Building DevOps Careers: One Man’s Journey, Part 1
In 2011, Sylvain Kalache was a software engineer at SlideShare, which LinkedIn acquired in 2012. Kalache was a senior systems reliability engineer (SRE) at LinkedIn, doing project management and planning, documenting and sharing knowledge tools, and adapting himself and his work to the LinkedIn organization and its technology. Today, Kalache is helping build DevOps careers […]
‘DevOps is a Lifestyle, Not a Title’
“DevOps is a lifestyle, not a title.” This is a quote from Ron Melanson, of Amazon, and I hope he won’t mind me sharing it here. It struck a chord with me, and this blog explains why. I have spoken about DevOps on a few occasions. Some audiences are not from a development background, so […]
CircleCI Secures $18 Million in Series B Led by Scale Venture Partners
Industry Shift Toward DevOps Propels CircleCI as It Scales to Meet Rising Demand for Unified Web and Mobile CI/CD Solution SAN FRANCISCO, CA –(Marketwired – May 16, 2016) – CircleCI, the leader in continuous integration and continuous delivery, today announced it raised $18 million in Series B funding led by Scale Venture Partners. Existing investors DFJ, […]
Salvador Partners Bridges Global Gaps for DevOps
Salvador Partners works on a global scale to help its customers grow their business. The company, which has its own set of products, also focuses on assisting startups in making their vision reality. Indeed, it bills itself as “experts at innovation and exploiting innovation.” The company started life as a subcontracted electronic components manufacturing company, […]
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 […]
Automic Recognized as a Market Leader in Ovum DevOps Research
May 11, 2016 09:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time VIENNA & SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Automic, a leader in Business Automation software, today announced it has been named as a “leader” in the new “Ovum Decision Matrix: Selecting a DevOps Release Management Solution, 2016–17” research report. Automic is ranked as a key vendor, based on the organization’s ability to offer […]
RightScale Releases New DevOps and Docker Trends in Follow-Up to State of the Cloud Report
SANTA BARBARA, CA — (Marketwired) — 05/11/16 — RightScale® Inc., a demonstrated leader in enterprise universal cloud management,today announced the results of the RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Survey: DevOps Trends. The fifth annual RightScale State of the Cloud Survey was announced in February. This follow-up report provides new data and analysis in a […]
Rancher Labs Secures Series B Funding of $20M for Container Management Platform
Led by new investor GRC SinoGreen, with participation from existing investors, funding will help Rancher Labs maintain momentum, and meet sales and marketing goals Cupertino, Calif. – May 10, 2016 – Rancher Labs, a provider of container management software, today announced $20M in Series B funding led by new investor GRC SinoGreen, with participation from […]
PagerDuty Services Group Capability Simplifies Incident Management of Critical Applications and Services
New Services Group feature simplifies how IT Ops and DevOps teams resolve incidents, delivering increased uptime and performance May 11, 2016 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–PagerDuty, the leader in modern incident management, announces the immediate availability of PagerDuty Services Group. Services Group fundamentally changes the way IT Ops and DevOps teams manage and monitor […]
ELECTRIC CLOUD HELPS ORGANIZATIONS SCALE THEIR DEVOPS EFFORTS WITH NEW RELEASE OF ELECTRICFLOW
New features give enterprises an easier way to scale DevOps initiatives across projects and teams with end-to-end automation, cross-functional visibility and consistent processes SAN JOSE, Calif., May 10, 2016 – Electric Cloud (http://electric-cloud.com), the leader in DevOps Release Automation, today announced the latest release of its industry-leading ElectricFlow DevOps Release Automation platform. The new release […]
SourceClear Launches Free Security Product for Development Teams Building with Open-Source Libraries and Frameworks
Offering Supports Popular Languages and Connects to Leading Development Tools; Identifies and Prioritizes Vulnerabilities and Licensing Issues; Gives Detailed Fixes SAN FRANCISCO, May 9, 2016 – SourceClear, the security company for software developers, today announced a free security tool, SourceClear Open, for teams building with open source. Available immediately at no cost and delivered as […]
Hello, Security. Meet Agile
Illumio Chief Commercial Officer Alan S. Cohen recently wrote in his blog, “Go, Slow and No: Bringing DevOps Speed to IT Security,” “There are reasons why security and risk professionals often react with a ‘no.’ When you are tasked with assessing and reducing risk, going fast might not be the first instinct.” Many InfoSec practitioners […]
Balance: The Key to Successful DevOps
In the realm of IT buzzwords, DevOps is in a league of its own. The pervasiveness of the word is matched only by the variety of its definitions. Over time, much like the parable of The Blind Men and the Elephant, it has slowly taken shape out of the void, albeit in a backwards fashion. […]
Q&A: Sematext’s Thies on Docker Monitoring, Part 2
In part one of my conversation with Stefan Thies, Sematext DevOps expert. we spoke about Docker’s use of Sematext Logsene logging, anomaly detecting and alerting software and SPM monitoring software. Let’s continue the conversation. David Geer: What makes Logsene centralized? Where is it centralized a typical deployment? What are the advantages of it being centralized? […]
RightBrain Networks Appoints Hemant Kishan As Chief Operating Officer And Dave Thompson As Chief Technical Officer
RightBrain Networks, a software development and cloud consulting firm, today announced that Hemant Kishan has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Dave Thompson has been hired as Chief Technical Officer (CTO). Previously serving as CTO, Jamie Begin has assumed the CEO role and will continue to set the vision for the company. Ann […]
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 […]
Why Is There No DevOps Manifesto?
Let’s start with a brief story: There’s a scene in a movie called “A Few Good Men” in which a lawyer is questioning a cadet. The lawyer directs the cadet to turn to the page in the thick Marine Code Manual that explains where to find the canteen. And the cadet replies, it isn’t in there. And the lawyer says, “Well, you […]
Continuous Delivery: The Atlassian Way
Sonatype’s Mark Miller (@TSWAlliance) caught up with Ian Buchanan (@devpartisan) for our 2016 DevOps Leadership Series. Ian discussed his experiences at Atlassian, including continuous delivery, ChatOps, and use of tools such as Bamboo, Nexus, Puppet and Datadog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgRaYKHGqeQ Buchanan: I’m Ian Buchanan. I’m a Developer Partisan at Atlassian, which is developer advocacy for our developer tools. Miller: Ian, most people know […]
3 Ways to Become a More Agile IT Organization
In 1960, the average life expectancy of a Fortune 500 company was 75 years. Today, the average lifespan is just 15 years and declining further. So what gives? We only have to look as far as the “Uber-effect” to understand why so many companies fail. Uber very simply and quickly disrupted a centuries-old industry with […]
XebiaLabs Innovates Pipeline Orchestration, Adds New Release Dashboards and Introduces DevOps ChatBot
New Version of XL Release Helps Enterprises Orchestrate and Control Large and Complex Releases, so They Can Produce Software More Quickly and With Fewer Errors BOSTON, MA–(Marketwired – May 3, 2016) – XebiaLabs, a recognized leader in DevOps and Continuous Delivery software tools, today announced the launch of XL Release version 5.0 as well as […]
Putting the ‘Biz’ in DevOps
I was having a conversation with a client recently and we both came to the conclusion that DevOps, as used in some conversations, is misnamed. DevOps, by virtue of its name, implies that the focus of improvement is aimed at development and operations. While this is true, I believe that DevOps, at a higher level, […]
DevOps by Osmosis — Is That Even Possible?
“We don’t do DevOps. We can’t, as our development plans are agreed so far in advance and our priority from a production point of view is to keep our systems available 24/7.” I heard this comment from a pal of mine as we had a quiet beer over the weekend, but I’m sure this comment, […]
Q&A: Sematext’s Thies on Docker Monitoring, Part 1
Stefan Thies is DevOps evangelist Sematext Group. I recently spoke with him about Docker’s use of Sematext Logsene logging, anomaly detecting and alerting software and SPM monitoring software. Read on for part one of our conversation. David Geer: Technically speaking, for the purposes of this article, what is logging? Thies: Logging means to store the […]