TechStrong TV: Celebrating the Strength of the Tech Community
I wanted to tell you about two important initiatives we have been working on around here, TechStrong TV and TechStrong Con. They are a big part of our COVID-19 response. The past four weeks (has it been just four weeks?) have been a blur. The MediaOps team has shifted into overdrive to keep all of […]
GitLab Responds To GitHub Making Teams Free – We All Win
Microsoft’s GitHub recently announced that it was going to make a change to its product lineup by making the team version of GitHub free and lowering the price on a full-featured version. The move seemed aimed squarely at matching GitLab’s offering. Well, now GitLab has responded to GitHub. While both of these excellent offerings compete […]
Digital.ai: The Companies Formerly Known As XebiaLabs and CollabNet Plus
Another shoe has dropped in the continuing story of TPG Capital‘s foray into DevOps. The company formed by the merger of XebiaLabs and CollabNet VersionOne is now Digital.ai. Additionally, the company has acquired Arxan, a leader in application protection. I had a chance to catch up with Digital.ai’s CEO Ashok Reddy and Arxan COO Mark […]
DevOps Chats: DevSecOps and OpenShift, with Red Hat
In this DevOps Chats, we had a talk with Kirsten Newcomer, senior principal product manager at Red Hat. It is a great discussion on the state of DevSecOps and how the Red Hat OpenShift team is trying to make it easier for developers, DevOps and cyber folks to work together to create more secure applications. […]
DevOps Chats: Swiss, Simple Secure Collaboration with Adeya
The current situation with so many working from home has shined a spotlight on potential security issues with many of our collaboration solutions. Adeya, says they have the answer, offering Swiss, simple collaboration on a military grade scale. I sat down with Francois Rodriguez of Adeya’s executive team to discuss what makes Adeya both simple […]
DevOps Chats: Mobile, Monoliths & Microservices, With LightStep
Daniel “Spoons” Spoonhower made a bit of a name for himself while he was at Google, as did his two co-founders of their latest company, LightStep. All three were there at the birth of the microservices wave that has swept through the software world. They left Google and started LightStep to help all developers build […]
DevOps Chats: CloudBees Remains at Top of DevOps Market
In this special DevOps Chats video edition, we speak with Sacha Labourey, CEO of CloudBees. From the very beginning of the DevOps movement, CloudBees has been one of the companies at the top of the DevOps market and, based on its latest business metrics, the company remains there. Being the enterprise Jenkins company helped CloudBees […]
Free Remote Endpoint Protection Solution From Qualys
Qualys today announced it is offering a completely free, 60-day version of its cloud-based remote endpoint protection solution. The product is fully featured, with nothing turned off in the free version. It’s also cloud-based, so there are no worries about hosting the solution. This comes at a perfect time, with so many workers working remotely. […]
EP 6: How to Lead a DevOps Transformation
Is C-level support required to have a successful digital transformation? In the sixth episode of DevOps Unbound streaming broadcast on TechStrong TV and devopsy.kinsta.cloud’s sister site Digital Anarchist, Mitchell Ashley of ASG and Alan Shimel are joined by Eveline Oehrlich of the DevOps Institute, Louise McCarthy of Bain & Company and Mark Settle, author of “Truth from the Valley, A Practical Primer on IT Management for the Next Decade,” to discuss DevOps and digital transformation at the C level.
EP 5: Outsourcing DevOps, Oxymoron or Truth
Can you outsource DevOps? And if you can, what are the keys to doing it successfully? In the fifth episode of DevOps Unbound streaming broadcast on TechStrong TV and devopsy.kinsta.cloud’s sister site Digital Anarchist, Mitchell Ashley of ASG and Alan Shimel are joined by Ming Gong of UST Global, Chris Rolls of TTC and Robina Laughlin of Guardian Life for a discussion on outsourcing DevOps.
EP 4: DevOps and the Mainframe
In this fourth episode of our DevOps Unbound streaming broadcast on TechStrong TV and devopsy.kinsta.cloud’s sister site Digital Anarchist, Mitchell Ashley of ASG and Alan Shimel are joined by Gerta Sheganaku of Tricentis, Rosalind Radcliffe of IBM and Sam Knutson of Compuware to discuss app modernization, mainframes and DevOps. Find out what’s the right way to modernize your applications and how to do app modernization in a Z environment.
EP 3: Open Source and DevOps
In the third episode of our DevOps Unbound streaming broadcast on TechStrong TV and devopsy.kinsta.cloud’s sister site Digital Anarchist, Alan Shimel is joined by Kevin Dunne of Tricentis, Tracy Miranda of CDF and Alon Girmonsky of UP9 to answer the question: Can we have DevOps without open source?
DevOps Chats: Liquibase, Open Source and Databases, with Datical
Datical has been a leader in DevOps for databases since even before the term was used. What many may not realize was that the open source Liquibase project was a major contributor to Datical’s success. So it should be no surprise that in filling the open president’s seat, they would tap an open source veteran. […]
DevOps Chats: Solving Complexity in Continuous Testing, with Sauce Labs
SauceCon 2020 by the good folks at Sauce Labs is just about a month and half away (April 27). As part of our lead-up to the show and our coverage including live broadcasting on Digital Anarchist, we caught up with newly minted Chief Product Officer, Matt Wyman. Matt discusses how continuous testing, automation and DevOps […]
DevOps Chats: Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence, with Bruno Kurtic
Sumo Logic has been one of the pioneers in DevSecOps and log analysis for many years now. In this DevOps Chats, we speak with Founding VP of Product and Strategy, Bruno Kurtic, about the Sumo Continuous Intelligence Platform and how it is taking security into the next era. Have a listen to this DevOps Chats […]
EP 2: DevSecOps and AppSec
In this second episode of our DevOps Unbound streaming broadcast on TechStrong TV and devopsy.kinsta.cloud’s sister site Digital Anarchist, Mitchell Ashley of ASG and Alan Shimel are joined by Caroline Wong, CSO at Cobalt.io; Andrew Van Der Stock, executive director at OWASP; and Dr. Grigori Melnik, CPO at Tricentis, to discuss DevSecOps and application security.
DevOps Chats: Kubernetes is the New Compute, with Rancher Labs’ Sheng Liang
Rancher Labs is a great example of a startup that was smart enough to sense the way the market was moving and adopted a strategy to capitalize on it. And, if you know Rancher co-founder, CEO Sheng Liang, you should not be surprised. Sheng has been seeing the market and staying one step ahead for […]
Acting Rationally Regarding Coronavirus: RSAC Conference Update
With all the hype surrounding the coronavirus, let’s take a step back, take a breath and not give in to emotional conference mob fear-mongering We have all read the headlines: Mobile World Congress in Barcelona has been canceled. Facebook pulled the plug on a smaller conference next month in San Fransisco. IBM Security has pulled […]
EP 1: A Brief History of Testing
DevOps’ sister site Digital Anarchist has launched a bi-weekly video series and companion monthly roundtable on DevOps, Automation, CI/CD and testing. Featuring leaders in all of these areas, 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!
DevOps Chats: XebiaLabs/CollabNet Version One Merger Executive Discussion
In this special DevOps Chats Video Edition we dive into the XebiaLabs/CollabNet Version One Merger. Joining us for this video discussion is the CEO of the new company, Ashok Reddy and President and former XebiaLabs CEO, Derek Langone. Ashok, Derek and devopsy.kinsta.cloud editor-in-chief, take a deep dive into the reasons for this merger and what […]
IBM Doubles Down on Cloud, But Is Krishna an Interim CEO?
Big news from Big Blue yesterday: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is stepping down after eight years at the helm. In her stead, IBM is doubling down on the cloud by appointing Arvind Krishna as CEO and member of the board. The real move to watch, though, is the appointment of Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat CEO, […]
DevOps Chat: Increasing Delivery Velocity, with Launchable
Jenkins founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi (KK) and respected DevOps veteran Harpreet Singh have launched a new company called Launchable. Launchable aims to help you improve your delivery velocity by prioritizing and applying some ML and intelligence to testing. There is still much work to be done but with these two industry luminaries behind it, the expectations […]
The Battle for End-to-End DevOps Champion Is On
This past week’s CollabNet/Xebia Labs merger brings another challenger to the “end-to-end” DevOps market. There is a huge prize waiting for the winner. But which of the challengers has the right stuff to win this battle? Will any of the current pack even be around at the end of the day? Who will be the […]