Change is difficult, so most companies pull the bandage slowly, hoping to avoid the hard, painful part – especially with regard to digital transformation. But in the corporate world, cautious change inevitably leads to entropy. Progress gets made in one department at a time, at the expense of others. Leaders turn over, priorities shift, plans […]
How Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Solutions Benefit DevOps
Managed Detection and Response (MDR), a relative newcomer in the cybersecurity realm, is starting to have a noticeable impact on enterprises seeking to better secure their operations. Research giant Gartner notes that, “By 2025, 50% of organizations will be using MDR services for threat monitoring, detection and response functions that offer threat containment capabilities.” Despite […]
Strategy vs. Tactics
Don’t Let ‘Hindsight 2020’ Be Your DevOps Strategy
The idea of DevOps originated a little over a decade ago with a desire to ensure efficiency in the overall software development and delivery process. Constant operational hurdles that have been hampering flawless and frequent delivery of applications have led organizations to think beyond and to come up with continuous improvements in their processes and […]
Untapping the Potential of DevOps, Part 4: Tips for Launching a DevOps Team
DevOps has become a hot strategy for IT teams across just about every industry—and for good reason. DevOps is built around increasing the velocity of the development pipeline, and in businesses where time to market is a key to success, it’s easy to imagine why DevOps has gained traction. While the tools and processes put […]
The Nirvana of Gated Progression
A highly functioning enterprise-class DevOps set of services has a fundamental goal of full automation. To be honest, having the right DevOps strategist (or visionary) leading this effort is as important to achieving this goal as the combination of all the challenges and topics that must be addressed. So for the sake of argument, will […]
Designing A DevOps Strategy: A Balanced Scorecard Framework
Despite all the hype about DevOps, little has been written on a formal DevOps strategy. Too often DevOps initiatives starts with tooling discussion and gets stalled in technology. The larger vision is rarely discussed. The goal of this article is to provide enterprises, large and small, with a framework for creating that vision and unlocking […]
4 DevOps strategies to stop your application having sand kicked in its face
While recently thumbing through some old comic books, I got a laugh from all the quirky advertisements. Fantastic promotions of awesome gadgets – like x-ray specs and radio wrist watches. Each designed to extract a gullible kid’s hard earned allowance. Of course they were all too good to be true and probably left many kids […]