Application Infrastructure Planning and Management
Find expert tips here for IT operations and DevOps teams on ensuring app resources meet demand, applications and new app features scale and perform acceptably in production, and rapid iterations do not create maintenance issues.
New & Notable
PDF: Are you migrating to DevOps?
As DevOps is slowly taking over the IT landscape, its vital that IT pros understand it before jumping right into the movement. In this complimentary guide, discover an expert breakdown of how DevOps impacts day-to-day operations management in modern IT environments.
Application Infrastructure Planning and Management News
-
August 10, 2018
10
Aug'18
AIOps platforms delve deeper into root cause analysis
AIOps tools offer fresh insights into the root cause of IT incidents, triangulating between application outages, code changes and infrastructure issues.
-
August 06, 2018
06
Aug'18
Enterprise IT struggles with DevOps for mainframe
Mainframe automation tools are nascent, and many mainframe experts are reluctant to embrace DevOps. But large enterprises must address legacy platforms to realize app delivery goals.
-
August 03, 2018
03
Aug'18
IT pros debate upstream vs. packaged Kubernetes implementations
As IT vendors race to package Kubernetes implementations, their fiercest competition is not from other vendors, but from pure upstream code and DIY container orchestration projects.
-
July 27, 2018
27
Jul'18
Google Cloud Build puts GCP spin on cloud CI/CD
Enterprise DevOps shops have yet another cloud CI/CD choice, as well as additional options for managed Kubernetes, function as a service and service mesh.
Application Infrastructure Planning and Management Get Started
Bring yourself up to speed with our introductory content
-
Adopt these continuous delivery principles organization-wide
Follow these principles to advocate for, adopt and adapt continuous delivery. The work won't always be easy, but well-conceived continuous delivery pays off for everyone involved. Continue Reading
-
Words to go: Incident management KPI categories
Because incident management is a vital task for IT operations departments, admins need a way to measure its success. This list of KPIs offers a good place to start. Continue Reading
-
Top continuous delivery benefits and how to get them
Continuous delivery doesn't come without challenges -- like getting every disparate IT team on board -- but its list of perks makes the entire process worthwhile. Continue Reading
Evaluate Application Infrastructure Planning and Management Vendors & Products
Weigh the pros and cons of technologies, products and projects you are considering.
-
Cisco roadmap plots course through clouds to DevOps future
From a Google Cloud partnership to API-based network data integration, Cisco showcased application hosting flexibility and DevOps process flows in its product plans at its annual conference. Continue Reading
-
IT pros weigh Git version control against the competition
You won't get far today without version control to safely iterate on application code. But is Git -- or one of the many commercial products based on Git -- right for your team? Continue Reading
-
Serverless technology obfuscates workflows, performance data
Serverless and microservices reshape the application stack into something that looks like a swath of stars in the sky. How do you find a slow, misconfigured component in this interconnected galaxy? Continue Reading
Manage Application Infrastructure Planning and Management
Learn to apply best practices and optimize your operations.
-
IT incident management best practices -- and myths that scare you away
When IT activity inevitably goes awry, admins need to know the best course of action to take to ensure accountability, efficiency and accuracy -- and not get lost in myths. Continue Reading
-
Network capacity planning in the age of unpredictable workloads
When you manage network spaces carefully and make informed choices, the flexible, easily scaled workloads of distributed public and hybrid cloud applications become manageable. Continue Reading
-
Application performance tuning tips and tricks
Tune hardware, resource allocations and prioritizations to make applications perform their best. Just don't do it without tracking the results. Continue Reading
Problem Solve Application Infrastructure Planning and Management Issues
We’ve gathered up expert advice and tips from professionals like you so that the answers you need are always available.
-
Troubleshooting application performance: Issues and answers
Workflow congestion, sluggish switches, pointless parameter settings -- application flaws don't come from a single source, but they're easier to solve when you know where to look first. Continue Reading
-
Deployment pipeline diagrams expose process and tech gaps
Does the specialized cloud dev sandbox cause a deployment headache? Should security teams vet code earlier in the pipeline? In this video, Gary Gruver shows what IT teams gain when they visualize code flow. Continue Reading
-
The ops team's role in securing IT infrastructure and apps
Organizations prioritize security, even as they deploy workloads to the cloud and adopt new dev methods. How do these trends change the IT ops team's security responsibilities? Continue Reading