Compuware Adds Testing Tools to DevOps for Mainframe Portfolio

July 25, 2018 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

Compuware is extending its ongoing campaign to bring DevOps processes to the mainframe by acquiring XaTester, a provider of tools for creating unit tests for both batch and CICS-based programs written in COBOL, PL/I and Assembler. In addition, Compuware announced it has formed an alliance with Parasoft, a provider of tools for testing application programming […]

Ops: The Other DevOps

July 10, 2018 by Dominic Wellington 1 Comments

Much of the conversation around DevOps, including right here on DevOps.com, is about helping developers get easier access to production systems, increasing agility by shortening release cycles. Most of the time, this focus on developers leads to a concentration on so-called “Day One” tasks, the Dev side of the equation, to the exclusion of “Day […]

Living in a DevOps World, Part 2

July 3, 2018 by Dave Farinelli 1 Comments

Part one of this article focused on some of the more behind-the-scenes benefits of an Agile DevOps approach. In part two the focus turns to some of the other traditional problems that a well-executed DevOps approach can address, and how doing so can benefit an organization in more ways than just a technical perspective. By […]

Portability Shmortability: Most Applications are Going Nowhere

June 29, 2018 by Don Macvittie 1 Comments

I’m a huge fan of the idea of taking our super-duper applications and deploying them where it makes most sense. I always have been. Those of us in application development spent forever bemoaning the fact that our applications weren’t all that portable between operating systems. In fact, looking back through the history of computers, you […]

DOES UK: Nike Applies ‘Just Do It’ Attitude to DevOps

June 26, 2018 by Landon Shimel 1 Comments

Nike’s DevOps transformation has had a lasting impact on its culture and productivity, while allowing the company to connect with its customer in ways it never could before. Its journey down the path to DevOps was shared at the DevOps Enterprise Summit (DOES UK) 2018, in London. For a company of its size and success […]

DevOps: The Things We Must Stop

June 20, 2018 by Don Macvittie 1 Comments

Anytime there is a popular movement in technology (and I would argue any other field), people get carried away. We’ve seen it over and over, and DevOps attracts this kind of attention. In fact, DevOps caters to those who get carried away by mainstream folks screaming, “THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!” That type of hyperbole pushes those […]

DevOps Chat: How Cyxtera Uses DevOps to make AppGate SDP Better

June 20, 2018 by Alan Shimel 1 Comments

In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Kurt Glazemakers of Cyxtera. Kurt is the CTO of the Software Defined Perimeter group within the security and analytics group at Cyxtera. Kurt discusses how his group uses a DevOps approach to making AppGate SDP better and how that, in turn, makes it better for DevSecOps-enabled organizations. In […]

Picking a Git for the Enterprise

June 18, 2018 by Aditya Vadaganadam 1 Comments

Some of my Agile and DevOps transformation work, not surprisingly, involves helping clients with tooling adoption—to set up, scale and operate across the organization. This blog piece is about a recent experience of setting up Git across a client organization. Git, as most of you are aware, is a fundamental building block for many of […]