Category: IT trends

Agile, DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Can DevOps deliver on digital potential?

Source – computerweekly.com A benchmarking study by consultancy Hackett Group, titled Beyond world-class service: IT’s digital capability imperative, recently highlighted DevOps as a technique that can help enable digital transformation. “Agile, DevOps and continuous development models are well-suited to digital business transformation, which demands accelerated development, rapid prototyping and incremental value,” according to the report. Similarly, a Forrester survey of 4,976 IT professionals found that firms with high-performing business technology “solution delivery organisations” were 1.5 times more likely than their peers to

Read more
DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Enterprise IT organizations need Lean to navigate the path to DevOps

Source – sdtimes.com One can easily get lost in the great many resources on DevOps and digital transformations, yet still fail to come away with a concrete idea of what the journey actually looks like. We know there’s a better way to build and deliver software and what in theory that looks like, but in practice it’s not so simple. Change is difficult, even more so when the path ahead is unclear. But time is of the essence – fear of

Read more
Cloud Computing, IT trends Leave a comment

Cloud Computing Boosts Hybrid Cloud Adoption: Study

Source – cxotoday.com Cloud computing is completely changing the way enterprises see and approach IT. The shift can be traced to SaaS applications and has now found prominence in data centers with a larger focus on hybrid cloud initiatives. A latest study by Evaluator Group survey of enterprise IT administrators found that 62 percent are of the opinion that a hybrid cloud infrastructure is in their long-term future and 58 percent believe they would increase their hybrid cloud workload in 2017. John Webster,

Read more
Cloud Computing, DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

An Unexpected Security Problem in the Cloud

Source – wsj.com As more companies unplug their data centers and rent out cloud-computing services from providers such as Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. , some are discovering an unexpected problem: They’re accidentally leaving their corporate data exposed for all the world to see. Configuration errors made while using cloud-storage services are common, security experts say, and often occur when users set access permissions so someone outside of the company—say, a vendor—can see data. “More data has been lost due to poor configuration than anything else on

Read more
DevOps, DevOps Updates, IT trends Leave a comment

Secure DevOps lengthens IT ops to-do list

Source – techtarget.com Secure DevOps is a recent trend that has primarily involved collaboration between application developers and security experts so far — the IT ops role in the new collaboration between app developers and security pros hasn’t been fleshed out yet. But as developers and security professionals “shift security left” in the app delivery process, IT ops will need to respond accordingly, and preferably proactively. IT pros must collaborate with the security team as well as application developers. Following high-profile

Read more
Cloud Computing, IT trends Leave a comment

Cloud Computing Spurs Hybrid Architecture Adoption

Source – informationweek.com Cloud computing is transforming the way enterprises approach IT. The shift started with SaaS applications and is now rapidly sweeping through the data center with a growing focus on hybrid cloud initiatives. A recent Evaluator Group survey of enterprise IT administrators discovered that 62% believe that a hybrid cloud infrastructure is in their long-term future and 58% said they would increase their hybrid cloud workload in 2017. John Webster, an Evaluator Group senior partner, says that a hybrid cloud is

Read more
DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

IT collaboration, DevOps a key to business success, says Robert Half

Source – itwire.com Australian companies need to improve collaboration between IT professionals and find ways to successfully leverage technology across the business in the current highly competitive environment, according to a newly published report. According to the report from recruitment firm Robert Half, the implementation of Development Operations (DevOps) is at the heart of the optimisation of collaboration between those in IT departments. And the recruiter says Australian companies need to build, test, and roll out new or updated solutions to

Read more
DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Build a version control process for DevOps infrastructure

Source – techtarget.com Inside businesses of all shapes and sizes, modern IT teams have adopted DevOps practices to roll out changes faster, while delivering more stable software on more reliable infrastructure. Anyone can do it, as long as they learn fundamental skills. IT teams must embrace infrastructure as code (IaC) to apply DevOps practices. IaC enables automation, testability, quality control and more predictability during deployments. Perhaps more importantly, it demands that infrastructure-focused team members become aware of software development practices. A version

Read more
Cloud Computing, DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

5 Features Every Cloud Service Should Have

Source – hostreview.com Cloud computing is now an essential component in any successful business operation. If you are still relying on physical IT infrastructure for your networks, databases and other aspects of your business operations, you are missing out on a lot. Cloud services help to cut on the cost of running your system and boost productivity. Your business information is also more secure on the cloud. In essence, moving your IT services to the cloud is one of the best

Read more
Cloud Computing, DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Why hybrid cloud is the future of enterprise IT

Source – networkworld.com As cloud computing continues to generate a huge amount of buzz and interest over its future, another phenomenon is gaining investor’s and developer’s interest with promises to upend the future of enterprise IT. Hybrid cloud tech, which has only recently come into its own, is increasingly being recognized as the cash-cow of the future. But what exactly is this tech, and is it worth all the hubbub it’s garnered? A quick look at today’s hybrid cloud tech shows that the attention it’s

Read more
DevOps, DevOps Updates, IT trends Leave a comment

DevOps Not A One-Size-Fits-All Strategy: CA

Source – cxotoday.com Many IT departments are siloed between development, operations, support, and management, but companies that are using a DevOps system seek to integrate them all for better productivity and a smoother overall workflow. In an exclusive chat with CXOToday, Abhilash Purushothaman, responsible for the overall DevOps Business across India and SAARC region at CA Technologies, said that the key objective is to bring products to market faster, deliver software and security updates more quickly, and make the entire process more reliable. If you combine

Read more
DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

The impact of automation collapsing enterprise IT

Source – cio.com The IT stack is collapsing, thanks to the latest innovation in IT and moving into a software-defined service-oriented architecture. What can happen as a result of the collapse is important for every company to understand, as the more the stack collapses, the better results IT can deliver. Before we look at the potential impacts, let me explain what I mean by collapsing the stack. A multi-layer stack of technology comprises IT – things like the server layer, operating system,

Read more
Cloud Computing, DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Hybrid Cloud – is it really the future of enterprise IT?

Source – itproportal.com Cloud computing continues to evolve at an unprecedented rate and plays an important role in most modern organisation’s technology strategy in one way or another. As the momentum of cloud continues, there is one question that still remains unanswered – is hybrid cloud really the future of enterprise IT? Hybrid cloud is not a new term and has been existent since the early inception of cloud computing as we know it today, but its use is often oversimplified

Read more
DevOps, DevOps Updates, IT trends Leave a comment

Ansible DevOps program gets upgraded

Source – zdnet.com When Red Hat bought the DevOps program Ansible, the company did so because it thought Ansible’s automation capabilities, together with Red Hat’s cloud and managing portfolio, would make a powerful one-two punch. It was right. Now, with several new Ansible innovations, the pair is helping enterprise customers harness the power of automation organization-wide — from IT operations to development to network administration. These are: Red Hat Ansible Engine, a new offering designed to bring Red Hat enterprise-grade global support to the

Read more
Cloud Computing, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

How IT teams can implement DevOps

Source – gcn.com Today government agencies face an increasingly complex technical and operational environment; they must be able to design and facilitate secure information sharing and data analysis in highly complex network environments. To effectively defend networks and speed national security decisions, government IT teams need the flexibility to deploy any kind of solution — from advanced virtualization, big data analytics and cloud computing, to application development, training and simulation. Many government agencies, however, rely on aging legacy systems, which impede

Read more
DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, IT trends Leave a comment

You Can Reconcile Bimodal IT with DevOps

Source – informationweek.com Is it speed versus quality, or speed and quality? I recently gave a talk comparing DevOps with Gartner’s Bimodal IT approach, which is somewhat controversial. I didn’t bash Bimodal IT, instead I demonstrated how to reconcile the modes Gartner proposes organizations take based on application types, with the spirit behind DevOps. To begin, I made my own controversial statement: DevOps is a farce! That’s right, I said this to all of the DevOps enthusiasts nice enough to come to my presentation. As

Read more
DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

DevOps is the key to reducing IT downtime

Source – theaustralian.com.au Despite having the best teams in place, a misalignment with new technologies and customer requirements can be fatal for an organisation, and IT teams are left picking up the pieces when downtime results in unhappy users. The rise in access to information and services, as customers continue to engage online, presents both a risk and a growth opportunity for organisations. In delivering an agile environment, IT departments and supporting infrastructure often come under pressure. A recent report found

Read more
Cloud Computing, DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Cloudy DevOps optics? Should have gone to CloudBees

Source – computerweekly.com  Enterprise Jenkins and DevOps outfit CloudBees has stuck a bit of extra Ops vision in DevOps with what it calls DevOptics (did you see what they did there?) as its latest play in the application delivery stream tools market. We’re all aiming for a holistic view of the software delivery process, so what does this new offering promise? Live data pipeline CloudBees DevOptics aggregates live data from software pipelines to derive metrics (as a live view) that

Read more
Cloud Computing, DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Windows PowerShell programming empowers IT ops toolmakers

Source – techtarget.com I’ve been in IT operations for nearly two decades, a job where I could answer help desk calls, fix computers, rack servers, spin up VMs and crawl through ceilings pulling CAT5 behind me. To succeed in IT ops takes a figurative utility belt of tools for management and monitoring tasks. Each tool an IT operations professional has aids them tremendously — Angry IP Scanner keeps an eye on the network, TreeSize ensures server storage consumption stays on spec

Read more
Continuous Delivery, DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

Three different perspectives on DevOps

Source – federalnewsradio.com Our guests are Nathen Harvey, vice president of Community Development at Chef Software,  Brent Wodicka,  principal solutions architect at AIS, and David Bock, principal consultant – DevOps Services Lead at Excella Consulting. The term “DevOps” has more meanings than “fake news.”  In order to get a handle on the concept, we brought in three practitioners of DevOps. In a traditional IT environment, a group of developers would be in one room developing code.  Down the hall would be a person who

Read more
1 … 3 4 5 6 7 … 11