At its core, DevOps is meant to touch an entire organization; however it’s heavily weighted in the software development life cycle (SDLC). That’s why DevOps is going mainstream in 2018. Companies are making the business benefits of DevOps a top priority—it’s all about delivering value to the customer faster through maximum automation of the release […]
Strap in, CIOs: Analysts Predict Wild Ride for 2018-2020
Digital transformation is the underlying theme of many of the 2018 and beyond IT predictions made recently by analyst firms Forrester, Gartner and IDC. Technologies such as cloud, AI, data analytics, big data, blockchain, IoT, conversational interfaces, DevOps and cybersecurity will also force CIOs to perform a juggling act. The rapid evolution of these technologies […]
Morpheus Data Advances DevOps Across Hybrid Clouds
Thanks to the rise of multi-cloud computing, the challenges associated with managing DevOps are becoming exponentially greater. Most IT organizations are not likely to be 100 percent sure at any given time which application workload is running where. To address that issue, Morpheus Data has added a Cross-Platform Discovery module to its Unified Ops Orchestration […]
Logz.io Extends Scope of Log Analytics Service
Log analytics is all the rage these days among IT and security professionals trying to discover the root cause of any performance issue or security breach. But there’s little consensus about how best to go about analyzing logs. Many IT organizations have made major investments in commercial platforms such as Splunk, while others prefer to […]
IPsoft’s 1Desk Advances AI Labor Force Reality
IPsoft wants to put a digital face on the future of IT operations that will be infused by artificial intelligence (AI). Its recently launched 1Desk service desk combines the Amelia digital assistant with IPsoft’s Apollo virtual engineer technology to automate multiple backend processes. Allan Anderson, director of enterprise solutions for IPsoft, says 1Desk effectively combines […]
AT&T Democratizes Acumos Code for AI
AT&T and India IT outsourcing company Tech Mahindra announced that code the companies jointly developed to drive artificial intelligence (AI) applications is being contributed to the Linux Foundation. Mazin Gilbert, vice president of advanced technology for AT&T Labs, says the goal of Acumos is to not only democratize access to AI software, but also consume […]
Measure What’s Important: DevFinOps
Lately there seem to have been quite a few DevSomethingOps terms being coined. However, I do think we need one more: DevFinOps. Dev-What-Ops? One of the biggest problems in IT is working out the cost of IT. Left unchecked, IT will expand to fill whatever budget it is given. This may mean evermore involved business […]
The Need for Speed Demands New-Era APM
Applications have become the primary conduit by which customers experience a brand, making the application experience critical to business success. As such, continuous delivery and highly available systems that deliver optimal end user experiences at lightning speed have become top priorities for organizations. Modern IT is all about speed, efficiency and customer experience. Simply put, […]
Research Firms Agree, Cloud Growth Continues to Soar
Investment in all the various types of cloud computing has gone gangbusters in recent years, and for good reason: Cloud computing helps to cut cost, shorting time to market, provides unrivaled scale and reliability. This will only continue as enterprises continue to divest from on-premises infrastructure over the long term while seeking to scale the […]
BMC to Infuse AI Across Software Portfolio
At its recent BMC Exchange event, BMC Software announced it will be infusing machine learning algorithms and other artificial intelligence (AI) technologies across its entire portfolio of IT operations software. The first instance of BMC software to make use of machine learning algorithms is the latest version of TrueSight AIOps platform, which ingests data from […]