DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 kicks off
Are you going to San Francisco? If you are you don’t have to wear a flower in your hair. But if you are into DevOps or want to be and are in San Francisco this week you should be at the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 (DOES 2015). The conference produced and hosted by Gene Kim’s IT […]
Red Hat to Acquire IT Automation and DevOps Leader Ansible
Red Hat advances frictionless IT with simplified management for hybrid clouds, OpenStack environments and container-based services RALEIGH, N.C., Oct 16, 2015 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Red Hat, Inc. RHT, +3.43% the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ansible, Inc., a provider of powerful IT […]
Survey on Modern IT – We Need Your Opinion!
Change is the only constant in the world of IT. Developers, ITOps and the DevOps community are undergoing significant changes in needs, processes and services. This survey will provide better understanding of how the latest trends are impacting innovation, security and your team. This survey is sponsored by Apcera, a highly secure, policy-driven platform that […]
DevOps Connect: cdSummit at Austin Innotech
Last week I was down in Austin, Texas for the DevOps Connect: cdSummit @Innotech show. With almost 1900 people registered for Innotech, we had a solid 150 folks specifically for cdSummit. I think it fair to say that the attendees got their money’s worth! The morning started off with a great presentation by Jez Humble. […]
DevOps Chat: Carol Carpenter, CEO ElasticBox on the Real Value of DevOps
I recently sat down with Carol Carpenter, CEO of ElasticBox. We just released the results of the survey we partnered on with ElaticBox on the “Real Value of DevOps”. There were some great takeaways in this survey for leaders looking to lead the transformation in DevOps. Carol and I discussed these takeaways and other relevant […]
Measuring the value of DevOps investments is still to come
Real Value of DevOps DevOps is a hot trend and certainly on the rise. Companies now have people with the title, and if you search job boards, you see that everyone is hiring in DevOps. ElasticBox and devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to understand the tools being used and the perceived value to uncover deeper trends. Specifically, we […]
Puppet Application Orchestration: Orchestrate the entire stack
In advance of next week’s PuppetConf, Puppet Labs is announcing a major new addition to their lineup, Puppet Application Orchestration. The orchestration functionality will allow users to automate configuration, deployment and management of your entire infrastructure stack, wherever it resides. This is a significant uplift from managing just one instance or server at a time. […]
DevOps, ITOps and PaaS: What do you think?
We are very happy to announce that we have launched a new survey that will explore how the community feels about DevOps, ITOps and PaaS. The survey is another in the continuing surveys we are conducting to help all of us understand more about how DevOps is really influencing how development, Ops and IT are […]
Adding users to Google Apps quickly
With over 5 million organizations using Google Apps (yes it’s that many), the market is demanding enterprise-class solutions for administration and management of the Google productivity suite. Yeah sure you can have a decent word processor with with collaboration features, even a spreadsheet and presentation program. But if you want to play with the big […]
DevOps Chat: Randy Newell, IBM InterConnect 2016
Last week I had a chance to sit down with Randy Newell, Marketing Director for DevOps at IBM. We talked about the buzz starting to build around InterConnect 2016 this February in Las Vegas. The call for speakers is open until September 25th. Randy and I spoke about last years event and what to expect […]
DevOps Chat: Varun Singh, CTO of ScaleArc
I recently had a chance to sit down with Varun Singh, CTO and founder of ScaleArc. ScaleArc was recently named a Gartner Cool Vendor and is the leading provider of database load balancing software. Varun and I spoke about why IT leaders need to ensure that their databases are performing optimally. On top of that Singh […]
DevOps Chat: Tyler Jewell, CEO, Codenvy why leaders need DevOps
I had a chance to sit down with Tyler Jewell, CEO of Codenvy. Tyler is an experienced tech exec and VC participant. I met Tyler recently at the CloudBees CD Summit and Jenkins User Conference in Santa Clara. Tyler’s present company is Codenvy. I spoke to Tyler about why and how leadership should engage DevOps. […]
‘Tis the season to up your speaking game
Well it’s football season in the US, that means Fall is here. It also means that we are coming up to conference season. No matter what segment of the IT market you live in, there are probably a slew of conferences both local and national/international vying for your attention and attendance. For the overwhelming majority […]
The Women of DevOps
No, this isn’t about some new calendar featuring scantily clad IT chicks. In fact the fact you even thought that is half the problem. This article arises out of the fact that I was speaking with a colleague the other day and once again had to regretfully recite that something like 95% of you reading […]
DevOps Chat: Gary Gruver, Leading the Transformation
I recently had a chance to sit down with Gary Gruver, well known DevOps leader and author. Gary’s new book, Leading the Transformation, Applying DevOps and Agile Principles at Scale is a great how to for managers looking to lead the transformation at their respective teams. Gary put on a very informative webinar which you […]
Chef raises $40m and a full house
Big news today from Chef who announced a $40m Series E round of financing. This round and its size is indicative of the continued high demand of DevOps in general and for a leader in the space like Chef. The round was led by DFJ Growth. Existing investors Battery Ventures, Citi Ventures, DFJ (venture), Ignition Partners, […]
Come to DevOps Connect: CD Summit in Austin, October 8th with Jez Humble
Here at devopsy.kinsta.cloud we are very happy to announce that we are teaming up with Prospera Events (producers of the InnoTech Conferences), CloudBees, the enterprise Jenkins company and IBM to bring a DevOps Connect: CD Summit to Austin, Texas on October 8, 2015. The event will be held at the Austin Convention Center as part […]
Vote for the DevOps Dozen
At the end of July we opened up nominations for our inaugural DevOps Dozen, to recognize the top 12 companies in DevOps. Over 1500 of you voted (thank you) selecting from over 120 different companies. We have taken the top vote getters in each category to come up with a list of the final 32 […]
DevOps Chat: Rosalind Radcliffe, Mobile to Mainframe DevOps for Dummies
I recently had a chance to sit down with IBM Distinguished Engineer Rosalind Radcliffe about her new book, Mobile to Mainframe DevOps for Dummies. The book is actually quite a bit deeper than your usual “for Dummies” book and an excellent read. Of course you would expect as much coming from Rosalind who has quite […]
New DevOps Book: Leading the Transformation
When I first started researching DevOps and was looking for early enterprises that were successful but not “Unicorns” I was introduced to Gary Gruver. At the time Gary had led the transformation at Macy’s and he was talking about it at several DevOps events. For me it was strong proof that DevOps could work beyond […]
Alert Logic lends more agile, cloud-native security to DevOps architects
Amid the avalanche of research and product news emerging from this year’s Black Hat USA 2015 conference, held in Las Vegas this week, at least one vendor is attempting to advance a new solution aimed at empowering DevOps architects to streamline and improve security workflow. Houston-based Alert Logic announced the release of its Cloud Insight […]
DevOps fast food: Chef on the AWS marketplace,
News from the AWS Summit in NYC today is that Chef is now available as a one click install on AWS via the AWS marketplace. While the ability to use Chef on AWS is not new (it is the leading configuration management tool on AWS), being on the marketplace makes both install and billing a […]
Managing many hosts is more than a Big Data problem
Back in my days at StillSecure a major problem we had with our vulnerability management platform was managing vulnerabilities over a large number of hosts. How can you effectively manage so many hosts, visualize them across the entire deployment? It gave our GUI designers and developers fits. In today’s world of virtual instances, containers and […]