DevOps Chat: Mainframe Attitudes with LzLabs’ Dale Vecchio
Dale Vecchio has spent many years in the mainframe business, including 18 or so years with Gartner covering the mainframe beat. Today, he works as chief marketing officer at LzLabs, which recently conducted a survey with Microsoft on mainframe use: info.lzlabs.com/lzlabs-microsoft-…ation-survey-2018 The results may or may not surprise you depending on your views on mainframes. […]
DevOps Chat: Instrumentation with Influx Data’s Evan Kaplan
Evan Kaplan, CEO of Influx Data, is someone who knows his way around the technology world. In a lifetime of experience that has seen him found and manage several successful companies from startups to public entities, Evan has had a great track record of success. Influx Data is yet another success for Kaplan. Building on […]
DevOps Chat: CI/CD with the Semaphore Platform
As the old saying goes, “speed kills.” When it comes to development, a lack of speed can kill, too. Marko Anastasov and the Semaphore team have strived to make Semaphore the fastest continuous integration tool in the market. With version 2.0 of Semaphore, they believe it truly is. With his background in development, Marko brings […]
DevOps Chat: Microclimate and IBM Cloud Private with Toby Corbin
IBM Cloud Private has cemented itself in the DevOps space as a personal cloud environment, which is great for developers who need the agility and computing power of the cloud but don’t want to step into a public cloud setting. Tony Corbin, technical lead for the Microclimate Project, describes IBM Cloud Private as “a cloud […]
DevOps Chat: Security in the Cloud with Dome9’s Zolar Alon
Dome9 is in the business of cloud security, so it’s no wonder some of the world’s top companies rely in it to secure their sensitive data and applications in Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud environments. And with last week’s announcement of Check Point’s aquisition of Dome9, an even greater number of users […]
DevOps Chat: The State of Software Security with Veracode’s Chris Eng
Every year CA Veracode publishes its “State of Software Security” report, chock full of research about how well software is being secured during development and beyond. It’s eye-opening stuff and definitely worth a read for anyone even remotely interested in helping make software more secure. In this DevOps Chat, Chris Eng, VP of research at […]
Unlocking the Power of AIOps
AIOps is becoming quite the hot topic lately. It seems as though everyone is realizing that Ops is difficult. As we have to deal with more big data at greater velocity with more automation and complexity, there is no way humans alone can tame the beast. AIOps seems to be the answer. I recently sat […]
DevOps Chat: CHAOSSEARCH New Spin on Big Data Analysis
Analysis is the dark cloud overhanging big data — it’s difficult without the right tools. Elasticsearch by Elastic has become ubiquitous in helping organizations, but it can get unwieldy, as storage combining with compute is tricky. CHAOSSEARCH is an early stage startup designed to make searching massive amounts of data using elasticsearch and Amazon S3 […]
DevOps Chat: disrupt:Ops Brings Security Closer to DevOps
Shifting security left during the software development process can be tough for companies because of the sheer number of operational things that go along with implementing security that must occur somehow in the realm of DevOps. It can be easy to lose control over their security processes without some sort of guardrails in place to […]
DevOps Chat: Perforce Acquires Perfecto Mobile
Consolidation is in the air, as two well-known players in the DevOps space—Perforce and Perfecto Mobile—are joining forces. Perforce has announced its intent to acquire Perfecto Mobile for its mobile and web automation testing technology, which, when combined with Perforce’s existing portfolio, will better enable organizations to achieve continuous testing at scale. It’s a great […]
DevOps Chat: All Day DevOps Preview
All Day DevOps, the virtual event featuring more than 100 sessions from practitioners around the world, is happening very soon. Now in its third year, this year’s event will take place Wednesday, Oct. 17, starting at 3 a.m. Eastern. But if you don’t feel like getting up, each 30-minute session will be available on demand […]
DevOps Chat: The New Security Breed with Veracode’s Mark Curphey
DevSecOps has changed the way developers approach security in their application development cycle. But it’s also been the source of confusion, as some developers grapple with understanding how DevSecOps is different from application security. Mark Curphey, VP of strategy at CA Veracode, is clued in to the differences, which he discusses in this DevOps Chat. […]
DevOps Chat: Jez Humble Discusses 2018 ‘State of DevOps Report’
DORA’s annual “State of DevOps Report” is something I look forward to every year. There is no other report out there that gives us a view and insight into the industry the way this one does. And I know I’m not alone in my beliefs. That’s why it’s always a treat to speak with one […]
DevOps Chat: JFrog Announces $165 Million Funding Round
In what may be the biggest round of investment yet in the DevOps space, JFrog announced today that it has closed its Series D round of funding totaling $165 million. The round was led by a new investor, Insight Venture Partners. Jeff Horing, co-founder and managing director of Insight, will join JFrog’s board. JFrog, the […]
DevOps Chat: JFrog Expands Platform with Trainologic Acquisition
It’s always great to see companies in the DevOps space grow and expand their breadth of services. JFrog is the latest to fit that description. The company last week announced its acquisition of Trainologic, a Dev and DevOps technology consulting company, to expand its reach by helping new customers start their DevOps journey and supporting […]
DevOps Chat: Container Security and More with StackRox’s Ali Golshan
Security has many faces, which is why it’s so difficult to implement effectively. Each environment is different; each security solution is different; the needs of each organization is different. That’s why, as Ali Golshan, StackRox founder and CEO Ali Golshan put it, security has gotten a bad rap. Golshan and his company are approaching security […]
DevOps Chat: Open Source and DevSecOps with Azi Cohen, WhiteSource
The security of open source code is one many organizations are grappling with. Add to that the number of times that applications using open source code are updated and the integration issues that come with those updates, and it’s no wonder open source security comes into question. WhiteSource thinks it has a solution to the […]
DevOps Chat: ‘Day 2 DevOps’ with IBM’s Eric Minick
Now that the concept of DevOps has been around for a few years and more organizations have embraced it, the natural question for many is, “What now?”—especially considering DevOps success is measured by different yardsticks. IBM’s Eric Minick is has been grappling with the concept of “Day 2 DevOps”—enterprisewide rollouts, multiple toolchains, etc.—and the best […]
DevOps Chat: DevSecOps with ShiftLeft CTO Chetan Conikee
Security in the DevOps process has gotten a lot of attention lately, as companies grapple with ways to include security further up the application development process. The industry is still very much a nascent space, as players remain engaged in the security-versus-speed conversation—one always is sacrificed for the other. ShiftLeft, however, doesn’t believe that’s the […]
DevOps Chat: Cloud-Native Security with Twistlock CEO Ben Bernstein
The rise of containers and microservices has given rise to a need for a different type of security. Ben Bernstein, CEO of Twistlock, believes cloud-native security is the answer. Fresh off another round of VC funding, Twistlock has big plans to advance cloud-native security in the container space. In this DevOps Chat, we talk funding, […]
DevOps Chat: The Impact of Automation on DevOps and Society, with Bob Reselman
Those of you who have been reading DevOps.com for a few years are familiar with the RoelBob cartoons, which have a prominent spot on the home page. RoelBob’s creator, Bob Reselman, is also a technologist and creator of other forms of media. Lately, he’s been writing a series of articles about the impact of automation […]
DevOps Chat: Modern Applications with SignalFx CEO Karthik Rau
Monitoring has come a long way since the days of 2 a.m. alerts, with automation and analytics now integrated in—and integral to—the life cycle of modern applications. It’s a topic Karthik Rau, CEO of SignalFx, knows well, and one we discuss in this latest DevOps Chat. In its three years of selling, SignalFx has grown […]
DevOps Chat: CI/CD with CircleCI’s Rob Zuber
Microsoft’s recent acquisition of GitHub has spurred a lot of conversations regarding which company is the next big acquisition target, and here on DevOps Chat is no exception. In this episode of DevOps Chat, I speak with Rob Zuber, CTO of CircleCI about the CI/CD space, the future of the market and, yes, M&A activity […]