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Achieving Business Maturity with Database DevOps
Companies have seen unprecedented change over the past year and a half, with IT teams trying to help businesses weather the storm by meeting customer demands for services and products to be delivered in new ways while adjusting to remote work. As more companies introduced hybrid approaches to their workplace, a particular trend began to […]
Sep 27, 2021 · 3 minAll articles by Matt Hilbert
Showing 1–7How DevOps Is Driving the Demand for Cross-Platform Tools
The demands of modern business mean companies today want choice when it comes to the technology they deploy. Gone are the days when they rigidly used a single environment–instead they want to be able to use the best of technology from vendors and be sure it will work across environments seamlessly. Whether it’s on-premises or […]
The Impact of DevOps on Database Monitoring and Management
The rise of DevOps has broken down silos and brought database administrators (DBAs) and application developers closer together to deliver software faster and in a more agile manner. This near-constant change driven by DevOps is reflected in the results of the Redgate 2019 State of SQL Server Monitoring Report. It reveals that 73% of organizations […]
4 Steps to Introduce DevSecOps to Database Development
Although DevOps was implemented within application development, there is a growing awareness that including the database within DevOps processes is vital to success. We live in a data-driven world and many front-end applications use a database at the back end to collect, process and store customer and user data. The faster development of applications that […]
Why You Need DevOps and the Cloud
DevOps and the cloud are not only two of today’s biggest tech trends, but are inextricably linked. Research from DORA’s 2018 Accelerate State of DevOps Report and Redgate’s 2019 State of Database DevOps Report outline a clear correlation between cloud and DevOps adoption, with the two working together to contribute to greater business success. For […]
Integrating the Database into DevOps for Business Success
The benefits of DevOps have been known for some time, but this year’s “Accelerate: State of DevOps” report shows that successful companies are extending the advantages they get from adopting it. The longest-running research of its kind, the report from DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) represents five years of work surveying more than 30,000 technical […]
Making the Database Key to DevOps
Here are three best practices for doing DevOps with the database The speed of business today demands that the development and deployment of applications is fast-moving, with frequent yet error-free releases. That’s why the adoption of DevOps is trickling down from Amazon, Facebook, Google and the other usual suspects to every company that relies on […]