October 17, 2019 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

PTC CIO: 4 lessons from our DevOps journey

Source:- enterprisersproject.com IT chief Abbas Faiq shares DevOps lessons learned, from change management to training, on PTC’s road to faster software releases DevOps isn’t a new adventure for us at PTC. We first started our DevOps journey about four years ago with a team that was primarily focused on release management, software deployment, and automation of these two functions across the development team. We started early, but I wouldn’t say we crossed the finish line with that first iteration. We incorporated some

February 26, 2019 Bittu K Continuous Deployment Leave a comment

Enhance DevOps Experience with AWS Smart Tools

Source- devops.com DevOps has become the champion of business operations by fostering collaboration between disparate teams, providing a common work framework and paving way for continuous delivery that greatly boosted software development. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become a leading provider of DevOps tools and services and has been instrumental in taking this experience to a higher level. So how does AWS elevate the DevOps experience? Automation DevOps not only eliminates the cultural disparities between two different environments but also eases the software

April 5, 2018 Bittu K DevOps Leave a comment

Seven steps to move a DevOps team into the ML and AI world

Source – techtarget.com Nobody questions the potential for machine learning and artificial intelligence to revolutionize DevOps productivity and business efficiency as a whole, really. An invisible hand, however, keeps organizations from seeing ML and AI to their full potential. There are seven basic rules to implement ML and AI in real-life DevOps situations. Done right, ML/AI and DevOps can turn enterprises into digital attackers that release higher-quality software faster and at lower cost. To release on time and within budget, there

September 15, 2017 Bittu K DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Hype hunters: Researchers put DevOps tools and tricks under microscope

Source – siliconangle.com Can an academic approach to analytics predict the best efficiencies for developer operations? Fact: Seventy-one percent of businesses have adopted some form of DevOps to streamline software development and deployment, according to VersionOne Inc.’s 2017 “State of Agile Report.” The most popular DevOps tool is container technology from Docker Inc., according to a separate report from RightScale Inc., with 35 percent of respondents employing the virtualized method for running distributed software applications. Do statistics like these give businesses a roadmap to

September 7, 2017 Bittu K Continuous Deployment, DevOps Leave a comment

How well-defined metrics enhance DevOps success

Source – jaxenter.com When the information shared is inadequate, planning is haphazard and there is no clearly visible aim, collaboration is highly difficult to achieve within the project teams. In any company, there are crucial hurdles to overcome. This is more in product companies with teams that are distributed globally and working on various components of the product pipeline. For companies that have adopted a DevOps initiative, there are even more hurdles to clear. Many enterprises nowadays accepted DevOps as part

September 1, 2017 Bittu K DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

CyberArk and Jenkins Power Secure, High Velocity DevOps Environments

Source – dqindia.com CyberArk, the company that protects organizations from cyber attacks that have made their way inside the network perimeter, today announced the integration of the CyberArk Privileged Account Security Solution with Jenkins, the leading open source automation server. With this integration, organizations gain an automated orchestration process with built-in secrets management and protection for their DevOps pipeline without unnecessary trade-offs between security and velocity. CyberArk will demonstrate the integration at stand #504 at Jenkins World 2017, August 28 –

May 31, 2017 Bittu K DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

The Real Business Benefits of DevOps

Source – infobeans.com DevOps, an evolution of the agile methodology, has firmly planted its feet in the enterprise. 2016 witnessed DevOps growing in maturity and in adoption and it has steadily now become a standard way of working. According to the fifth annual State of the Cloud Survey, 2016 by RightScale, “DevOps adoption increased from 66 percent in 2015 to 74 percent in 2016”. Gartner estimates that in 2017 DevOps will be a mainstream strategy which is employed by more than

May 24, 2017 Bittu K DevOps, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Which DevOps platform should you learn?

Source – certmag.com Business growth depends on a company’s ability to innovate in line with changing customer needs and market realities. Innovation requires fast and reliable software delivery. And great software is a result of integrating development with IT operations and functions in a manner that enables better communication and co-operation, resulting in greater speed and enhanced quality. What is a DevOps platform and how are they used? The term “DevOps” refers to the coming together of developers and operations personnel

March 15, 2017 Mantosh Singh Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

How is Cloud Computing Affecting Traditional Software Delivery? The SaaS Effect

Source:- 1reddrop.com If you are running a business, there is a near 100% chance that you are already using some form of SaaS – Software as a Service. According to a recent a survey by Northbridge and Wikibon, one in seven companies are using SaaS. But that number should be much higher if you include Email, YouTube and social media applications such as facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and so on. These are applications that have already embedded themselves into our lives.