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 […]
Serena Software Releases Latest OEM Versions of Tasktop Sync and Tasktop Dev Integrations for DevOps Tools
Enable Organizations to Standardize on SBM in the Enterprise, Gain Automated Visibility, Reporting, Traceability Across Development Tools SAN MATEO, CA and VANCOUVER, BC (PRWEB) March 28, 2016 Serena Software, the leading independent provider of application development and delivery solutions throughout the SDLC for the most highly regulated large enterprises (HRLEs), and Tasktop, the leader in […]
Twistlock Announces Accelerated Business Momentum, Expands Executive Team Amidst Multiple Industry Accolades
Company Appoints Dr. Gene Kim to Advisory Board and Taps Jacinta Tobin for Chief Revenue Officer Role SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwired – Mar 28, 2016) – Twistlock, the leading provider of virtual container security solutions, today announced that its business momentum heading into 2016 has surpassed the company’s revenue goal for the first half of the […]
Resurrecting the CMDB Through a Singular Path to Production
Change consistency (or the predictability of how change is deployed) followed by change transparency (or the visibility into the state of change at any stage in the software development life cycle [SDLC]) are two key benefits of embracing a highly functioning enterprise-class DevOps set of services. Most organizations are attempting to transform themselves from a […]
Trusting Continuous Delivery
DevOps, continuous delivery and the pipeline for faster software development are fundamentally different from traditional software development. It’s such a different approach and a different culture that it can take some time before Dev and Ops teams embrace and trust it—a necessary step for DevOps to make progress in any organization. By mixing containers and […]
NetEnrich Teams with Microsoft to Drive Azure Adoption
IT infrastructure & operations management services provider will offer and deliver Azure deployment services to Microsoft partners in exclusive pilot project. San Jose, CA—March 22, 2016—NetEnrich announces it has been selected as a Microsoft® Technology Partner to deliver services for setup, migration and management of Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery and applications to Microsoft partners […]
First We Fixed Dev, But Let’s Not Forget About Ops
Since its beginning in 2008, DevOps has gone from an underground rebellion by developers to a mainstream movement with representatives in every industry and at every scale. You can see the change just by looking at how people attending DevOps events dress: the black T-shirts are still there, but these days there are lots of […]
Puppet Labs Launches Fifth Annual State of DevOps Survey
PORTLAND, OR–(Marketwired – Mar 22, 2016) – Puppet Labs, the leading provider of IT automation software, today announced that it has opened the survey for the fifth annual State of DevOps Survey and Report (http://bit.ly/2016DevOpsSurvey). This one-of-kind, comprehensive industry study provides enterprises with insights into how DevOps, automation, IT and organizational performance impact the world’s […]
Micro Focus Announces Intent to Acquire Serena Software, Inc.
Leading Infrastructure Software Vendor Further Strengthens Solution Set to Help Customers Build and Deploy Business Applications and Services Faster, with Greater Reliability and Less Risk ROCKVILLE, Md., March 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Micro Focus announced today its intent to acquire Serena Software, Inc., a leading provider of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) software, in a transaction […]
VictorOps Announces DevOps Roadtrip to Impart Industry Best Practices Across the Country
New event series provides practical tips for implementing and enhancing DevOps strategies March 21, 2016 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time BOULDER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–VictorOps, the real-time, agile incident management company for DevOps teams, today announced its DevOps Roadtrip, a series of events designed to help software development and IT professionals across the country to better implement […]
goPaddle goes Google Cloud and Kubernetes v1.2 friendly
SEATTLE, March 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Bluemeric Inc, a Cloud & DevOps company, today announced the release of the next version of goPaddle v2.0, a DevOps platform for micro-services. 2016 being the year of DevOps, IT organizations are already looking at scale-out and economies of scale, while e-commerce companies have understood the impact of agile delivery […]
BlazeMeter Uses the Force of Performance Testing to Prepare MovieTickets.com for the Release of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”
March 17, 2016 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Movie releases are major traffic events for online ticket providers. So when the most storied movie franchise in history comes out with a new chapter, it creates a unique performance challenge. That’s whyMovieTickets.com, a worldwide leader in advance movie ticketing, turned to BlazeMeter to ensure […]
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 […]
5 Things DevOps is Not
For those who have been embracing and championing DevOps for years, the growing popularity of DevOps is as exciting as landing your first job out of college! Okay, maybe not that exciting, but still really cool. More and more companies of all sizes are embracing DevOps by including the adoption of DevOps practices directly into […]
PagerDuty Selects Threat Stack to Enable High-Velocity Security and Compliance in the Cloud
Threat Stack’s Continuous Security Monitoring Helps Assure Security and Scalability BOSTON– March 16, 2016 – Threat Stack, a leader in cloud security management and compliance, today announced that PagerDuty, the pioneer in agile incident management, selected Threat Stack Cloud Security PlatformTM to protect and secure its rapidly growing infrastructure within its Amazon Web Services (AWS) […]
Git: One Giant Leap Toward DevOps
If you work in an organization that has not yet embraced DevOps, then you might be wondering where to begin. Fortunately, there are many good answers. But I want to introduce one simple starting point that you probably haven’t heard: introducing Git to operations. By itself, Git might not seem like a meaningful way to […]
Jelastic Cooper 4.6 Unlocks Reselling of PaaS and CaaS for Hosting Service Providers
Jelastic Cloud launched its new reselling program for hosting providers and MSPs to offer DevOps platform with support of Docker containers without upfront investments Palo Alto, Calif (PRWEB) March 15, 2016 Jelastic, Inc., the cloud software company for automation of DevOps processes with the help of containers, today has announced the launch of their latest […]
DBmaestro Mitigates DevOps Security Risk with CyberArk
DBmaestro Customers Gain Solution to Better Secure and Manage Privileged Credentials in Oracle Database Environments Houston, Texas, March 15, 2016 – DBmaestro (http://www.dbmaestro.com), the pioneer and leading provider of DevOps for database solutions, today announced a technology integration with the market leading CyberArk Privileged Account Security Solution. This integration helps improve security and compliance in DevOps […]
CLOUDBEES ANNOUNCES INDUSTRY’S FIRST CERTIFICATION PROGRAM FOR JENKINS ENGINEERS
New Technical Certification for Jenkins and the CloudBees Jenkins Platform adds value for engineers, teams and employers SAN JOSE, Calif. – March 15, 2016 – CloudBees, Inc., the enterprise Jenkins company and continuous delivery (CD) leader, today announced the rollout of a professional certification program for both Jenkins and CloudBees Jenkins Platform engineers. Though Jenkins […]
InterConnect 2016: Culture Matters
The recent IBM InterConnect 2016 focused on plenty of tools and technologies, from cloud/SaaS solutions to containers and automation, but there was another popular topic of conversation heard in the halls—the culture of organizations. The basic premise of these conversations was that unless you get the culture right, all the technology in the world won’t […]
Black Duck Announces Open Source “Rookies of the Year”
BURLINGTON, Mass.–(Business Wire)–Black Duck, a global leader in automated solutions for securing and managing open source software, today announced the eighth annual Open Source Rookies of the Year, recognizing the top new open source projects initiated in 2015. The selected projects show how diverse and ambitious open source software development has become. From communications to healthcare […]
In DevOps, Standardize to Minimize Architectural Debt
I recently reading a great Q&A with the Etsy CTO John Allspaw over on The New Stack, which contained some nuggets of good advice that increasingly are important as we continue the journey toward DevOps adoption. Of particular note were statements on the introduction of “new” things to solve problems. In a nutshell, Allspaw reinforced […]