Successful digital transformations are not possible without successful data transformation. After all, it’s data—and the ability to analyze that data—about an organization’s customers, employees, infrastructure, market dynamics, supply chain, business-technology systems and more that make digital transformation possible. However, last year Gartner said that “information as an asset” is still in its infancy. “Data and […]
DataOps and DevOps: A Match Made in Heaven
The adoption of IT technologies has increased exponentially over the last few decades. Nowadays, the need to create quality web applications while simultaneously managing their extensive data effectively is a major concern for any organization. As such, there have been continuous efforts to come up with better approaches to software development, data analysis and data […]
The Taxonomy of DataOps
Data Operations, or DataOps for short, is one of those IT buzzwords that lots of people use, yet few can define precisely. Like the cloud or DevOps, DataOps doesn’t make sense until you sit down and really think through what it entails. To that end, let’s take a look in this article at the taxonomy […]
The Value of Visual Data in Decision-Making
Gone are the days when a gut-feeling was a major decision-making driver in business. Instinct has ruled business leaders’ mind for a very long time, but as companies expand their business globally, instinct should give way to data as the best measure to remain competitive. We live in a data-driven world. Today, number-crunching algorithms decide […]
How AIOps Helps You Get More Out of DevOps
DevOps may seem like an overused term. It involves taking an application’s source code and running it in an environment. It can cover the processes, the technology or even the people that maintain the technology that is running those very processes. At its heart, though, DevOps is about helping developers to be self-sufficient when it […]
Top 5 Best Practices for DevOps Monitoring
Today organizations are required to deliver on higher levels of customer satisfaction for their online services. Many, however, are forced to support these initiatives with an interrupt-driven approach as they react to fix things after they break. However, for a more proactive approach and to manage expected high levels of SLAs, organizations can opt to […]
Useful Big Data Terminologies, Part 1
As data continues to increase at an evermore rapid pace, organizations struggle to deal with this data torrent, let alone use it to analyze and capture value. The ways used to understand this big data also is increasingly rapidly, which introduces myriad terms used to define these methods. The follow is an attempt to provide […]
Why You Need to Embrace Automation
Just in case you hadn’t noticed: The robots are coming. Well, you probably had noticed. It’s hard to miss. Newspaper articles and blogs everywhere herald their arrival. The stories usually follow the same general formula: A catalogue of amazing things that robots (really, AI systems) can do. Debate about forced unemployment vs. people freed up to do […]