Innovate Everywhere: Choosing the Right Tools When Building Your SRE Toolchain

May 2, 2018 by Deborah Schalm 0 Comments

Many companies are working to define their expectations for the SRE role and the SRE toolchain, which, like the role itself, continues to evolve. The tools SREs use at any given time will depend on where an organization is in their SRE journey. Less mature organizations will tend to use more specialized operations tools while […]

Digital Business Revolution: Why DevOps is the New Enterprise Value Chain

February 16, 2018 by Philippe Abdoulaye 6 Comments

Ongoing industry disruptions are forcing businesses to change their operational model; that’s the only way to avoid and survive digital bankruptcies. In North America, Sears Canada filed for bankruptcy, while Toys R Us and Weight Watchers were on the verge of it. In Europe, particularly, in France, banks including Societe Generale and leading retailers including […]

Get the Full DevOps Picture with our Continuous Delivery Map

October 2, 2017 by Scott Willson 0 Comments

Automation and continuous delivery are shifting from being industry trends to becoming industry standards for fast and effective app deployment. To compete in today’s market, organizations must adopt technologies and applications for more rapid deployment. But with so many tools available, this is incredibly challenging without knowing which specific tools and methodologies are most effective. […]

Differentiating Between CI Pipelines and DevOps Assembly Lines

September 8, 2017 by contributor 3 Comments

“What’s in a name?” wrote the greatest Bard who ever lived. All I can say is, he lived in simpler times, when DevOps and the confusing world of continuous integration (CI), continuous deployment (CD), CI/CD, the other CD, application release automation (ARA), pipelines, assembly lines, etc., didn’t exist. The biggest challenge today is that vendors […]

The Right DevOps Tools for Value Stream Velocity

September 5, 2017 by Patricia Johnson 0 Comments

Think of DevOps tools as stepping stones to releasing new functionality into the hands of your customers faster and more frequently. Working together, tools automate processes and help companies become modern software factories. But isolated tools, like a lone rock in the middle of a river, are much less useful. Disparate tools may help an […]

DevOps: State of the Art in 2017, and Why CDOs Should Care

February 7, 2017 by contributor 0 Comments

Nine years after the term “DevOps” was coined, the following two questions seem still open: What does it stand exactly for? and How do we make all this technology work together? From the perspective of the industrialization of work labor also in the software industry, the answer to the first question appears very clear to […]

3 Key Uses of a DevOps Toolchain

February 2, 2017 by Tony Bradley 0 Comments

The ultimate goal of DevOps is to streamline development. DevOps doesn’t necessarily require tools and is not defined by its tools, but for most organizations, they play an integral role in automating tasks and ensuring processes run as efficiently as possible. When used together, a combination of DevOps tools form a DevOps toolchain, which enables […]