I recently had a conversation with Jennifer Lent from TechTarget. She's a
respected thinker in our field and covers major trends. We spoke about the
emergence of BizDevOps and its implications for businesses.
We tackled a number of topics. She wrote about our conversation in a recent
article, "BizDevOps: Here's how to make it happen in your organization."
Since our conversation, I've been thinking more about BizDevOps, its
challenges, and what makes the BizDevOps pipeline flow.
Peter Drucker made the prescient statement that "Culture eats strategy for
breakfast." This applies to BizDevOps - changing tech is not hard, but
changing culture is. You can buy the tools and put the processes into place,
but getting team buy-in and creating the cultural shift to make BizDevOps run
are not easy tasks.
This type of change requires leadership commitment, communication, and
edu... (more)
I recently hosted a webinar on Enterprise Software Development in Pursuit
of Excellence that covers best practices for developing enterprise software
that is both flexible and reliable.
As software development becomes an integral part of today's enterprise, and
teams are often dispersed globally, it's important as a developer to have
some tried and true best practices to stand by. Scaling these principles and
duplicating successes across the distributed enterprise can be a challenge
however, particularly if other organizational stakeholders are turning on the
heat when it comes to security, costs, and concerns about shadow IT.
Often IT leaders and software development leaders have different priorities;
they may be competing for the ear of C-level executives when it comes to
resources and urgency. It's important to remember that they have the same
agenda-to ensure th... (more)
The general concepts of DevOps have played a central role advancing the
modern software delivery industry. With the library of DevOps best practices,
tips and guides expanding quickly, it can be difficult to track down the best
and most accurate resources and information. In order to help the software
development community, and to further our own learning, we reached out to
leading industry analysts and asked them about an increasingly popular tenet
of a DevOps transformation: collaboration.
We asked Michael Azoff, Principal Analyst at Ovum; Clive Longbottom, founder
of and analyst atQuocirca; Julie Craig, Research Director at EMA; and Stephen
Hendrick, Principal Analyst at ESG: "To what extent is collaboration a
significant part of DevOps? What are the benefits of collaboration and how
does collaboration improve development/deployment initiatives?"
Here are their r... (more)
"NetApp's vision is how we help organizations manage data - delivering the
right data in the right place, in the right time, to the people who need it,
and doing it agnostic to what the platform is," explained Josh Atwell,
Developer Advocate for NetApp, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud
Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
DXWorldEXPO LLC, the producer of the world's most influential technology
conferences and trade shows has announced the conference tracks
for CloudEXPO | DXWorldEXPO 2018 New York.
DXWordEXPO New York 2018, colocated with CloudEXPO New York 2018 will be
held November 11-13, 2018, in New York City.
Digital Transformation (DX) is a major focus with the introduction
of DXWorldEXPO within the program. Successful transformation requires a
laser focus on being data-driven and on using all the tools available that... (more)
DXWorldEXPO LLC, the producer of the world's most influential technology
conferences and trade shows has announced the conference tracks
for CloudEXPO | DXWorldEXPO 2018 New York.
DXWordEXPO New York 2018, colocated with CloudEXPO New York 2018 will be
held November 11-13, 2018, in New York City.
Digital Transformation (DX) is a major focus with the introduction
of DXWorldEXPO within the program. Successful transformation requires a
laser focus on being data-driven and on using all the tools available that
enable transformation if they plan to survive over the long term.
A total of 88% of Fortune 500 companies from a generation ago are now out of
business. Only 12% still survive. Similar percentages are found throughout
enterprises of all sizes.
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DXWorldEXPO LLC announced today that Conference Guru has been named "Media
Sponsor" of CloudEXPO | DXWorldEXPO 2018 New York, which will take place on
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DXWorldEXPO LLC, the producer of the world's most influential technology
conferences and trade shows has announced the conference tracks
for CloudEXPO | DXWorldEXPO 2018 New York.
DXWordEXPO New York 2018, colocated with CloudEXPO New Yo... (more)
Cloud-native: A new ecosystem for putting containers into production
The standardization of container runtimes and images has sparked the creation
of an almost overwhelming number of new open source projects that build on
and otherwise work with these specifications.
Of course, there's Kubernetes, which orchestrates and manages collections of
containers. It was one of the first and best-known examples of projects that
make containers truly useful for production use. However, more recently, the
container ecosystem has truly exploded. A service mesh like Istio addresses
many of the challenges faced by developers and operators as monolithic
applications transition towards a distributed microservice architecture. A
tracing tool like Jaeger analyzes what's happening as a transaction moves
through a distributed system. Monitoring software like Prometheus captures
time-se... (more)
Three Ruling Technology Trends to Watch Out for in 2018
As we head into a new year, IT improvements and management should be top of
mind for any business looking to amp up their customer experience, delivery
and service in 2018. Recently, at CA World ‘17, I talked about how every
business strategy is now an IT strategy. With that in mind, I have a few
predictions for 2018 that I encourage companies to have on their to-do list
as they look to find greater success in the new year.
#1 It's all about DevSecOps
Security will remain top of mind for customers, but the software development
lifecycle will now need to integrate security from start to finish in a
seamless way. The need for speed and velocity with quality in development has
created a "shift-left" movement that integrates security from the start,
which needs to be easy and accessible for developers as they write c... (more)
Automating Progress: The Future of Automation
By Chris Boorman
We've all read the dystopian fiction, watched those apocalyptic movies and
heard a myriad of prophetic warnings heralding our obsolescence. Surely now
we're just a couple of years from flipping the switch on a Skynet of our own
making and condemning mankind to the annals of history.
Actually, we're not entirely sure what the future holds, but it's probably
not fire and brimstone.
For detractors and naysayers of technology, could there be a more fitting
image than Terminator 2's opening shot? A hulking, skeletal, humanoid machine
crushing a human skull beneath its foot. Listening to ‘techno-skeptics' can
sure make it feel as though that's the end which inevitably awaits us. If we
continue down our current path of imbuing machines with increasing levels of
autonomy, learning abilities and artificial intelli... (more)
Don Demcsak is a DevOps and Cloud Native Modernization Principal for Dell EMC
based out of New Jersey. He is a former, long time, Microsoft Most Valuable
Professional, specializing in building and architecting Application Delivery
Pipelines for hybrid legacy, and cloud native applications.
Don's session is now streaming on CloudEXPO YouTube Channel
Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here
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What's the role of an IT self-service portal when you get to continuous
delivery and Infrastructure as Code?
Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here
In his general session at 20th Cloud Expo, Don Demcsak, a DevOps and Cloud
Native Modernization Principal for Dell EMC, showed how to create the
continuous delivery culture and eight accelerators for leading the change.
DXWorldEXPO LLC, the producer of the world's most influential technology
conferences and trade shows has announ... (more)
DXWorldEXPO LLC announced today that Sanjeev Sharma joined the faculty of
CloudEXPO's "10-Year Anniversary Event" which will take place on November
11-13, 2018 in New York City. Sanjeev has been a CloudEXPO / DevOpsSummit
faculty member since 2014.
Sanjeev Sharma is an internationally known DevOps and Cloud Transformation
thought leader, technology executive, and author. Sanjeev's industry
experience includes tenures as CTO, Technical Sales leader, and Cloud
Architect leader. As an IBM Distinguished Engineer, Sanjeev is recognized at
the highest levels of IBM's core of technical leaders.
Sanjeev provides leadership to drive the adoption of cutting edge solutions,
architectures and strategies for Cloud and DevOps transformations, and
advises C-level and senior technical executives leading these
transformations. Sanjeev just published his 2nd book ‘DevOps Adoption
... (more)
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