Culture is a key term in the context of DevOps. And then it feels like it is sometimes one of the most overlooked. When we talk about DevOps we usually refer to People, Process, and Products or the Three Musketeers of DevOps how I like to call them. Culture...

Starting this week I am going to share my top 10 or so links of the past week. All links will have a DevOps context of sorts. I may take the liberty and add my opinion and commentary to some to foster a conversation or spur controversy. Let’s find out...

TechEd Barcelona (Twitter tag #TEE14) is upon us in a few weeks. People at Microsoft, speakers and organizers as well, are working frantically on final preparations. Sessions are reviewed, final slides are prepared (that late?, well you know how it goes...

With Azure Resource Manager Microsoft introduced a new and more efficient way to better support DevOps workflows and the operations and development teams at large in managing Azure resources. What is Azure Resource Manager anyway? While still in preview...

In a 2013 survey of the Katzenbach Center , 84% of the respondents said that culture was critical to the success of change management. Another 64% identified organizational culture as even more relevant than strategy or operating model. Introducing change...

Cheers to those who serve our servers – on premises and in the cloud. IT professionals, it is that time of the year again! This Friday, July 25 th , is the 15 th official annual S ysAdmin A ppreciation D ay ( link ). As if you wouldn’t know that every...

Delivering software fast, furiously, and continuously are some of the great promises that come to mind when thinking of DevOps. The goal is to achieve the ultimate results repeatedly and repeatable throughout the whole Software Development Lifecycle....

Contrary to what a recent Wall Street Journal post suggests, I believe the CIO is needed more than ever. Increasingly, IT is at the heart of every business and with that the CIO becomes a key player – again. Traditionally, the CIO and his operations...

Support for Windows and non-Windows operating systems (OS) in virtual machines is essential. Many production environments today run in virtual machines. A wide variety of operating systems must be supported by any hypervisor , the underlying fabric of...

In a highly-functioning organization implementing DevOps principles what might and evolved role for IT Pros and Operations teams look like? In the 3 resources below, we answer this question in different ways and even more. Resource 1 : A short Edge...

The team over at Puppet Labs just released their 2014 study, “2014 State of DevOps Report”. According to Puppet Labs, this is the “largest and most comprehensive DevOps study to date.” Over 9,200 individuals from organizations of all sizes and a wide...

It’s nice for us to talk about the theoretical of DevOps, but every once in awhile we really should go “behind the scenes” and chat with some actual customers whose companies are living out DevOps practices. This is exactly what I did in this panel interview...

As much as the DevOps momentum has arrived at many of the Microsoft enterprise customers, it has also arrived at the premier Microsoft IT pro event, TechEd. At this year’s TechEd North America 2014 in Houston TX, we communicated our One Microsoft...

Regardless whether you consider yourself a decision maker in IT or if you are an ITI (IT Implementer), check out our top 10 booklist. Consider it our suggestion for an early summer read. Rather than a comprehensive guide to every book you may want...

Hey IT operations professionals, what do you think? All Hype? What's your CIO thinking? Is she already on board? Has your organization established a DevOps practice? Be it as it may, in most cases developers already have a head start at this using...

DevOps is not a person, not a job description, and not a role. I’d be willing to bet you already have the right people with at least some if not all of the right skills currently on staff. They know the environment, the code, networking infrastructure...

How can any organization launch products, services and solutions without focusing on the three “P”s – People, Processes and Products? You need the right people, following appropriate processes using the proper technology or products...

Welcome to our new DevOps blog. My name is Volker Will, I lead the enterprise evangelism team for IT Professionals in the Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism group. My team of technical subject matter experts focuses on evangelizing various...