BMC today revealed it is embedding generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities across its BMC Helix service and operations management platforms. BMC CTO Ram Chakravarti said the company is incorporating the open source GPT-J large language models (LLMS) to build generative AI models. Those models are optimized for specific domains using data collected by BMC and […]
7 DevOps Lessons in 2018: The Path to DevOps Success in 2019
We all learn from mistakes, right? But it would be better if we learned faster and didn’t repeat them in our future exercises. And this is exactly what we will discuss here in this blog. For a while now, we’ve been overwhelmed by the idea of the DevOps principle. We love how the collaboration between […]
DevOps Transition: The Cultural Commitments and Challenges
Enterprises can achieve certain levels of success by filling a need in the market, hiring skilled teams and utilizing cutting-edge tools and technologies. However, to set themselves apart and chart a course for long-term success, they need to address the values, beliefs and behaviors that make up organizational culture as carefully as they address business […]
Roadblocks to Successful DevOps Often Human, Not Technical
Usually, when people talk about DevOps, they focus on the technical aspects. However, in my experience we need to highlight what lies behind technology: the people. To effectively implement DevOps, we have to understand that many obstacles are not technical, but human. In working with various organizations in their DevOps journeys, I have seen six […]
Simplifying Through DevOps in Banking
There are a great many assets available on the internet that talk about what DevOps is and how far DevOps adoption has come. So we will not repeat the “what” and the “how far.” Instead, we will focus on the road ahead and future of simplification and transformation at banking organizations and the role DevOps […]
Spring Cleaning 101: Polishing Up Your DevOps Processes
Dev teams should take time to tune up agile processes and continue advancing their shift toward DevOps Release cycles are accelerating, but not as fast as development teams want. Customers’ desired release rates are moving at an unimpressive pace; those looking to push out new updates on a weekly basis often find it looks more […]
6 Steps to Take DevOps to the Next Level
Enterprises should be winning at DevOps and reaping the rewards of their digital transformation initiatives. After all, DevOps is not new. Its practices, technologies and processes have been widely accepted for years. Agile techniques, which underpin DevOps, are not new, either. Similarly, digital transformation may have started as a “tech solution” but it is now […]
Next-Generation DevOps: Self-Learning Systems
The massive enterprise movement toward all things “digital” has accelerated the adoption of DevOps in all kinds of projects, but particularly in digital transformation initiatives. Apart from the productivity benefits gained by automating software development and rollout, the increased agility has helped move DevOps adoption to gain critical mass in a relatively short time. However, […]
DevOps Assessment: Assess, Analyze, Implement, Achieve!
DevOps has taken hold in IT. A growing number of organizations are adopting DevOps to deliver applications and services at higher speed; evolve and improve products at a faster pace than in a traditional software development and infrastructure management environment; and better serve their customers. After realizing the benefits of development and operations teams working […]
Seeking the Balance Between Federalism and States’ Rights
When you overhear someone talking about federalism versus states’ rights, you are bound to think they’re talking about national politics. In the meeting rooms of corporate America, however, it’s often a very different discussion going on. For product engineering teams in a medium to large corporate context, many topics and discussions boil down to federalism […]