DevOps

DevOps is an emerging set of principles, methods and practices for communication, collaboration and integration between software development (application/software engineering) and IT operations (systems administration/infrastructure) professionals. DevOps has also been called “agile system administration” or “agile operations”. DevOps is the blending of tasks performed by a company's application development and systems operations teams, and can be system administrators participating in an agile development process alongside developers and using many of the same agile techniques for their systems work.

Article: An Executive’s Look Ahead at 4 Configuration Management Tool Trends for 2011

In 2010, there were a number of both prominent and subtle trends in IT. These developments will continue to influence and...

Also labeled: Virtualization, Data Center, Configuration Management

Article: Change Management Challenges in Today's Complex IT Landscape

IT operations teams face the strain of constant change requests, further compounded by increasingly complex environments that need to be kept available and operating at high performance continuously. Due to this, the main cause of slowdown in IT...

Also labeled: Change Management, Configuration Management, Release Management

Article: DevOps Developments: Bob Aiello Interviews Sasha Gilenson

DevOps stands to make a major impact on the hectic implementation of application releases and ongoing change requests, bringing Development and Operations closer together and working in tighter cooperation. Bob Aiello of CM Crossroads video interviews...

Also labeled: Configuration Management, Data Center

Article: DevOps Misunderstandings and how DevOps Really Drives Business Needs

Some companies have pushed back at the ideas DevOps has spawned. This is due more from misunderstanding, rather than what the core of term truly represents. DevOps is not an issue essentially about technology, but at its core it is inextricably...

Also labeled: Release Management, Agile

Article: How to Drive Change While Remaining in Control – A recorded webinar with experts from EMA and Evolven

Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) Managing Research Director, Steve Brasen, pulled in an impressive crowd in with his amazing insights on change & configuration at our recent webinar now available for you to watch on demand. Learn how ...

Also labeled: Change Management, Configuration Management, Webinar, Agile

Article: No-Ops? New-Ops? Cloud-Ops!

NoOps has certainly created a new wave of heated discussion. Yet the NoOps vision is really easier said than done. Rather than get caught up in the excitement around NoOps, we would say that we are really looking at a state of NewOps, or better...

Also labeled: Cloud, IT Operations

Article: The Crucial Role DevOps Plays in Change & Configuration Management

One of the main drivers for DevOps is change. Organizations feel the need to increase speed and be able to react instantly to...

Also labeled: Change Management

Article: The Growth of ALM and the Need for Tools and Techniques to Keep ALM on Course

Agile development today is creating a heavy impact on application lifecycle management. There is a lot of...

Also labeled: Data Center, Release Management, Complexity, Agile

Article: Weekly IT Highlights on Cloud, DevOps, Big Data and More

As Friday comes around, we want to recap some of the best stuff from our blog on IT Operations, Cloud Computing, IT Analytics, DevOps and IT Management, and any other topics that found interesting and shared over the week. See these articles worth...

Also labeled: Data Center, Cloud, Big Data