In this episode of DevOps Unbound, hosts Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley are joined by Helen Beal of the DevOps Institute, Viktoria Praschl of Tricentis, Frank Ohlhorst, principal analyst with Accelerated Strategies Group and Alex Hidalgo of Nobl9 to discuss how to use DevOps metrics effectively to improve delivery performance and help teams become high-performing with a culture of continuous improvement. The video is below and a transcript of the conversation follows.
Turbocharge Enterprise Apps With Contextual Analytics
Software product managers and developers typically treat analytics as a standalone capability—something to be integrated into their application’s dashboard or reporting module. As a product feature, analytics is undoubtedly a valuable tool. But offering it merely as a tacked-on function is an approach that lags behind where your users are today. When data analytics is […]
Open Source Vs. Proprietary DataOps
Core DataOps concepts are making their way into data engineering teams and, from there, into the broader enterprise. Data engineers are retooling how they create data products, and much of this work revolves around creating data pipelines. DataOps pipelines offer the kind of observability that traditional data integration and ETL processes don’t or can’t. They […]
VMware Enhances Management Portfolio
VMware today rolled out a series of updates to its automation and monitoring portfolio as part of an ongoing effort to simplify management of highly distributed IT environments. Updates to the VMware vRealize Cloud automation portfolio include VMware vRealize Automation 8.4’s tighter integration with the open source Salt automation framework the company gained by acquiring […]
IBM Deepens DevOps Insights on Mainframes
IBM today extended its effort to enable IT organizations that have mainframes to embrace DevOps best practices by updating the analytics tools it provides. Tom McPherson, vice president for IBM Z Software, said a version 6.0 update to the suite of IBM application discovery and delivery intelligence (ADDI) for IBM Z tools surfaces more granular […]
The Digital Transformation of Decision-Making
The ability to make effective business decisions has historically relied on factors such as experience, qualifications, talent and, in many cases, luck. Strategic and tactical choices are also informed by ‘borrowing’ the insight and knowledge of others. In many situations, ‘follow the leader’ can be an effective approach, and one need only study any sector […]
ZeroNorth Adds Analytics App to Advance DevSecOps
ZeroNorth today added an Advanced AppSec Risk Analytics module to its platform for orchestrating DevSecOps processes. John Worrall, ZeroNorth CEO, said the analytics tool pulls vulnerability data generated by a variety of security tools to provide both DevOps and cybersecurity professionals with a single source of truth for assessing security within an application environment. The […]
An Analytics Workload is a Critical Data Management Tool
From an organizational perspective, an analytics workload is a way to gain a data-driven business advantage. Analytics workloads can serve a primary objective that translates to an actionable business impact (such as analyzing A/B testing results, understanding user retention or finding anomalies in a flow, for instance) or can serve in a supporting role for […]
Datadog Expands Scope of Monitoring, Analytics Services
Datadog, at its online Dash conference today, launched an incident management platform along with additional analytics tools to identify application errors and performance and compliance issues. Amit Agarwal, chief product officer, said these latest additions to the Datadog platform are intended to further consolidate IT management and monitoring. IT organizations should not find themselves acquiring […]
Pinpoint Dives Deeper into Software Delivery Analytics
Pinpoint has extended its platform for managing software delivery to include the ability to analyze historical events to facility team reviews as well as more accurately predict where bottlenecks are likely to emerge based on the past performance of the DevOps team. Company CEO Jeff Haynie said the company’s namesake software is employed today mainly […]