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  • HPE Rises to Multi-Cloud Management Challenge

    HPE Rises to Multi-Cloud Management Challenge

    Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) is making available a suite of tools to unify the management of public and private clouds via a software-as-service (SaaS) applications.

    Bryan Jacquot, HPE worldwide user experience architect, says HPE OneSphere provides IT organizations with a means to manage a multi-cloud IT environment using a SaaS application they can consume in the same on-demand manner they employ to deploy cloud applications on-premises or on a public cloud service.

    HPE OneSphere makes uses of application programming interfaces (APIs) to unify the management of diverse IT environments under a common software-defined framework.

    Within that management application, HPE has also provided Project workspaces for different types of individuals and teams, including IT operations, business users, developers and data scientists.

    Jacquot says HPE makes use of Docker and Kubernetes container technologies to provide the foundation for HPE OneSphere. The goal is to make it easier for IT organizations to manage any combination of hybrid cloud computing environment they choose to craft.

    To one degree or another, most IT environments today are multi-cloud. They typically employ at least one public cloud alongside an on-premises IT environment that is becoming more cloud-like. At the same time, many IT organizations either already have or are planning to add an additional public cloud service, if for no other reason than to play Amazon Web Services (AWS) against Microsoft Azure. However, each stack of public and private cloud computing requires them to master a separate management plane, which drives up the total cost of ownership (TCO) of an IT environment—which creates a challenge at a time when many IT organizations are looking for both lower costs and increased agility. Through OneSphere, however, HPE is resolving that issue by providing access to one common management portal for both on-premises IT environment and public cloud services, says Jacquot.

    There are other means to develop a common management plane spanning multiple clouds. But building, deploying and maintaining a management framework spanning multiple clouds can be a complicated endeavor. HPE OneSphere presents IT organizations with a portal through which all the underlying APIs are abstracted away from the IT operations team, making the process simpler, says Jacquot.

    It’s unclear at what rate IT organizations will move to unify the management of multiple clouds in 2018. Different parts of an organization often fund adoption of different classes of public cloud services. At the some point internal IT teams are tasked with managing those services. But the constitutional crises that drive those events might not occur until 2019 or beyond within many organizations.

    Regardless of the approach taken to managing multiple clouds, there’s no doubt that the distribution of application workloads across multiple internal and external platforms represents arguably the biggest DevOps challenge of 2018. Organizations that get in front of this issue today are likely to find managing IT to be much easier in the years ahead. Those that don’t are likely to experience more pain than they might have ever bargained.

    — Mike Vizard

  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software Modernizes IT Operations Management with New Container-Based Deployment

    ET | Source: Hewlett Packard Enterprise

    PALO ALTO, Calif., April 12, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software today announced the launch of containerized versions of its HPE IT Operations Management (ITOM) offerings. These suites – Hybrid Cloud Management, Data Center Automation, Operations Bridge, and IT Service Management Automation – help enterprise IT customers manage their private and public cloud infrastructure, and deliver new services at scale in response to the rapidly changing needs of business partners and DevOps teams. Deployed with built-in, open source container technology from Docker and Kubernetes, the four suites are expected to receive quarterly enhancements that provide customers with the latest innovations in real time to dramatically reduce time to value.

    The new container deployment foundation built into the suites provides IT teams with industry-leading deployment, update and scale-out capabilities. Customers will be able to rapidly deploy and upgrade to the latest analytics-driven ITOM suites in a matter of minutes on a variety of platforms including bare metal, virtualized, private and public cloud infrastructures. As a result, customers can minimize upgrade risk and downtime, while maximizing IT resources by scaling on demand.

    “The world of IT Operations is experiencing unprecedented growth and complexity,” said Tom Goguen, vice president and general manager, IT Operations Management, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. “IT organizations need to be able to respond to business needs and deliver results quickly, while managing regulatory and operational compliance. Over the past year, we have revamped our portfolio by moving away from point products to integrated solutions, and are delivering new innovative capabilities such as analytics and ChatOps on a quarterly basis. Our new containerized suites simplify the day-to-day operations and deliver unprecedented time to value, enabling ITOps to run at the speed of DevOps.”

    IT Operations at the speed of DevOps with HPE’s Container Lifecycle Management

    In addition to building container technology into the DNA of the new offerings, the HPE IT Operations Management suites have also added a number of features to help organizations deploy and manage their container-based applications at scale, with the same familiar tools.

    ITOM’s four suites and the key container lifecycle capabilities include:

    • Hybrid Cloud Management – Manages a wide array of hybrid and multi-cloud environments with application pipeline automation and compliance capabilities. The new version enables the service design and deployment of new container-based applications, including ready-to-consume development testing environments and rapid application releases.
    • Data Center Automation – Automates tasks and orchestrates processes for provisioning, patching and compliance features. The new version delivers container, hardware and host operating system provisioning with compliance capabilities.
    • Operations Bridge – Integrates with existing tools to provide automated event reduction, root-cause identification and business service modeling. The new version improves speed and responsiveness of operations teams by enabling the monitoring and troubleshooting of container infrastructure and applications.
    • IT Service Management Automation – Simplifies the ordering, administration and maintenance of IT Operations. The new version provides analytics-driven service management, as well as automated discovery and configuration management to support container-based applications.

    “With the new micro service and containerized architecture, the HPE Operations Bridge is going in the right direction,” said Luke Bradley, senior manager of engineering, Vodafone Group Services. “With simpler deployment, faster versioning, and streamlined patching as well as improved scalability, it’s an exciting evolution and will bring real value to us.”

    “New IT operation deployments are typically an extensive and complicated process that can take months to manage and complete,” said Torrey Jones, principal consultant, GreenLight. “HPE’s new approach to IT operations software delivery with containerizing its suites dramatically simplifies setup allowing us to focus on accelerating time-to-value for our customers.”

    Availability and Additional Information
    The container deployment foundation-based versions of IT Service Management Automation, Operations Bridge, Data Center Automation and Hybrid Cloud Management are available starting today with updates expected to be delivered on a quarterly basis.

    For more information on the container deployment foundation and the containerized ITOM suites, please visit here. To read a blog post about the new offerings, please click here.

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    — Jules Louis

  • DevOps is Becoming Mainstream in Australia

    DevOps is Becoming Mainstream in Australia

    DevOps has taken root in Australia, where its practitioners are showing a high level of sophistication.

    According to Paul Muller, vice president of Strategic Marketing, Software, at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Asia Pacific and Japan, interest in DevOps at Australian organizations rose, fell back and then rose again—a pattern that reminds us of Gartner’s Hype Cycle.

    DevOps has progressed from the stage where its devotees were seen as a ‘radical fringe’ fighting against the organizations where they work, and is quickly becoming part of mainstream IT, he said, observing he has even heard the CEO of a bank talking about DevOps. (The banking sector in Australia is highly concentrated, with the ‘Big Four’ collectively accounting for around 80 percent of the market, with the customer-owned, regional and foreign-owned banks taking the rest.)

    More generally, executives increasingly realize “their business is only as good as their software,” he said.

    He sees innovation occurring in what are sometimes regarded as very traditional sectors (automotive, banking and finance, to name two) as companies realize that they face—or soon will face—competition from “software-savvy startups.”

    The success of DevOps shows “Adam Smith was wrong”—that is, overspecialization is bad, he observed.

    “The sophistication here is higher than I would have expected,” and higher than in most places outside Silicon Valley, said Muller.

    The Australian DevOps community benefits from the huge amount of volunteer effort that goes into organizing events such as meetups. HPE is helping with its ‘DevOps Days’ that expose the company’s customers to HPE’s DevOps culture and practice, allowing them to “live a day in the life of this modern process” and take a better understanding back to their own organization.

    One DevOps mistake he has seen made that generally results in failure is what he calls “processes of fetish,” where people simply try to copy another organization’s practices instead of developing a true understanding of DevOps.

    He also drew attention to the shortcomings of measuring productivity in terms of lines of code or function points delivered. That overlooks, for example, the contribution of a person who does a lot of coaching.

    Muller drew particular attention to the importance of scaled agile to larger organizations with multiple internal and/or external teams that need to work together to successfully complete projects. In such environments, problems arise if it is not used.

    To be successful, DevOps requires the right collection of people, the right measurement and reward system, and the right tools (such as HPE ALM Octane, which can among many other things handle the synchronization of data across multiple teams), he said.

    But it’s not just about implementation: organizations and teams still need to generate ideas that can be put into production. There are tools to help that process, Muller said, and HPE is teaching its innovation methodology to other organizations.

    Many businesses spruik their innovation credentials and want their developers to focus on innovation. Agile and DevOps help free up developers’ minds—along with those of their colleagues in business units—to do just that, Muller said.