Onboarding AI agents is no longer optional—DevOps must treat them like new engineers, with guardrails, observability, and lifecycle management to prevent operational debt.
System Initiative Adds AI Agents to Infrastructure Automation Platform
System Initiative introduces autonomous AI agents to its infrastructure automation platform, using digital twins to help DevOps teams safely optimize and manage IT environments.
Cultural Debt vs. Technical Debt in Infrastructure Automation
While technical debt, the accumulated cost of quick fixes and legacy code, is a familiar concept, cultural debt often goes unnoticed.
Understanding the Infrastructure Automation Maturity Model
Nearly every company wants to evolve its digital transformation and increase the pace of software delivery and operations. And infrastructure automation is a new means to achieve these ends. It supports the emerging discipline of platform engineering and can increase scalability and reactivity to unforeseen events, enabling software ecosystems to be more anti-fragile. Increased infrastructure […]
Enabling Developers with Infrastructure Automation
Enabling developers with infrastructure automation Being first to market with new and improved applications and services is how successful organizations grow and differentiate business offerings. Continuous software delivery means everything is fluid and constantly changed to enable the speed and agility required to ensure applications deliver on increasingly higher consumer satisfaction expectations. Everything released and […]
IT Automation Tools Are No Longer Enough
As Chris Gardner—who conducted the Forrester Wave on Infrastructure Automation Platforms—stated, “Infrastructure automation isn’t just on-premises or in the cloud. It’s at the edge and everywhere in between.” And that’s because, well, it needs to be. It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone reading this that IT automation is a must-have for organizations today. […]
Speaking the Language of Applications
I arrived early to a meeting, and the pleasant security guard at AT&T suggested I take a look at their innovation museum while I wait. Among motion picture sound technology and life-size photos of switchboard operators on roller-skates stood a transistor prototype. The transistor was invented in Bell labs in 1947, and it changed the […]
Using Automation to Control Cloud Costs
By building in cost control automation from the very beginning, you can keep your cloud costs low while encouraging innovation. Infrastructure automation has become vital for every modern sys admin and operations team. Applications and systems are evolving from single-host mainframes to distributed microservices architectures. This automation has gone from basic operating system installation and […]
DevOps Chat: DevOps and the Road to Cloud with JT Giri, CEO, nClouds
For many of us in the IT industry, migrating to the cloud is old news. Even the concept of how DevOps can help on the road to the cloud is not a novel idea. However, we need to remember that while many organizations have some cloud-based infrastructure, the real migration to the cloud is still […]
Why Your Company Needs An Automated Infrastructure
IT teams and software have started to embrace automation across all levels of the development life cycle, from planning and testing to deployment and maintenance. With the advent of DevOps, and the cloud, it’s now entirely possible for technical teams to spin up new environments in a matter of minutes instead of days. The process […]