Archives for May 2015
Month: May 2015

Budgeting for DevOps Success
One concept that seems to be universal across all IT departments is the admins lament of "how do I convince my boss that we should spend the money." Whether it is security, ...

Sleep easy: release automation reduces DevOps security threats
Sleep easy: release automation reduces DevOps security threats “Devops reigns”. “DevOps redefines the way services are launched and managed”. Just two of the recent headlines from the sea of coverage on DevOps ...

5 Steps for Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Holiday Readiness
5 Steps for Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Holiday Readiness Ho. Ho. Ho. It’s that time of year again. Seriously. It is. It’s too late for April Fools but it’s definitely not too ...

Atlantic.Net Credits DevOps Culture to Mental Agility
Atlantic.Net (www.atlantic.net) is a Solid State Drive-based cloud hosting provider with locations in New York City, San Francisco, Dallas, Toronto, Orlando, and (coming soon) London and Singapore, says Marty Puranik, Founder & ...

Where is the DBA in the DevOps conversation?
In reading case studies, surveys, and research articles on DevOps I am reminded of a cartoon I saw taped to my high school physics teacher’s file cabinet. Two scientists stand in front ...

IT Asset Management: How to Find Out if Your Database is Causing Performance Problems
As your IT infrastructure grows, it becomes increasingly important to be able to identify where bottlenecks, performance problems, or outages are occurring so that you can quickly act to fix any issues ...

The devOpsSec Dilemma: Effective Strategies for Social Networking
I was sad to hear of the passing of John Nash and his wife Alicia this weekend. May they rest in peace. As a game theorist I am familiar with his work ...

Moving from legacy to DevOps is a journey that takes time…and the right tools
If you wanted to start a new company tomorrow it would be easy to look at the tech landscape and the prevalent trends and decide to just build everything around a DevOps ...

DevOps Connect: Rugged DevOps @Infosecurity Europe
We have assembled another top flight list of speakers for our DevOps Connect event @Infosecurity Europe. While pre-registration is sold out, if you are one of the 15,000+ attendees of Infosecurity Europe, ...

What is Adaptive Security?
72 days after the fact AdultFriendFinder.com, a “very mature” dating site, realized they had been hacked. The VERY personal information of 3 million registrants has been held hostage. By now, it should be ...

The DevOps-Price of Segregation of Duties.
Segregation of duties will change because it must change. It has a tremendous impact on our motivation, time to market and IT Security. It influences many parts of an organization. Most organizations ...

Continuous Testing: What exactly is it?
***This post is based on themes and ideas from the great e-book, “Continuous Testing,” by our friends at Parasoft. The aptly named DevOps practice of Continuous Testing synchronizes Testing/QA with Dev and Ops ...