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Why Security And DevOps Must Coexist

August 2, 2019 BDCC

I recently had the pleasure of moderating a lively discussion with security leaders at the SINET Innovation Summit 2019 in New York. The conversation explored one central question: Can security and DevOps coexist? DevOps is a well-adopted practice that fosters an agile relationship between development and IT operations by advocating better communication and collaboration between these two business units. Every organization represented on the panel (including two of the largest…

6 Reasons to Convince Your Manager to Send You to DevOps World |Jenkins World

July 30, 2019 BDCC

This year’s DevOps World | Jenkins World will take place Aug. 12-15 in San Francisco, at the Moscone Center. Now, chances are you don’t need any real convincing to attend this event. DevOps World | Jenkins World is, after all, the premier annual conference for DevOps- and Jenkins-related content. You’ve experienced it yourself, or heard others talking about past years’ events—how the conference is packed, year after year, with sessions…

Stackery Smooths AWS Serverless Integration for DevOps

July 26, 2019 BDCC

Stackery today announced a plug-in capability that will allow developers to build and debug code destined to run on the Lambda serverless computing service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) from within an integrated development environment (IDE) running on a local machine. Company CTO Chase Douglas said the latest Stackery tool can be dropped into any IDE, either via a Stackery VS Code Serverless Tools Plug-In that automates installation or…

Why Did DevOps Become So Popular? 3 Theories

July 24, 2019 BDCC

DevOps has now been a thing for a solid decade. As we look back at the history of DevOps, it’s worth asking: Where did DevOps come from, and why did it take off when it did? In honor of the 10-year anniversary of DevOps, I’d like to explore these questions. A Brief History of DevOps The very basic history of DevOps goes like this: First, there was agile, an idea…

Datadog Fetches Bevy of Additional DevOps Services

July 18, 2019 BDCC

At its Dash 2019 conference today, Datadog launched a series of DevOps initiatives that significantly expand the use cases for the agent software that drives the company’s monitoring services. Additions to the Datadog portfolio include Network Performance Monitoring and Real User Monitoring (RUM) services as well as the general availability of a previously announced service for monitoring serverless computing frameworks. In addition, Datadog announced it is adding Tracing without Limits…

Boost application security in DevOps with DevSecOps

July 9, 2019 BDCC

Software developers have a lot to contend with when it comes to keeping their skill levels current. New features are constantly introduced to integrated development platforms, and programming languages evolve frequently, as do development methodologies, like Waterfall. On top of these moving parts, developers have to deliver projects on time and in the budget, follow security coding best practices and remain compliant with industry regulations. Many developers have adopted DevOps,…

DevOps Will Fail Unless Security and Developer Teams Communicate Better!

July 4, 2019 BDCC

DevOps initiatives have become important for 74% of organizations over the past year, but communication must improve for DevOps to be successful, according to Trend Micro. Communication between IT security and software development needs to improve before organizations can successfully implement a DevOps culture, according to the majority of IT leaders surveyed recently by Trend Micro. The survey asked 1,310 IT decision makers from enterprise and SMB organizations globally about their…

Self-Service Workload Protection for DevOps Teams

June 27, 2019 BDCC

Everyone (or almost everyone) in the DevOps world likes to talk about the importance of security. But too often, these DevOps security conversations end with generic recommendations such as, “Follow the OWASP Top 10.” Don’t get me wrong—reference frameworks such as OWASP are great resources for helping to guide DevOps security. But it’s usually far from obvious to many DevOps teams how to bridge the gap between the abstract theory…

HPE Extends Hybrid Cloud Computing Strategy

June 19, 2019 BDCC

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) today advanced its hybrid cloud computing strategy by announcing at its HPE Discover 2019 conference an alliance with Google to embrace Kubernetes in hybrid cloud computing environments and then extending the reach of its software-defined infrastructure for building private clouds to legacy ProLiant servers. Lauren Whitehouse, director of marketing for the software-defined and cloud group at HPE, said the HPE Composable Cloud now extends beyond new ProLiant…

DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2019: The Best DevOps Learning Experience On The Planet

June 14, 2019 BDCC

DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2019 Adds Next Round of Business and Technology Leaders to Speak at Three-Day Conference in June. IT Revolution announces new speakers from Adidas, American Airlines, Auto Trader, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, ING, Lloyds Banking Group, KeyBank, and more to help large, complex organizations implement DevOps and IT transformation practices. IT Revolution, the industry leader for advancing DevOps, has announced the third round of speakers for DevOps…

Robust skills, not DevOps, is key to intelligent developments

June 11, 2019 BDCC

NEXT generation business leaders are looking to move away from DevOps. “Some time ago we made the decision to remove “DevOps” as a role within the organization. I didn’t really like DevOps as a term because it implied that we had a team solely dedicated to DevOps work and we didn’t want anyone to have that perception,” The Iconic‘s Head of Engineering and IT Ollie Brennan explained to Tech Wire…

Moogsoft AIOps 7.2: A Boon For IT Operations And DevOps Teams

May 31, 2019 BDCC

Moogsoft, a pioneer and leading provider of artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps), released Moogsoft AIOps 7.2, the latest version of its enterprise platform. Release 7.2 features groundbreaking new capabilities that ease the burden of IT Operations and DevOps teams by optimizing service assurance. Significant new transparency, efficiency, and customization enhancements include: a new workflow engine, AI visualizations, performance dashboards, and new tool integrations. “Operations teams seek ways to tame…

DevOps Salaries Depend on Company Revenues- Puppet’s DevOps Salary Report

May 27, 2019 BDCC

If you’re in DevOps and looking for a new position, and salary is a huge factor in your eventual decision, take note: Puppet’s new DevOps Salary Report (registration required) suggests that an organization’s overall revenue correlates to the size of your paycheck. “Among our respondents who work for companies with more than $2 billion in annual revenue, 63 percent make more than $100,000,” suggests Puppet’s report. “However, among those who…

An Introduction| What Is DevOps And How Is It Beneficial For Your Business?

May 24, 2019 BDCC

First of all, what is DevOps? The name ” DevOps ” comes from the contraction of the word “development” and “operations”. DevOps is a culture, a movement, a development model and an operational strategy that aims to improve the communication between the developers and the operation team in order to reduce the “Time to market” (Time to market a product). It is also a set of good practices designed to…

5 Security Factors Every DevSecOps Team Should Consider in CI/CD Pipeline

May 17, 2019 BDCC

The saying “A chain is only as strong as its weakest link“, perfectly describes the security factor of software development. Newspapers are full of security breach stories, still, businesses are not taking security precautions seriously. When asked, even the large enterprises do not want to spend much on security. Unlike the investment in business development and marketing and product development, multilevel security testing and fixes do not provide much return…

CloudBees Acquires Electric Cloud to Reshape Continuous Delivery

April 18, 2019 BDCC

Last year, CloudBees acquired Codeship, a provider of cloud-based continuous integration/continuous development. The news flew around CloudBees’ venture into DevOps as evidence of something big to come. Others discarded this as rumors. But no more. Now they have acquired Electric Cloud to boost their expansion plans and they are not turning back. There are many organizations looking to solve all their DevOps related concerns with a single service provider. However,…

Will DevOps Contribute to the Ongoing Evolution of Software Testing?

April 10, 2019 BDCC

Various questions and doubts have been raised with the rapid acceptance and development of DevOps as a practice. This evolution brings multiple aspects into perspective which should be evaluated and discussed properly. The software testing and development scenario have been changed entirely for developers and testers, both, because of the growth of DevOps. The Role of DevOps inside the Quality Assurance Department is being debated and questioned too. So here…

Adopting Multicloud? Don’t Forget DevOps.

March 18, 2019 BDCC

Don’t move to DevOps or the multicloud unless you plan on going with both. IBM Institute for Business Value conducted a survey of 1,106 business and technology executives recently and the results are describing the growth of multi-cloud environments. In the survey, IBM found that 85 percent of organizations are already benefiting from multi-cloud environments. Furthermore, 98 percent of the respondents stated that they will be practicing multi-cloud within the…

7 Tips to Embed DevOps Successfully into Your Business

February 22, 2019 BDCC

While going through a digital transformation, adopting DevOps is proved to be extremely beneficial for businesses. According to a recent report from Google Cloud and Harvard Business Review Analytic Services– “Two-third of companies that use DevOps have seen benefits impacting their bottom line, including productivity (67%), increased speed to market (70%), innovation (66%), customer relevance (67%), and product/service quality (64%).” Here, we will discuss top 7 tips to make DevOps…