
Industry executives and experts share their predictions for 2018. Read them in this 10th annual VMblog.com series exclusive.
Contributed by Pete Abrams, COO, Instana
The need for speed will widen the chasm between Dev and Ops, threatening IT as we know it
As
organizations strive for speed and efficiency in IT, developers are using a
variety of tools and services to get the job done. Architectures like
microservices are the backbone of new, dynamic apps, and containers are being
used to speed deployment of the new functionality. This creates application
complexity that makes today's static dashboards and human, manual assessments
obsolete, forcing Operations teams to find new tools and ways to ensure quality
of service.
Automation
and intelligence will be the answer for Ops teams. Automation provides
discovery, insight and a model of everything that constructs the application,
including logical and physical interdependencies between the microservices,
middleware and containers. Artificial intelligence provides fast performance
analysis, predicts potential incidents and offers remediation options.
Automation and AI will help Ops teams gain the speed to match that of modern
application Dev teams, bridging the chasm between them and advancing IT.
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About the Author
Pete Abrams is a co-founder and the chief
operating officer at Instana, the leader in application performance management
for containerized microservices applications. Formerly vice president of
customer centric innovation at AppDynamics, Pete has spent more than two
decades in the technology industry focused on introducing new products to
market and ensuring customer feedback and desired capabilities are incorporated
into future product innovation. You can connect with Pete on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/peteabrams/