DataRobot,a provider of a platform for building artificial intelligence (AI) applications, this week acquired Agnostic, a provider of an open source distributed computing platform, dubbed Covalent, that will be integrated with its machine learning operations (MLOps) framework. Based on Python, Covalent is an orchestration platform that provides IT teams with a serverless computing framework that […]
BMC CEO: Time for IT Teams to Shift Gears is Now
BMC CEO Aman Sayed is predicting that as the global economy after several years continues to stabilize, there are now enough signs to suggest the company year will see a wave of growth that will require IT teams to start shifting gears now if they hope to be prepared to meet new challenges. Speaking this […]
Best Practices for Managing Remote IT Teams
With IT teams around the world adjusting to remote working while still struggling to maintain productivity and workflows, ensuring DevOps and Agile practices are in place has never been more important. And while typical DevOps professionals probably have significantly better remote desktop setups than most of their business peers, it’s how IT leaders manage these […]
Survey Shows Most IT Teams Adapting in New COVID-19 Normal
A survey of 122 IT professionals published today by SolarWinds in advance of IT Pro Day next week, finds that while IT teams are enjoying greater respect within their organizations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly a third (31%) admit there’s a need to rethink internal processes to better accommodate rapid change. Overall, […]
Sparkhound Unveils Pop-Up Service Desk
Sparkhound, a provider of managed IT services, has launched a Pop-Up Service Desk designed to augment the existing capabilities of internal IT teams during a major transition. Chris Kimmel, managing director for managed services at Sparkhound, said the new service was created to help organizations cope with transitions such as migrating to Windows 10 or […]
Untapping the Potential of DevOps, Part 4: Tips for Launching a DevOps Team
DevOps has become a hot strategy for IT teams across just about every industry—and for good reason. DevOps is built around increasing the velocity of the development pipeline, and in businesses where time to market is a key to success, it’s easy to imagine why DevOps has gained traction. While the tools and processes put […]
How Can IT Admins Maintain a Grip on Secure Access?
Today’s IT environment is evolving at a rapid pace, requiring production environments to be highly scalable and elastic and requiring faster software release cycles and cloud adoption. As a result, there’s a broad move toward Docker containers to make software deployment faster, easier and more consistent across computing environments. Bundling an application and its supporting […]
How Enterprise IT Teams Can Win the Hearts of DevOps
Take your average IT team in a young enterprise in the midst of skyrocketing growth. There’s a good chance the workflows they’ve used since the outset can’t keep up with the ever-increasing volume of requests from the business. In the minds of some DevOps and app development teams in particular, the IT department of the […]
IT Leadership Still Struggles to Satisfy the Business, Deliver Innovation
If a recently published report by Salesforce is to be believed, the rest of IT leadership is starting to catch up with what IT leaders have long known: Business technology needs to be customer experience-driven. This year’s report, Salesforce’s second annual broad look at the state of enterprise IT found that the line continues to […]
Puppet Launches 2017 State of DevOps Survey
It’s that time of year again! We at Puppet have kicked off the 2017 annual State of DevOps. survey. Now in its sixth year, we have once again teamed up with DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA), founded by our dear friends Gene Kim, Jez Humble and Nicole Forsgren, to survey technology professionals worldwide in an […]