DevOps and Agile are Changing Automation in Business Processes

Source- cioreview.com The traditional Waterfall model has evolved into an agile process over the years. Agile processes have allowed software development teams to work in shorter sprints. Also, it has allowed the agile development and testing teams to work simultaneously on each module. The short sprints of agile scrum approach have helped the development team to work on client feedback and fix bugs found by the testing teams. Agile Scrum has also ensured on-time product delivery. DevOps is a set of

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The Importance of Instant Feedback in Analytics

Source- devops.com A feedback loop is essential for every part of the modern DevOps environment. From continuous integration and deployment to application development to infrastructure monitoring to team dynamics, feedback is the most important piece of the DevOps puzzle. But feedback is of little to zero value if it is not timely. And in the modern development world, that means instant or as near to instant as possible. In the past, prior to the current world of web and mobile development,

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What Is AIOps & Why It Is The Future Of IT Operations

Source- analyticsindiamag.com The term AIOps which means “algorithmic IT operations” was coined by a research firm refers to the integration of analytics and machine learning for scaling and improving various IT operations. AIOps is positioned as a continuous integration and continuous deployment for core IT functions and has two main components — big data and ML. It denotes a shift from siloed data to a more dynamic business environment which will be crucial for digital transformation. AIOps platforms are popularly defined as software

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GitHub’s Actions Challenge Traditional CI Vendors

Source- forbes.com In the week since GitHub announced its new Actions capability, I’ve been speaking with developers and colleagues about the implications. There is no doubt that Actions was the most significant announcement at this year’s Universe conference, held in San Francisco, CA. It was met with considerable enthusiasm from those present, even taking into account the boosterism from the more committed GitHub employees present. In essence, Actions provide a mechanism for developers to write event handlers in a language of

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Important Practices for DevOps in the Cloud

Source- bdaily.co.uk Distributed computing and DevOps are two parts of the mechanical move which are totally indivisible. The point of DevOps is to streamline advancement with the goal that the necessities of the clients can make it into application generation while the cloud offers robotization to the way toward provisioning and scaling so application changes should be possible. The greatest test in managing the two is that IT experts honing DevOps in the cloud commit such a large number of errors

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DevOps is Now in the Driver’s Seat to Innovate and Win

Source- dqindia.com NetApp, the data authority for hybrid cloud, announced updates to Trident, its automated provisioner solving the persistent storage challenge for containers, a new verified architecture for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on NetApp HCI, as well as enhanced flexibility for DevOps on both NetApp Cloud Volumes for Google Cloud Platform and NetApp Cloud Volumes for AWS. The announcement follows NetApp’s recent acquisition of StackPointCloud, an advanced Kubernetes-as-a-service platform that directly supports the application orchestration capabilities across clouds. Following the acquisition, NetApp launched

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DevOps is Failing, But Here’s How to Succeed

Source- devops.com As the Data Economy continues to gain momentum, many companies have turned to DevOps in hopes of achieving agility and velocity to compete and win. Whereas it’s no secret that DevOps can have a major impact on agility, what’s not widely known is that most DevOps projects actually fail. In fact, a simple search of “DevOps failures” returns a range of recent results from minor issues to major fiascos. So, what are the warning signs that an initiative is

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You can now measure DevOps ROI

Source- devopsonline.co.uk An age-old problem in DevOps is how to establish measurable DevOps ROI. DevOps solution provider, Puppet, has released its new product, Insights, which provides data and analysis from DevOps processes that can be used to help companies understand the business value of DevOps. Measuring things such as sales pipeline velocity, win rates, and deal size are tried and tested methods business leaders use to tell them what’s going on in their sales cycle. Tools, such as Salesforce, make this kind of

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DevSecOps: Focus training on 3 key areas

  Source- enterprisersproject.com DevOps, with its fast and frequent release cycles, is the new environment that organizations need to contend with in order to stay competitive in the market. It is especially challenging when security considerations come into play since developers don’t often have secure coding expertise and since security practices traditionally stall release cycles. Despite its necessity, establishing a DevSecOps environment in an organization is no simple feat; it is a complicated, multi-layered process, and much of its success relies on the reinforcement of strong

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Machine learning now the top skill sought by developers

Source- zdnet.com Developers want to learn the data sciences. They see machine learning and data science as the most important skill they need to learn in the year ahead. Accordingly, Python is becoming the language of choice for developers getting into the data science space. Those are some of the takeaways from a recent survey of more than 20,500 developers conducted by SlashData. The survey shows data science and machine learning to be the top skill to learn in 2019. These will be

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What are the primary use cases for VM deployment automation?

Source- searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com To keep up with ever-increasing resource demands, use VM deployment automation to launch and configure VMs quickly and predictably. Virtualization can improve resource utilization and enhance workload management, but the diversity and volume of virtualization processes can make it difficult to manually support virtualization. VM deployment automation can add speed and consistency to VM workload provisioning, deployment and management. Automation offers two principal benefits for any task: speed and consistency. Automation enables you to complete repetitive — and often complex

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Adobe Looks to Drive DevOps Adoption via the Cloud

Source- devops.com Adobe has been building out a managed service that includes continuous integration/continuous development capabilities on the Adobe cloud service. Now Adobe is extending the DevOps processes enabled by its CI/CD platform to make them more customizable in addition to expanding the scope of the application development tools it provides to include support for single page application (SPA) JavaScript frameworks. Haresh Kumar, director of strategy and product marketing for mobile and connected experiences at Adobe, said DevOps processes are now an integral

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Google showcases power of the cloud for Thai enterprises

Source- nationmultimedia.com Tim Synan, head of Google Cloud, Southeast Asia, said the event was aimed at bringing the power of Google Cloud to Thai businesses of all sizes and helping them provide specialised solutions through different platforms and devices. The summit highlighted the urgency for businesses to take on new challenges and move towards the cloud. “Cloud computing technology is about speed, agility, collaboration, awareness and transparency, with machine learning underpinning everything,” Synan said. “We have big plans for the future

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Automation: One of the keys to DevSecOps

Source- securityboulevard.com Automation is one of the keys to consistent and meaningful AppSec adoption in an evolving world. Many organizations have taken the first step in integrating their development and operations teams to drive more efficient delivery of applications and innovation to the market. They have come a long way by aligning around the shared goal of delivering stable, high-quality software quickly. One way they are achieving these efficiencies is through automation. Automation in DevOps By automating manual processes and building

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Time to get your head in the cloud!

Source- devopsonline.co.uk As part of a specialist DevOps and cloud consultancy that helps organisations to use public cloud securely and professionally throughout their cloud journey, I’ve seen the importance of working closely with companies to define their public cloud strategy and governance model, build secure core-infrastructure, enable DevOps teams and migrate data centres. With this in mind, the crucial mission at hand is to help organisations accelerate their time-to-value from the cloud, by designing, building, and optimising their infrastructures in the

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Pentagon Cloud Computing Deal Could Give Amazon Monopoly

Source- investors.com Good news for Amazon.com employees is not necessarily good news for everyone else. For example, consider the announcement that Amazon.com will now pay at least $15 per hour. That may be great for current employees, but it’s bad for any smaller companies that hope to compete with Amazon on price. Amazon has a history of cutting prices to dominate a developing space, then using its massive market power to block others from even entering. That’s why it opposed internet sales taxes for

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Docker And Kubernetes: Furthering The Goals Of DevOps Automation

Source- forbes.com Containers are a hot topic, yet production usage remains low, according to Gartner, with most enterprise container adoptions in an early phase. A recent survey by Diamanti backs this up, finding that while almost half (47%) of the IT leaders it surveyed plan to deploy containers in a production environment, only 12% have already done so.   Despite this low adoption, the hype is for good reason, as containers can make a significant impact on development and production environments, infrastructure cost and time

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Spinnaker is the next big open source project to watch

Source- techcrunch.com Spinnaker is an open source continuous delivery (CD) platform from Netflix and Google, though it now also has the backing of other major software companies. Spinnaker  1.0 launched last July, so it’s not the newest kid on the block, but the service is slowly but surely gaining momentum now, with users that include Target, Adobe, Daimler and Capital One, as well as a growing ecosystem of vendors who support it. Today, after a few years of working on the project without any

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Should You Migrate Your DevOps Architecture to the Cloud?

Source- informationweek.com This is the question I’m helping numerous customers answer right now. Development operations and the creation of a continuous development cycle are somewhat of a new concept. Ever since development leaders saw that working with broken release cycles, coding practices, and heterogenous tools actually slowed the entire process down, we’ve seen massive movement around today’s modern DevOps culture. Before we go on, I need to touch on the concept of legacy. At a high level, this is any process

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Software Delivery Depends on Infrastructure and Trust

Source- informationweek.com Cloud infrastructure plays a major role in a company’s ability to execute a high performing software delivery cycle. An advanced cloud architecture allows developers to spin instances up and down as needed and provides the bandwidth necessary to experiment and test an application or software update before pushing live. According to a report by LogicMonitor, 58% of respondents to their survey said DevOps was somewhat/significantly driving public cloud engagement in their company, only ranking below digital transformation (63%) and IT agility

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