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Alan Shimel

Alan Shimel is founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of Techstrong Group, a Futurum company, and a member of Futurum's executive leadership team. A technology entrepreneur, media executive and industry commentator, Shimel has spent more than three decades building businesses, communities and media platforms serving enterprise technology professionals, including co-founding StillSecure, a network security company, and the DevOps Institute, a DevOps certification and training body. At Techstrong, he leads a portfolio of media brands including DevOps.com, Security Boulevard, Cloud Native Now, Techstrong AI, Techstrong IT, Digital CxO, Platform Engineering, Techstrong Semi and Techstrong TV, along with a growing portfolio of events, educational programs and digital communities. With more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, Shimel is a familiar voice in the space and was an early advocate of the DevOps movement, helping bring DevOps practices into mainstream enterprise technology. His work today spans cybersecurity, DevOps, cloud-native technologies, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and digital transformation, and he hosts popular programs including Techstrong Gang, Shimmy Says and Still Cyber, After All These Years. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics from St. John's University and a Juris Doctor from New York Law School.

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Fourth Annual DevOps Dozen Winners Announced

We are pleased to announce the 2018 DevOps Dozen honorees. When I launched the DevOps Dozen, I hoped they would grow to reflect and recognize the best of the best in the maturing DevOps space. This year, there is no doubt in my mind that the winners are unsurpassed in the DevOps community. In fact, the […]

Alan Shimel · Jan 30, 2019
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DevOps Chat: Cloud Migration with nClouds’ JT Giri

Moving to the cloud is becoming a must for many companies if they want to grow beyond their current footprint and be more innovative. But for many companies—especially those in the SMB space—their transition to the cloud is hindered by a lack of knowledge and experience, which often results in difficult migrations that sometimes just […]

Alan Shimel · Jan 25, 2019
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DevOps Video Chat: DevOps Testing with Ryan Lloyd of SmartBear

The testing landscape in DevOps is a big one, with lots of established players feeding the machine. SmartBear is one of those companies. The force behind Swagger, SoapUI and others is perhaps not as well-known as its brethren in the DevOps testing space, but it cuts a wide swath. And, with its recent acquisition of […]

Alan Shimel · Jan 21, 2019
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DevOps Video Chat: DevOps Transformation with Tasktop’s Carmen DeArdo

Carmen DeArdo is well-known in the DevOps space mostly because of his work at Nationwide, where he was DevOps leader and technology director. In August of last year, Carmen moved to Tasktop, where he works with other DevOps luminaries Mik Kersten and Dominica DeGrandis, helping organizations along their transformational journeys. In this DevOps Video Chat, […]

Alan Shimel · Jan 15, 2019
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DevOps Chat: Crowdsourced Continuous Testing with Rainforest’s Derek Choy

Scaling your testing is the scourge of many software teams. While test automation and continuous testing have made great strides, it still is difficult to automate every QA test. Also, engineering resources who can script these tests are difficult to find. Enter Rainforest. Rainforest has a unique crowdsourcing solution to continuous testing. It combines crowdsourcing […]

Alan Shimel · Jan 14, 2019
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DevOps Chat: Identity Management with ForgeRock’s Peter Barker

Two megatrends for 2019 and beyond is scale and automation. The identity management space is a perfect example. Considering all of the IP-enabled devices (machines) coming online and the billions of people and their identities, managing these billions and billions takes systems that will redefine scale and, almost by definition, have to be automated. Enter […]

Alan Shimel · Jan 11, 2019
AI

DevOps Chat: AIOps and APM with Unravel’s Kunal Agarwal

Unravel is making a name in the AIOps, APM and big data markets. In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Unravel CEO Kunal Agarwal about what makes Unravel a must-have for its customers. We also take a sneak peek ahead to what the near and not so near future holds for big data, AIOps and […]

Alan Shimel · Jan 4, 2019
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DevOps Chat: A New Take on Application Security with Portshift

Portshift brings a new identity-based application security model from code to runtime. Cloud or on-prem, Portshift works. In this DevOps Chat we speak with CEO Ran Ilany and VP Business Ops Eran Grabiner about what is unique to the Portshift solution and why you should consider it for your own application security, especially for your […]

Alan Shimel · Dec 17, 2018
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DevOps Chat: Container Security and Aqua 3.5 with Rani Osnat and Andy Feit

In just a little more than three years Aqua Security has set its mark in the container security space. With its major new release of Aqua 3.5, the company has again raised the bar with serverless and container encryption upgrades and feature sets. I sat down with the Aqua Enforcer himself, Rani Osnat, and “Boston” […]

Alan Shimel · Dec 14, 2018
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DevOps Chat: Digital Transformation with Paul Chapman of Box

It seems every organization is chasing digital transformation. Some companies are succeeding, while some are wallowing a bit, trying to figure out how to do it. Box is a company that is both successfully navigating digital transformation and being a catalyst for digital transformation at other organizations. In this DevOps Chat we speak with Paul […]

Alan Shimel · Dec 7, 2018
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DevOps Chat: Promoting Innovation at the RSA Conference

RSA Conference is where the world comes to meet Security. For the last 14 years, the Innovation Sandbox Contest was where you could find out what the up and coming companies in security were up to. This year RSAC is doing something else in addition. The Launch Pad is where to come to if you […]

Alan Shimel · Dec 4, 2018
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DevOps Chat: DevSecOps with Signal Sciences’ James Wickett

James Wickett is the man to go to for DevSecOps. The founder of the Rugged DevOps movement, which has merged into the DevSecOps group, James is one of the most knowledgeable people on the subject of DevSecOps. In this DevOps Chat, James shares his views on what’s on the horizon for DevSecOps and the most […]

Alan Shimel · Dec 4, 2018
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DevOps Chat: App Modernization and Service Virtualization with IBM’s Matt Tarnawsky

While everyone wants to focus on building a new app, the fact is there are many, many apps already out there. They need to be maintained, updated and modernized. How do you upgrade these legacy apps to new infrastructure, frameworks, languages and more? App modernization is a thing. In this DevOps Chat we speak with […]

Alan Shimel · Nov 30, 2018
Application Performance Management/Monitoring

DevOps Chat: Managing Apple Devices with Fleetsmith

Managing Macs, iPhones, iPads and other Apple devices at scale is not something really native to iOS or OSX. Enter Fleetsmith. In sort of a Puppet-meets-Apple environment, the Fleetsmith team automates configuration, management and security of your Apple devices. In this DevOps Chat we sit down with Fleetsmith co-founder and CEO Zack Blum and company […]

Alan Shimel · Nov 26, 2018
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DevOps Chat: Mainframe Attitudes with LzLabs’ Dale Vecchio

Dale Vecchio has spent many years in the mainframe business, including 18 or so years with Gartner covering the mainframe beat. Today, he works as chief marketing officer at LzLabs, which recently conducted a survey with Microsoft on mainframe use: info.lzlabs.com/lzlabs-microsoft-…ation-survey-2018 The results may or may not surprise you depending on your views on mainframes. […]

Alan Shimel · Nov 19, 2018
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2018 DevOps Dozen Finalists Announced

We are proud to announce the 2018 DevOps Dozen finalists. When we first launched four years ago, I hoped the DevOps Dozen would grow into an award that really did recognize the best of the best in the maturing DevOps space. This year, there is no doubt in my mind that the finalists really are unsurpassed […]

Alan Shimel · Nov 9, 2018
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DevOps Chat: Instrumentation with Influx Data’s Evan Kaplan

Evan Kaplan, CEO of Influx Data, is someone who knows his way around the technology world. In a lifetime of experience that has seen him found and manage several successful companies from startups to public entities, Evan has had a great track record of success. Influx Data is yet another success for Kaplan. Building on […]

Alan Shimel · Nov 9, 2018
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DevOps Chat: CI/CD with the Semaphore Platform

As the old saying goes, “speed kills.” When it comes to development, a lack of speed can kill, too. Marko Anastasov and the Semaphore team have strived to make Semaphore the fastest continuous integration tool in the market. With version 2.0 of Semaphore, they believe it truly is. With his background in development, Marko brings […]

Alan Shimel · Nov 7, 2018
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DevOps Chat: Microclimate and IBM Cloud Private with Toby Corbin

IBM Cloud Private has cemented itself in the DevOps space as a personal cloud environment, which is great for developers who need the agility and computing power of the cloud but don’t want to step into a public cloud setting. Tony Corbin, technical lead for the Microclimate Project, describes IBM Cloud Private as “a cloud […]

Alan Shimel · Nov 5, 2018
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DevOps Chat: Security in the Cloud with Dome9’s Zolar Alon

Dome9 is in the business of cloud security, so it’s no wonder some of the world’s top companies rely in it to secure their sensitive data and applications in Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud environments. And with last week’s announcement of Check Point’s aquisition of Dome9, an even greater number of users […]

Alan Shimel · Oct 29, 2018
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DevOps Chat: The State of Software Security with Veracode’s Chris Eng

Every year CA Veracode publishes its “State of Software Security” report, chock full of research about how well software is being secured during development and beyond. It’s eye-opening stuff and definitely worth a read for anyone even remotely interested in helping make software more secure. In this DevOps Chat, Chris Eng, VP of research at […]

Alan Shimel · Oct 24, 2018
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Predict 2019: Forecasting the Future at a Virtual Summit

That time of year is drawing close: Sometime right after Halloween, heading into Thanksgiving, our thoughts turn to the holiday season. A new year is on the horizon. What will it bring? In the tech media world, we are swamped with folks who want to share predictions and thoughts on the new year and beyond. […]

Alan Shimel · Oct 23, 2018
AI

Unlocking the Power of AIOps

AIOps is becoming quite the hot topic lately. It seems as though everyone is realizing that Ops is difficult. As we have to deal with more big data at greater velocity with more automation and complexity, there is no way humans alone can tame the beast. AIOps seems to be the answer. I recently sat […]

Alan Shimel · Oct 22, 2018