A Six-Step Approach to Enterprise DevOps Transformation
Agility of businesses to transform and adjust to market conditions is perhaps the most important aspect of managing today’s enterprise. With digitization of almost all facets of running an enterprise, it is safe to say that IT agility translates to either the success or failure of such adaptation. Smaller and new-age businesses are better able […]
How I Bet on DevOps – and Won
One evening in late 2015, after the kids were in bed, I sat down next to my wife and said, “I’d like to do something irresponsible. I want to gamble some of our savings on DevOps. I’d like to buy some stock.” Nicole Forsgren’s 2014 presentation, “DevOps and the Bottom Line,” opened my eyes to […]
Forecasting Culture: Sunny with Accumulating Collaboration
Bryson Koehler believes the most important enabling factor for DevOps success is culture. Koehler is CTO of IBM’s newly formed Watson and Cloud Platform group. Prior to this role, he served as executive vice president, distinguished engineer and CIO/CTO of The Weather Company (TWC), an IBM business since 2016. He has a record of successfully […]
Webinar: Adopting DevOps @ Scale: Lessons learned at Hertz, Kaiser Permanente and lBM
DevOps has become a major enabler of business innovation that can drive digital transformation at an enterprise level if done well. Challenges remain, however. Crossing the chasm from successful DevOps pilots with “two-pizza” teams to full enterprise adoption, including cultural transformation, best practices and tools remains a challenge. Join Alan Shimel as he hosts a […]
DevOps Chat: InterConnect 2017 w/ Randy Newell, IBM DevOps
In this episode of DevOps Chats we are again joined by Randy Newell, Director World Wide Marketing for DevOps. Randy had a bunch of news he wanted to share with us including the call for speakers for IBM’s InterConnect 2017 which is open until November 11th. Randy also gave us a preview of the IBM sessions […]
DevOps Chat: Cognitive DevOps w/ Hayden Lindsey, Enterprise Systems and DevOps IBM
I recently had a chance to catch up with Hayden Lindsey, distinguished engineer and VP of Enterprise Systems and DevOps at IBM. I have spoken with Hayden several times as well as seeing him present at various conferences. Hayden truly understands how DevOps and related practices are changing the game for Enterprise Systems. Hayden and […]
Alerts Keep DevOps Teams Responsive, in Sync
Continuing our five-part series on “Continuous Monitoring: The Role of DevOps and APM,” this blog post will talk about how alert notification can help DevOps teams be more productive and agile. Amid the constant, rapid change and fluidity typical in DevOps organizations, there are some undeniable absolutes. These absolutes, present at each stage of the […]
Cognitive Analytics: ‘Operations Thinking’ for Development
In a recent blog post by my colleague Payal Chakravarty, “Synthetic Monitoring – the Start of the DevOps Monitoring Journey,” she discussed how developers, testers and operations staff all need to ensure their internet and intranet mobile applications and web applications are tested and operate successfully from different points of presence around the world. Continuing […]
Synthetic Monitoring: The Start of the Monitoring Journey
Under pressure to innovate and deliver rapid updates to their applications, developers often place monitoring as an after-thought. In today’s world, where a slowdown can translate to customer attrition and an outage can lead to millions of dollars in losses and negative press, ensuring satisfactory response time has evolved to be one of the most […]
Top 5 DevOps Practices to Improve Security in Engineering
We’ve all been there … A new application or feature needs to be deployed yesterday and the last thing anyone wants to do is address security requirements. On the flip side, the very last thing anyone wants to address later is a security breach or a cost associated with non-compliance. Not only is it a […]
DevOps Chat: CJ Paul, IBM, on DevOps, ITSM, Cloud and More
DevOps.com editor-in-chief Alan Shimel sat down to speak with Dr. CJ Paul, Distinguished Engineer, DevOps Methods & Tools, IBM Cloud. CJ is someone we have interviewed previously on video at IBM InterConnect and is always a great source of information. In this interview Dr. Paul discussed DevOps, ITSM, Cloud, Bluemix, Bluemix Garage method and more. As […]
Continuous Monitoring: The Role of DevOps and APM
To enable faster and better response to changing customer needs, enterprises are increasing their release frequency for applications. This, in turn, demands tighter alignment and collaboration than traditionally has been seen between the line of business, development and IT operations, driving the need for enhanced collaboration, automation and information transparency among these groups. To achieve […]
First-Time Quality for Software on a Blockchain Network
There is probably more trust in the world today than at any other point in history—not necessarily by choice, but because of our use of software to carry out almost every type of transaction. The use of blockchain networks brings visibility to those networks of transactions: Information about an asset that was once held by […]
Webinar: Scaling DevOps for the Enterprise with GitHub
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Multi-speed IT: The Reality of Enterprise Agility
Today’s business demands the ability to change systems at an ever-increasing speed, but for many companies, including their systems of record have created a mismatch in development and operations practices between the traditionally dynamic systems of engagement and the traditionally slower systems of record. The problem isn’t in the ability of the systems of record […]
Machine Learning Put to Work in the Digital Economy
IBM’s Watson already has a new retail job lined up to get a head start saving for its holiday spending this season. (Hey, even artificial intelligences appreciate buying gifts.) And Macy’s is hoping its customers appreciate its “Macy’s On Call” pilot, which combines Satisfi’s communications platform and IBM Watson cognitive technology for machine learning. Macy’s […]
Separate but Equal: Not Equal and Not the Right Way
The DevOps Enterprise Summit in London provided another opportunity to speak to many clients about their organizations’ DevOps transformations. The key message is, “It’s all about people and culture,” but how do you make those changes? In session after session it was clear the source code manager (SCM) is central to this transformation. All clients […]
DevOps Chat: GitHub Enterprise as a Hosted Service, with Jean-Louis Vignaud
I recently sat down with Jean-Louis Vignaud, program manager at IBM, about the new GitHub Enterprise as a hosted service that recently was rolled out on Bluemix. The GitHub Enterprise as a hosted service is a great option for enterprises that, due to compliance or other security requirements, cannot used a shared, public GitHub service. […]
DevOps Chat: Sanjeev Sharma, DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2016
I had a chance to speak with CTO of technical sales of DevOps for IBM right before the recent DevOps Enterprise Summit in London. I also interviewed Sanjeev at the DOES London event and that video will be available shortly, but I wanted to give you a preview of what he was speaking about in […]
DevOps Connect: CD Summit and Jenkins Days Fall Schedule Announced
Call for Speakers Open for Seven Events Produced in the US and Europe, By DevOps.com and Sponsored by CloudBees and IBM Boca Raton, June 21, 2016 – DevOps.com, where the world meets DevOps, along with premier sponsors, CloudBees, the enterprise Jenkins Company and IBM, today announced that their DevOps Connect: CD Summit/Jenkins Days roadshow will […]
Doing Nothing is Hard Work!
If you really want to know how good your software delivery process is, try doing nothing. Yes, you read that correctly, do nothing: Go through your normal release process without any requirements, no new code, no testing and no installation at the end. Sounds easy, right? So let’s get started. This will be different for […]
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 […]
Do You Continuously Deliver Your CD Pipeline?
If your job is to build and maintain the continuous delivery (CD) pipeline for your organization, do you feel you can’t keep up with your development counterparts in innovation? Everyone is raving about the new cool features in your company’s product. Who deserves the credit? People who wrote the code, right? It’s not that simple. […]