REP SPOTLIGHT: getITright
DevOps Institute: Tell us a little about your organization. getITright: With offices in Australia, South Africa, The Netherlands, Nigeria and Malta and a network of partners operating in 31 countries, we offer a bouquet of services to help organizations to: Manage better Lower risk Perform better Make better business and IT decisions Our service offering […]
REP SPOTLIGHT: Omnikron
DevOps Institute: Tell us a little about your organization. Omnikron: With over 30 years of industry experience, we have honed IT and project management training techniques to ensure that course material caters to our clients’ needs. Our training is not just lectures from a book. We offer world-class courses, assessments and simulations in a variety […]
Scania: Adopting DevOps for Auto Production
When you think of large vehicles, chances are you think heavy-duty front and rear axles, suspensions and cab parts. When you think of large engines, chances are you think crankshafts, cylinder heads, pistons and injectors. When you think of the brains behind a company that produces all this, you should think software and the processes […]
State of DevOps Report: Reaping Results
The newly released 2016 State of DevOps Report concludes that DevOps is “no longer a mere fad or buzzword,” but rather an established set of practices and cultural patterns. Yet, a closer look at this year’s findings reveals progress is far more substantial than any matters of perception. The report was conducted and analyzed by […]
REP SPOTLIGHT: TaUB Solutions
DevOps Institute: Tell us about your organization. TaUB Solutions: TaUB Solutions is a consulting-cum-training organization based in Bangalore India. Our vision is to take the customers beyond the existing state of maturity to envisioned business outcomes. We serve a lot of customers in southeast Asian region by delivering consulting assignments on ITSM, IT governance, project […]
MTTR: The Magic Metric
How do you improve with one metric quality, cost, performance, employee and, most importantly, customer satisfaction? I think MTTR is one to consider, but with a DevOps twist (agile+lean+ITSM). The thing I love about DevOps is that it allows for people to think differently. DevOps is the movement driving organizations to find new ways of […]
3 Rules for Successful SAFe Adoption
Startups and enterprises alike are redefining—some say disrupting—markets, industries and customer experiences by delivering innovative ideas at a rapid pace and responding to feedback. Often they fail, but they fail quickly and adjust. You know the ones: Spotify, Etsy, Netflix, Airbnb. How do they do it? What can we learn from them that will work […]
What is a DevOps ‘Best Practice’?
In IT, we love our frameworks. Whether agile, ITIL, lean, cobit, six sigma or others, our thirst for “best practice” guidance seems to be unquenchable. The concept of a “best practice” is an enigma. Who decides if a practice is actually the best? And best for whom? While an “adopt and adapt” mentality is advocated […]
Enterprise Cassandra Deployments
Successful Cassandra deployment in the cloud takes a certain amount of skill and knowledge. In this blog I will share best practices for a successful Cassandra deployment in the cloud such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). I will also discuss how you can protect and recover the data in your Cassandra […]
Data Protection for Operational Reporting Platforms
Making real-time business decisions based on data from social, mobile and cloud platforms is a requirement in today’s world. That’s why an ecosystem of next-generation operational reporting platforms such as Spark, Apache Cassandra, Kafka, Docker, Mesos, Marathon and more have come to life. Enterprises are using these technologies to re-architect their data storage and processing […]
Faster, Smarter DevOps
Whether you call it DevOps or not, if you are concerned about releasing more code faster and at a higher quality, the resulting software delivery chain and process will look and smell like DevOps. But for existing development teams, no matter what the velocity objective is, getting from here to there is not something that […]
CloudPassage Named “Most Innovative Cybersecurity Company”
SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwired – May 05, 2016) – CloudPassage today announced it has been recognized as the “Most Innovative Cybersecurity Company” in the 2016 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, which are voted on by the more than 300,000 security professionals who participate in the LinkedIn Information Security Community. From nearly 200 cybersecurity vendors that were nominated, CloudPassage […]
Does the Future of DevOps Lie in NoOps?
Why DevOps is more a bi-directional rather than a simple top-down approach DevOps is one of those buzzwords that nearly everyone wants to discuss these days. However, it often is interpreted as an extension of Development’s influence to the detriment of Operations teams. So much has changed in the past few years that it is […]
DevOps Chat: Software Lifecycle Management with Michael Azoff, Ovum
I had a chance to sit down with Michael Azoff, principal analyst for Ovum. Ovum just released a set of matrices that Michael was the author of on ALM, DevOps release management and one on Agile project management. Taken together they provide some great insight into the entire software lifecycle management space. I had a […]
VersionOne® Spring 2016 Release Helps Organizations Successfully Scale Agility with SAFe® and DevOps
VersionOne Enables Program Boards, PI Planning, and WSJF Ranking to Align with the Scaled Agile Framework® Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) April 22, 2016 VersionOne, the independent leader in agile lifecycle management, today announced its Spring 2016 Release to help organizations successfully scale agility with SAFe and DevOps. New features in VersionOne Lifecycle that directly support SAFe […]
Submit your proposal for DevOps Enterprise Summit San Francisco!
The theme for this year’s #DOES16 San Francisco conference is Leading Change. We want to hear stories from the leaders of large, complex organizations implementing DevOps principles and practices. The submission deadline is midnight PDT, May 2, 2016. All submissions will be notified by June 17, 2016. Get details >>> […]
DevOps’ Cultural Myths and Logical Fallacies
Remember that guy you knew in college who was working on his fifth or sixth degree with no plans to stop? At some point the idea of real work must have terrified him, and instead what appealed to him was a continual state of learning. If you have the funding to master five or six […]
cPrime and AgileCraft Partner to Scale Agile with Atlassian’s Jira Suite
Partnership enables organizations committed to Atlassian suite to scale agile across all levels of the enterprise – including team, program, portfolio and enterprise levels. Foster City, CA (PRWEB) March 31, 2016 cPrime, the industry leader focused on solutions to help companies adopt, transform and scale their business with Agile Development methodologies and AgileCraft, the leading […]
Databricks Offers APIs to Enable Agile Application Development With Apache Spark for the Enterprise
Fusion of API and Visualization Meets Application Deployment and Data Science Needs SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwired – Mar 30, 2016) – Databricks, the company behind Apache Spark, today launched a new set of APIs that will enable enterprises to automate their Spark infrastructure to accelerate the deployment of production data-driven applications. Today’s enterprise data platform must […]
Our Sprint to Agile Success
Adoption of the agile methodology is essential to the success of a DevOps culture. This is not revolutionary, but is an important foundation. We view agile as the tool for developers to achieve DevOps. Our team, which is developer-centric, is focusing on the agile piece of the equation moving forward. But what happens when you […]
Evolving to Continuous Testing
As agile development practices mature and DevOps principles infiltrate our corporate cultures, organizations are realizing the distinct opportunity to accelerate software delivery. However, when you speed up any process, immature practice areas such as testing and roadblocks become much more pronounced. It’s the difference between driving over a speed bump at 5 mph vs. 50 […]
DevOps Debates: Monoliths or Microservices
From the time software came into existence, application software has been booming to leverage the benefit of the computing paradigm. During this cycle, it has transformed decades of design and architectural thinking, and has crossed all aspects of application development and management needs, be it configurability, reusability, maintainability, scalability or security (a good list is of […]
Are databases part of Agile? The new partnership between Redgate and DevOpsGuys points the way
Cambridge UK, 7 March 2016 – DevOpsGuys, the Cardiff-based company that builds, deploys, and manages enterprise-scale web applications for blue-chip companies and the public sector, has become Redgate Software’s first Certified Partner in the UK. The move brings advantages for both businesses, with DevOpsGuys given the support and expertise to enable them to include the […]