IT Environment Blind Spots

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a methodology for building and maintaining large-scale, highly available software systems. It involves applying software engineering practices to operations in order to increase reliability, reduce downtime, and improve the...

As IT & Test environments become increasingly complex and dynamic, IT professionals need tools that can help them manage the complexity and ensure consistency across systems. Ansible is designed to address these challenges. In this post, we’ll provide an...

Organizations evaluating database virtualization tools are usually trying to solve a very practical problem: how to give teams fast, safe access to realistic data without copying production databases over and over again. Whether the driver is test automation,...

Enterprise Release Management (ERM) is a set of end-to-end practices that enable large organizations to effectively manage software releases. ERM is uniquely designed for the challenges of multiple teams building and releasing software simultaneously. ERM establishes...

“Test Environment Management Checklist.” Yep, that sounds like a mouthful, but don’t let that discourage you. The idea here is quite simple—adopting a checklist to evaluate the soundness of your test environment management approach. Even though the idea sounds simple...

SAP systems handle some of the most sensitive data in the enterprise: financial transactions, HR information, supplier records, customer profiles, operational details, and more. For that reason, copying production data into non-production systems without modification...