Dibbe Edwards, VP Rational Software Development at IBM, On Standardizing Tools, Process, and Technology to Build DevOps Success
We had the pleasure, for IBM InterConnect 2015, to speak with Dibbe Edwards, vice president, Rational Software Development about the success IBM has had in implementing DevOps processes within their organization. In her current role, Edwards is responsible for leading Rational’s development business that includes application lifecycle management and reporting, quality and requirements management, systems […]
IBM to the Enterprise: It’s Time to Glue All of Your Clouds
According to the research firm IDC, more than 65 percent of enterprises will commit to a hybrid cloud by 2016. With that change in architecture, organizations will face new challenges when it comes to accessing data on their legacy systems and public clouds: from having visibility into the applications across various clouds systems to ensuring […]
Five Great Books on DevOps
While the DevOps movement began in earnest in 2009, there are still a lot of questions about what DevOps means, how it’s done, and what the purported benefits of DevOps are. Big questions, for sure. And there are no quick answers. In fact, to thoroughly answer each would require numerous books. Which brings us to […]
Five fruitful DevOps business drivers gaining speed
In talking with those in the enterprise trenches working to make DevOps a reality – admins, developers, CIOs, and business leaders who get it and are trying to help transform their enterprise culture and workflow to be more DevOps oriented – a number of key drivers surfaced from these discussions. What drivers are they? Below […]
Clearing through the app backlog clutter
Development and operations teams today are under more pressure than ever to develop apps the business needs to make its workforce productive, its partners connected to the resources they need, and to deliver the apps to the marketplace that will make it competitive. The number of production hours for development is at a precious premium […]
DevOps Drives Innovation, Enterprise Differentiation
It’s hard to believe that it’s been more than a decade since Nicholas Carr wrote his controversial article “Does IT Matter,” where he argued that IT had become such an integral part of business that IT disappeared into the infrastructure in the way roads, rails, electric utilities, and engines have in industry. IT, like such […]
Q and A: ITinvolve’s Matthew Selheimer on DevOps and Culture Change
The intersection of DevOps and culture is a common subject here at devopsy.kinsta.cloud. Is it tools and processes that help support the culture, or does the culture of an organization drive toolset and process building decisions? Perhaps a little of each. We recently had a talk with Matthew Selheimer, Chief Technical Evangelist at ITinvolve, a […]
Automating Away the Regulatory Compliance Myth
At the recent DevOps Enterprise Summit, we had a chance to sit down with Justin Arbuckle and discuss his concept of “compliance as code” and why it’s so important that security and compliance tests be built into DevOps practices at large enterprises. Recently, Arbuckle was chief architect at GE Capital where he introduced and sponsored […]
Q&A: Gene Kim on the pain of accruing technical debt
Last week, we ran the story Paying Down Technical Debt. This week, we’re discussing that very topic with Gene Kim (@realgenekim). As a follower of DevOps trends, you probably are already aware of his most recent book project, The DevOps Cookbook, and most certainly his previous works, The Visible Ops Handbook and The Phoenix Project: […]
Paying Down Technical Debt
When watching IT shops over the years it seems some, despite trying to cram two weeks worth of work into six days a week, never seem to move very far forward. And yet other teams seem to make tremendous strides in productivity and outcomes despite not working as many hours as the poorer performing organizations. […]
Chasing consistency across the wild seas of enterprise IT
Despite seemingly never-ending arguments to the contrary, DevOps has firmly arrived in the enterprise. No, the question is no longer if DevOps is appropriate for the enterprise anymore – the more appropriate question is to what extent has DevOps made its impact on the typical enterprise. But the enterprise move to DevOps isn’t a straight […]
Driving Product Innovation, a Q&A With Arcweb’s Chris Cera
Founded in 2011, Philadelphia, PA-based Arcweb is an enterprise software development firm that specializes in mobile and cloud computing. Arcweb’s team is experienced in product management, agile software development, and lean startup methodologies, and helps clients to manage the product lifecycle, including design, architecture, development, deployment, and support. We recently had a conversation with Chris […]
Q & A: Puppet Labs CIO Nigel Kersten
We recently spoke with Nigel Kersten, CIO at Puppet Labs, regarding high-performance IT and trends he sees in continuous integration in his role at Puppet Labs. Nigel joined Puppet Labs from Google HQ, where he was “Puppet Master” and responsible for the design and implementation of one of the world’s largest Puppet deployments. Kersten is […]
Q&A with Kevin Behr on DevOps and Enterprise Excellence
When we want to get an inside peek at the trends within major corporations when it comes to continuous integration, continuous delivery, and DevOps, we turn to Kevin Behr, the chief science officer for the CXO and Board Advisory Practice at Praxisflow, where he consults, mentors, and coaches IT organizations and executives on how to […]
Q&A with Aater Suleman: Successfully moving to DevOps
For this Q&A on DevOps implementations, we caught up with Aater Suleman, co-founder and CEO of Flux7, an Austin-based IT consultancy that is focused on cloud technology, DevOps, and advanced development. Suleman began his career in hardware architecture and performance optimization, but has spent nearly a decade now working with cloud technologies and is a […]
ChatOps: Communicating at the speed of DevOps
DevOps is about knocking down barriers between developers and operations teams, and in doing so reducing organizational frictions wherever possible. And that’s certainly the spirit behind ChatOps – the term for the hyper-collaborative way of running DevOps, including operating aspects of systems and infrastructure, through online chat. Proponents of ChatOps say it streamlines communication in […]
Q&A with Gene Kim: Bringing the auditors to DevOps
As more enterprises embrace DevOps, organizational disconnects often are created between what controls DevOps teams have in place and what IT controls auditors believe need to be in place. And if the right controls are, in fact, in place they absolutely need to be communicated to the auditing teams. Bridging these gaps is often painful […]
The 7 skills Ops pros need to succeed with DevOps
There’s a lot of confusion about what DevOps exactly is, and what it takes for enterprises and individuals alike to succeed. Some argue it’s about successfully using collaboration toolsets. It’s not. DevOps is about collaboration between software developers and IT operations teams. DevOps grew from the need for a more agile organization, and to knock […]
Enterprise DevOps is Real and Here to Stay
A recent column in the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal argued that while DevOps is gaining inroads in small and mid-sized businesses, it’s facing a much less rosy future in large enterprises. The story cited organizational challenges, many of which we covered, such as large siloes, regulatory compliance, and resistance to change as great impediments […]
DevOps: Getting Past Audit
New business processes (and technologies) too often throw auditors into a tailspin. It’s no one’s fault, really: the decision making on what IT and process controls that need to be in place moves slow – and it is the tail to the rapidly moving technology dog. In fact, while there is no way a standard […]
Q&A: Bill Burns on Security Within DevOps
Last week’s story, Caution: DevOps Ahead, caused a small stir on Twitter and sparked a response, DevOps: Security’s Last Best Hope, from devopsy.kinsta.cloud’s Alan Shimel. Coincidently, I recently had a conversation with Bill Burns, former director of IT security and networking at Netflix. Burns is currently an executive-in-residence at ScaleVP, where he provides strategic advice in […]
DevOps: Caution Ahead
Despite the continued adoption of enterprise DevOps practices, some organizations, especially those in highly-regulated industries remain cautious about moving forward too quickly. “There’s no doubt that DevOps brings benefits for some organizations,” says Martin Fisher, director of information security at Atlanta-based WellStar Health System. “However, many pushing for DevOps underestimate the amount of technological and […]
Q&A: Speaking DevOps and Threat Modeling with the author of Threat Modeling: Designing for Security
If you want to understand how to threat model systems and applications in most any environment you turn to someone who has done so. That’s why we took 30 minutes to speak with Adam Shostack. Adam is responsible for security development lifecycle threat modeling at Microsoft and he is one of the very few threat […]