September 12, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps Leave a comment

Tooling up for DevOps

Source – computerweekly.com Organisations are moving from traditional waterfall and cascade software development, where code is produced over defined time periods and combined with operational systems management and application management, to more agile approaches. With an increasing need for rapid functional provisioning via continuous integration, continuous development and continuous delivery, many businesses are looking to adopt a DevOps process. DevOps aims to bring together the development, test and operational teams to streamline the movement of code and functional apps through the

September 12, 2017 bestdevops 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

September 12, 2017 bestdevops 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

September 12, 2017 bestdevops 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,

September 11, 2017 bestdevops DevOps Leave a comment

Windows DevOps tools rehab legacy enterprise applications

Source – techtarget.com As Microsoft shops struggle to modernize legacy apps that weren’t designed for distributed cloud environments, they must also rethink the infrastructure where these apps are deployed. Most enterprises have at least one application that’s so old, no one on the current IT team recalls how it was written, nor understands the finer intricacies of its management. Now, these companies must weigh the risks and costs to refactor these apps for a cloud-first, continuously developed world. “It’s always an investment to

September 11, 2017 bestdevops Agile, Continuous Integration, DevOps Leave a comment

Engineering Culture and Distributed Agile Teams

Source – infoq.com Having a high productive engineering culture should be the same whether your organisation is centered around one physical location for the whole company or when people work in globally distributed teams. Most of the time distributed teams are a fact of work-life: many organisations use distributed teams in their search for talent. The search always starts in the area where the headquarters is located but then quickly expands to the rest of the world. In some cases setting

September 11, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

What security risks does rapid elasticity bring to the cloud?

Source – techtarget.com What are the security risks that may arise from cloud features such as measured services and rapid elasticity for platform as a service (PaaS) systems? One of the major benefits of anything living in the cloud is the ability to measure resources and use rapid elasticity to quickly scale as the environment demands. The days of being locked into physical hardware are over, and the benefits of rapid elasticity in cloud computing are attractive to many organizations. There are

September 9, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integration, DevOps Leave a comment

CyberArk and Ansible automate best security practices in DevOps pipeline

Source – indiatimes.com Mumbai, India – CyberArk that have made their way inside the network perimeter, today announced the integration of the CyberArk Conjur secrets management solution with Ansible. Organizations benefit from automating privileged account security best practices across DevOps environments while continuing to deliver new applications at high velocity. CyberArk will demonstrate the integration at AnsibleFest 2017. As more organizations embrace DevOps, secrets – which consist of privileged accounts, SSH/API keys, passwords, certificates and more – are proliferating throughout the IT infrastructure. As with privileged accounts, secrets can be misused

September 9, 2017 bestdevops 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

September 9, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

Are developers ready for the new era of edge cloud computing?

Source – jaxenter.com Today, at the dawn of Internet of Things (IoT), our devices constantly connect and communicate mostly through a central cloud and have transformed many aspects of our daily lives. IoT is undoubtedly a transformative technology and will impact most industries, and the way businesses and consumers behave. Some projections state that there will be more than 50 billion connected devices and as many as 22 billion IoT devices operating by 2021. The big question is whether existing networks

September 8, 2017 bestdevops 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

September 8, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps, DevOps Tools Leave a comment

Windows DevOps shops quickly gain on Linux counterparts

Source – techtarget.com Almost overnight, Windows DevOps has gained ground on the open source world. Windows shops have a well-earned reputation for conservatism, and a deeply entrenched set of legacy enterprise applications that often hinder automated application development. However, Microsoft products have recently focused on Windows DevOps support. There’s still work to do to underpin Windows container orchestration, but IT pros in Windows DevOps shops are determined to break free of stodgy stereotypes. Those stereotypes are based in reality. Microsoft shops have

September 8, 2017 bestdevops 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

September 7, 2017 bestdevops 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 7, 2017 bestdevops 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

September 7, 2017 bestdevops Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps Leave a comment

DevOps and IoT merge to improve app quality and security

Source – searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com Although DevOps is hot in the cloud space, it’s still just catching on in the internet of things world, where devices rule and requirements for reliability, quality, security and safety are paramount. DevOps is not focused on any particular technology or app quality, but certain challenges arise when DevOps and IoT intersect. IoT is typically a three-tier architecture, consisting of a device, gateway and platform. There are constrained devices or really small sensors with not much processing power that

September 6, 2017 bestdevops 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

September 6, 2017 bestdevops 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

September 6, 2017 bestdevops 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

September 6, 2017 bestdevops 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

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