HeleCloud CEO: People thought AWS managed everything for them, but they’re waking up to the reality

Source:-tech.newstatesman.com HeleCloud is an Amazon Web Services (AWS)-only systems integrator and managed services provider (MSP), with offices in London and in the Netherlands, as well as an engineering camp in Sofia, Bulgaria. The company has two sides to its business – the professional services side and a managed services side. CEO and co-founder Dob Todorov explains that the company provides cloud managed services as a “24-7 highly automated operation, which allows support for mission critical applications on the AWS platform”.

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Survey Finds Much Room for APM Improvement

Source:-devops.com A survey of 317 application owners, developers and support team professionals in the U.S. and Canada published by SolarWinds finds that while reliance on application performance management (APM) tools is widespread, most IT teams are still relying on these tools to react to events rather than to proactively improve application experience and performance. The survey finds 9 out of 10 IT professionals are making use of APM tools that are either deployed on-premises or accessed via a software-as-a-service (SaaS)

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Astro Project Ties Kubernetes to Datadog

Source:-containerjournal.com Fairwinds, a provider of managed IT services for Kubernetes environments, has launched an open source project dubbed Astro that provides an easier application programming interface (API) for monitoring Kubernetes clusters using monitoring tools from Datadog as well as tools that make it easier to navigate Datadog. Company CTO E.J. Etherington says Astro was created so organizations that have embraced Kubernetes can monitor these platforms using the same tool they already employ to monitor existing monolithic applications. One of the

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IoT and cloud: handling data storage issues

Source:-jaxenter.com IoT (Internet of things) is a diverse system of devices and sensors connected to the internet and at the same time is one of the fastest-growing industries of our time. It goes beyond devices you would traditionally expect to be online, like laptops or smartphones, to include a wide range of everyday objects, such as cars, TV sets, thermostats, smoke alarms, fridges, toasters and much, much more. It is estimated that there will be more than 65 billion IoT devices plugged

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Has DevOps lost its groove?

Source:-enterprisersproject.comThe noise around the term “DevOps” just grows. But cultural shifts don’t happen overnight – and can’t be packaged More than a decade has passed since the DevOps movement was born, but its practitioners continue to struggle to define this combination of philosophies, practices, and tools. The lack of a common meaning has in many ways turned DevOps into an empty buzzword. But for companies like Google, Netflix, and Facebook that have internalized it as a philosophy, DevOps is far from a

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Adopting Cloud-native in DevOps: A Journey

Source:-opensenselabs.com Traditional measures of development and delivery of software are taking new shapes in terms of faster, easier and powerful alternatives. While the industry is still embracing DevOps, the failures on the way are inevitable. Only on the path of innovation can we emerge with better solutions like the cloud-native approach.  The way applications are built with these new propositions can lead to bigger developments and digital transformations in modern enterprises. Let’s delve into the nature of Cloud-native with DevOps.   Stages

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What Can Automation Learn From DevOps?

Source:- devops.com. A recent Capgemini survey revealed that while enterprise-scale automation is still in its infancy, IT automation projects are moving along. IT is starting to view automation less tactically and more strategically. The Capgemini survey also showed that IT automation can be responsible for several quick wins, including self-healing, event correlation, diagnostics, application releases, cybersecurity monitoring and storage and server management tasks. These projects not only lead to massive IT cost savings but, more importantly, to an increase in reliability and responsiveness

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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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DevOps Success: A Look at Performance by Region and Industry

Source- cio.com Introduction Since Puppet published its first State of DevOps Report in 2012, we’ve learned a lot about how IT is implementing DevOps practices and the resulting impact to businesses. After collecting nearly 30,000 responses from around the world, we wondered: Where are trends and patterns emerging in these segments? Our first-ever State of DevOps: Market Segmentation Report makes it easier to benchmark your organization against other companies in your peer group. Automation Enables DevOps Not surprisingly, we found that most

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Compuware brings agile and DevOps to the mainframe

Source- sdtimes.com A majority of enterprises are running their mission-critical apps on the mainframe, but a lack of mainframe expertise is getting in the way of successful development and deployment. A recent study from Forrester revealed 64 per cent of enterprises plan to run more than half their critical app solutions on the mainframe, but only 37 per cent have been able to keep up with the mainframe workforce demand. To ease the pain, Compuware is updating its zAdviser solution

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Steps on the Journey to DevOps

Source- devops.com There was a time when people thought DevOps was a simple movement that didn’t need to be defined. I have always been told that big leaps won’t get you to your destination immediately, but little steps will get you there one day. For DevOps, the day has come, gaining mindshare among organizations and given importance like never before. However, certain companies are unable to understand what’s going on in their respective industries or how one they make their digital operations

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In a DevOps evolution, there are many paths to success, but even more that lead to failure

Source- networksasia.net Every organisation is different and for most, the DevOps journey isn’t linear. There are many starts and stops along the way, which can kill early momentum and lead to cynicism. Without a prescriptive path forward, organisations are struggling to scale their DevOps success beyond isolated teams, according to the 2018 State of DevOps Report released by Puppet. Globally, 80 percent of respondent organisations are Medium. Almost 11 percent are Low and just under 10 percent are High. Though DevOps

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There is No Magic Recipe to Adopting DevOps

Source- devops.com Over the past five years, we have seen more and more organizations of every size trying to adopt DevOps practices. However, we’re still expecting adoption rates to continue to rise—we have not yet reached “peak DevOps.” The motivations behind this comes from the need to reduce time to market, deliver better quality software, reduce operational costs and, ultimately, improve productivity and stay competitive. More enterprises are changing their business models by digitizing their business processes. We’re also seeing

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Benefits and Drivers of Full-Stack Monitoring

Source – devops.com As organizations undergo digital transformations, there is increasing need to modernize the way IT operations is managed and to deliver applications faster, while at the same time delivering business value by managing applications’ availability, performance and outages in a cost-effective way. Because outages have a huge impact on revenue, there is a growing demand for site reliability people and monitoring systems, which can enable them to handle applications’ uptime, performance and reliability with a proactive and predictive monitoring

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10 bad DevOps habits to break

Source – enterprisersproject.com In 2017, more companies than ever before decided to start their DevOps journey. As with anything new, there’s a learning curve: The trick is identifying missteps before they become bad habits, because habits can be hard to break. As you refine your DevOps strategies for the new year, it’s important to take a critical look back and seek out these troublemakers. These issues may not be obvious – so we asked business leaders and DevOps practitioners to help,

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Four key lessons to apply from DevOps success stories

Source – techtarget.com For teams in small organizations, embracing and applying DevOps practices is often a matter of just doing it. There are fewer constraints, fewer moving parts, and most of the time development and operations skills are already aligned and close together — on the same team, if not the same person, which makes for many DevOps success stories. For large organizations, though, any transformation can be daunting. Complex development programs and traditional org structure can result in no shortage

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New database provisioning solution brings GDPR compliance to DevOps

Source – realwire.com The latest solution from Redgate Software, known for its industry leading database development tools, promises to resolve much of the headache the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is already causing. SQL Provision launches today and allows users to create copies of SQL Server databases in seconds which use a fraction of disk space, and mask any sensitive data to address data privacy and protection issues. The provisioning of database copies to improve the efficiency and quality of database

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DevOps will make the government more efficient. But what actually is it?

Source – fedscoop.com The problem with buzzwords is that they tend to accumulate a diversity of definitions depending on the user. So when Red Hat’s Josh Ranoa opened his “Open Innovation: Make DevOps a Reality” panel at the company’s recent Government Symposium by asking panelists to define DevOps, it seemed an interesting, if basic, starting point. What the audience learned moments later, though, was actually quite intriguing. That’s because every panelist, each involved in some way in bringing the increasingly popular DevOps practices to their respective agencies, defined the

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Atlassian updates Bitbucket Server and Bamboo to support DevOps workflows

Source – sdtimes.com Atlassian is bringing DevOps workflows to scale with the release of Bitbucket Server 5.4 and Bamboo 6.2. Bitbucket is the company’s Git code management solution while Bamboo is for integration and release management. “Implementing DevOps practices in large or highly regulated organizations is a balancing act. How do you make your development and operations teams as productive as possible, improve the flow of work moving throughout the system and maintain the scale and security required?” the company wrote in its blog.

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DevOps: The Key To Organisational Success?

Source – businesscomputingworld.co.uk There has been an explosion of interest in DevOps over the last few years, but for people who are new to these ideas, it’s not always obvious what DevOps actually entails and what the benefits are. Additionally, given that DevOps started off as a grassroots movement and continues to be heavily influenced by practitioners, it may be even less clear to senior and middle managers why it is so important. Especially as there is no clear-cut definition of

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