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Build a DevOps toolchain that’s efficient and effective

Source:-searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com Is it possible to create a DevOps toolchain that meets the needs of developers, IT operations teams and business staffers? Here’s how to devise a strategy. Organizations that want to build a DevOps toolchain have an unprecedented number of products to evaluate. This process can be daunting for a business that wants to build a toolchain that is both comprehensive and efficient. Capabilities sought in a DevOps toolchain can include integrated development environments, repositories, CI/CD, code review, release orchestration,

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DevOps in India and ITIL 4

Source:- dqindia.com Over the past 10 years, the idea of combining development and production within IT operations – known as DevOps – has spread throughout the world of IT. A report by Markets and Markets estimates the global DevOps market growth at up to $10.31 Billion by 2023. The demand for DevOps will be driven by several factors such as lower costs, flexibility, agility, and fast application delivery. Therefore, this opens up significant career opportunities for DevOps engineers in India and worldwide.

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VMware and Carbon Black Announce Extension of Tender Offer

Source:-globenewswire.com PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 27, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) and Carbon Black, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBLK) have announced that VMware has extended the offering period of its previously announced cash tender offer to purchase all of the outstanding shares of common stock (the “Shares”), of Carbon Black for a price of $26 per share (the “Tender Offer”). On September 24, 2019, the Austrian Federal Competition Authority (Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde) provided verbal confirmation that they do not have any objections

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Upping IT Skills: IT Pros Cite Significant Challenges

Source:- devops.com Anyone who works within enterprise technology learns very quickly that if they want to stay relevant to the workforce, they’ll need to continuously learn new skills. But it’s certainly hard keeping up with new skill training while also keeping pace with day-to-day work demands. This is probably why a survey earlier this year from IT management software provider SolarWinds found that 70% of all technology professionals surveyed do not feel completely confident that they have all the necessary

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Transitioning from DevOps to DevSecOps

Source:- securityboulevard.com Introduction DevOps is essentially the combination of software development and IT operations, and it is found in many enterprise environments. DevOps initially started as a process that fostered an agile type of relationship between developers and IT operations teams. This led to much more rapid development and deployment times and facilitated better communication between different departments within the organization. DevOps helped developers to better understand the operational requirements of the organization while letting the operations side see how

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Indeni Uses Ansible Community Capabilities to Deliver Security Infrastructure Automation

Source:-venturebeat.com Announcing Globally Sourced Auto-Remediation for Leading Security Vendors SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–September 23, 2019– Indeni, the leader in Security Infrastructure Automation, today announced that it is using Ansible to further enable customers to reduce risk and improve agility of security infrastructure operations. Indeni has embedded Ansible community capabilities into the Indeni Platform to enhance its market pioneering Auto Detection capabilities by supporting Auto Triage use cases. Indeni has over 500 Automation Elements for leading security vendors such as Check Point, Palo Alto Networks, Juniper, Fortinet, F5 Networks and more. Indeni

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Kubernetes, Containers and HPC

Source:-hpcwire.com Software containers and Kubernetes are important tools for building, deploying, running and managing modern enterprise applications at scale and delivering enterprise software faster and more reliably to the end user — while using resources more efficiently and reducing costs. Recently, high performance computing (HPC) is moving closer to the enterprise and can therefore benefit from an HPC container and Kubernetes ecosystem, with new requirements to quickly allocate and deallocate computational resources to HPC workloads. Compute capacity, be it for

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Mark Thompson Named CTO of Gulf Coast DevOps

Source:-globenewswire.com Gulf Coast DevOps, Inc. today announced that Mark Thompson has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer, effective immediately. Thompson will guide GCDO’s DevOps for ITOps strategy, which is to deliver proven automation and service assurance solutions for complex digital transformation initiatives. GCDO launched operations last month and its services are now available. “Mark is a long-time associate of ours so we are confident that he is an ideal fit for our growing technical organization,” said Scott Kimmelman, Founder

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AWS Advances DevOps Agenda at Summit Event

Source:-devops.com Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added services to its cloud platform designed to automate the creation of virtual private clouds (VPCs) and made available additional tools to build applications and integrate external data. Speaking at the AWS Summit event, CTO Werner Vogels said these latest services are part of an ongoing effort to automate DevOps processes to the point at which developers will need to write only the code for business logic that runs on top of the AWS

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It’s great to move to a DevOps approach – but have you told anyone else?

Source:- cloudcomputing-news.net One of the key inhibitors to progress in DevOps is internal communication – or the lack of it – according to a new survey. The report, from Trend Micro, polled 1,310 IT decision makers across enterprise and SMB levels and found almost nine in 10 (89%) are lobbying for greater communication between software development and IT security teams. More than three quarters (77%) said developers, security and operations teams needed to be in closer contact. So where is the

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Lack of communication hampers DevOps

Source:- itweb.co.za Despite the enterprise benefits promised by adopting a DevOps culture, the majority of IT leaders believe that communication between IT security and software development must improve greatly to achieve success. This was one of the findings of a recent survey, led by Vanson Bourne on behalf of Trend Micro, which examined the attitudes towards DevOps held by 1 310 IT decision-makers from within both enterprise and SME organisations worldwide. Those polled are at different stages of the DevOps implementation

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ServiceNow says it will run its full SaaS platform on Microsoft’s Azure plus its own cloud

Source:- A couple of months after announcing a strategic partnership with Google Cloud, ServiceNow is expanding its cloud commitments with Microsoft. Cloud-automation platform vendor ServiceNow is planning to make its full software-as-a-service platform available on Microsoft’s Azure in addition to its own private cloud. The July 9 announcement is an expansion of an alliance between the two companies originally announced last fall. Like a number of other independent software vendors (ISVs), such as Adobe, ServiceNow is committing to making Azure

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DevOps CI/CD Engineer

Source :- iamexpat.nl Do you have DevOps mindset and the technical skills to provide communication, integration, automation, and close cooperation among all the people needed to plan, develop, test, deploy, release, and maintain software for our IGT systems? Are you able to manage the system software configuration throughout the whole lifecycle? Are you pro-active and someone who can drive change? Then we are looking for you!  • Participate as the DevOps expert in the development projects and maintenance activitie. Requirements:

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How DevOps Teams Can Skill Up on DataOps

Source :- devops.com Probably not. Although it might be comforting to imagine that every company has a dedicated team of data specialists on staff who oversee data operations, the reality is that the vast majority of companies employ no data scientists at all. Only around 6% of large enterprises have data scientists on staff, and virtually no small and medium businesses employ data scientists. What this means is that at most companies, effective data management is the responsibility of any and

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DevSecOps is Not a Role or Technology: It’s a Culture to Wholly Embrace

Source:-towardsdatascience.com Too often during the software development lifecycle, security is being left behind in the name of continuous development and deployment. It’s a huge problem that leaves organizations susceptible to increasingly sophisticated attackers and a big reason why we continue to see serious breaches that compromise sensitive information. By essentially making security an afterthought, organizations are leaving the proverbial door open for attackers – and it’s become a systemic problem. But the culture of DevSecOps, also often referred to SecDevOOps

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What Is AIOps & Why It Is The Future Of IT Operations

Source- analyticsindiamag.com The term AIOps which means “algorithmic IT operations” was coined by a research firm refers to the integration of analytics and machine learning for scaling and improving various IT operations. AIOps is positioned as a continuous integration and continuous deployment for core IT functions and has two main components — big data and ML. It denotes a shift from siloed data to a more dynamic business environment which will be crucial for digital transformation. AIOps platforms are popularly defined as software

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Is ‘Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins’ right for you?

Source- searchitoperations.techtarget.com Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins by Rafal Leszko is a comprehensive book that presents the requirements for successful DevOps implementation and management in organizations of all sizes. Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins is a valuable resource to have available when you need examples of organizations that practice CD methods via Docker for containers and Jenkins for CI/CD. The book contrasts traditional delivery methods and their challenges with CD, which Leszko portrays as the best solution. Leszko thoroughly familiarizes the reader

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Red Hat Positions PaaS as Cure to Heal DevOps Divide

Source – devops.com Red Hat is making a strategic bet that IT organizations increasingly will rely on platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments to make a broad range of distributed services available to developers, which would eliminate friction without enabling IT operations teams to maintain control. Paul Cormier, president of products and technologies for Red Hat, said IT organizations are realizing PaaS environments such as OpenShift have evolved into a platform through which a broad range of curated distributed services can be exposed to

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Do ops skills fall into an IT engineering job description?

Source – techtarget.com IT professionals love to learn and develop new skills. With the advent of site reliability engineering and other IT engineer job descriptions, operations professionals should gravitate toward technologies — and conversations — that will propel them into engineering positions. In the IT world, a rather blurry line distinguishes what makes a job IT operations rather than IT engineering, or vice versa. Many professionals have a mixed role, and particularly with the growth of DevOps methodology, it’s become rarer for

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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

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