Over the last 20 years, software has slowly taken over the world. Businesses that historically operated on 8-hour business days are now 24×7, navigating a global economy that never sleeps. The Internet enablement of everything has thrust what was originally an important support role into the lifeline of a business. A decade ago, Agile software […]
Inside Look at State of DevOps Report: Q&A With Puppet Labs
Last week Puppet Labs released the analysis behind its annual study of DevOps and continuous delivery practices in the 2015 State of DevOps Report. Now in its fourth year, the report offers an in-depth look at the findings of the team on what it means to be a high-performance IT organization—the cultural characteristics these organizations […]
Deliver faster, but don’t sacrifice quality
Developing applications, and deploying servers faster are great goals. Being agile and streamlined can give an organization a clear competitive advantage. However, faster does not equal better, and being speedy for the sake of being speedy can lead to avoidable mistakes. Faster is only better if you can achieve greater speed without sacrificing quality. At […]
Equalizing IT infrastructure with DevOps
IT is getting more complex. Managing on-premise servers, cloud servers, and hybrid environments that span various operating systems and standards creates challenges for IT admins. DevOps technologies and platforms, however, can be an equalizing force among the cloud chaos—making it easier for organizations to deploy servers and applications quickly and consistently regardless of platform or […]
Microsoft determined not to get left behind by DevOps
Microsoft is a massive company—a behemoth with a lot of inertia, and a lot of bureaucracy in place that make it difficult to adapt quickly. Under Satya Nadella, however, Microsoft is striving to re-invent itself, and—to the extent that it is possible—become more agile. For evidence of Microsoft’s new philosophy, look at how Microsoft is […]
Trolling PuppetConf: Surveying Configuration Management
Troll (Internet) In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord … by starting arguments or upsetting people,[1] by posting inflammatory,[2] extraneous, or off-topic messages in a… community …with the deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response[3] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.[4] -Wikipedia When I stopped by […]
Harvard Business Review Survey: IT responsiveness predicts business success
Increasingly, the C-suite is finding that the speed with which companies today are able to take advantage of new technology and exploit their IT operations determines the success of the entire business. A new survey out by the Harvard Business Review and Oracle this week shows that IT responsiveness stands as a huge arbiter of […]
Q & A: Puppet Labs CIO Nigel Kersten
We recently spoke with Nigel Kersten, CIO at Puppet Labs, regarding high-performance IT and trends he sees in continuous integration in his role at Puppet Labs. Nigel joined Puppet Labs from Google HQ, where he was “Puppet Master” and responsible for the design and implementation of one of the world’s largest Puppet deployments. Kersten is […]
Microsoft bridges the gap between Azure and DevOps
DevOps can be easy for a startup. Many of the concepts and principles of DevOps come quite naturally to a fresh company just getting started. It’s a different story, however, for large, established enterprises trying to wrap their arms around this DevOps thing. For IT admins working in Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, though, things just […]
DevOps Dirty Little Secrets
By all outward appearances DevOps is gaining real velocity within IT shops worldwide, Duh tell you something you don’t know. I have read much on this topic as I am sure you have, but I never seem to read much with hard data results, other than we are doing great with some very broad metrics. […]