Collaborative culture is considered to be an essential best practice for enterprises. DevOps culture correlates strongly with enterprises that achieve the highest level of business performance. However, is it possible that an ...

The recently released fifth annual "State of DevOps Report" by Puppet has once again brought with it fresh insights into what drives high-performance teams. The report, which comes at a time when DevOps has ...

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 ...

Regardless of how enthusiastically you embrace the cloud, unless you’re a brand new business, you have already have an infrastructure running your applications. Odds are, you’re either renting space in one or ...

Want to try something fun? Ask different groups around your organization what "DevOps" means. It’s fun because the odds are good you’re going to get very different answers, many of which will ...

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 ...

The request for proposal (RFP) process in IT outsourcing is, at its best, a challenging, time-consuming process rife with pitfalls for both customers and outsourcing providers. The process is made even more ...

As indicated by the "2016 State-of-DevOps Report," multiple compelling enterprise business performance improvements provided by well-built DevOps solutions are driving IT transformations for development and operations across many industries. While some enterprises ...

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 ...

This is part three of the series, Tales of DevOps Discovery. To catch up, Read part one and part two. In preparing for a DevOps transformation a critical first step is to ...

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 ...

The key goal of DevOps is to bring development and operations together, bound by a common set of practices. For this to become reality, developers need to think more like the operations ...