We’re hearing a lot about the “outcome economy”—how businesses must be results-oriented to meet evolving customer demand and gain greater market share. Today’s marketplace is connected, always on and increasingly competitive. Companies are adopting what we call an “as-a-service” approach to achieve better outcomes fast, consuming and leveraging leading-edge technologies such as cloud and automation. […]
Performance Testing: The Unexpected Missing Link in DevOps
It is no secret that DevOps and continuous delivery goes hand in hand in the enterprise, but how do processes such as performance testing fit in to the equation? Many enterprises still harbor the traditional way of thinking—that the QA and performance testing group is completely separate from the development group. A widely held myth […]
Does DevOps drive agility, or does agility result in DevOps?
DevOps is a hot topic. Hell, I’m writing this on a site dedicated specifically to DevOps and you’re reading it, so it seems safe to assume we agree on the general premise that DevOps is an important trend for both business and IT. I question however, giving all of the credit for cost cutting, or […]
Achieving business agility: a webinar with Chef and Rally Software
We recently hosted our first staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud webinar with Chef and Rally Software. Using DevOps to Achieve Business Agility In today’s digital economy, leading companies are turning to software to deliver new services in response to customer demand and competition. Technology can enable and expedite innovation, but it requires business leaders, software developers and IT operations […]
Merging creation with operations: facilitated collaboration enables continuous delivery
So much has been written lately about the challenge of improving IT agility in the enterprise. The best sources of insight on why this challenge is so difficult are the CIOs, application owners, ecommerce and release engineering executives, and VPs of I&O, grappling to change their organizations right now. At a conference I attended recently, […]