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.
There are many interviews you do as part of the role as editor in chief of DevOps.com. Then there are some that make it all worthwhile. Anytime I have the pleasure of ...
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Misconfiguration is the No. 1 cause for data breach in the cloud. Fugue helps to eliminate data breaches, as it fixes anything that gets drifted by providing baseline drift detection and automated ...
The DevOps Dozen awards are back and now open for nominations. This fifth annual DevOps Dozen honors the best of the best—the leaders and innovators in the DevOps community. This year’s awards ...
One of the key themes for this year's DevOps Enterprise Summit in London was BV-S,S,H. It stands for Better Value, Sooner, Safer, Happier. It gets to the heart of what DevOps is ...
Another great event we covered on the Digital Anarchist tour this summer was the JFrog swampUp event in San Francisco. Among the many great interviews we did at swampUp, one was with ...
Think about it. could we have a DevOps or even agile without code repositories (repos)? Repos allow for version control, team collaboration, testing on check in and more. So much of what ...
If you work in the IT field, cybersecurity, the startup world or any other high-pressure job, you or someone you know has probably suffered from burnout in one form or another. If ...
