Amazon Web Services to help skilled students find Cloud computing jobs

Source- firstpost.com As tech companies, the world over face an acute crunch of skilled workforce in the field of Cloud computing, retail giant Amazon’s Cloud arm, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has decided to go beyond providing training and certification to now help students grab relevant openings in Cloud. According to Teresa Carlson, Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector at AWS, the time is ripe to connect skilled students with employers via “AWS Educate” — a global initiative to provide students and educators

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Accelerate and Scale DevOps

Source- cio.com Software teams have to be fast, especially when it comes to adapting to change. As for performance expectations from the market and the business increase, DevOps has arisen as a prescription for improvement. However, teams need to know not just what success looks like but how to achieve it. A survey of more than 3,000 technology professionals, the 2018 State of DevOps Report, co-authored by Puppet and Splunk, defines DevOps as an evolution comprised of five stages. Our data indicate

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Getting started with CI/CD: 6 pitfalls to avoid

Source- enterprisersproject.com What shapes the long-term success of your CI/CD effort? A faster, more automated pipeline for software development? We recently outlined 4 success factors when getting started with CI/CD – and all led back to culture. That’s helpful, but it’s also productive to look at the downsides – not of CI/CD itself, but of common mistakes organizations make, especially when they’re just starting out. “If done right, proper continuous delivery and integration can lead to great customer experiences,” says Joy Scharmen, director of DevOps at Optimizely.

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3 Tips to Build A DevSecOps Organization

Source- devops.com For organizations undergoing digital transformation today, modernizing the existing environment can present serious challenges when it comes to security. Whether you’re dealing with a transition from legacy to cloud or hybrid models, or shifting from ITIL and waterfall methodologies to DevOps, the increasing number of technologies and complexity mean you need to rethink your security posture. The traditional approach to security—that is, a static strategy that largely involves patching on piecemeal measures at the 11th hour—is simply not a

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Vanguard CIO: Is what you’re doing “true” agile?

Source- enterprisersproject.com Recently, I went out after work with a friend who wanted to pick my brain about agile. He had just landed a new job and his new organization was adopting agile principles. Excited for him, I began asking all kinds of questions. How frequently do they deploy software? Were they building microservices? Were they looking at public cloud? I watched his excitement drain a bit as he explained that they deploy relatively infrequently and had not discussed “breaking down the monolith” or

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How to Choose the Right Agile Methodology for Project Development in a Frugal Way

Source- business2community.com Software development has taken a critical role in transforming businesses across the industries. As organisations and firms grow, they need IT solutions to handle new consumer demands, changing business environment, and increasing competition. For continuous and sustainable growth, companies should deliver timely innovations to streamline business operations and outdo competitors. Choosing the right project management approach for software development is important to deliver effective solutions within the budget and timelines. This article will guide you on how to choose

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What is Role of DevOps in Custom Software Development

Source- customerthink.com In the present scenario, with the ever-changing market demands, it requires swift customized development solutions by the software development services. The various developed software solutions need to have the inherent ability to respond to corresponding market demands easily and also able to fulfil the business requirements along with being user-friendly. For this particular purpose, it is quite essential that the entire IT sector re-evaluates different factors and also generate distinct, valuable solutions for the same. However, this traditional

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THE LAST MILE FOR ANALYTICS

Source- analyticsinsight.net The promise of machine learning (ML) is vast and investment is increasing, but the results are lagging because too many projects don’t make it to production in an operational system. A Wall Street data scientist recently said to me, “It took us two months to build and train the model and six months to deploy it.” This is the norm. Analytics leaders cite deployment and productionization – aka the “last mile” – as the biggest bottleneck for analytics and ML

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How Enterprise Data Center is Being Redefined

Source- entrepreneur.com In the recent past, there have been tectonic shifts in the way Indians produce and consume data. Whether it is the widespread Digital India initiative, gravitation towards cashless payments or the innovations being introduced by the burgeoning entrepreneurial ecosystem, the stakes have significantly risen for the organisations that rely on IT infrastructure and ecosystem. As an emerging economy with a growing population, India is expected to be one of the largest national data consumers in the near future. However,

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‘1 mn cloud computing jobs to be created by 2022 in India’

Source- thehindubusinessline.com With cloud computing becoming more prevalent in companies, both large and small, the global requirement for professionals is steadily on the rise and over a million jobs in the sector will be created in the country by 2022, according to a report. Companies are currently investing 4.5 times the rate of traditional IT spending in cloud infrastructure, and it is expected to grow even faster by 2020, according to a report by ed-tech platform for executives Great Learning. The

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These are the top benefits of DevOps and Amazon Web Services

Source- techaeris.com If you’re someone who works in the IT industry, chances are you’ve been hearing the terms DevOps and Amazon Web Services quite a lot. These terms basically refer to some of the most modern approaches to software development and IT operations. While the actual definitions of DevOps and AWS vary slightly depending on the source, they will most likely continue to be a significant part of the common vernacular in the coming months and years. In most cases, there

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The Benefits Of Using Cloud Computing At Your Business

Source- myasbn.com Cloud computing allows your business to store its data on secure internet-based servers. This affords your business many benefits when compared to storing and accessing your data through in-house servers. Here are some of the greatest benefits of using cloud-based computing for your business. Reduced IT Costs There are a lot of costs associated with having servers that are physically located at your business and the necessary IT staff to manage them. Because of this, cloud computing solutions come

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How DevOps will change in 2019 and beyond: 3 predictions

Source- techrepublic.com In the past few years, DevOps transitioned from a tech buzzword to a proven method of delivering software more quickly and efficiently than in the past. Implementing DevOps practices during digital transformation leads to improved organizational performance and quality outcomes, one report found, with elite DevOps teams seeing 46x more frequent code deployments, and 2,555x faster lead time from commit to deploy. Despite the benefits, most enterprise DevOps teams still struggle with how to get started in the workflow, according

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Making enterprise automation your app development advantage

Source- enterpriseinnovation.net In today’s agile, innovation-driven and dynamic market, automation rules! It allows companies to streamline, optimize, eliminate human error and reallocate valuable human resources to other value-adding tasks. Automation provides the foundation for DevOps, which brings together the two separate worlds of app development and software operations. In theory, automation can improve rollout of app releases, increase deployment speed, lower failure rates, shorten the time between fixes, and reduce mean time to recovery when apps crash. The reality, however, can

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THE PROMISE OF (PRACTICALLY) ‘SERVERLESS COMPUTING’

Source- wired.com The definition of cloud computing may be nebulous, but its promise is clear. Instead of filling a warehouse with servers and paying people to manage them, a company can pay a cloud computing provider for computing resources on demand and pay only for what it actually uses. This prospect lured organizations ranging from startups to massive corporations to stodgy government agencies onto cloud offerings from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and others. Those now well-established services might save companies from buying and managing

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5 foundational DevOps practices your enterprise needs to succeed

Source- techrepublic.com In less than a decade, DevOps transitioned from a hot buzzword to a proven way to manage technological change and deliver software quickly and efficiency. However, most enterprise DevOps teams still struggle with how to get started in the workflow, according to a Thursday report from Puppet. Puppet uncovered five foundational DevOps practices that are critical to success in any organization. While no one path to DevOps transformation exists, top performers have demonstrated that these practices are essential at every stage

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We Must Find A Way To Defy Data Gravity In The Cloud

Source- forbes.com The IT industry is in the midst of a transformational era in terms of how we treat data.  At Moor Insights & Strategy we have discussed countless the times forces that are driving the need for a data strategy, how that need is deeply impacted by real-time analytics, and how data has escaped the data center and is now spread from edge to cloud. The world of IT today is one of hybrid and multi-clouds. IT deploys workloads to the public cloud

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Role of DevOps in Mobile App Development

Source- devops.com Emerged out of Agile methods in 2001, DevOps basically represents a fundamental departure from the traditional waterfall software development approach. DevOps is a modern software development method that focuses mainly on the effective collaboration between software developers, project managers and operations staff, while also aligning with business goals at the same time. DevOps came into being when developers and operations staff came together to more effectively overcome the challenges associated with continuous software delivery. DevOps in Mobile Applications Peerbits takes a

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3 new DevOps lessons learned

Source- enterprisersproject.com IT workers sometimes live in fear and too often loathe their jobs. Look no further than last year’s testimony by the former Equifax CEO as a reason why. He blamed a single IT worker for the company’s unprecedented data breach. That explains the fear, and his $90 million exit package may explain some of the loathing. But there is light and hope on the horizon, and that was on full display at the DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) this year. Here are three of my takeaways:

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Building the hybrid serverless multiclouds of the future

Source- siliconangle.com Developers frequently compose solutions as patterns that hybridize different approaches to developing, hosting and managing application resources. Any solution pattern may be hybridized, with the approach usually contingent on the developer having access to an abstraction layer designed to enable the complex application environment of interest. In cloud computing, we increasingly see hybridization in the form of public and private clouds interoperating to handle transactions, analytics, integration and other complex workloads. At the platform-as-a-service level, we also see it

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