As Founder, CEO & Editor-in-chief of MediaOps, the company behind DevOps.com, Container Journal, Security Boulevard and Digital Anarchist, as well as co-founder of the DevOps Institute, Alan Shimel is attuned to the world of technology, particularly cloud, DevOps, security and open source.
With almost 30 years of entrepreneurial experience, Alan has been instrumental in the success of several organizations.
Shimel is an often-cited personality in the security and technology community and is a sought-after speaker at industry and government conferences and events. In addition to his writing, his DevOps Chat podcast, DevOps TV and Digital Anarchist audio and videos are widely followed.
Alan attributes his success to a combination of a strong business background and a deep knowledge of technology. His legal background, long experience in the field, and New York street smarts combine to form a unique personality.
Mr. Shimel is a graduate of St. Johns University with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics, and holds a JD degree from NY Law School.
I've been thinking about the news from last week that OpenText acquired Micro Focus for what seems to be $6 billion in cash. Mike Vizard did a nice write-up on the news ...
As DevOps has matured and more organizations have adopted an infrastructure as code methodology, alongside an increased importance of security, we are seeing compliance as code and policy as code being adopted ...
Bob talks about Plutora's new "Test Environment QuickStart Bundle". It provides an easy, immediate fix to the Achilles’ heel of software development: environments that cause delays, produce bugs, and waste time and ...
Once again, we are seeing an uptick in the use of the term NoOps. I always felt that NoOps was a misleading and, in fact, empty phrase. I don’t care what magic ...
Styra's new launch of Styra Declarative Authorization Service (DAS) for Cloud-Native Entitlements. With this solution, IAM teams can move to cloud-native technologies while still using existing systems-of-record as well as scale to ...
Mark, Torsten and Alan discuss the findings of the “Disrupting the Economics of Software Testing Through AI" report. The report identifies critical factors that hinder software engineering and DevOps teams including the ...
This Wednesday, August 10, 2022, starting at 9:00 a.m. ET, Techstrong Group is hosting an awesome virtual conference: CloudNativeDay. I am sure most of you already know a lot about the many ...
Tyler leads the firm’s developer-focused investments and publishes the industry's most comprehensive market landscape each year. He discusses the developer-led landscape and the 2022 Outlook. The video is above and a transcript ...
Check Point Software has announced the acquisition of Spectral, an Israeli start up specialized in automated code security. This further reinforces Check Point's commitment to cloud security. The video is above and ...
Whether you made it to San Francisco, California last month for RSA Conference or not, you don’t want to miss Tuesday’s DevOps Connect: DevSecOps Virtual Summit. On Tuesday, July 12, 2022, we ...