“I feel the need … the need for speed!” ~ Maverick According to a recent report from Chef, one of the driving motivations for companies is based on this Maverick quote from the movie “Top Gun”: The need for speed. Getting better products to market faster is a competitive advantage that gives companies an edge […]
Help Us Understand CI/CD, DevOps & Job Scheduling
While plenty of vendors tell us what they think is happening in the market, the only way to really learn is from you, our readers. So we are asking you to take a few minutes to take this important survey on the adoption of CI/CD, DevOps and job scheduling. We will be giving a $50 […]
Ransomware will Double in 2017. Are you Prepared?
A recent report found that ransomware attacks quadrupled in 2016, and are likely to double in 2017. Not surprisingly, a research survey showed that 48 percent of organizations had been hit by ransomware in the past year. And as we highlighted in a recent blog post, next generation cloud applications and databases are quickly becoming […]
The Elusive Definition of DevOps
How do you define DevOps? If you went out and asked IT professionals at other organizations, could you guarantee their answer would be the same? In most cases, the answer to this question is no. DevOps, despite its growing popularity, still lacks a widely agreed-upon definition. There are a few fundamental principles that appear consistently […]
Security @ the Speed of DevOps Survey: Efforts Still Lag
Enterprises today are in a relentless race to digitize or die. If they don’t digitize business processes, services or internal workflows and their competitors do, they will be at a steep disadvantage—and perhaps soon an irrecoverable one. In more and more companies these efforts are being driven by DevOps. According to IDC, the vast majority […]
DevOps Chat: Nigel Kersten, Puppet, 2017 DevOps Survey
I had a chance to sit down recently with Nigel Kersten, chief technical strategist at Puppet. Besides the fancy title, Nigel is one of the smartest, nicest people you will meet. Always a pleasure catching up with him. We spent most of our time speaking about the Puppet 2017 DevOps survey, which is now open […]
F5 Networks’s State of Application Delivery, 2017
For the last three years, F5 Networks has surveyed its users and presented the “State of Application Delivery” report. This year’s report is already a couple of weeks old, and I’ve had the opportunity to read through it. There is good information in there for “NetOps” people—those who are focused on the network but want […]
Puppet Launches 2017 State of DevOps Survey
It’s that time of year again! We at Puppet have kicked off the 2017 annual State of DevOps. survey. Now in its sixth year, we have once again teamed up with DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA), founded by our dear friends Gene Kim, Jez Humble and Nicole Forsgren, to survey technology professionals worldwide in an […]
Compuware Survey Connects Mainframes, DevOps
Mainframes are still necessary; integrating them with modern hardware and software is tricky; and DevOps is the answer. Those are the takeaways from a survey out this week that was commissioned by Compuware. The survey, which was released Dec. 14, was conducted by Forrester. It asked professionals how often their organizations rely on mainframe systems […]
DevOps Survey Says! State of DevOps, Reliance on Scripting and IT Automation
What our surveys told us about the state of DevOps, Reliance on Scripting and IT Automation DevOps Survey Results: Scripting & IT Automation A lot of IT Operations teams including application owners, configuration managers, middleware specialists and database administrators are managing infrastructure configuration change with manual processes, spreadsheets and scripts. They are spending a lot […]
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