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 ...

Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) are often cited as pillars of successful DevOps. To establish and optimize the CI/CD development model and reap the benefits, companies need to build an effective ...

DevOps and continuous delivery are the same thing, right? Far from it. We peer through the fog to understand the difference between the two related but distinct methodologies. We live in an ...

If you ever wanted to learn about Rugged DevOps (some call it DevSecOps), sit down for a spell with Shannon Lietz, Ian Allison and Scott Kennedy from Intuit. We discussed a number ...

As absurd as this may seem, some in IT may be longing for the good old days of the mainframe. After all, the hulking machine, with its dumb terminals and thousands of ...

As any team charged with keeping systems up and running will tell you, having one person on-call isn’t enough. What happens if your on-call engineer sleeps through his alert? What happens if ...

Ever since the first hunks of Big Iron hit the streets, we’ve been struggling (and failing) to keep up with the demand for software applications. Now it’s getting harder. Not only do ...

Most of the focus of the DevOps movement is on the application development to deploy cycle, and that’s appropriate.  When folks talk about the IT Ops side of DevOps, you’ll hear talk ...

That Supplier is Better For You Since releasing the 2015 State of the Software Supply Chain Report, there has been a lot of great discussion across the industry on best practices for managing ...

To drive towards faster innovation, and also ensure the stability of the core business, the need arises for what is being termed as “two-speed or variable speed IT.” While innovative Systems of ...

Ever since the 1996 film Jerry Maguire, I can never think about any technology development without hearing Cuba Gooding Jr as professional footballer Rod Tidwell screaming out, “Show me the money!” So ...

Just before the IBM Interconnect show in Las Vegas last week, we had a chance to speak with Nationwide’s Carmen DeArdo and talk about some of the challenges he has faced at ...