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28 March, 2019 by Christian Meléndez Even though containers are different from virtual machines (VMs), most of the metrics you get from a container are pretty similar to the ones you get from a VM or a physical server. What’s different is the meaning a metric has in...

15 March, 2019 by Vlad Georgescu Bimodal Explained *From a Release Management Perspective “The Hare and the Tortoise” is Aesop’s most famous fable. In it, we find two characters: one fast (the hare), and one slow (the tortoise). They run a race against each other,...

    04   March, 2019 by Eric Goebelbecker Preamble “IT & Test Environments are a changing!” The days off Physical Servers has transitioned to Virtual, Which is transitioning to Containers, and now we have "Serverless". It is all getting very...

26 SEPTEMBER, 2018 by Niall Crawford The results from the 10th anniversary edition of the World Quality Report are conclusive: 99% of respondents are now using DevOps practices in their organizations. It appears the focus is no longer on whether to move to DevOps;...

03 SEPTEMBER, 2018 by Niall Crawford Preamble All too often we see companies embracing agile by breaking up their teams up into tribes and letting them go for it. An approach which has the "early benefits” of appearing like your teams are doing the right-thing...

Some might think that because DevOps is hard to implement, itâ€TMs not for everyone, especially not large organizations. Thatâ€TMs not true. Outcomes are what really matter…

    Ever wondered how mature your IT & Test Environment Management practices are?Well here at Enov8, over the last few years, we have been building a model called the EMMi (the Environment Management Maturity Index) Originally called the TEMMi , the EMMi...

The backbone of business today is digital, and every day we rely more and more on the IT services and infrastructures around us. However, when things go wrong…

APR, 2018 by Niall Crawford   Niall Crawford Niall is the Co-Founder and CIO of Enov8. He has 25 years of experience working across the IT industry from Software Engineering, Architecture, IT & Test Environment Management and Executive Leadership. Niall has...

It goes without saying, that the backbone of all organizations today is digital and independent of the end-products you provide, there is an inherent need to drive your features and solutions from conception to production…

I am continually ‘un-amazedâ€TM when I go into large organizations and look at their ‘DevOpsâ€TM strategy. At a team level, itâ€TMs invariably no different to what we were doing back in the late 90â€TMs…

Test Environments Anti Patterns
A common term used in the world of Software Development is the concept of Anti-Patterns. An Anti-Pattern is basically a commonly occurring approach to a problem or task that generates decidedly negative consequences…

DevOps is a set of practices that automates the processes between software development and IT teams, allowing them to build, test, and release software faster and more reliably. The concept of DevOps is based on collaboration between teams that historically functioned in relative silos…

Reduce Test Environment Downtime – In this blog article, we will discuss about how test environment managers can minimise environment downtime and how enov8 can help in achieving this dream.