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Kristian Nelson

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Kristian Nelson is a recent contributor currently working at InfoZen with a focus on DevOps, Cloud, Mobility, and SaaS. He is engaged in helping our government transition & embrace the change and benefits DevOps offers. Prior to this, Kristian worked as the senior product strategist and architect in creating an enterprise class DevOps service offering at the Bank of America. In his role, Kristian created and laid out a vision of new product features working with premier tooling vendors like Cisco, IBM, and BMC, from which the entire industry is still benefiting today. In addition, Kristian was also the primary product strategist at Bank of America creating a mobility service and transitioning the financial centers with new customer facing capabilities. Kristian has always been a visionary, holding senior leadership positions at companies like Quovera, Interliant, GST Internet, Gartner Group, and Lockheed Martin. Feel free to contact Kristian through any of the following …

Recent Articles

DevOps and the Identity Conundrum

DevOps and Automation Abstraction?

Putting Ops Back in DevOps

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What Agile means to your typical operations staff member is, “More junk coming faster that I will get blamed for when it breaks.” There always is tension between development and operations when something goes south. Developers are sure the code worked on their machine; therefore, if it does not work in some other environment, operations […]

DevOps: The Glue of Workflow

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The best tool in the DevOps continuum is the sticky wrapper that holds it all together. It is the workflow that binds it and makes sense out of the term “continuous.”  CIOs often are enamored with a build or deploy tool, but it is the workflow tool in every DevOps strategy encapsulating more than one […]

DevOps: Commoditizing Infrastructure

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Hardware vendors face a quandary. How do you distinguish yourself as superior from your competitors if you are unable to continue to grow a distinct architecture as your competitive advantage? But this dilemma does not begin and end with only hardware vendors; operating system vendors and virtual machine vendors are on the same horizon. In […]

Integrating ARA into traditional RM

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Application Release Automation (ARA) is terminology that includes several DevOps constructs from a singular, application-centric point of view. In essence, ARA implies the automation of a single app from build through deployment (even if that deployment is to production). Of course, embedded or implied in that automation terminology is build automation or construction; deployment automation, […]

Engaging Adoption of DevOps

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Executive mandate does not immediately translate into a change in behavior. Organizations inherently grasp the value of embracing DevOps, but the timing of exactly when it begins and is completed is another matter. The devil truly is in the details—or rather, in the ability and willingness of the organization to adopt a change in thinking […]

Baselining Metrics to Measure DevOps ROI

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Assessing the ROI of DevOps normally is done against a company’s baseline cost. The problem is, most organizations do not collect or evaluate the cost of “automating and delivering” innovation; they usually are more focused on the innovation product itself. As an example, if a company creates an application hosted on the web that offers […]

Training & Certification Implications

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Changing culture does not happen by osmosis, it happens through incessant education. The DevOps continuum of services your organization originally intends to create and implement is a journey more than a concrete destination. It will evolve over time no matter what your original plans were, no matter what your vendor of choice tells you, and […]

Mobility and Quantum Adaptation

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As you look at the preponderance of DevOps tooling solutions available today, you notice similarities in deployment automation and how they work. DevOps is purported to be the most significant catalyst for change in how we innovate in the last two decades. Yet, as you examine the tooling and the strengths and weaknesses of each, […]