July 20, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Public sector IT is struggling to keep up with digital transformation

Source – itproportal.com Public sector IT is suffering from a major crisis in confidence when it comes to the pace of change, new figures have claimed. Despite the need to implement digital transformation ideas and updates, many organisations are facing several major hurdles, according to the 2017 Public Sector IT Operations Survey from Splunk. The study found that public sector organisations undergoing digital transformation are losing confidence in the ability of their IT teams to keep tabs on the increasing level of new

July 19, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

DevOps: When is it ok to fail?

Source:- ciol.com With a history going back to 2008, DevOps has been around for a while. And this movement is now making considerable inroads within the communications industry – with good reason. DevOps promises service providers the ability to deliver new products to market at a greater speed and higher quality than ever thought possible. But like all promises that sound too good to be true, faster product delivery and better service quality may elude certain aspects of your business.

July 19, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Dirty secrets of DevOps

Source:- dev.to I’ve read dozens of DevOps success stories, tales of bold IT leaders transforming their business and steering big corporate ships into the future. It’s hard to avoid all these stories about “DevOps transformation” and how some guy named Jim pulled the IT department out of the stone age. The trades, blogs, and conference presentations are filled with them. No one talks about the failures though, very few even write about their struggles implementing DevOps. It’s all sunshine and

July 19, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Events, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

DevOps Tips and Inspiration from DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) Speakers

Source:- electric-cloud.com Our Continuous Discussions (#c9d9) video podcast – now in its 4th year – has hosted hundreds of experts from the DevOps community who shared their experience and expertise around a wide range of topics related to DevOps and Continuous Delivery. Among the panelists we had on the program are many of the speakers who appeared at DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) throughout the years. IT leaders from companies like Hearst Business Media, Nationwide Insurance, IBM, Capital One, Target, Pivotal,

July 18, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

DevOps practices help improve the quality of open source components

Source – betanews.com The use of open source components can help speed up the software development process, but it comes with a risk if poor quality code leads to vulnerable applications being released. The latest State of the Software Supply Chain Report from DevOps tools specialist Sonatypereveals that organizations which actively manage the quality of open source components flowing into production applications realize a 28 percent improvement in developer productivity, a 30 percent reduction in overall development costs, and a 48 percent increase

July 18, 2017 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Is DevOps Falling into the Maturity Trap?

Source – news.sys-con.com development manager from a large enterprise organization was explaining how they had created a DevOps maturity model based on CMMI. They went on to describe their current state of maturity and their plans to get to ‘full maturity’ in the next three years. He continued by explaining how they had presented this plan to executive management and subsequently received approval for a new ‘DevOps team.’ Many organizations are now looking to DevOps maturity models to gauge their DevOps adoption

July 18, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Integration, DevOps Leave a comment

Will automated software testing eliminate my job soon?

Source – searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.co No one can see into the future. That said, it’s pretty clear that some of the traditional testing practices are going by the wayside, as processes such as Agile and DevOps continue to gain traction. These approaches emphasize speed to deployment, and synthetic testing and real user monitoring (RUM) in production, and have little time built in for traditional testing. If test plans, test procedures, formal test cases, and the usual test metrics constitute your understanding of the state of the art in

July 17, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

10 Skills That Prove You’ll Be An Excellent Cloud Product Manager

Source – forbes.com Demand for product managers with cloud computing skills and expertise continues to be an area of rapid hiring growth. It’s common for hiring managers, directors and vice presidents to spend at least 20% of their time every week working with in-house recruiters, writing & editing job descriptions and interviewing candidates. McKinsey & Company’s May 2017 article Product Managers For The Digital World provides insights into how product managers can excel in their roles, defining a framework for assessing product management maturity.

July 17, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Integration, DevOps Leave a comment

5 Steps to Migrate Unisys Mainframes to AWS

Source – infoq.com The Mainframe Conundrum If you have a Unisys mainframe, you may be thinking that cloud computing isn’t an option. You’d like to take advantage of all that cloud computing offers but don’t think it’s possible because it can’t handle your transaction workloads, or the architectures are just too disparate to merge, or even that it’s just plain too hard to do. I used to think the same thing. And until fairly recently, it was true. But cloud computing

July 15, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

Robin Systems Releases Made-for-DevOps Dev Platform for AWS

Source – eweek.com If you’re looking for hot trends in the IT sector, three immediately come to mind: Any type of software that handles the “CX” or “UX” (consumer or user experence); anything on the backend using containers and microservices; and workloads that run in the Amazon Web Services cloud. Robin Systems, which makes cloud infrastructure software based on an open source foundation, checks the boxes for the second and third items listed. The San Jose, Calif.-based company on July 13

July 15, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

These Stocks Could Profit From Artificial Intelligence: Analyst

Source – investors.com loud computing leaders Amazon.com (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT) and Google, along with internet giants, have the inside track in monetizing artificial intelligence technology, a Mizuho Securities report says, but enterprise software providers also will grab a piece of the action. At a basic level, artificial intelligence is the use of computer algorithms to attempt to replicate the human ability to learn, reason and make decisions. Amazon, Microsoft and Google-parent Alphabet (GOOGL) are pushing into AI-as-a-service. They plan to rent AI tools to customers on a

July 15, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

Delivering the future potential of hyperscale cloud

Source – thestack.com Hyperscale, most closely associated with big data and cloud, is the provisioning required in distributed computing environments to efficiently scale from a few servers to thousands of servers in an instant: the public cloud. Hyperscale cloud is the management, from migration to on-going support, of client business applications hosted in the public cloud. This includes the maintenance, support and security for business applications hosted in AWS and Microsoft Azure. Gartner has suggested that by 2020, over 80% of

July 15, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

5 benefits of using cloud ERP to deliver results

Source – cio.com Enterprise resource planning (ERP), a software tool to optimize business process management, allows organizations to use an integrated system to manage and automate many business functions. By employing cloud computing platforms, a company can take its ERP to the next level and provide a more flexible and scalable management solution. This type of automation permits managers and owners to get a cohesive and instantaneous view of business functionality, including processes and resources from which to draw inferences. ERPs

July 14, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

Azure Stack To Advance Hybrid Cloud, DevOps and Serverless Computing

Source – redmondmag.com More than two years after Microsoft revealed plans to offer its Azure Stack software to makers of hybrid cloud-based appliances, Azure Stack is now set for release this September. Azure Stack, which lets enterprises and service providers run their own mirror images of Microsoft’s cloud platform in their own datacenters, is a strategic deliverable as the company looks to advance modern IT architectures including hybrid cloud, DevOps and serverless computing. The first Azure Stack appliances will be available

July 14, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Why Is Docker So Popular? Explaining the Rise of Containers and Docker

Source – thevarguy.com By now, you’ve almost certainly heard of Docker containers. You know Docker is massively popular. But do you know why? Here’s a look at the factors driving tremendous interest in Docker today. Before delving into a discussion of the factors behind Docker’s popularity, it’s worth noting that Docker is not the only container platform out there. Nor was it the first to come along. Other frameworks, like OpenVZ and LXC, were available starting in the mid-2000s. Other container-like

July 14, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

How to alleviate the networking pain in hybrid cloud deployments

Source – cloudcomputing-news.net As cloud deployments have become more complex—with hybrid cloud environments growing in number and importance—networking technologies have not kept pace with advancements in cloud computing and storage. In fact, hybrid cloud networking has become a serious pain for enterprises across industries. Fortunately, new approaches are emerging that will help IT teams better anticipate these issues, and to ultimately overcome the complexity and related project delays that currently plague them. At a technical level, one problem is that on-premises,

July 14, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Is security killing your digital transformation?

Source – sdtimes.com Hackers love traditional security. So do your competitors. Want to ruin their day? Forget what you know about how faster development increases risk. If your approach to security is slowing you down, it’s only a question of which you’ll lose faster — your data or your customers. To begin, let’s agree on one fundamental principle: In the era of DevOps, agile, and the cloud, survival depends on speed. If you’re not first to market with the innovations today’s

July 13, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Is the future of Agile actually BizDevOps?

Source – searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com It’s easy to think every organization has DevOps on the corporate brain but in reality, interest in — and commitment to — Agile remains high, particularly in the enterprise space. Of course, that doesn’t necessarily make it easy to do. And it doesn’t mean DevOps isn’t having an impact. With Agile2017 less than a month away I interviewed AgileCraft CEO Steve Elliott about the company’s 10X product release and the ongoing efforts enterprises are making to be more

July 13, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Grooming effective remote developers in the world of DevOps

Source – searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com David Copeland, director of engineering at Stitch Fix, is an advocate for allowing software developers to work remotely and offers a method for how to do it effectively. Copeland leads nearly 90 developers at Stitch Fix, a San Francisco-based personal shopping and style service. He’s been with the company more than four years and has spent that time working remotely from Washington, D.C. As director of engineering and senior-most contributor to Stitch Fix, Copeland interacts daily with developers,

July 13, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

What is Microsoft’s intelligent edge and how does it affect mobile?

Source – windowscentral.com Microsoft’s growing investments in cloud computing and a recent reorg reflecting those investments are sure to bring greater attention to Microsoft’s intelligent edge and mobile strategy. To understand the intelligent edge, however, we must have a basic grasp of the intelligent cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT). Heads in the cloud Cloud computing is using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet, rather than a local server or personal computer, to store, manage, and process data. Simply

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