 2016 is shaping up to be the year of DevOps in the mainstream, as enterprises across every industry - from FinServ and Retail to Automotive and Telecom - adopting DevOps practices. However, many still have lingering questions about what this DevOps thing is[2] and the best ways to begin implementation. Continue reading to learn best practices on how to map your DevOps journey[3] and what DevOps trends[4] are permeating in the software delivery world. More experienced in your DevOps practice? There are still plenty of stories for you about compliance[5] and the increasing complexity of the CIO role[6]. As always, stay tuned to all the news coming from @ElectricCloud[7] on DevOps[8] and Continuous Delivery[9] throughout the week and retweet/favorite to get you r top news items featured in our weekly recap! 1.What is this DevOps Thing? For the last couple of years I've been struggling a bit with the idea of devops. At the root of it, was my own lack of clarity about what devops is. My question remained unanswered and it wasn't for the want of trying. I went to conferences, attended talks, read articles and met with people in our business. I gathered logically inconsistent lists of things that it was and wasn't. In the end, I concluded that there isn't a consensus so I had to work out what devops means to me. 2. Continuous Lifecycle: Making a Big Noise About Microservices They may be small, but microservices are having a real impact on the way real world organisations are developing, deploying and maintaining their software. That's why we've got thought leaders and real world users discussing the impact of microservices architectures at Continuous Lifecycle London from May 3 to 5. Electric Cloud's Anders Walgren will be examining Continuous Delivery of Microservices: Patterns and Processes. He'll be discussing modern requirements for creating, deploying and managing multiple microservices, particularly as part of a continuous delivery strategy. 3. Ten Essential Steps to Mapping Your DevOps Journey DevOps (a mash-up of the terms "development" and "operations") is a business process aimed at overcoming complexities that IT, systems administrators and developers face daily. With DevOps, developers and line-of-business operations are able to work together to develop faster-than-traditional methods of developing software by integrating all organizational systems, simplifying testing and quality assurance, and providing faster access to feedback. This allows the continuous delivery of apps through more intelligent use of app analytics, better management of projects, increased ability for market tests and a more rapid release schedule of new features. 4. CIOs vs Robots: What's the Best Way to Use Automation in Business? The evidence points to the increased role of automation in the workplace: as many as 70 per cent of executives plan to significantly increase their investments in AI-related technologies, according to consultant Accenture. What's the best way to take advantage of robotics, automation, and AI? And how can CIOs help the business to evaluate these opportunities and create a boost in productivity and performance? Read on for advice from a range of IT leaders. 5. Five DevOps Trends Businesses Should Adopt this Year DevOps - a cultural and professional IT movement focused on changing the mindset of how organizations function - will no doubt make a significant impact across many companies this year. Whether it is more stable operating environments, faster delivery of product features, quicker resolution of problems, or continuous software delivery, DevOps can benefit a company's product lifecycle, its competitive advantage, and its ability to more quickly meet customer needs. Yet for all of its benefits, DevOps is still in its early phases, because it's about making a significant cultural shift in how an organization works - and what tools it uses to improve its products. Rajesh Sethu, director of DevOps at Replicon, identifies five key trends organizations should watch in 2016, as well as tips on how these trends should be used to ensure DevOps success in your business. 6. Box CIO Says IT Needs to Loosen Its Grip The modern workforce demands a new style of IT, according to Paul Chapman, CIO of cloud storage provider Box. Today's IT professionals must take the "friction out of how we get things done," he says, to enable workplace productivity and empower employees. This concept may sound simple, but the necessary changes often don't come easy for IT, Chapman says. "Smart people are figuring out pretty quickly what they need to do and why they need to do it, but they really struggle with 'How do we get there? How do we do this?'" 7. Does DevOps Help or Hinder Compliance? DevOps tools and principles have revolutionized IT across many industries in recent years. But companies saddled with requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), for example, tend to be more cautious when it comes to adopting cutting-edge solutions. There are specific industries-health care and finance are two-that are strictly regulated and more reluctant to change. But even beyond those industries, there exist various compliance frameworks under which the rapid pace of change associated with DevOps may be seen as a risk. The flip side of that coin is that the agility and automation associated with DevOps actually might streamline and simplify compliance. 8. Why Data Center Managers Should Care about DevOps While developers and IT operations professionals have been excited about the concept of DevOps, data center operators, the people who run the infrastructure for the teams upstream, haven't generally been involved in the conversation. Jack Story, distinguished technologist at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, thinks that is a mistake. And people make that mistake because there is a lot of confusion about what DevOps is and isn't. In a session at this week's Data Center World Global conference in Las Vegas, Story attempted to make the case that data center operators should be part of the DevOps process and explain what it is. 9. DevOps, Huh? Show Me the Money. Show Me the MONEY! As career buzzwords go, you'd struggle to find one that trumps DevOps judging by the number of conferences, software tools and books flooding the market. DevOps certainly seems to offer plenty of opportunities, straddling, as it does, disciplines across technology and management from building and managing apps to running and provisioning infrastructure, managing service levels and relationships with suppliers to IT delivery. But for ambitious, career-hungry techies planning their next move, the question remains: how much of a genuine demand for DevOps specialists is there? Is this buzzword here for the long term destined to become part of the mainstream IT or more of a flash in the pan? And what the heck does it actually mean in terms of the kinds of roles on offer, the salaries they demand and the kinds of skills you would be expected to possess? 10. Five Things DevOps Is Not For those starting out with DevOps, it can be overwhelming with the amount of changes that need to happen to have it run smoothly. This list by Shelbee Smith-Eigenbrode from DevOps.com chose to list 5 highlights that DevOps is NOT in order to give us a better understanding on how to approach it. @DevOpsSummit Stories
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SYS-CON Events announced today that LeaseWeb USA Inc., one of the world's largest hosting brands, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 18th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. LeaseWeb USA Inc. was established in 2011, a separate and distinct operating entity providing services in the USA. LeaseWeb is a trusted partner to mid-market companies, helping them find the right solution to their critical cloud-hosted needs from our global, managed hybrid platforms. LeaseWeb's hosting runs on one of the world's largest, most reliable net...
SYS-CON Events announced today that DatacenterDynamics has been named "Media Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 18th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 7–9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. DatacenterDynamics is a brand of DCD Group, a global B2B media and publishing company that develops products to help senior professionals in the world's most ICT dependent organizations make risk-based infrastructure and capacity decisions.
SYS-CON Events announced today that RackN Inc, a software company focused on building a Hybrid DevOps platform for CIOs that need to take back operational control over their Hybrid IT platforms will exhibit and present at SYS-CON's @DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo New York, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
LogicMonitor has announced new integrations with IT workflow and work collaboration technologies PagerDuty and Slack. Alongside other product enhancements, the announcement illustrates the company's agile development framework and its ability to quickly produce product enhancements based on its customers' needs and industry trends. One of LogicMonitor's key aims is to automate and streamline the processes associated with managing sophisticated IT operations infrastructures for its customers. The integrations with PagerDuty and Slack help simplify the process of receiving and updating infrastr...
Illumio has extended the capabilities of Adaptive Security Platform (ASP)™ through integration with Microsoft's Active Directory groups. The new capability, known as Adaptive User Segmentation, dynamically calculates and provisions connectivity rules based on user identity to prevent unauthorized communications with, and access to, any Illumio-protected applications. Illumio ASP now can govern how hundreds of millions of users connect to applications across data centers, clouds or hybrid-cloud compute environments.
in sales with existing customers. CollabNet experienced strong demand for its TeamForge platform that helps Enterprises and Government organizations adopt and manage enterprise-scale Agile and DevOps initiatives. "We see strong momentum because more organizations are creating software in order to compete and differentiate their offerings. CollabNet is well positioned to help those customers build and deploy quality software faster than ever," said Flint Brenton, CEO of CollabNet. "Our TeamForge product and service offerings deliver enterprise software collaboration, integration, and visibilit...
New Relic, Inc. has announced a set of new features across the New Relic Software Analytics Cloud that offer IT operations teams increased visibility, and the ability to diagnose and resolve performance problems quickly. The new features further IT operations teams' ability to leverage data and analytics, as well as drive collaboration and a common, shared understanding between teams. Software teams are under pressure to resolve performance issues quickly and improve availability, as the complexity of software architectures they manage ranges from more traditional on-premises IT systems to th...
Keeping pace with advancements in software delivery processes and tooling is taxing even for the most proficient organizations. Point tools, platforms, open source and the increasing adoption of private and public cloud services requires strong engineering rigor – all in the face of developer demands to use the tools of choice. As Agile has settled in as a mainstream practice, now DevOps has emerged as the next wave to improve software delivery speed and output. To make DevOps work, organizations must focus on what is most relevant to deliver value, reduce IT complexity, create more repeatable...
Kubernetes is a new and revolutionary open-sourced system for managing containers across multiple hosts in a cluster. Ansible is a simple IT automation tool for just about any requirement for reproducible environments. In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 18th Cloud Expo, Patrick Galbraith, a principal engineer at HPE, will discuss how to build a fully functional Kubernetes cluster on a number of virtual machines or bare-metal hosts. Also included will be a brief demonstration of running a Galera MySQL cluster as a Kubernetes application.
SYS-CON Events announced today CrowdReviews.com has been named "Media Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 18th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 7–9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. CrowdReviews.com is the first buyer's guide that ranks products and services based on client reviews.
As the world moves towards more DevOps and Microservices, application deployment to the cloud ought to become a lot simpler. The Microservices architecture, which is the basis of many new age distributed systems such as OpenStack and NetFlix, is at the heart of Cloud Foundry – a complete developer-oriented Platform as a Service (PaaS) that is IaaS agnostic and supports vCloud, OpenStack and AWS.
SYS-CON Events announced today that Catchpoint Systems, Inc., a provider of innovative web and infrastructure monitoring solutions, has been named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's DevOps Summit at 18th Cloud Expo New York, which will take place June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Catchpoint Systems, Inc., has announced the addition of over 50 monitoring nodes in the last quarter, bringing its total to more than 500 worldwide. This expansion of new monitoring locations focuses on China, where the company has already invested heavily, as well as Africa and Iran.
SYS-CON Events announced today TMCnet has been named "Media Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 18th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 7–9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and the 19th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is the world's leading business-to-business and integrated marketing media company, servicing niche markets within the communications and technology industries.
SYS-CON Events announced today that AppNeta, the leader in performance insight for business-critical web applications, will exhibit and present at SYS-CON's @DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo New York, which will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. AppNeta has announced it is the first SaaS-delivered Application Performance Monitoring (APM) provider to support PHP 7 in production. Web developers can now use AppNeta's APM solutions to isolate and fix performance issues for environments created with the newest, highest-performing version of one of the most common ...
Getting adequate test coverage in a pre-production environment and catching issues before the changes go live has always been a challenge in cloud-based environments. There are different practices to performing testing in production. In her session at 18th Cloud Expo, Bhuvaneshwari Krishnamurthi, Software Engineer at Microsoft, will focus on how streaming analytics can be used to achieve TiP by doing a live replay of the real time traffic from production against a pre-production environment.
There are over 120 breakout sessions in all, with Keynotes, General Sessions, and Power Panels adding to three days of incredibly rich presentations and content. Join @ThingsExpo conference chair Roger Strukhoff (@IoT2040), June 7-9, 2016 in New York City, for three days of intense 'Internet of Things' discussion and focus, including Big Data's indespensable role in IoT, Smart Grids and Industrial Internet of Things, Wearables and Consumer IoT, as well as (new) IoT's use in Vertical Markets.
Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place June 7-9, 2016 at Javits Center, New York City and Nov 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with the 18th International @CloudExpo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world and ThingsExpo New York Call for Papers is now open.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 18th Cloud Expo, Robert Doyle, Chief Technology Architect at eCube Systems, will examine the issues and need for an agile infrastructure and show the advantages of capturing developer knowledge in an exportable file for migration into production. He will introduce the use of NXTmonitor, a next generation DevOps tool that captures application environments, dependencies and start/stop procedures in a portable configuration file with an easy-to-use GUI. In addition to capturing configuration information between Development, Test and Production, the case study ...
In 2013, Codenvy was releasing its SaaS and on-premise products twice a month. This created fear and loathing between teams. In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 18th Cloud Expo, Tyler Jewell, founder and CEO of Codenvy, will discuss how the journey to continuous development transformed the way they created software with 30 releases a month. Join Tyler as he shares their journey and shows how they improved.
After more than five years of DevOps, definitions are evolving, boundaries are expanding, 'unicorns' are no longer rare, enterprises are on board, and pundits are moving on. Can we now look at an evolution of DevOps? Should we? Is the foundation of DevOps 'done', or is there still too much left to do? What is mature, and what is still missing? What does the next 5 years of DevOps look like? In this Power Panel at DevOps Summit, moderated by DevOps Summit Conference Chair Andi Mann, panelists looked back at what DevOps has become, and forward at what it might create next.
SYS-CON Events has announced today that Roger Strukhoff has been named conference chair of Cloud Expo and @ThingsExpo 2016 New York. The 18th Cloud Expo and 5th @ThingsExpo will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. "The Internet of Things brings trillions of dollars of opportunity to developers and enterprise IT, no matter how you measure it," stated Roger Strukhoff. "More importantly, it leverages the power of devices and the Internet to enable us all to improve the state of the world and lives of people."
SYS-CON Events announced today that Catchpoint Systems, Inc., a provider of innovative web and infrastructure monitoring solutions, has been named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's DevOps Summit at 18th Cloud Expo New York, which will take place June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Catchpoint is a leading Digital Performance Analytics company that provides unparalleled insight into customer-critical services to help consistently deliver an amazing customer experience. Designed for digital business, Catchpoint is the only end-user experience monitoring (EUM) platform that can...
The now mainstream platform changes stemming from the first Internet boom brought many changes but didn't really change the basic relationship between servers and the applications running on them. In fact, that was sort of the point. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Gordon Haff, senior cloud strategy marketing and evangelism manager at Red Hat, will discuss how today's workloads require a new model and a new platform for development and execution. The platform must handle a wide range of recent developments, including containers and Docker, distributed resource management, and DevOps tool ...
Cloud Expo, Inc. has announced today that Andi Mann returns to 'DevOps at Cloud Expo 2016' as Conference Chair The @DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo will take place on June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. "DevOps is set to be one of the most profound disruptions to hit IT in decades," said Andi Mann. "It is a natural extension of cloud computing, and I have seen both firsthand and in independent research the fantastic results DevOps delivers. So I am excited to help the great team at @DevOpsSummit and Cloud Expo tell the world how they can leverage this emerging disrupt...References
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