Archives for September 2015
Month: September 2015

Adding users to Google Apps quickly
With over 5 million organizations using Google Apps (yes it's that many), the market is demanding enterprise-class solutions for administration and management of the Google productivity suite. Yeah sure you can have ...

Cloud Visibility: The Security Achilles Heel
As organizations accelerate their DevOps practices and move toward continuous delivery, cloud adoption plays a pivotal role. But visibility into cloud infrastructure and provider practices will remain a security Achilles heel until ...

The business benefits of DevOps
As DevOps has become more of a mainstream concept it seems like there’s less need to define what it is or explain what it does. As prevalent as DevOps is for those ...

Native Integration of APM Driving DevOps Maturity
With applications performance monitoring established as one of the fundamental cornerstones of today’s DevOps methodologies, it’s easy to overlook the reality that effective instrumentation of such tools remains extremely difficult. Specifically, the ...

How to prepare for a successful data migration
It can be tough to find useful, concrete advice to assist you with an enterprise-level data migration project. There’s an awful lot that can go wrong. Common suggestions about finding the right ...

Leveraging DevOps to Expose The Entire IT Iceberg
On September 16th I attended and spoke at a CIO Magazine event in Chicago. These are some of the best events to attend as the audience is typically CIO or senior IT ...

How to align your DevOps and Cloud Initiatives
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices, which in turn are made possible through infrastructure or platform clouds (IaaS or PaaS), solve many important issues related to continuous delivery and DevOps. Therefore, the implementation of IaaS ...

Lean for DevOps: Is it OK to move the banana?
There is an urban legend about a Lean deployment which, in the process of applying the 5S to a workshop, drew lines on the desk to indicate where each worker should keep ...

Webinar: Scaling Jenkins with Docker and Kubernetes
Docker is revolutionizing the way people think about applications and deployments. It provides a simple way to run and distribute Linux containers for a variety of use cases, from lightweight virtual machines ...

DevOps Leadership Series: Boston Common
DevOps is coming, DevOps is coming! Â You could hear the rallying cry around the city of Boston on September 15th and 16th. Â This is when the DevOps Leadership Series crew headed up ...

DevOps and legacy system lessons from dwarf planet Pluto
If you’re a bit of a space geek like me, then maybe you’re one of the 243 thousand plus followers of #NASANewHorizons; diligently monitoring deep space twitter sphere for the latest news ...

“Culture” isn’t a swear word
I've heard a number of lazy criticisms of DevOps recently particularly where individuals talk about culture and that gets my goat. "It's fluffy" "It's in-actionable" "DevOps is just automation" "Cultural change isn't ...