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.
First acquisition by Docker bring tools, talent and geography to hot container start up. Docker today announced that they are making their first acquisition. Docker is acquiring Orchard. In terms of scope ...
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Continuing our series of videos from the recent Gluecon 2014 conference, here is our next one again courtesy of CloudSoft. In this video Peter Sankauskas talks about using Ansible to make automation easy ...
As many of us embrace DevOps, developers have to think beyond delivering code that is taken by “operations” to be deployed, run and monitored in production environments. DevOps instead focuses on breaking ...
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Much has been written about the role of Security in a DevOps culture. Almost universally the thought is that DevOps can help improve security. Why? How? Really? An old friend of mine ...
Continuing our series of videos from the DevOps track at Gluecon this past year, our next video is "Why Docker + Ansible Make Chef and Puppet 100% Unnecessary by John Minnihan, ModernRepo" ...
Here is the second video in our series of DevOps talks from Gluecon 2014. Again thanks much to our friends at CloudSoft for providing the video services and providing them to us ...
