How 200 CIOs Responded to a Fully Remote Economy
The COVID-19 global pandemic has ushered a significant priority shift for the digital workplace. As development teams become completely remote, executive priorities are rapidly adapting to meet the gravity of these unanticipated times. But, were IT leaders prepared for such a dramatic shift? What are they doing to evolve? To answer these tough questions, let’s […]
Metropolis Now: The Two Worlds of Employment in the Age of Automation
Current events have revealed that there are two worlds in the employment landscape. One is digital, the other analog. For the most part, those in IT—the digital workers—have been unaffected by the spike in unemployment due to the economic side-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. But, it doesn’t mean they’ll be untouched in the long-term. As […]
Is It Time to End the Software Metric Madness?
We have all heard the phrase “What gets measured, gets managed,” often attributed to Peter Drucker—interesting note about this quote, Drucker didn’t say it. In the DevOps space, or application development and delivery generally, this quote is often used as a justification to measure things like deployment velocity, bug fixes, lead time and so on, […]
Digital.ai: The Companies Formerly Known As XebiaLabs and CollabNet Plus
Another shoe has dropped in the continuing story of TPG Capital‘s foray into DevOps. The company formed by the merger of XebiaLabs and CollabNet VersionOne is now Digital.ai. Additionally, the company has acquired Arxan, a leader in application protection. I had a chance to catch up with Digital.ai’s CEO Ashok Reddy and Arxan COO Mark […]
Business Conferences Amid the COVID Crisis
We’re all hunkered down in quarantine, so major trade shows have been cancelled. Virtual events will get us through this patch–but what comes next? It is said that in times of crisis, we adapt. We modify our behavior and we persevere. And when the immediate crisis has subsided, we look at what worked, and often […]
DevOps Chats: CloudBees Remains at Top of DevOps Market
In this special DevOps Chats video edition, we speak with Sacha Labourey, CEO of CloudBees. From the very beginning of the DevOps movement, CloudBees has been one of the companies at the top of the DevOps market and, based on its latest business metrics, the company remains there. Being the enterprise Jenkins company helped CloudBees […]
Coronavirus Economic Shutdown: Analysts Hit the Brakes on Global IT Spending Estimates
By most accounts, 2020 was set to be a pretty good year for U.S. gross domestic product and enterprise IT budgets. That was before the novel coronavirus, and the subsequent economic shutdown that is designed to blunt its spread and avoid overwhelming the nation’s health system. Analysts are now slashing their economic growth rates and […]
Coronavirus Update: A Slowdown Already Occurring
I have been watching the real-time regional situation reports about the coronavirus from the Chinese medical association site ncov.dxy.cn (the same site the John’s Hopkins outbreak dashboard sources its data from) closely now since very close to the beginning of the outbreak, and my daily routine has been to snapshot the regional outbreak tallies and […]
Report Finds Faster DevOps Adoption in Retail
Conventional wisdom holds that when it comes to any IT advancement, technology companies lead the way followed by the financial service sector. However, Puppet has made available an industry scorecard based on the company’s 8th annual “State of DevOps” survey that suggests that when it comes to DevOps adoption, it’s the retail sector that is […]
Launchable Aims To Improve Delivery Velocity, With Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Harpreet Singh
A new company, Launchable, aims to improve your delivery velocity by helping you be much smarter about which tests you run and when. By applying machine learning (ML) and better use of the data output by your software development work, the two co-founders think they can make a meaningful impact on development efforts. Sure, you […]
There’s No Such Thing as an Open Source Business Model
Open source technology works best when it’s adopted as a series of strategies and tactics that support a core business model—not the other way around. With all the talk about open source business models, the title of this article might seem a bit odd—especially when is written by someone whose entire job is to support […]
Developers Are Gaining Clout, and We Need to Pay Attention
I’ve been watching the ascent of developers for quite some time. A few years ago, I wrote an open letter to developers in which I noted their power and collective influence over the direction of technology across industries. As creators of our digital future, developers hold incredible power—and with that power comes great responsibility. Developers […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: SUSE Sets DevOps Course
There was a time when SUSE was considered to be the second-biggest force driving the adoption of Linux in the enterprise, after Red Hat. Then came an odyssey to rival any epic written by Homer. A few short years after moving its corporate headquarters from Germany to Oakland, California, the company was sold to Novell, […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: DevOps Arms Race Heats Up
A massive amount of capital is pouring into DevOps companies as organizations finally begin to realize the extent to which they depend on software. While Marc Andreesen may have penned his famous “Software Is Eating the World” opinion piece way back in 2011, it’s only now that many organizations are starting to realize they are […]
GitLab Outlines Scope of DevOps Ambitions
At the GitLab Commit event in New York today, GitLab launched an ambitious effort to extend the scope of its DevOps platform to provide a view into the software development life cycle for not just developers but also designers, product managers and business leaders. Fresh off raising an additional $268 million in funding, GitLab now […]
Why COBOL Still Matters After 60 Years
In the world of DevOps, the Agile Manifesto and countless other application delivery frameworks, one has to wonder how an anachronism such as the programming language COBOL (common business-oriented language) has managed to remain relevant. After all, COBOL has its roots back in the 1940s, and was built upon Rear Admiral Grace Hopper’s work on […]
DevOps Experience 2019: Peace, Love and DevOps
DevOps Experience 2019 is coming, and it’s gonna be groovy, man. This year’s virtual event is all about peace, love and DevOps understanding, with a heavy emphasis on understanding. As with last year’s event, DevOps Experience 2019, sponsored by DevOps.com parent company MediaOps, is chock full of information and education for those in the DevOps […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: VMware Transformed
At the VMworld 2019 conference this week, VMware in no uncertain teams made it clear it wants to become a major DevOps force. Following the acquisition of sister company Pivotal Software last week, VMware is moving to build out an application development framework for building and deploying cloud-native applications based on Kubernetes. That effort coincides […]
IBM Closes $34B Red Hat Acquisition
Following the official closing of IBM’s $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat today, leaders from both companies reiterated Red Hat will continue to operate independently of IBM but will leverage IBM resources to advance the hybrid cloud computing ambitions of the newly combined entity. Arvind Krishna, senior vice president for cloud and cognitive software at […]
How DevOps Training and Certification Benefits the Team
Cisco Systems recently announced sweeping changes to its training and certification programs to increase the real-world value of both. Cisco’s move demonstrates a trend by organizations that provide training and certification to place more value on the practical aspects of educating technology professionals—which, in turn, should have a major impact on those looking to build […]
CloudBees’ Acquisition of Rollout: The CEOs’ View
As Mike Vizard reported yesterday, CloudBees, as part of its mission to build “the world’s first end-to-end automated software delivery system,” announced another acquisition: Rollout, a developer of a feature flag application that allows for simplified testing of new modules within an application. Not to repeat the gist of Vizard’s article; you can read it […]
CloudBees Increases Size of DevOps War Chest
CloudBees has increased the pool of dollars it is aggregated to drive further consolidation across the DevOps sector by $10 million, thanks to an investment from HSBC. The investment comes on the heels of $62 million in funding that CloudBees raised last year, which brings the total amount invested in the company since 2010 to […]
Open Innovation Labs: How Lockheed Brought Better Security to Fighter Jets
How Red Hat’s Open Innovation Labs have helped accelerate Lockheed’s software development for the F-22 Raptor As the key government contractor charged with helping the U.S. Air Force keep its F-22 Raptor jets in fighting trim, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics increasingly values software delivery speed as much as engine speed. So much of the continued evolution […]