GitLab Expands Scope of DevOps Ambitions
GitLab, with the release of its 12.0 update, is extending the reach of its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform to include both cybersecurity professionals and traditional IT operations staff. John Jeremiah, senior product marketing manager at GitLab, said the goal is to provide organizations with a single CI/CD platform that unifies the management of […]
Moogsoft Advances AIOps Workflow
Moogsoft is moving to make it easier to create custom workflows around its AIOps platform while expanding the number of integrations provided to include connectors to New Relic Insights, Microsoft Teams and proxy support for polling integrations with IT platforms Zenoss, Zabbix, vCenter, vSphere, Solarwinds, Spectrum and SevOne. Gabe Coelho-Kostolny, senior product management and product […]
Pulumi Advances DevOps on AWS
Pulumi announced the availability of Pulumi Crosswalk for Amazon Web Services (AWS), an open source framework for deploying applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Company CEO Joe Duffy said Pulumi Crosswalk for AWS provides a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application through which DevOps teams can automate the deployment of applications on AWS infrastructure using software development kits […]
DevOps: What Do Governments Need to Know?
How the government can successfully implement and enforce DevOps practices The speed at which technology is being produced it outstripping the pace at which better development tools are being introduced, which makes secure development even more challenging. Unfortunately, the negligence of organizations and authorities is intensifying the issue. For this reason, organizations are adopting DevOps. […]
With RHEL 8, Red Hat Adds More Automation to IT Ops
At the Red Hat Summit 2019 conference, Red Hat today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8, which includes among other things a Smart Management add-on designed to make it easier to manage RHEL 8 across hybrid cloud computing environments. In addition, RHEL 8 includes Application Streams, a set of utilities […]
IT Operations: PagerDuty Unveils Hybrid ITSM Platform
PagerDuty today unveiled a framework intended to make it possible for organizations to bridge multiple styles of IT service management (ITSM) methodologies for IT operations. Rachel Obstler, vice president of product for PagerDuty, said PagerDuty Solution for HybridOps provides a comprehensive incident management framework capable of spanning both ITIL and DevOps processes for IT operations. […]
AIOps: Supporting Reliability at DevOps Speeds
AIOps looms large as a way to help push the DevOps envelope. How can organizations prepare? As organizations journey down the path of DevOps maturation, sustainable IT operations and IT service management remains a challenge for many. Even advanced organizations that have managed to speed up deployment rates and improve software quality struggle to maintain […]
VMware Doubles Down on IT Automation
VMware this week moved to inject application and operating system monitoring capabilities into the VMware vRealize cloud management platform to make it easier to employ dashboards to map the relationships between applications and the underlying IT infrastructure they run on. In addition, VMware enhanced its capacity optimization tools to enable IT teams to run “what […]
AppDynamics Applies AIOps to Automate IT
AppDynamics, a unit of Cisco, today announced it is melding the worlds of AIOps and application performance management (APM) with the launch of Cognition Engine. At the same time, AppDynamics is making good on a promise to integrate metrics drawn from Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), the software-defined networking (SDN) that Cisco is embedding in […]
AIOps: How to Solve Performance Issues in Complex Data Pipelines
AIOps takes center stage to topple barriers as modern data application growth accelerates There seems to be a chasm between DevOps and big data teams in the enterprise, and the bridge over that chasm is long and treacherous. In fact, data analysts who are charged with managing and making sense of the growing volumes of […]
Virtual Instruments Extends Scope of AIOps Platform
Virtual Instruments has extended the reach of its AIOps platform to add application service assurance, predictive capacity management, workload infrastructure balancing and problem resolution and avoidance capabilities. Based on a combination of machine learning, statistical analysis, heuristics and expert systems technologies, VirtualWisdom is designed to enable DevOps teams to be able to apply analytics to […]
CA Technologies Report Highlights App Modernization Paradox
The rush to modernize IT environments using microservices, application programming interfaces (APIs) and containers may very well turn out to represent something of a double-edged sword. A survey of 1,087 IT and business professionals conducted by Frost & Sullivan on behalf of CA Technologies, a unit of Brocade, finds that organizations that have modernized their […]
Survey: Rapid Automation of IT Ops Looms Ahead
The rate at which IT operations will become automated is about to accelerate significantly over the next two years. A global survey of 1,500 senior IT leaders conducted by Cisco Systems finds that 64 percent of respondents today would describe their approach to IT operations as either reactive (26 percent) or proactive (38 percent), but […]
DevOps Chat: Microclimate and IBM Cloud Private with Toby Corbin
IBM Cloud Private has cemented itself in the DevOps space as a personal cloud environment, which is great for developers who need the agility and computing power of the cloud but don’t want to step into a public cloud setting. Tony Corbin, technical lead for the Microclimate Project, describes IBM Cloud Private as “a cloud […]
Cost Per IT Ticket: Think Beyond Opex in Your Cloud Journey
Globally, organizations have embraced cloud computing and delivery models for their numerous advantages. Gartner predicts the public cloud market is expected to grow 21.4 percent by the end of 2018, from $153.5 billion in 2017. Cloud computing services provide an opportunity for organizations to consume specific services with delivery models that are most appropriate for […]
OpsRamp Extends AIOps Visibility
OpsRamp has advanced its case for AIOps via a Fall update to its software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications that adds a Topology Explorer alongside an enhanced set of Service Maps. In addition, OpsRamp added a cloud database monitoring capabilities for relational databases deployed on public clouds including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform […]
Atlassian Acquires OpsGenie to Automate Incident Management
Atlassian this week announced its plans to acquire OpsGenie as part of an effort to apply DevOps principles to incident management. The announcement was made at the Altassian Summit Europe 2018 conference. Atlassian plans to integrate OpsGenie, which provides incident alerting and communications software, with its Jira service desk software to enable organizations to automate […]
Moogsoft Extends AI Reach into IT Operations
Moogsoft, at a Moogsoft 2018 AIOps Symposium last week, extended the reach of its IT operations analytics software out to where applications are deployed, rather than requiring data to be moved into a Big Data platform. Will Cappelli, CTO and vice president of product strategy for Moogsoft, said Moogsoft Observe, available in beta, discovers anomalies […]
Artificial Intelligence: Coming to the Rescue of ITOps
According to McKinsey’s Global Institute Report of 2018, artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to create an annual value of $3.5 billion to $5.8 billion across different industry sectors. Today, AI in finance and IT alone accounts for about $100 billion; hence, it is becoming quite the game changer in the IT world. With the […]
Cloud Performance Management Needs Precedence Over APM in a Cloud World
A majority of today’s businesses follow a cloud-first strategy. DevOps engineers with these businesses prefer using infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) or cloud services from leading cloud services providers (CSPs). Given the rate at which the IT is evolving now, from on-prem to XaaS, the future seems a lot more […]
Ops: The Other DevOps
Much of the conversation around DevOps, including right here on devopsy.kinsta.cloud, 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
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
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 […]