Benefits and Drivers of Full-Stack Monitoring
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
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
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
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 […]
From One-Size-Fits-All to Custom-Fit for IT Ops
The downfall of the all-in-one IT management suite and the rise of the customized IT Ops toolchain Here is how enterprise IT Ops used to work: you would make your choice among the Big Four vendors and buy in (quite literally!) to their strategy. This meant a suite of products that came preintegrated (more or […]
Red Hat Aims to Push IT Management to the Cloud
Red Hat at the Red Hat Summit 2018 conference this week showed a technology preview of an instance of Red Hat Insights, a predictive analytics IT management application capable of identifying operations issues before they become a problem, running as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application. The instance of Red Hat Insights will be extended to apply […]
Microservices Momentum Accelerates
A global survey of 353 application development professionals conducted by Dimensional Research on behalf of LightStep, a provider of application performance management (APM) tools, finds a full 86 percent of respondents expect microservices to be the default architecture within five years. A total of 60 percent of respondents said they already have microservices in production […]
Dell EMC Bets on Machine Learning to Drive IT Agility
Dell Technologies announced it is infusing machine learning algorithms across its portfolio of server and storage infrastructure to optimize the performance of each individual application using artificial intelligence (AI). At the Dell Technologies World 2018 conference, the Dell EMC arm of Dell Technologies announced it has joined the Intel AI Builders program. Dell EMC and […]
NGINX Extends Microservices Ambitions
NGINX has extended the reach and scope of a namesake application platform that the company is positioning as a bridge between legacy applications and emerging microservices architectures. The NGINX Application Platform now includes NGINX Unit 1.0, an open source application server designed to simplify microservices across multiple application types simultaneously using a single instance of […]
VMware Adds Analytics to Automate IT Operations Based on Intent
VMware is moving to make it easier for organizations to automate data centers and public cloud based on its core hypervisor technology by injecting advanced analytics into its VMware vRealize Suite, enabling them to manage IT environments based on intent rather than having to manually manage every process themselves. At the core of those update […]
DevOps Chat: The State of Alerting & On-Call Survival for IT Ops, with OnPage CEO Judit Sharon
In this DevOps Chat we sit down with Judit Sharon, CEO of OnPage. OnPage has been providing alerting and incident management services primarily to the healthcare industry since before DevOps was called DevOps. As DevOps has exploded on the scene, the security and functionality built into OnPage was a perfect fit for IT Ops and […]
When IT Disaster Strikes, Part 3: Conducting a Blameless Post-Mortem
In the first and second parts of this three-part series, we looked at how organizations can effectively resolve incidents and the role of each person involved in the resolution process. In this final piece, we’ll look at what organizations must do post-incident to better understand what went wrong and learn from their response. At the […]
The State of IT Ops
In our most recent article, we highlighted some of the results of our recent IT Ops survey. We noted, for example, that 80 percent of IT teams are alerted to critical events via email and 41 percent of teams are experiencing excessive alerts. These stats go a long way to explaining why IT Ops is […]
HashiCorp Adds Terraform Workflow Tools for IT Ops
HashiCorp this week moved to templatize automating IT operations by making it easier to share Terraform configuration files which make it simpler to programmatically invoke infrastructure that exposes application programming interfaces (APIs) without knowing how to code. Available in an on-premises edition or as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application, HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise is intended for use […]
Focusing on the Real Value of AI for IT Ops
In all the hype over AI, let’s concentrate on the real value it can provide, especially for busy IT Ops teams. 2018 is already shaping up to be the year when AI and machine learning (ML) go mainstream—at least in terms of public awareness, if not yet of actual usable products. As I write this, […]
The State of Alerting in the IT Ops world
OnPage Corp. just finished a survey of more than 100 ITOps professionals from across the United States. Our goal was to acquire a greater understanding of how well engineers in the industry are performing when it comes to critical alerting and alert management of their IT teams. We wanted to understand the antecedents of alert […]
Making Software Maintenance Cool Again with DevOps
What makes DevOps so important? Part of the answer lies in how DevOps encourages more appreciation for and investment in software maintenance. Traditionally, the IT industry has been like the construction industry. People who design new things (architects or software developers) are at the top of the value hierarchy, whereas the folks who build and […]
What Developers Want, and How to Give It to Them
Software is at the core of every modern business, and software-driven companies are disrupting most traditional industries. As the demand for rapid delivery in digital services grows, companies are looking for ways to release products and upgrades in weeks instead of months, or in days instead of weeks. Many DevOps groups are adopting the continuous […]
Now is the Time for Full-Stack Operations
The idea of “full-stack developers” is becoming a fairly common one, although it is still widely contested. But what about full-stack operations? There are cycles in the IT industry, and if you wait long enough, you can see the same ideas swing in and out of favor. Business applications used to be fairly monolithic, and […]
Nutanix Extends DevOps Ambitions
Nutanix at its .NEXT Europe conference has signalled its ambitions now extend into the realm of DevOps. The company announced it will make available an Acropolis Compute Cloud (AC2) and an Acropolis Object Storage Service on top of its Enterprise Cloud OS software that creates an instance of a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform that can […]
Building a Services and IoT Platform with DevOps, Part 3
Business needs and IoT demands are taking new dimensions in connecting millions of devices, people, process, tools and systems. With endless possibilities of creating new IoT solutions, DevOps teams are the key players who handle the challenges in successfully rolling out a IoT solution while handling the business, development, operations and infrastructure demands in the […]
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 out the cost of IT. Left unchecked, IT will expand to fill whatever budget it is given. This may mean evermore involved business […]
Operations Management Puts the ‘Ops’ in DevOps
Awareness and anticipation of operational management, best practices can improve your app at every stage of its life cycle How important or interesting you find the “operations management” aspects of DevOps methodologies likely depends on your background, experience and how many operational horror stories you have lived through. If you have been on the hot […]