NASA/JPL Tech-Incubation CEO Talks Artificial Intelligence, Part II
This is the second installment of a two-part Q&A series on artificial intelligence (AI) with AJ Abdallat. It covers AI’s potential significance to computing; how AI affects jobs; the employee specializations needed to fuel AI; big data; and cultural challenges in the enterprise. Be sure to check out Part 1 as well. AJ Abdallat is […]
AI Delivering on the Business Analytics Promise
There’s a revolution underway in data analytics that could create a competitive advantage for companies that jump on it. C-suites, take note: AI-powered business analytics is finally delivering future-facing data points that CEOs need to guide their businesses to the sweet spot. The artificial intelligence (AI) technologies machine learning and deep learning are being used […]
The Impact of DevOps and Continuous Testing in 2018
At its core, DevOps is meant to touch an entire organization; however it’s heavily weighted in the software development life cycle (SDLC). That’s why DevOps is going mainstream in 2018. Companies are making the business benefits of DevOps a top priority—it’s all about delivering value to the customer faster through maximum automation of the release […]
Morpheus Data Advances DevOps Across Hybrid Clouds
Thanks to the rise of multi-cloud computing, the challenges associated with managing DevOps are becoming exponentially greater. Most IT organizations are not likely to be 100 percent sure at any given time which application workload is running where. To address that issue, Morpheus Data has added a Cross-Platform Discovery module to its Unified Ops Orchestration […]
Logz.io Extends Scope of Log Analytics Service
Log analytics is all the rage these days among IT and security professionals trying to discover the root cause of any performance issue or security breach. But there’s little consensus about how best to go about analyzing logs. Many IT organizations have made major investments in commercial platforms such as Splunk, while others prefer to […]
IPsoft’s 1Desk Advances AI Labor Force Reality
IPsoft wants to put a digital face on the future of IT operations that will be infused by artificial intelligence (AI). Its recently launched 1Desk service desk combines the Amelia digital assistant with IPsoft’s Apollo virtual engineer technology to automate multiple backend processes. Allan Anderson, director of enterprise solutions for IPsoft, says 1Desk effectively combines […]
Research Firms Agree, Cloud Growth Continues to Soar
Investment in all the various types of cloud computing has gone gangbusters in recent years, and for good reason: Cloud computing helps to cut cost, shorting time to market, provides unrivaled scale and reliability. This will only continue as enterprises continue to divest from on-premises infrastructure over the long term while seeking to scale the […]
BMC to Infuse AI Across Software Portfolio
At its recent BMC Exchange event, BMC Software announced it will be infusing machine learning algorithms and other artificial intelligence (AI) technologies across its entire portfolio of IT operations software. The first instance of BMC software to make use of machine learning algorithms is the latest version of TrueSight AIOps platform, which ingests data from […]
Machine Learning Is Working for CIOs, Vendor Survey Finds
AI’s time has finally come, if a new survey commissioned by ServiceNow is to be believed. Its results showed that nearly 90 percent of CIOs are at least dabbling with machine learning, with 53 percent calling it an area of strategic focus for their companies. What’s more, almost 70 percent of the CIOs surveyed say […]
Using AI to Automate Incident Management Sparks Debate
When it comes to incident response with an integrated DevOps environment so much depends on the ability of an IT team to respond quickly and consistently to a specific set of events. Because of that requirement, many IT organizations have invested in incident management systems that everyone in IT can consult whenever an issue arises. […]
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 Operations is a fundamental difference, like an actual physical law. Let’s explore that analogy together. IT Ops is fundamentally a constant fight against […]
New Relic Tracing Software Pinpoints Source of IT Issues
At a FutureStack 2017 conference this week, New Relic previewed an implementation of distributed tracing software that has the potential to close the war rooms where IT operations assign blame for application failure. New Relic CEO Lew Cirne says a Distributed Tracing capability that New Relic previewed this week will enable developers or IT operations […]
Automation: This Time, It’s Different
It took about 200,000 years for mankind to be able to figure out how to get an airplane to fly. The event took place Dec. 17, 1903, on a field in Kitty Hawk, N.C., when Wilbur Wright piloted the airplane he had made with his brother, Orville, into the air. The flight lasted for 12 […]
Machine Learning and ITSM: Helping Help Desks
The field of machine learning is a hot topic. We know that this type of artificial intelligence (AI) provides computers with the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. For people like me who need it in simpler terms, machine learning deals with systems that can learn from past data and experience to improve performance […]
How AI Impacts DevOps Pipelines
The rise of machine- and deep-learning algorithms is about to create some interesting data-gravity challenges for IT operations teams. Over most of the last decade IT operations teams have been caught up in a public- versus private-cloud computing debate that has mostly been species. The truth is that most organizations wind up employing both. But […]
Data Science Industry Perspectives in the Cloud
In principle, the cloud is becoming a commodity. Google, Amazon and other companies are trying to commoditize almost everything, including the instruments for data gathering, data storage and data transformation. In the near term, we should expect that platform engineering, which today is overly complex, will become simpler. With data engineering, however, the prospects of […]
Managing Complexity in Dev/Test Infrastructure Using Machine Learning
Businesses are increasingly developing software solutions that can drive innovation and digital transformation. As the number of developers increases in the organization, the ratio of developers to IT also increases over time. The net result: more dynamic and complex dev/test infrastructure requirements and slower support from IT. Developers and testers often cannot get their hands […]
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 deliver value. When evaluating how data science and machine learning can help manage highly dynamic IT environments, old reflexes may be actively harmful. By […]
The Time Is Now for an IT Operations Revolution
There’s a level of frustration starting to build inside IT operations teams that’s about to boil over. Lucas Carlson, vice president of strategy for Automic, a unit of CA Technologies that provides an IT automation platform, says developers are bullying IT operations teams by programmatically invoking application programming interfaces (APIs) exposed by public cloud service […]
Machine Learning Put to Work in the Digital Economy
IBM’s Watson already has a new retail job lined up to get a head start saving for its holiday spending this season. (Hey, even artificial intelligences appreciate buying gifts.) And Macy’s is hoping its customers appreciate its “Macy’s On Call” pilot, which combines Satisfi’s communications platform and IBM Watson cognitive technology for machine learning. Macy’s […]
Machine Learning, AI Driving DevOps Evolution
Automation is the fuel that drives DevOps. Automating routine, repeatable tasks is one of the defining characteristics of DevOps culture. As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning improve, the scope and complexity of the tasks that can be automated increases, which raises the bar for all of DevOps. The humans behind the DevOps will be […]
Avik Partner’s Grok APM Uses Machine Learning to Find Anomalies Early On
Machine Intelligence-Driven Anomaly Detection Machine learning—the science of getting computers to take thoughtful action without explicit programming—is the basis of Machine Intelligence-Driven Anomaly Detection, which is the core capability in Avik Partner’s Grok APM product, according to Casey Kindiger, veteran enterprise software solutions provider, IT automation expert, and founder of Avik Partners. “Thoughtful action means […]
How machine learning could head off security quality failure
With so many players in the mix from operations to developers, from PMs to technical leads, to Q&A, most of their activities are automated. Systems record all their email, Wiki, and chat conversations and other notations about these activities. This gives the devops community the opportunity to learn from that data in order to improve […]