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National Renewable Energy Laboratory Uses DevOps For Better Compliance
One of the big stumbling blocks naysayers claim DevOps can't overcome is the perceived incompatibility of DevOps with high levels of compliance regulations. But forward-looking IT practitioners at financial institutions, healthcare organizations ...
The web-scale avalanche
Old-school businesses may not like it, but they're competing with Google, Facebook, Amazon and other Internet powerhouses because those players have grown from day one with an eye on rapid, scalable, cloud-based ...
Five Top Tips for Cloud and DevOps Automation
A while back, I overheard someone asking why many of the 'cloudy people' have moved on to DevOps. One reason is certainly that cloud is at the heart of DevOps. Many of ...
The US Air Force was doing ‘DevOps’ before it was cool
One of the pillars of DevOps is the obliteration of traditional silos, and the ability for cross-functional teams to work together to just get things done. While the concept may be new ...
Log Data as a Valuable Tool in the DevOps Lifecycle (and Beyond)
As many of us embrace DevOps, developers have to think beyond delivering code that is taken by “operations” to be deployed, run and monitored in production environments. DevOps instead focuses on breaking ...
The 7 skills Ops pros need to succeed with DevOps
There’s a lot of confusion about what DevOps exactly is, and what it takes for enterprises and individuals alike to succeed. Some argue it’s about successfully using collaboration toolsets. It’s not. DevOps ...
Citrix puts DevOps front and center
I had the privilege of attending Citrix Synergy 2014 in Anaheim at the beginning of May. Citrix unveiled a variety of new and updated products, but one announcement in particular surprised me ...
Two Ways DevOps Unlocks the True Potential of Agile
In a recent post on InformationWeek, Erik Weber, a professional Scrum trainer and Agile expert, explores four signs that you’re doing Agile development wrong. Upon finishing the article, I was reminded that ...
Inject failure to make your systems more reliable
Injecting failure into your infrastructure to test your services resilience has been gaining popularity. Most people think of Netflix and their use of “Chaos Monkey”, in fact, they have an entire “Simian ...
Security in a DevOps world: Q&A with Gartner’s Ben Tomhave
As the infosec community catches up with the spirit of the DevOps movement, many CISOs and IT security leaders still need guidance on how to make the paradigm shift. Not only are ...
Your End Users Want Everything: Here’s How to Give it to Them
In today’s application-centric business environment, the end user is king. Whether we’re talking about being first to market with the next big thing or adding new capabilities and features to an existing ...
Enterprise DevOps is Real and Here to Stay
A recent column in the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal argued that while DevOps is gaining inroads in small and mid-sized businesses, it’s facing a much less rosy future in large enterprises ...
