2017 Security Blogger Awards – Open for Voting!
It’s another year, and another awards ceremony to come at the Security Blogger Meet-Up at RSA Conference in San Francisco. It’s time to vote for your favorite blogs, which were selected solely by our esteemed influencers: Ericka Chickowski, George Hulme, Kelly Jackson-Higgins (Dark Reading) and Don MacVittie. We are very grateful for their taking the time […]
DevOps Chat: Aruna Ravichandran, Co-Author, DevOps for Digital Leaders
Our first podcast of 2017 is with Aruna Ravichandran, co-author of DevOps for Digital Leaders. Of course when not authoring books or helping financially challenged but gifted students attend college, Aruna is a VP of DevOps marketing at CA Technologies. I have interviewed Aruna before on DevOps TV and discussed her career that has seen her […]
DevSecOps @ RSA Conference 2017
One again this year, devopsy.kinsta.cloud, Sonatype and RSA Conference are teaming up to bring a Security/DevOps day of learning and networking to RSA Conference 2017 in San Francisco on February 13, 2017. The event is DevSecOps @ RSA Conference 2017. Building on the previous two years of great events, this yearsevent promises to be even […]
DevOps Chat: Huw Price, Smart Automation Is Key
Before the new year, I had a chance to sit down and chat with Huw Price, Vice President, Application Delivery, CA Technologies. Given Huw’s title what do you think we spoke about? You guessed it, automation. Actually there is more to it than that. Automation for automation’s sake alone is not necessarily a good thing. […]
DevOps Chat: Jeff Schaeffer, CA Technologies, on Everything Continuous
I recently had a chance to sit down with Jeff Schaeffer, senior vice president and general manager of Continuous Delivery and DevOps Business Unit at CA Technologies. I have interviewed Jeff before, most recently at Jenkins World, where we did a video on our DevOpsTV YouTube channel. Jeff is a great interview who always gives […]
The Official, Official DevOps
It seems a little storm has blown up regarding the use of the term “Official DevOps Awareness Training” as used by the ITIL training company Axelos. I had a feeling it wouldn’t be long in coming after I saw the announcement at the DevOps Enterprise Summit and had a chance to interview Kaimar Karu there. […]
Welcome to the CD Neighborhood
Today we opened a new neighborhood or section here on devopsy.kinsta.cloud. It is called the CD neighborhood and it will feature content on CD and related content. The neighborhood is sponsored by CA Technologies, who will also contribute content to the new neighborhood. CA authored content will be clearly marked. CA employees have contributed by […]
CA Technologies Announces Intent To Acquire Automic
Acquisition to Provide Cloud-Enabled, End-to-End Automation and Orchestration Platform for Applications and Business Processes NEW YORK, December 1, 2016 – CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Automic Holding GmbH, a leader in business automation software that drives competitive advantage by automating IT and business processes. The transaction, valued […]
FRESHeTECH FRESHeBUDS Pro, Even DevOps Can’t Help A Bad Product & Company
At devopsy.kinsta.cloud we spend a lot of time talking about the many companies who are making tremendous progress building better apps and products, being more profitable and serving their customers better. But every once in a while we need to remind ourselves that not every company, not every product or app works like it should. […]
DOES San Francisco 2016: Adrian Cockroft On Retaining Talent
Another one of the over 50 video interviews we did at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2016 is our discussion with Adrian Cockroft. Adrian is was one of the last presenters at DOES this year, but that was a good enough reason to stick around until the end. Adrian’s presentation was on the challenges in retaining talent […]
Docker On Windows, One Engineering System, Microsoft Uses DevOps To Reinvent Itself
While at DOES San Francisco 2016 last week I had a chance to sit down with two presenters who work at Microsoft. One is someone I have interviewed before at both DOES and here on devopsy.kinsta.cloud, Sam Guckenheimer, Product Owner of Microsoft Visual Studio Cloud Services. Joining Sam and I is Ed Blankenship, Product Manager […]
DevOps Enterprise Summit 2016: The DevOps Transformation Continues
I had a great few days out in San Francisco at the 3rd annual DevOps Enterprise Summit produced by IT Revolution and Gene Kim. Once again Electric Cloud was back as the founding sponsor. Beyond that there were a host of other sponsors. But the real stars of the show are the many speakers from […]
DevOps Chat: Lucas Carlson, VP Strategy, Automic, Can Ops Thrive In DevOps?
In this DevOps Chat our guest is Lucas Carlson, newly appointed VP of Strategy at Automic. Of course, Lucas has already had a distinguished career. Here is his bio from Linkedin: Lucas Carlson is an author, entrepreneur and executive. He also has a background of 20 years of programming to back it all up. He’s […]
Lance Crosby’s Vision To Bring Scale, Speed and Security To Developers with StackPath
The last most of us heard from Lance Crosby we thought he was riding off to an island sunset, to bask in the glow of a very successful exit from SoftLayer. The company he founded was bought by IBM for a few billion dollars to serve as the centerpiece of their cloud strategy. Many would […]
DevOps Chat: InterConnect 2017 w/ Randy Newell, IBM DevOps
In this episode of DevOps Chats we are again joined by Randy Newell, Director World Wide Marketing for DevOps. Randy had a bunch of news he wanted to share with us including the call for speakers for IBM’s InterConnect 2017 which is open until November 11th. Randy also gave us a preview of the IBM sessions […]
DevOps Dozen Finals Voting is Open!
Sometimes, good things are worth waiting for. I am happy to say that the voting for the DevOps Dozen finals is now open! There are 12 Categories with up to 12 finalists in each category. All of the finalists came from nominations by you our audience. In fact that is why it took so long […]
Docker On Windows, Are You Serious? Microsoft’s Hands-on Lab Show’s You How
You have probably heard or read about the availability of Docker on Windows and Azure. Both Docker and Microsoft have turned up the noise on their collaboration. But have you really looked into what these two are up to? If not, now is your chance. Microsoft has put up a great free hands on lab all about […]
Sanjay Mirchandani Builds Out Puppet While Keeping Culture Intact
I attended my first PupetConf last week in San Diego. While there I had a chance to sit down one on one with Sanjay Mirchandani who recently took over as CEO/President of Puppet from long time CEO and founder, Luke Kanies, who is now a member of the BOD. As this was my first meeting […]
DevOps Transformations Everywhere; Join Us To Watch, Hear & Learn
For me and many others the best way we learn about DevOps is to hear others who have set about on this journey. For three years Gene Kim’s DevOps Enterprise Summit has been powered by hearing one DevOps Transformation experience after the next. The new DevOps Handbook has over 40 case studies of DevOps transformations. […]
DevOps Chat: DevOps & CD with Tim Butel, XebiaLabs
devopsy.kinsta.cloud caught up with Tim Butel, VP of Products at XebiaLabs. Tim discussed some of the latest trends in DevOps & continuous delivery (CD) with us. He also gave us a great update on what XebiaLabs has been up to recently and why organizations including Gartner and others consider XebiaLabs a leader in the category. […]
DevOps Chat: Cognitive DevOps w/ Hayden Lindsey, Enterprise Systems and DevOps IBM
I recently had a chance to catch up with Hayden Lindsey, distinguished engineer and VP of Enterprise Systems and DevOps at IBM. I have spoken with Hayden several times as well as seeing him present at various conferences. Hayden truly understands how DevOps and related practices are changing the game for Enterprise Systems. Hayden and […]
DevOps Chat: Gene Kim on The DevOps Handbook and DevOps Enterprise Summit
Today was a red letter day in the DevOps world. Besides DevOps Connect: CD Summit’s being held in Atlanta and Berlin today. It was also the day of the highly anticipated release of the DevOps Handbook. The book was over five years in the making. It contains over forty case studies of real organizations and […]
CD Summit/Jenkins Days with John Willis, KK & Mustafa Kapadia
Our fall lineup of DevOps Connect: CD Summit/Jenkins Days are coming on fast. We kick off this fall’s schedule of seven events in Atlanta on Oct. 4 and 6. The speakers and subjects are up on the site, but I wanted to highlight the three keynote speakers: Our three headliners for Atlanta are Mustafa Kapadia […]