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Cloud, DevOps tips for an IT organization to reach its full potential
IT teams everywhere are locking in budgets, laying plans for the new year, brewing strong pots of coffee and setting these 10 ideas into motion. Continue Reading
Six DevOps books to read this season
These six Agile and DevOps books cover how to adopt the methodologies, manage IT organizations with them, and find routes to improvement. Continue Reading
Idempotent configuration management sets things right -- no matter what
Idempotency ensures a system won't stray from its designated desired state, sending alerts to systems administrators if a requested change would cause a disruption. Continue Reading
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How IT management tools change a data center for the better
Organizations that choose to adopt IT management tools can gain the upper hand on reporting, troubleshooting, provisioning and other important data center functions. Continue Reading
ALM best practices for advanced DevOps organizations
This guide demystifies the transition process from Agile to DevOps and poses considerations for better application lifecycle management from reqs to EOL. Continue Reading
These IT automation scripts take little effort and save a lot of work
Doing IT by hand is doing it wrong. Whether to provision components, research an issue or report on performance, IT automation scripts are powerful and easy to write.Continue Reading
IT incident report
An IT incident report is documentation of an event that has disrupted the normal operation of some IT system (or that had the potential to do so) and how that situation was handled.Continue Reading
Start here to build an IT service management framework: Free chapter
If you've ever felt as if you're swimming against the tide to understand IT service management, 'TRIM: The Rational IT Model' serves up a 101 course.Continue Reading
A fast data architecture whizzes by traditional data management tools
New types of information, and the need to immediately access it, are reshaping the big data market into the fast data market. New data management platforms have emerged and are jockeying for acceptance.Continue Reading
Salt minions and grains facilitate deployment at scale
A tiered management setup and finely grained monitoring capabilities make SaltStack's configuration management tool worth considering.Continue Reading
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Chapter excerpt: DevOps guide lights a path for enterprises
If 'The Phoenix Project' inspired you to adopt DevOps, 'The DevOps Handbook' is here to guide you through the complex process.Continue Reading
IT systems management
Systems management is the administration of the information technology systems in an enterprise data center. An effective systems management plan facilitates the delivery of IT as a service (ITaaS) and allows the organization's employees to respond ...Continue Reading
DevOps quiz: What IT admins need to know
As DevOps tools gain a place in the IT landscape, IT admins should brush up on what they know about DevOps.Continue Reading
preventive maintenance
Preventive maintenance is the practice of routinely taking measures in hardware administration that reduces the risk of failures and improves the likelihood of quick recovery in the event that a failure does occur.Continue Reading
DevOps capabilities vary widely by industry vertical
DevOps isn't the same from one IT shop to another, let alone from healthcare to retail IT. Some verticals rise higher than others when it comes to agility and communication.Continue Reading