Archives for January 2017
Month: January 2017
Illumio Brings Adaptive Segmentation to Cisco, Arista, AWS, and Azure
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 31, 2017 -- Illumio announced today the company is taking another step forward in making its Adaptive Security Platform (ASP)™ the new foundation for data center and cloud security ...

Digital Business: Paving the Way for DevOps’ Second Act
DevOps is the buzzword of the moment. It's at the heart of every strategy—not just CIOs' IT transformation strategies but also IT vendors' sales and marketing strategies. The question business unit leaders always ask ...

Culture Comes First in Bringing DevOps to the Mainframe
One of the most difficult challenges in engineering, oddly enough, isn’t technical: the challenge is culture transition management. In my 20-plus years of managing engineering teams worldwide, I’ve led teams through countless ...
Webinar: Starting and Scaling DevOps
More and more companies worldwide are excited about DevOps and the many potential benefits of embarking on a DevOps transformation. The challenge many of them are having, however, is figuring out where ...

DevOps Chat: Nigel Kersten, Puppet, 2017 DevOps Survey
I had a chance to sit down recently with Nigel Kersten, chief technical strategist at Puppet. Besides the fancy title, Nigel is one of the smartest, nicest people you will meet. Always ...

The Impact of Automation: Considering 3 Facts
I’ve been interested in the ramification of automation on human employment for a while now. My profession, IT, is bringing more automation to the planet every day. I would be irresponsible to ...

The 2016 DevOps Dozen Winners Announced
In what turned out to be a much bigger job than we anticipated, we have gone through the numbers and checked them twice (actually more like 20 times). All of us here ...

Automation Killed QA – It’s Time to Deal With It
Quality assurance (QA) had a good run. From the time it was considered an afterthought by organizations and software vendors alike to the era of massive outsourcing contracts, followed by significant vendor ...

Elasticsearch Ransomware Attacks Highlight Need for Better Security
Recently, reports surfaced that a large number of Elasticsearch servers fell victim to potential ransomware attacks. Ransomware is the type of malware a company doesn’t want on its systems or network. It ...

AppDynamics Buy Expands Cisco’s DevOps Agenda
AppDynamics' $3.7 billion acquisition by Cisco Systems has two major implications for the DevOps space. On a tactical level, Cisco has committed to distributing AppDynamics' agent software everywhere from the public cloud ...