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.
OK, I admit it. Thinking of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and DevOps doesn't seem like an obvious connection. But Omed Habib of AppDynamics gives us the connection of how Maslow's theory applies ...
In anticipation of the DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES) London 2017, we are interviewing a series of the announced speakers who will be appearing there. The first in our DOES London 2017 speaker ...
Scott Wilson from Automic is always a great source of knowledge around DevOps. I have spoken with him several times and he never disappoints. In this DevOps Chat, Scott talks to us ...
Before the recent IBM InterConnect conference I had a chance to sit down and chat with Sanjeev Sharma, CTO of DevOps Adoption at IBM. I have spoken to Sanjeev many times and ...
In this DevOps Chat, our guest is Steve Jones of Redgate and SQL Server Central. Steve talks to us about DevOps and databases, as well as the latest from Redgate SQL Clone ...
Scrum.org, which is dedicated to improving the profession of software delivery, and the DevOps Institute, which is dedicated to fostering a community around emerging practices in Continuous Delivery and DevOps, today announced ...
Back in my StillSecure days, building purpose-built appliances for security was all the rage. Over time, though, security-as-a-service captured much of the market (although security appliances are still a big seller). For ...
In this DevOps Chat we speak with Jonah Kowall, VP of Market Developments and Insights at AppDynamics. Of course prior to that Jonah was a VP of Research IT Operations at Gartner ...
For the third year, DevOps.com hosted a DevSecOps/Rugged DevOps event at RSA Conference. As with years before, we smashed attendance records. We had just shy of 900 people stop in on Monday ...
While plenty of vendors tell us what they think is happening in the market, the only way to really learn is from you, our readers. So we are asking you to take ...
