Consider how much money your enterprise spends on audits. Smaller firms not subject to external regulation should consider how much money is spent on quality assurance—or the lack of it. A business ...

What is the difference between “leading” edge and “bleeding” edge? Being the first human being to advocate change. It is a virtual war with human nature to accept change. For all the ...

I spend a considerable amount of time with clients discussing DevOps and the potential value it can bring to them, but there is one theme that always resonates: the ability of a ...

What would we die for in an integrated DevOps tooling solution—something that would make our operations partners stand up and cheer? Intelligent calendar awareness. The most fundamental construct of any release orchestrations ...

Balancing top-down control and oversight with bottom-up innovation and autonomy The driving force behind DevOps adoption in the enterprise is the idea that it will enable faster and more frequent delivery of ...

In Part 1 of this series, we discussed the fact that more organizations are looking to embrace the "DevOps culture." However, unlike ITIL, implementing DevOps into an organization does not happen overnight ...

In the realm of IT buzzwords, DevOps is in a league of its own. The pervasiveness of the word is matched only by the variety of its definitions. Over time, much like ...

In 1960, the average life expectancy of a Fortune 500 company was 75 years. Today, the average lifespan is just 15 years and declining further. So what gives? We only have to ...

Let’s face it: Most organizations are still struggling to achieve the Nirvana of full gated automation. At first, we automate the core of our DevOps services, the build and the deployment disciplines ...

Why DevOps is more a bi-directional rather than a simple top-down approach DevOps is one of those buzzwords that nearly everyone wants to discuss these days. However, it often is interpreted as ...

A highly functioning enterprise-class DevOps set of services has a fundamental goal of full automation. To be honest, having the right DevOps strategist (or visionary) leading this effort is as important to ...

As we continue to recognize the importance of DevOps—particularly its automation and orchestration aspects—to achieve the agility necessary for continuous deployment of apps, the question of how the term "Infrastructure as Code" (IaC) ...