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• 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

• These steps in the test automation process quash IT surprises

  Automated testing ranges from rapid unit tests to production-mimicking performance tests. If you're deploying new code frequently, make sure you have the right test automation. Continue Reading

• IT service delivery model uses BPM to translate ops to biz

  A business process management structure for IT service delivery can bridge the gap between IT and the rest of the business, allowing IT leaders to sit at the table for important decisions. Continue Reading

• ServiceNow

  ServiceNow is a cloud-based self-proclaimed “everything as a service” company focused on facilitating the management of IT services (ITSM), IT operations, IT business and software development. Continue Reading

• Definitions to Get Started

  • GitOps
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  • DevOps engineer
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  • application containerization (app containerization)
  • IT operations
  • Kubernetes
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• Linux Containers Project

  Linux Containers is a project created to provide a distro- and vendor-neutral environment for the development of Linux container technologies.Continue Reading

• zero touch provisioning (ZTP)

  Zero touch provisioning (ZTP) is a switch feature that allows the devices to be provisioned and configured automatically, eliminating most of the manual labor involved with adding them to a network.Continue Reading

• agile test automation pyramid

  The agile test automation pyramid is a graphical strategy guide for implementing automated software testing. The model splits types of testing into three layers based on the return on investment (ROI) offered by automating that particular type.Continue Reading

• Loggly

  Loggly is a cloud-based enterprise log management and analytics tool. The Software as a Service product makes log data accessible and useful to more groups within an enterprise.Continue Reading

• Perforce Software

  Perforce is a software company that specializes in software configuration management, version control and collaboration products. The company is the recognized market leader in version control within the gaming sector.Continue Reading

• Elastic Stack

  Elastic Stack is a group of open source products from Elastic designed to help users take data from any type of source and in any format and search, analyze, and visualize that data in real time.Continue Reading

• Kibana

  Kibana is an open source data visualization and exploration platform from Elastic that is specialized for large volumes of streaming and real-time data.Continue Reading

• Elastic

  Elastic is a software company that provides products and services related to Elasticsearch, its distributed enterprise search engine.Continue Reading

• What do IT administrator skills mean now?

  In a world full of data-aware this and internet-connected that, deep IT administrator skills should be more in-demand than ever.Continue Reading

• Immutable infrastructure takes build automation to the systems level

  Despite the shiny new term, immutable infrastructure is simply a new approach to a familiar concept. And like all great concepts, it's best explained with pizza.Continue Reading