In the last few years, the lines between information technology and development have been blurred. Developers need to know about infrastructure, and administrators need to know how to code. Advances like containerization, orchestration, continuous integration and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) happened in tandem with DevOps’ rise. The advantage of DevOps is that you can quickly build and […]
Oracle Extends Capabilities of Enterprise Manager Platform
Oracle today announced it has updated its core management platform to provide capabilities that make it easier to manage a hybrid cloud computing environment spanning millions of endpoints. The latest release of Oracle Enterprise Manager (EM) 13c, in addition to greater scalability, also provides support for dynamic groups, dynamic runbooks, automated workload analysis, monitoring templates, […]
CloudBolt Software Aims to Bridge DevOps and IT Divide
CloudBolt Software today released a Winter update to its cloud management platform that aims to bridge the divide between DevOps teams and traditional IT administrators. IT administrators can now employ the CloudBolt platform to invoke the open source Ansible framework for automating IT processes and workflows using a graphical user interface (GUI) surfaced via a […]
Tips for Modern IT Admins’ Career to the Cloud
Fifteen years ago IT professionals experienced a drastically different day-to-day on the job. While the main mission has always remained constant—to take charge of all internal infrastructure—the infrastructure itself has moved off-premises over time. The complexity rested in networking for IT professionals. Routers, switches, firewalls and other gear needed to be managed so the network […]
HashiCorp Tools Bridge DevOps, Legacy IT Environments
At its HashiConf EU 2019 conference this week, HashiCorp extended the reach of its Terraform Enterprise tools for automating the management of IT infrastructure beyond the realm of DevOps into legacy IT environments. Via integration with the Service Catalog from ServiceNow, IT administrators working with a traditional ITIL-based framework now can invoke Terraform Enterprise to […]