DevOps: Getting Past Audit
New business processes (and technologies) too often throw auditors into a tailspin. It’s no one’s fault, really: the decision making on what IT and process controls that need to be in place moves slow – and it is the tail to the rapidly moving technology dog. In fact, while there is no way a standard […]
Automating code helps businesses adapt to customer demand quickly
This is the first article in a series of pieces on digital innovation, accelerating change and the rise of the coded business from innovators in the Chef (click here) community. How does the need for speed and scale affect businesses today? Let’s start with scale. As a technology company grows, its infrastructure grows – more machines […]
Microsoft bridges the gap between Azure and DevOps
DevOps can be easy for a startup. Many of the concepts and principles of DevOps come quite naturally to a fresh company just getting started. It’s a different story, however, for large, established enterprises trying to wrap their arms around this DevOps thing. For IT admins working in Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, though, things just […]
Don’t let automation be the tail wagging the dog
There is quite a bit of talk right now about DevOps and how important automation is. This could be compared to GM in the 1980s when the company tried to transform the way they built cars through automation and robot. In the early 1980’s GM spent $90B dollars in an attempt to speed up the […]
A Q & A with Gene Kim: DevOps and What Separates High Performing Enterprises
We recently caught up with Gene Kim (@realgenekim) as he was wrapping up the final touches of a draft of the upcoming DevOps Cookbook. We wanted to get his thoughts on what causes IT deployment failure, the DevOp movement, and finally what separates high performing IT organizations from low performing ones. If you’re following DevOps, […]
The State of DevOps: Accelerating Adoption
By James Turnbull (@kartar), VP of Technology Operations, Puppet Labs Inc. A sysadmin’s time is too valuable to waste resolving conflicts between operations and development teams, working through problems that stronger collaboration would solve, or performing routine tasks that can – and should – be automated. Working more collaboratively and freed from repetitive tasks, IT […]