continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platforms. Ken Bocchino, director of product management for NGINX at F5 Networks, […]
Red Hat Bolsters RHEL 8 Monitoring
Red Hat is looking to expand the number of organizations embracing best DevOps practices by expanding the monitoring capabilities included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The beta release this week of RHEL 8.2 includes an update to Performance Co-Pilot (PCP), a system performance toolkit that now includes collection agents for Microsoft SQL Server 2019 […]
Edge Computing and ITOps: Opportunities and Challenges
Edge computing is growing quickly, but IT operations need to evolve as well to effectively monitor and manage new devices, sensors, applications and data. Growing enterprise edge ecosystems should integrate and become part of centrally managed ITOM systems. Edge computing is hard to define and is running high on the hype scale. But, research and […]
LogicMonitor Acquires Unomaly to Advance AIOps
LogicMonitor this week revealed it has acquired Unomaly, a provider of tools infused with machine learning algorithms that make it easier to analyze large volumes of log data. Tej Redkar, chief product officer for LogicMonitor, said the acquisition of Unomaly will advance a previously announced AIOps initiative through which LogicMonitor will embed advanced analytics and […]
SaltStack Extends IT Automation Framework
SaltStack today added three open source modules to its portfolio that make it easier to automate the management of IT at scale. Heist is a plugin that allows organizations to create agents that will dissolve after a specific amount of time. Umbra is a plugin that gathers data streams to make it easier for machine […]
How to Use DevOps for Compliance
Picture this: You’ve been working in an organization’s IT department for a couple of years and tasks have become quite a routine. Some documentation here and there, code reviews, end-user training, routine meetings with the developers and so on. You can do literally everything with your eyes closed. Then, all of a sudden, the company […]
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 […]
DevSecOps Requires Teamwork for Success
While the manifestos surrounding the current development pipelines may differ, there is one concept that remains constant: teamwork. All the various frameworks populating the development landscape bring together teams of people to build and deliver applications. This is especially true of DevOps, which focuses on a technical culture with defined roles on a quest for […]
AIOps: The Path to Greater Resilience and Uptime
Large organizations with complex IT infrastructures are facing a significant challenge when it comes to data. The complexity is such that many IT operations teams are struggling to detect, or predict, the complex failure conditions and circumstances that can adversely impact resilience and uptime. Monitoring a multitude of systems is a complex task, as the […]
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. […]
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, […]
Chaos Engineering for ITOps
Chaos engineering (CE) is the discipline of experimenting on a system in order to build confidence in the system’s capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production. This approach is becoming commonplace in software development and operations (DevOps) practices. But how would its application extend to ITOps? CE for ITOps offers a similar framework for stress-testing […]
GitLab Outlines Scope of DevOps Ambitions
At the GitLab Commit event in New York today, GitLab launched an ambitious effort to extend the scope of its DevOps platform to provide a view into the software development life cycle for not just developers but also designers, product managers and business leaders. Fresh off raising an additional $268 million in funding, GitLab now […]
A Culture-Driven Approach to DevOps Transformation
One of the most challenging aspects of a DevOps transformation isn’t automating and overhauling technology. The biggest challenge of DevOps is changing an organization’s culture and purpose. You can’t “buy a DevOps.” DevOps demands the involvement of people, process and tools working together. Unfortunately, I’ve seen too many companies get carried away with the latest […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: BMC Software Bets on AIOps Transformation
As BMC tests the AIOps waters, the company seeks to find a balance in serving both the DevOps and ITIL populations It’s clear in the enterprise IT space that artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to play a significant role in IT operations, a phenomenon known as AIOps. Often with this level of IT disruption, new […]
Consider the Role of Programmers as Storytellers
Every time I speak with the programmers of our team in casual conversation, I ask what they’re working on. Every time, I get the same kind of answer, “I’m building a dashboard,” or “I’m optimizing a database,” or “I’m testing the user interaction.” In other words, I get the same answer as the proverbial masons, […]
DevOps Is Killing the ITOps Engineer (and That’s Bad)
In theory, DevOps is about bridging the gap between developers and ITOps teams. In practice, however, DevOps often can feel as though its real goal is to turn ITOps engineers into developers, without really requiring developers to dive head-first into ITOps work. In this article, we’ll explain why DevOps gives more glory to development work […]
HashiCorp Tools Bridge DevOps, Legacy IT Environments
At its HashiConf EU 2019 conference this week, HashiCorp extended the reach of its Terraform Enterprise tools for automating the management of IT infrastructure beyond the realm of DevOps into legacy IT environments. Via integration with the Service Catalog from ServiceNow, IT administrators working with a traditional ITIL-based framework now can invoke Terraform Enterprise to […]
How IT Engineers Can Learn DataOps
To seasoned IT engineers, DataOps may not sound very difficult. After all, if you work in IT, you know all about managing databases, provisioning data storage, moving data around and so on. How hard could DataOps be, really? The answer is, “Harder than you might think.” Even if you work frequently with data in the […]