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The DevOps roadmap for large organizations: Free chapter
DevOps advice often spotlights unicorns and small companies on the bleeding edge. Gary Gruver's third book is for large organizations that need a starting point. Continue Reading
SNMP monitoring tools improve how IT looks at application performance
To better manage application performance, you need to collect the right data. SNMP monitoring has the advantages of wide adoption and compatibility with other monitoring schemes. Continue Reading
Take a self-guided IT maturity assessment
Compare the progressive stages of IT maturity against your organization's use of documentation, goal orientation and automation; then discover areas for improvement. Continue Reading
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IT leadership -- let's get our act together
I've been consulting to organizations for many years now. To the point that I've probably worked with, in some capacity or another, well over 100 different companies and IT leadership teams. ... Continue Reading
Machine learning business applications increase IT productivity
AI has been a hot topic for decades, but it wasn't until recently that machine learning technology yielded productivity improvement. AI presents unique challenges, but could streamline workflows for businesses. Continue Reading
Declare the merits of a declarative configuration management process
The market seems to be answering a question that's been around since the dawn of DevOps -- is an imperative or declarative configuration management model the best approach?Continue Reading
Real-life change management examples prove it's harder than it looks
Whether your IT shop rigorously follows a service management framework or takes a laissez-faire approach to changes, these examples help hone change management procedures.Continue Reading
Puppet (Puppet Labs)
Puppet is an open source systems management tool for centralizing and automating configuration management. Administrators can encode the configuration of a service as a policy, which Puppet then monitors and enforces.Continue Reading
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
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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
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