Announcing the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards Finalists
We are excited to announce the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards finalists. For six years in a row, we have been honoring the most outstanding leaders in the DevOps community. This year, we decided to expand our awards program to include two different sections: DevOps Dozen Tools and Services Awards and DevOps Dozen Community Awards. Those […]
Bringing DevOps to SAP, With Basis Technologies
DevOps has not only reached mainframe groups in enterprise but also to large applications such as SAP. Organizations are moving away from waterfall methods and mega releases that take many months to deliver. What’s needed are many more rapid release cycles and deployments that support the accelerating pace necessary to do business. In this conversation […]
TechStrong TV: strongDM With Betterment
Betterment is a goal-based financial advisory company that provides robo-advising services to help customers make the most of their money, taking away all the complexities of investing and saving. In this interview for TechStrong TV, strongDM co-founder and CEO Elizabeth Zalman and Chris Becker, SRE manager at Betterment, joined us to discuss how strongDM helps […]
TechStrong TV: Sumo Logic Goes the IPO Route
Sumo Logic has come a long way, becoming a public company with its IPO of 14.8 million shares at $22 per share. In this TechStrong TV interview Christian Beedgen, CTO and co-founder at Sumo Logic, joins Alan Shimel to discuss all the hard work that lead to this major accomplishment. Transcript Alan Shimel: Okay. Big […]
TechStrong TV: How strongDM Helps Fintech MANTL With Access Management
The fintech space is growing by leaps and bounds, as more consumers shift their financial transactions online for both convenience and necessity during the COVID-19 pandemic. MANTL is a fintech startup providing banks and credit unions with the technology they need to meet the demands of their customers who want to do their banking from […]
The 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards Nominations Are Now Open
The DevOps Dozen Awards are back for their sixth year and open for nominations. We are excited to celebrate the hard work and continued success of DevOps leaders, whose achievements over the past year deserve recognition. This year, we have expanded our awards program to include two different DevOps Dozen sections; hence, the name DevOps […]
TechStrong TV: Credentials Management, with strongDM and Software.com
Now more than ever, businesses around the world should pay close attention to how they manage their credentials and control access to their sensitive data, in order to protect it from being hacked or compromised in any way. During this interview for TechStrong TV, Mason McLead of Software.com and Elizabeth Zalman of strongDM, discuss the […]
TechStrong TV: The Low-Code Movement, With ServiceNow
ServiceNow is well-known for its IT transformation products and customer/employee workflows. But the company has another technology, App Engine, a low-code application platform that lets people build applications faster than they can on any other platform. In this TechStrong TV interview, I speak with Josh Kahn, general manager of the platform business unit at ServiceNow, […]
TechStrong TV: strongDM Helps Kustomer Go Remote
For a procurement process to be effective, the relationship between the customer and the product team is almost as important as the functionality and features of the product itself. During this interview for TechStrong TV, strongDM CEO Elizabeth Zalman and Steve Flinchbaugh, senior SRE at Kustomer (a customer support CRM platform for managing high support […]
MediaOps Video Productions Wins 2020 dotCOMM Awards
We are pleased to announce that MediaOps is the recipient of not one, not two, but three 2020 dotCOMM Awards for excellence, in multiple video categories: TechStrong TV in the category of video series, DevOps Unbound for video podcast and CISO Talk in video news and information. The dotCOMM Awards are an international competition honoring […]
TechStrong TV: How strongDM Helps mParticle in Secure Remote Access
In this interview for TechStrong TV, I am joined by strongDM CEO Elizabeth Zalman and mParticle CISO Dave Anderson. Dave shares with us how mParticle uses strongDM proxy services to rapidly enable the expanding mParticle team to access infrastructure, assets and applications necessary for mParticle to fulfill its mission to its customers. With the rapid […]
TechStrong TV: ‘The Startup Community Way,’ With Brad Feld
Brad Feld, co-founder of Foundry Group and Tech Stars, recently joined us on TechStrong TV to talk about his new book, co-authored by Ian Hathaway, “The Startup Community Way.” Brad is one of my oldest friends and has a lot of great insight into the tech community and the shift in the balance of power […]
RecruitOps, A Better Way To Fill Technical Roles
Today at MediaOps, we are really excited to announce the launch of RecruitOps, a new and exciting way for companies to find the right candidates for hard-to-fill technical positions. It’s also a great place to find your next career stop. Sitting at the nexus of a worldwide audience of the biggest DevOps, cloud-native and cyber […]
MediaOps Makes the Inc. 5000 List
Here at MediaOps we have two big announcements today. The first is that we have earned a place in the Inc. 5000 annual ranking of the fastest-growing companies in America. We didn’t just make the list—we came in at 1,622, well in the top half of companies on the list. The other announcement is that […]
DevOps Unbound: Exploring Acceleration and Automation, Setting DevOps Free
We are launching a new video series Thursday, Aug. 6, called DevOps Unbound. DevOps Unbound will focus on DevOps, automation, CI/CD and testing, featuring leaders in these areas as we explore the challenges and issues software delivery and IT teams face every day. How do we go faster, smarter with better quality? DevOps Unbound! The […]
DevOps Chat: ASG State of Software Delivery Management Report
Accelerated Strategies Group has just delivered its “State of Software Delivery Management Report,” commissioned by CloudBees. In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Mitchell Ashley, CEO, founder of ASG, about the report and why it is important for everyone managing software delivery today. As usual, the streaming audio is immediately below, followed by the transcript […]
DevOps Chat: Software-Defined Storage, With StorPool
The whole Data/DataOps space is becoming very hot. For StorPool, it is more of a case of the rest of the world catching up to what the company has been doing for a while now. It is the leading distributed block storage provider globally. In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Boyan Krosnov, co-founder and […]
Google Exposes Old Wounds in Open Source Community
Things boiled over a bit last week with the announcement that Google launched the Open Usage Commons (OUC) consortium (see Mike Vizard’s article here). The announcement and subsequent angst it has caused has upset what had been a pretty stable environment that helped open source software become the dominant force in development and IT. While […]
Digital Anarchist – Watch What’s Next in Tech
Today, we announce the launch of the next version of Digital Anarchist, our next-generation video platform, at digitalanarchist.com. The content is also available on the devopsy.kinsta.cloud mobile app and OTT channels on Apple TV, Roku and Amazon Fire TV. Boasting more than 1,400 videos and featuring 1,000-plus guests, the Digital Anarchist library may be the […]
DevOps Chats: Easing WFH with strongDM
strongDM wasn’t founded to help with remote workers forced out of the office by COVID-19. They have been around for five years now. But, the company does excel at allowing you to manage and audit remote access to all of your assets including DBs, servers and clusters (as well as apps and services) anywhere from […]
An Open Letter From MediaOps
On behalf of all of us at MediaOps, we are so deeply troubled by what is going on in the world around us. As we continue to battle a deadly pandemic and the effects of racial injustice, the idea of devolving into factions and hurting one another cuts to the core of our being. This is […]
Low-Code and RPA With Appian CTO Michael Beckley
On the eve of the first virtual Appian World, we caught up with Appian founder and CTO Michael Beckley. Michael spoke to us about low-code and RPA as well as AI and robotics, all being leveraged to help organizations during the COVID-19 crisis. Obviously, given the current situation, developing applications quickly with a minimum of […]
DevOps Chats: Shadow Code Security with PerimeterX
When the cloud first caught on, there was a problem with Shadow IT—developers spinning up instances in AWS without the IT team knowing they existed. Now with the ease of CI/DC automated deployments, the problem of Shadow Code—code being added to apps that did not go through the entire team process—has arisen. In this DevOps […]