Puppet Report Sees Long DevOps Journey Ahead

June 11, 2018 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

A recent report published by Puppet suggests the level of DevOps maturity within most organizations is still relatively slight. In fact, most of the respondents reported high levels of manual work still occurring across configuration management, deployment, testing and change approval processes. Alanna Brown, director of product marketing for Puppet, said the “State of DevOps: […]

For DevOps, (Organizational) Size Matters

June 7, 2018 by Chris Tozzi 1 Comments

When it comes to DevOps, size matters. The number of people in your organization, as well as the size of its infrastructure, play a huge role in shaping how and why you adopt DevOps. The importance of company size may come as a surprise. Few conversations about DevOps mention the role of organizational size in […]

DevOps Case Study: Cyxtera Improves Quality of Security Application

June 6, 2018 by Kurt Glazemakers 0 Comments

The ability to fail and recover quickly and frequently roll out new features are DevOps benefits any development team can appreciate. But when the team is building a security application that must protect users in real time, the ability to update and upgrade the product quickly isn’t just a nice-to-have—it’s a requirement. Security applications require […]

The Role of DevOps in the Financial Services Industry

May 3, 2018 by Sujata Rani 1 Comments

We are living in a fast-changing environment where unexpected technological, economic and political changes can be expected and where it is necessary to adapt quickly to these changes. This statement is especially true in the financial services sector, where there is a greater need to exceed the expectations of customers and provide uninterrupted service. From […]

Culture Becoming Bigger Issue as DevOps Goes Mainstream

April 5, 2018 by Jai Vijayan 0 Comments

Culture and resistance to DevOps processes appears to be growing at many organizations where DevOps projects have started going mainstream and involving more enterprise groups. Cloud automation vendor Quali recently surveyed 1,300 DevOps and IT professionals on some of the key barriers to DevOps adoption and found more respondents identifying culture as a top issue […]

DevOps: It’s an Odyssey, not a Journey

April 3, 2018 by Don Macvittie 1 Comments

It has become somewhat of a standard practice to tell people, “DevOps is a journey, not a destination,” which attempts to convey the fact that there is no end point that is set in stone. But a journey is a well-planned, point-to-point trip, while DevOps transformation is a messy, figure-out-the-next-steps-as-you-go trip. So I propose we […]

Overcoming the Awkward Teen Years of DevOps Adoption with Process-Centric IT

March 14, 2018 by Kristin Apgar 0 Comments

DevOps adoption is all over the map. Just last year, xMatters and Atlassian surveyed more than 1,000 companies on their DevOps maturity and found only 65 percent were getting the benefits from their DevOps initiative that they expected. Sixty-six percent described their maturity level at or below intermediate. And another 1,000 organizations were excluded from […]

Enthusiasm for DevOps Greater Than Actual Adoption, Survey Shows

March 13, 2018 by Jai Vijayan 0 Comments

When it comes to DevOps practices, adoption continues to lag intention by quite a bit. GitLab recently surveyed some 5,300 software developers and engineers from mostly small and medium businesses around the world. The survey examined overall attitudes and perceptions around the state of DevOps, with a particular focus on uncovering any disparities that might […]

Recent Articles

Manual Processes and Silos Complicating …

DevOps Adoption: The Driving Force of th…