Middleware has a very important and strategic role in DevOps, according to Ben Henshall, middleware business unit manager at Red Hat Australia and New Zealand. ‘Rapid everything’ is part of DevOps culture, ...

DevOps is a hot topic. Hell, I’m writing this on a site dedicated specifically to DevOps and you’re reading it, so it seems safe to assume we agree on the general premise ...

What is DevOps? I noted in a blog post last summer that limiting DevOps to a single definition is challenging. The Wikipedia entry for DevOps contains a variety of possible explanations that ...

As organizations continue to evaluate wider spread use of containerization to enable continuous deployment, security concerns around the wildly popular Docker keep popping up. Last week, an analyst with Gartner published a ...

Deploying software releases is a mixture of planning, testing, late hours, and celebratory beers. This checklist is intended to be a guide to help improve how your team achieves this complicated and ...

What are the most critical DevOps tools categories? According to the results of a new survey by CA Technologies the answers may be surprising. That is just one of the insights reported ...

I came across an intriguing headline the other day: Malware coders adopt DevOps to target smut sites. The article, unfortunately, is fairly vague about what exactly that means, but it got me ...

Technology has ushered in an era of real-time information, immediate feedback and instantaneous response. As a result, there is tremendous pressure on development teams to deliver a continuous flow of updates and ...

There’s always a sexy new tech buzzword flying around, and it’s easy to fall into the trap of assuming that if a concept or technology is hot you need to hurry up ...

With its roots in Agile and Lean thinking it’s not surprising that DevOps is often looked at through a development lens. After all, it’s proving absolutely essential to support accelerated delivery times; ...

Back in 1980 there was a movie called Nine to Five—referring to the commonly held perception of a standard work day. Of course, that work day evolved to be more like eight ...

Developing applications, and deploying servers faster are great goals. Being agile and streamlined can give an organization a clear competitive advantage. However, faster does not equal better, and being speedy for the ...