June 28, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Editors’ Choice: Tasktop Integration Hub links DevOps toolchain

Source – techtarget.com Learn why Tasktop Integration Hub’s ability to connect the DevOps toolchain and BizDevOps teams earned our Editors’ Choice for Innovation. The editors at SearchSoftwareQuality regularly recognize application integration and DevOps toolchain technologies for their innovation and market impact. The Tasktop Integration Hub is our March 2017 selection. What it does Before using Tasktop Integration Hub, doing manual application integrations was the only option when Mark Wanish wanted to add applications to his company’s legacy DevOps toolchain. “There was

June 24, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

3 predictions on the future of containers

Source – sdtimes.com Despite the fact that containers are still considered a new tool in the developer scene, they have already been put to work in industries everywhere: Financial services companies use containers to track credit scores and provide financial recommendations to their clients, government organizations use containers to model the effects of weapons and identify ways to protect soldiers, and healthcare companies use containers to process and visualize radiology data. Container usage has grown, but other factors will come into

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

7 Tips for Securely Moving Data to the Cloud

Source – govtech.com A few years back, an unmistakable trend emerged that cloud computing was growing in both percentage of organizations adopting cloud solutions as well as the amount and type of data being placed in the cloud. Earlier this year, I highlighted research that made it clear that trust and risks are both growing in government clouds. Since that time, many readers have asked for more specific guidance about moving more data to the cloud in the public and private

June 17, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Getting past square one: How to apply DevOps to ATM testing

Source – atmmarketplace.com DevOps is one of those au courant business terms that everyone knows, but almost no one can actually define. At the most basic level, it’s a process that brings testing into the software development process, rather than leaving it until the end of the cycle when the operations team takes over. As with most business processes, the precise definition varies, depending on the people and products involved. But in almost all applications, the end goal of DevOps is the

June 17, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Top 10 Performance Tuning Tips for AWS EC2

Source – trainingzone.co.uk Amazon Web services, popularly abbreviated as AWS, are recognised as the leading provider of cloud based computing services. It is a great platform for web application development. AWS is used for mixed deployments and prototyping along with a number of optimizations. AWS solution architect is basically concerned to design cost-efficient, highly available, fault tolerant scalable systems. They also hold a good knowledge in deployment, data security, trouble shooting and managing effective designs and application infrastructure. You can choose

June 16, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

4 Ways to Accelerate IT with DevOps

Source – blogs.perficient.com In our technology journey in 2017, we’ve covered DevOps numerous times and for good measure. Research firm IDC predicts that nearly 70% of Global Fortune 500 organizations will have implemented the development philosophy by the end of the year. There’s still confusion about what exactly DevOps is. To us, DevOps should not be thought of as a solution, but rather a series of progressions that seeks to make the entire software development, IT operations, and business process easier

June 15, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

DevOps success: A new team model emerges

Source – enterprisersproject.com When DevOps began, so did a shorthand description for the model: It broke down the wall between dev and ops. The teams communicated better and operated with a shared set of objectives and concerns. At the extreme, there were no longer devs and ops people, but DevOps skill sets. But now, another view of DevOps has emerged: It’s about enabling ops to provide an environment for developers, then get out of the way as much as possible. Is this

June 14, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

How DevOps changes the delivery of IT functions

Source – cio.com Labor arbitrage and shared services companies have had a perfect marriage over the last 20 years. Then along came the Digital Revolution with new business models and a new construct for services. One component of the digital model construct is DevOps. It makes a significant impact on business services, but it’s important to understand how it changes the picture for labor arbitrage and shared services. Shared service companies are structured on a functional basis. One way to think

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

The future of IT: Fewer workers, more data analysts

Source – information-management.com Organizations are in the midst of redesigning IT operations in order to better meet the demands of external customers, and that is creating the need to redefine many job roles. Unfortunately, many organizations say they lack sufficient skills on staff in the areas of analytics and data management. That is the conclusion of a new study – “As Tech Management Structures Change, Roles Become More Strategic and Externally Focused” – by Forrester Research. Authored by Marc Cecere, the

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

Needed now and for the foreseeable future: Five hot IT skills

Source – techtarget.com I lived through the dot-com bubble and collapse. I mention this because in some ways the current technology startup and IT salary craziness seem eerily similar to that — but with one critical difference. Back in the dot-com days the hysteria over internet-based startups fueled the creation of companies whose only compelling business model was to do something — anything — online. The big difference between then and now is that organizations are using technology to do more

June 10, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Three DevOps toolchain options refine IT automation

Source – techtarget.com DevOps toolchains are becoming more integrated, from dev to test to IT. Properly instrumented process automation can improve application quality and security — a major DevOps goal — through detailed performance profiles and code and configuration audits. DevOps automation reduces and eliminates rework, reuses code and configuration templates, and eliminates manual tasks. As DevOps teams mature, they shift attention from automating individual steps and tool mastery to tying those automation tools together. As development and IT teams work

June 10, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

DevOps strategies for IT modernization

Source – gcn.com Like most government agencies, the U.S. Courts, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Department of Agriculture need their mission-critical IT systems to always be operational. Even when such systems are being fixed or modernized, judges, agents and crop insurers still need access to case management systems and bomb tracking databases to do their jobs. At a June 7 event in Washington, D.C., officials from all three agencies discussed how DevOps practices are increasingly enlisted

June 6, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

5 lessons: How DevOps, cloud reinvented IT Ops at Hiscox

Source – techbeacon.com As a global business insurer, Hiscox faces two significant challenges. The first is that, while we are growing at up to 30% per year in some markets, we don’t want our IT staff to balloon at the same pace. We also must stay nimble enough to fend off behemoths such as Amazon and Google that could use their stockpiles of customer data (and their ability to quickly roll out new services) to move into our industry by using

June 3, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

How IT Ops can avoid the DevOps capacity crunch

Source – techbeacon.com DevOps and digital transformations have brought an unprecedented increase in the pace and volume of daily change in IT. While this may sound like great news to development and product groups, IT operations management is often alarmed by the potential risk that its already overloaded workforce will be squeezed beyond the breaking point. IT Ops finds itself squeezed between the “go-go-go, deploy-deploy-deploy” demands of DevOps and digital transformations and the “Don’t be the next hack! Don’t be the next outage! Slow

June 2, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Cloud native applications adoption is set to double by 2020: study

Source – cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com Mumbai: New research from Capgemini, indicates a significant step change in enterprise cloud adoption through the increased use of cloud native applications – applications and services built to perform optimally in the cloud, leveraging Platform as a Service (PaaS) Cloud-native applications can enable IT to better contribute to business agility and innovation and 15 percent of new enterprise applications are cloud native today with adoption set to increase rapidly in the next three years, jumping to 32 percent

May 31, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

New research explores continued difference between LOB and IT on cloud initiatives

Source – cloudcomputing-news.net Is it the line of business or IT leading cloud initiatives? According to the latest paper from the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), IT directors believe that cloud adoption is driven principally by their IT function as part of a strategic shift, rather than the need for change driven by business decision makers. The study, which polled 250 IT and business decision makers in large enterprises, found that overall cloud adoption now stands at 88%, with more than two

May 30, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

IT firms look for new skill sets in prospective employees

Source – business-standard.com India’s information technology (IT) services industry is hiring engineers with skills in cloud computing, analytics and digital — the segments that clients are spending money on — even as companies tighten performance appraisals of employees working on legacy services where budgets are shrinking. Industry lobby group National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) says the sector is expected to hire 150,000 people this year, with the top two firms — Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Infosys —

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

7 Machine Learning Tools for IIoT

Source – edgylabs.com Companies at the forefront of the machine learning field offer open source libraries of solutions for companies and the average person. Below is a list of seven open-source platforms that help businesses integrate machine learning into their production process. With these toolkits, businesses, regardless of their size, can get access to the same ML resources developed and used by prestigious companies. The 7 Machine Learning Tools for IIoT: 1. Amazon Machine Learning: In 2015, Amazon’s subsidiary AWS (Amazon Web

May 19, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

4 Thing Machine-Learning Algorithms Can Do for DevOps

Source – insidebigdata.com As the IT industry struggles to elevate performance, companies are looking to DevOps to deliver on the promise of a newly efficient process that includes frequent release cycles to feed the higher demanding consumer. However, speeding up release cycles is far easier said, than done. IT practitioners are constantly seeking new tools to improve their responsiveness to business needs in this new environment. Transforming to a digital environment can prove to be a difficult evolution for most enterprise

May 15, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Microsoft’s new tools help devs manage cloud deployments on the go

Source – heraldkeeper.com The Basic tier will be broadly available and the Standard tier will be available in a limited number of Azure regions. While new tools and updates were demonstrated and discussed, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella set the tone for the conference by noting a fundamental shift in the world view of computing. Described by Microsoft as a database built from scratch to “power planet-scale cloud services” with both strong power and fault tolerance capabilities and the ability to handle

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