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Chris Tozzi

Christopher Tozzi has covered technology and business news for nearly a decade, specializing in open source, containers, big data, networking and security. He is currently Senior Editor and DevOps Analyst with Fixate.io and Sweetcode.io.

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Everything Ops: Are DevOps Principles Being Applied Too Broadly?

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From big data to storage to security, the DevOps concept is being applied to every field of IT operations under the sun today. This “Everything Ops” movement reflects the popularity of DevOps—but is it also diluting DevOps’s significance? DevOps itself focuses on software delivery. It’s about designing, building, testing, deploying and managing software applications. If […]

How Open Source Can Help Your CD Chain

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What can you do to make continuous delivery work better? Consider moving to open source software solutions. Here’s why. Many DevOps teams already may be using open-source platforms for reasons not related to continuous delivery. They might like the cost-efficiency or interoperability that usually come with open source. Or maybe they just like the open-source […]

How Often Should You Release with Continuous Delivery?

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If you do continuous delivery, you could release software updates as frequently as you want. But should you? Here’s what to consider when deciding how often to release. Although the terms continuous delivery and continuous deployment are often used interchangeably, they don’t mean the same thing. Under continuous delivery, you prepare all software updates as […]

Compuware Survey Connects Mainframes, DevOps

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Mainframes are still necessary; integrating them with modern hardware and software is tricky; and DevOps is the answer. Those are the takeaways from a survey out this week that was commissioned by Compuware. The survey, which was released Dec. 14, was conducted by Forrester. It asked professionals how often their organizations rely on mainframe systems […]

Compuware Buy Aims to Enable DevOps on Mainframes

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How do you bring DevOps to mainframes? Eliminate the need for developers and admins to have mainframe expertise. That’s the strategy mainframe specialist Compuware is following as it seeks to break into the DevOps market. On Dec. 6, Compuware announced its acquisition of Standardware Inc., adding Standardware’s COPE IMS virtualization software to Compuware’s portfolio. That’s […]

How DevOps Optimizes Use of Resources

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How is DevOps changing the way we compute? One big DevOps innovation is helping developers and admins consume exactly what resources they need to deploy an app—nothing more and nothing less. Traditionally, using (and paying for) only what you need has been tough in all parts of life. If I want to park my car […]

Adding Usability Testing to the CD Pipeline

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Do you include usability tests in your continuous delivery pipeline? If not, you could be making a big mistake. Usability testing, which entails having actual users test an application for user-friendliness, intuitiveness and accessibility, gets easily lost within the DevOps conversation. If you want to do continuous delivery, waiting on manual usability tests may seem […]

Continuous Integration vs. Delivery vs. Deployment: What’s the Difference?

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“Continuous” is one of the most popular words in the DevOps lexicon. What does it really mean, and what is the difference between continuous delivery, continuous deployment and continuous integration? Keep reading for some perspective. Like many technological concepts, continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment are terms that DevOps teams tend to use without […]