Nutanix Enterprise Cloud for DevOps
DevOps is often described as a combination of technology and culture. Without
both, DevOps isn't complete. However, applying the culture to outdated
technology is a recipe for disaster; as response times grow and connections
between teams are delayed by technology, the culture will die. A Nutanix
Enterprise Cloud has many benefits that provide the needed base for a true
DevOps paradigm.
In his Day 3 Keynote at 20th Cloud Expo, Chris Brown, a Solutions Marketing
Manager at Nutanix, will explore the ways that Nutanix technologies empower
teams to react faster than ever before and connect teams in ways that were
either too complex or simply impossible with traditional infrastructures.
Speaker Bio
Chris Brown is a Solutions Marketing Manager at Nutanix. He has 6 years of IT
experience, with the majority of that time being spent in tec... (more)
Reboot Your Leadership for DevOps Success: Why Culture Trumps Tech in the
DevOps Stakes
Culture is the most important ingredient of DevOps. The challenge for most
organizations is defining and communicating a vision of beneficial DevOps
culture for their organizations, and then facilitating the changes needed to
achieve that. Often this comes down to an ability to provide true leadership.
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As a CIO, are your direct reports IT managers or are they IT leaders? The
hard truth is that many IT managers have risen through the ranks based on
their technical skills, not their leadership ability. Many are unable to
effectively engage and inspire, creating forward momentum in the direction of
desired change. Renowned for its approach to leadership and emphasis on their
people, organizations increasingly look to our military for insight into
these... (more)
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DevOps in an Open and Heterogeneous World
Keeping pace with advancements in software delivery processes and tooling is
taxing even for the most proficient organizations. Point tools, platforms,
open source and the increasing adoption of private and public cloud services
requires strong engineering rigor - all in the face of developer demands to
use the tools of choice. As Agile has settled in as a mainstream practice,
now DevOps has emerged as the next wave to improve software delivery speed
and output. To make DevOps work, organizations must focus on what is most
relevant to deliver value, reduce IT complexity, create more repeatable
agile-based processes and leverage increasingly secure and stable,
cloud-based infrastructure platforms.
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In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 18th Clo... (more)
The Simple Checklist for Solving Ghost Issues at Remote Offices
By Joe Michalowski
IT leaders have always had their hands full with ghost issues on-premises.
But for businesses that rely on remote and branch offices, monitoring a
sprawling network of on-premises equipment introduces even more challenges.
That's why we move to the cloud, right? To help us eliminate truck rolls,
improve cost efficiency and centralize management of applications across all
locations.
When you've migrated to the cloud (even if it's just for something like
office applications like Office 365 or G Suite), you've already considered
compliance, licensing, budget concerns. But what happens when your remote
users start experiencing classic ghost issues?
Every application performance issue comes with unique challenges, but it's
important to have a basic checklist to help you approach each new sit... (more)
Seven Essentials for a Top-Performing IT Help Desk
By Ujjwal Sood, product analyst, ManageEngine
The help desk forms the backbone of IT operations for many federal, state and
local government agencies. In fact, the cross-functional nature of its
operation means the help desk directly impacts productivity and is an
essential part of what enables an agency to meet its stakeholder needs.
However, owing to increasingly complex IT environments, managers struggle to
ensure that their help desks are operating at optimum efficiency. This
seven-point guide will help IT managers ensure their help desks deliver
exceptional service while maximizing productivity.
1. Create the right structure: Properly structuring an IT help desk can
greatly improve its efficiency. Organize help desks into multiple levels or
tiers. In a three-tier help desk, for example, tier 0 can be a self-serv... (more)
How Continuous Integration Works, and the Big Benefit No One Talks About
By Sarah Albeb
In a digital world that moves as fast as ours, programmers are applying new,
creative ways of thinking to the software development process in a non-stop
push for ever-faster turnaround times. In DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI)
is increasingly the integration method of choice, in large part because of
the speed at which it enables the release of new features, bug fixes, and
product updates.
CI dictates that every time a developer pushes code to an application, an
automated process grabs the current code from a shared repository, integrates
the new build, and tests the software for problems. This approach leads to
faster results and ensures software is tested on a regular basis, which
enables further DevOps automation processes such as delivery, deployment, and
experimentation.... (more)
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How Customers Are Operationalizing Their DevOps Tool Chain from
Planning-to-Ops
Without lifecycle traceability and visibility across the tool chain,
stakeholders from Planning-to-Ops have limited insight and answers to who,
what, when, why and how across the DevOps lifecycle. This impacts the ability
to deliver high quality software at the needed velocity to drive positive
business outcomes.
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In his session at @DevOpsSummit 19th Cloud Expo, Eric Robertson, General
Manager at CollabNet, showed how customers are able to achieve a level of
transparency that enables everyone from Planning-to-Ops to make informed
decisions based on business priority and leverage automation to accelerate
identifying issues and fast fix to drive continuous feedback and KPI insight.
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Is NoOps the End of DevOps? Think Again
By Jordan Bach
Automation, a key pillar of the DevOps movement, frees IT operations to focus
on higher-level work and collaborate with cross-functional teams. But what if
your automation is so good that developers don’t need you anymore?
Mike Gualtieri of Forrester Research coined the term NoOps in his
controversial blog post “I don’t want DevOps. I want NoOps.” In the
post, Gualtieri says, “NoOps means that application developers will never
have to speak with an operations professional again.”
During his time as a Cloud Architect at Netflix, Adrian Cockcroft expanded on
the definition of NoOps in his blog post “Ops, DevOps, and PaaS (NoOps) at
Netflix.” “There is no ops organization involved in running our cloud, no
need for the developers to interact with ops people to get things done, and
less time spent actually doing ops t... (more)
Five Tips to Speed up Environment and Server Provisioning
By Yann Guernion
In large enterprises, environment provisioning and server provisioning
account for a significant portion of the operations team's time. This often
leaves users frustrated while they wait for these services. For instance,
server provisioning can take several days and sometimes even weeks.
At the same time, digital transformation means the need for server and
environment provisioning is constantly growing. Organizations are adopting
agile methodologies and software teams are increasing the speed of their
development processes, thus requiring more and more servers and environments
to be provisioned for their development and testing.
Here are five things to consider about server and environment provisioning:
1. Remove Manual Steps
Provisioning a server may be as simple as starting a new VM, but ofte... (more)
Who Needs Release Orchestration and Why?
By Jason J. Lenny
IT organizations are relying more and more on using release orchestration
tools instead of tracking their software releases using programs like Excel,
Google Docs, and PowerPoint. Much of the popularity of release orchestrators
can be attributed to their versatility-they're extremely useful to different
people doing a variety of work across the delivery pipeline. Today we're
going to explore a few of the different technology roles that can benefit the
most from release orchestration.
Release Managers
As the primary users of release orchestrators, Release Managers get a number
of benefits. Taking releases out of Excel and putting them in a unified place
lessens some of the burdens of providing visibility and status updates,
freeing release managers to focus on tracking risks, dependencies, and the
overall pl... (more)
Bubblegum, Foil and Continuous Delivery: Using the Right Tool for the Job
By Larry Salomon
My wife and I have a fun dynamic: she approaches situations with surgical
precision, while I tend to be more of an imprecise paintbrush. One day, she
chastised me for cutting something with a butter knife and insisted that I
should be using a paring knife instead. I argued that it wasn't needed.
Who was right?
As you can imagine, I was intentionally vague with the description of the
situation above in order to illustrate that an understanding of the context
is required to answer it properly. In this particular situation, I already
had the knife out from making my daughter a sandwich for her lunchbox and had
switched to cutting strawberries. So, technically, she was correct, but I was
also able to properly execute my task with the tool at hand, literally.
This loosey-goosey approa... (more)
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