Enterprise DevOps
The Last Frontier in the Software-Defined Data Center
Three years ago, technology pioneer and venture capitalist Marc Andreesen famously proclaimed, “Software is eating the world,” and, more recently, industry research firm Gartner – in its top predictions for 2014 – ...
The Role of a Traditional NOC in the new DevOps World
This new question in the DevOps.com Enterprise DevOps Q&A series comes from a large business, though not what many would recognize as a traditional or legacy enterprise. This organization, like many high-growth ...
Measure Twice. Automate Once.
"Shipping" code may start with the completion of development but it doesn't end until after the operational delivery process ends. Just like any fulfillment process, shipping is actually just the kick off ...
Google Hangout: InterConnect 2015 preview from IBM & Nationwide on #DevOps
Join us for a Google Hangout* with a distinguished panel of guests as we discuss: Adopting DevOps for Two-Speed IT. With IBM InterCnnect 2015 just a month away, three featured presenters will give ...
The Trouble With Enterprise DevOps
The literary world and beyond has been up in arms as of late regarding the use of the word 'literally'. It seems that many are using the word literally when they mean ...
DevOps needs infrastructure multi-tenancy
DevOps will, under whatever moniker you want to give it - NetOps, DevOps for Networks, operationalization - continue to make inroads into the network infrastructure because ultimately it's part of the application ...
Change Management & Continuous Delivery: Clash or Harmony?
Introducing changes into running software systems is risky. There's always a chance of failure, and that can have a negative impact on your business. It's important to mitigate that risk, but there's ...
Awkward questions for those getting started with automation
This blog asking awkward questions for folks jumping on the microservices bandwagon was enlightening from the perspective that many of the same questions are applicable to operations as they begin to tackle ...
Commercial vendors gift to DevOps
Open source solutions are usually brought to life because of someone’s yearning to solve a problem and share the solution with the rest of the world. Or perhaps when inventors are merely ...
Top Skills for Enterprise DevOps
There is one question I hear almost every time I talk with my large enterprise customers about DevOps: What skills do my people need to be successful with DevOps? Talk of DevOps ...
Software Defined Data Centers Enable True DevOps
I have been talking a lot recently about the bleeding edge technologies that are offloading the complexity of DevOps management, and software quality. My last post on service virtualization is the latest ...
You Might Already be Doing DevOps in the Software-Defined Data Center
I was out reading the Internet and came across a report from EMA (Enterprise Management Associates) regarding the state of the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) in 2014. After perusing the data and ...

