Cloud computing is on the rise among businesses of all types and sizes. According to a report from Intuit, almost 80% of small businesses in the United States will have completely migrated to cloud computing by 2020. But when it comes to hosting Atlassian applications and add-ons, many of which have become mission-critical tools in […]
Understanding the ROI of Enterprise DevOps
Enterprises around the world are embracing DevOps for the promises it brings including more rapid releases, increased productivity, enhanced quality, and financial returns. Despite this enthusiasm, there’s one question that continues to vex many DevOps adopters—can the ROI of DevOps really be measured? CloudBees explored this specific topic in a blog. We’ve highlighted some of […]
Workshop Summary: Fast Track DevOps Adoption by Leveraging a Cloud-Enabled Toolchain
Over the next few weeks, iTmethods will be leading a series of toolchain-focused workshops during CloudBees’ upcoming Jenkins Days. Jenkins Days will make stops in eight cities across the United States, starting in Boston on April 10 before wrapping up in Seattle on June 7.
We wanted to give you a behind-the-scenes look at our workshop.
6 Tips for Scaling Your DevOps Transformation
DevOps is becoming a standard practice for enterprises of all types, giving teams the tools they need to collaborate and drive results. But for large organizations in particular, effectively implementing DevOps can come with challenges surrounding cultural changes, unifying toolchains, eliminating cumbersome silos, and more. In recent article, Atlassian explored some actions enterprises can take […]
Why You Need to Care about DevOps
DevOps is rapidly becoming a de facto standard. Businesses that have adopted a DevOps model have become industry disruptors—innovating, releasing, and moving faster than their competitors. You only need to look at a company like Etsy, which went from taking hours with each individual deployment to deploying changes up 50 times daily after transitioning to […]
Three Questions to Ask Before Signing a Cloud Managed Service Provider
As you move more workloads into the cloud, you’ll be looking to expand your overall governance, and operational practices around it to ensure application reliability, security, performance, and cost optimization. You may also be investing in DevOps practices such as continuous integration, continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, scaling, and other automation. The question you […]
Aligning Developers with a DevOps Cloud Strategy
Is rapid application development important to your business goals? Are you trying to develop new products, applications, or customer experiences that will drive revenue, deliver efficiencies or improve customer satisfaction? Are there competitive threats and is the time to release new features to the market important? Is the overall quality of your development including functionality, […]
Key Areas to Automate Your Cloud With DevOps
This is a guest blog by Isaac Sacolick. Isaac @NYIke is the President and CIO of StarCIO, author of Driving Digital: The Leader’s Guide to Business Transformation Through Technology, and blogs at Social, Agile and Transformation. Moving your infrastructure to the cloud is just the first step in the journey to a lower cost, nimble, more secure, […]
Some Cloud Best Practices from iTmethods
The following blog post was originally featured by Stephen Orban, Head of Enterprise Strategy at AWS, in his Medium Blog Series. “Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.” -Pope Francis As public cloud adoption starts to accelerate among enterprise customers who are seeking to take advantage of the scale and innovation […]
Making the Most of Mass Migration to the AWS Cloud
There are a number of factors that drive organizations towards a mass migration to the AWS cloud. They often include the ending of a data centre lease, major capital depreciation, strategic planning decisions, and more. But mass migration – moving an abundant number of applications and resources – can be a data- and labour-intensive project. […]