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How smelly are your IT environments? Kent beck, the inventor of XP extreme programming, once wrote about the concept of “Smelly Code”. Given IT Environments seem to be a significant challenge for so many organizations, it got us thinking: What might “Smelly IT...

A key responsibility of any CIO is to find the correct technology partners to deliver IT services. Ideally services delivered will be: Better Faster Or at very least, Cheaper A process that involves RFPs, Presentations, Strategy Workshops, Vendor Short Listing &...

Data is the word of the 21st century. The demand for data analysis skills has skyrocketed in the past decade. There exists an abundance of data, mostly unstructured, paired with a lack of skilled professionals and effective tools to manage and analyze it.  The...

In the world of IT and software development, organizations are continually faced with the dual challenge of compliance and agility. Much like the "Data Mesh" concept, which has gained prominence in the world of data management, organizations must adhere to strict...

A core part of managing your IT & Test environments is the management of your systems information & data and the streamlining of these operations.  This can be achieved by leveraging “best of breed” tools that will support key data activities like...

Despite the ongoing push for Agile, Development and Test Environment issues continue to cause significant disruptions to our IT Projects & our Time to Market. 20% of DevTest productivity lost based on global industry surveys. Enov8 EcoSystem helps enterprises...

An interesting article from IT News on why companies need to start looking at platforms like Enov8 EcoSystem to better understand and control their IT Environments, capabilities and operations. Refer IT News: Complex IT environment to blame Using Enov8’s EcoSystem...

“You can’t improve what you don’t measure.” I’m sure you’re familiar with at least some variation of this phrase. The saying, often attributed to Peter Drucker, speaks to the importance of metrics as fundamental tools to enrich and improve business processes of all...

In the landscape of modern business, where data sprawls across platforms and systems, maintaining a clear view and control over this vital asset is crucial. A data control tower (DCT) emerges as the beacon of control, offering a centralized system that orchestrates...

Preamble A key part of Enterprise IT Intelligence is understanding you Cloud Resources. And where better to start than using the “elegant” concept of Tagging. A concept used across the various cloud and infrastructure management platforms. Follows is an article from...

Integrate EcoSystem with your existing Infrastructure Orchestration toolsets for Configuration, Provisioning and Decommissioning. Examples of some of these are: Amazon Web Services | Chef | Ansible | Azure Container Service | Puppet | VMWare vSphere | Google Container...

Enov8 is pleased to announce that we will be sponsoring our friends at the Ministry of Testing this year. This is a great site for everything testing & we will be sure to contribute knowledge in the Test Environment Management space. Ministry of Testing Links:...

The intention of environment synthetics is to provide ‘high-level of confidence’ applications (your system instances e.g. UAT Home Loan System) and their underlying component services (e.g. IIS, MSQL, Oracle, LDAP etc.) are operational and available for testing.  An...

Information technology and the digital world don’t exist without data. The data of an organization can contain a lot of unclassified, as well as classified information.  Irrespective of that, only authorized personnel should have access to data. However,...

Preamble These days, deploying our services to the cloud just makes sense. Deploying to the cloud means you’re letting someone else handle low-level infrastructure costs, which gives us incredible flexibility.  And with such flexibility comes a potentially...

Waiting for bad things to happen is never a good practice. Once a system is down, it may already be too late and damage to the business could be irreversible. IT resilience is about preventing a disaster recovery situation before it happens. Critical outages often...

It is hard to believe most enterprises are still managing their Development & Test Environment assets and activities with non-scalable and non-Intergratable methods like spreadsheets, word documents and emails.  A process that results in major blind spots and...

Benefit from Our Singapore Workshops Attention Singapore Development and Test Managers. Is your development and testing plagued with Test Environment issues e.g. delays, outages and misconfigurations.  Enov8 will be back in Singapore in late September & early...

With 45%+ Infrastructure & License Spend being for Non Production & with IT Projects losing up to 20% in Productivity due to IT Environment issues. It is now clear that Test Environment Management can’t be ignored. It was in recognition of these problems that...