This week in DevOps hightlights how Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Vertica and development tools for Internet of Things (IoT) work for in real life situations, and what is it good for business.

While the HP Vertica Big Data event delivers the future of analytics to blend, explore, analyze, and visualize all of data at scale with exceptional performance, RacoWireless LLC has announced a new cloud platform designed to make developing applications for the Internet of Things’s world of connected devices.

This and more below in this DevOps Weekly.

Interactive analysis for effective DevOps

HP built the tool VERTICA which was developed from ground up to handle vast amounts of highly structured machine information. HP is using its Big Data platforms and solutions to create competitor advantage in IT operations. In DevOps, analytics can perform guided root cause analysis and cut time, cost to identify and diagnose issues, and predict when they will occur.

In an interview with John Furrier at the HP Vertica Big Data event, Localytics, Inc. co-founder and chief software officer Andrew Rollins said DevOps has changed how traditional IT approaches the build, test, deploy cycle, not just with automation and abstraction, but by making development part of operations.

When discussing how DevOps affects Localytics Inc., Rollins mentioned that developers dealt with a Heroku-like infrastructure. As a result, Localytics developers do not worry much about the underlying infrastructure, which virtualization and cloud is abstracting away, and instead they’re just writing apps and they deploy them.

The hardest aspects of big data analytics to make it faster, easier and more accessible to all. This is especially seen through trends in DevOps tools that Splunk Inc. announced last week. The Splunk App for Stream is a new software-based approach to capturing real-time streaming wire data directly from the network.

Unlike traditional and appliance-based solutions, which are difficult to deploy, especially in public cloud infrastructures, the Splunk App for Stream enables customers to gain immediate wire data access on-premises or in public, private or hybrid cloud infrastructures. It collects data from virtual machines in public clouds or virtual desktops—and the network perimeter, such as routers, switches and firewalls.

Analysis of wire data can provide DevOps teams information on application performance, security issues and IT infrastructure without having to resort to code instrumentation. It also enables administrators to pinpoint root causes of issues faster, map dependencies of critical infrastructure services and ensure the delivery of services at the levels required by the business.

Development tools for IoT platform

RacoWireless, a global provider of M2M and mobile data and tracking solutions, last week announced IoT cloud platform designed to ease development of applications of IoT devices. The platform, The Omega DevCloud, will be part of the company’s Omega Management Suite and will provide a standardized and secure platform that delivers a kit of tools for web developers to communicate with virtually any device.

Intel Corp. unveiled the Galileo development board designed to make an impact in the Internet of Things community. Microsoft Corp. is shipping this board and both the companies hoping that these boards will be used by software developers and hardware hackers to build and test new devices for IoT. The software giant is also hoping that this offering will allow independent developers to see how Windows can help them with their DIY-IoT projects.

Visual Studio update has more open source flavor

Microsoft has announced the release of the third update for its development environments Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2013. The major advantage of this release is the support of CodeLens indicators for Git-repository, illustrating the Microsoft’s efforts to integrate new features from Git into Visual Studio’s environment.

The Update 3 comes with more integration to Microsoft Azure cloud platform including a new Windows Azure Notification Hubs, which allow developers to send mobile push notifications to Windows Store or Phone apps from .NET Mobile Services as well as JavaScript-based Mobile Services.