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Guest post by Intellyx Principal Analyst Charles Araujo
I was at a conference recently when I saw it. I sighed and shook my head.
A development manager from a large enterprise organization was explaining how
they had created a DevOps maturity model based on CMMI. They went on to
describe their current state of maturity and their plans to get to ‘full
maturity' in the next three years. He continued by explaining how they had
presented this plan to executive management and subsequently received
approval for a new ‘DevOps team.'
Many organizations are now looking to DevOps maturity models to gauge their
DevOps adoption and compare their maturity to their peers. However, as
enterprise organizations rush to adopt DevOps, moving past experimentation to
embrace it at scale, they are in danger of falling into the trap that they
have fallen into time and time again.
Unfortun... (more)
Digital Transformation Requires Enterprise-Wide Agile Transformation
Agile has finally jumped the technology shark, expanding outside the software
world. Enterprises are now increasingly adopting Agile practices across their
organizations in order to successfully navigate the disruptive waters that
threaten to drown them. In our quest for establishing change as a core
competency in our organizations, this business-centric notion of Agile is an
essential component of Agile Digital Transformation.
In the years since the publication of the Agile Manifesto, the connection
between building better software and business agility has been a tenuous one
at best. But now that Agile is maturing and Digital Transformation is driving
change across enterprises large and small, companies are realizing that their
best bet for achieving business agility is to take the best of Agile an... (more)
Waterfall Still Going Strong - But Is It Time for a Hybrid Approach?
The nature of the technology business is forward-thinking. It focuses on the
future and what's coming next. Innovations and creativity in our world of
software development strive to improve the status quo and increase customer
satisfaction through speed and increased connectivity.
Yet, while it's exciting to see enterprises embrace new ways of thinking and
advance their processes with cutting edge technology, it rarely happens
rapidly or even simultaneously across all industries.
For most organizations, the adoption of new technologies is a slow process
and the larger they are and the longer they've been around, the more time it
takes to make significant changes.
What does this mean for the advancement of the software development industry?
It means that solution providers need to assess not only wher... (more)
DevOps Evolution: Architecting the Modern Software Factory
Translating agile methodology into real-world best practices within the
modern software factory has driven widespread DevOps adoption, yet much work
remains to expand workflows and tooling across the enterprise.
As models evolve from pockets of experimentation into wholescale
organizational reinvention, practitioners find themselves challenged to
incorporate the culture and architecture necessary to support DevOps at
scale.
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Anand Akela, Senior
Director, DevOps Solutions, at CA Technologies, will discuss how existing
adopters are employing unified agile and DevOps techniques to engage
functional processes and toolchains that deliver increased software quality,
faster time to market and measurably improved customer experience. Specific
topics to be highligh... (more)
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Speaker Bio
Dan Florea, Director of Product Management at Tintri, is a 20 year Silicon
Valley veteran. He has worked in VMware and Cisco before joining Tintri to
spearhead the efforts on OpenStack and Cloud. He received an MBA from
University of Pennsylvania - Wharton business school and MS in Computer
Science from Stanford University.
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'Alexa, Manage My Storage': Sci-Fi Meets Storage
Your homes and cars can be automated and self-serviced. Why can't your
storage? From simply asking questions to analyze and troubleshoot your
infrastructure, to provisioning storage with snapshots, recovery and
replication, your wildest sci-fi dream has come true.
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In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Dan Florea, Director of
Product Management at Tintri, pro... (more)
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Optimizing Alignment - Dovetailing DevOps and the Cloud
As DevOps methodologies expand their reach across the enterprise,
organizations face the daunting challenge of adapting related cloud
strategies to ensure optimal alignment, from managing complexity to ensuring
proper governance.
How can culture, automation, legacy apps and even budget be reexamined to
enable this ongoing shift within the modern software factory?
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In their general session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Aruna
Ravichandran, VP of Global Marketing and Strategy at CA Technologies, Anne
Hungate, President of Daring Systems, Courtney Kissler, Vice President of
Retail Technology at Starbucks, and Tracy Bannon, Senior Architect at
Deloitte Consulting, shared their insight into an emerging set of best
practices that lie at the heart of to... (more)
"Tintri focuses on the Ops side of the DevOps, which basically is pushing
more and more of the accessibility of the infrastructure to the developers
and trying to get behind the scenes," explained Dhiraj Sehgal of Tintri in
this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the
Javits Center in New York City, NY.
Tintri was started in 2008 with the express purpose of building a storage
appliance that is ideal for virtualized environments.
"Tintri was started in 2008 with the express purpose of building a storage
appliance that is ideal for virtualized environments. We support a lot of
different hypervisor platforms from VMware to OpenStack to Hyper-V,"
explained Dan Florea, Director of Product Management at Tintri, in this
SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits
Center in New York City, NY.
With major techn... (more)
As today's digital disruptions bounce and smash their way through
conventional technologies and conventional wisdom alike, predicting their
path is a multifaceted challenge. So many areas of technology advance on
Moore's Law-like exponential curves that divining the future is fraught with
danger.
Such is the problem with artificial intelligence (AI) and its related
concepts, including cognitive computing, machine learning, and deep learning.
Today we have interesting but hardly revolutionary technologies like Apple
Siri and Amazon Alexa. And tomorrow? If you listen to the doomsayers, The
Terminator's Skynet or its killer robot kin will take over the world from us
puny humans.
While we cannot entirely disagree with the dire warnings of certain pundits,
the reality is that there is quite a lot of territory to cover between Siri
and Skynet. Even well before some kind... (more)
The Omnipresent World of APIs
These days, APIs have become an integral part of the digital transformation
journey for all enterprises. Every digital innovation story is connected to
APIs . But have you ever pondered over to know what are the source of these
APIs?
Let me explain - APIs sources can be varied, internal or external, solving
different purposes, but mostly categorized into the following two categories:
Data lakes is a term used to represent disconnected but relevant data that
are used by various business units within an enterprise. APIs are created
as the easy access points for these siloed data lakes. These days,
organizations put in conscious efforts in designing meaningful and
pragmatic APIs for all the apps that get developed internally. API-First or
API Driven Development, where APIs are the first app artifacts to be
generated, are adapted by ent... (more)
Data Mobility: Embracing Hybrid Cloud with Confidence
Leading companies, from the Global Fortune 500 to the smallest companies, are
adopting hybrid cloud as the path to business advantage. Hybrid cloud depends
on cloud services and on-premises infrastructure working in unison.
Successful implementations require new levels of data mobility, enabled by an
automated and seamless flow across on-premises and cloud resources.
In his general session at 21st Cloud Expo, Greg Tevis, an IBM Storage
Software Technical Strategist and Customer Solution Architect, will explore
how storage and software-defined solutions from IBM have evolved for the road
ahead. Walk-away knowing how you can bring new levels of speed, agility and
efficiency to the applications and workloads you choose to deploy across a
hybrid cloud model.
Speaker Bio
Greg Tevis is an IBM Storage Software Technical... (more)
"NetApp's vision is how we help organizations manage data - delivering the
right data in the right place, in the right time, to the people who need it,
and doing it agnostic to what the platform is," explained Josh Atwell,
Developer Advocate for NetApp, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud
Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing Cloud
strategies, now is the perfect time to attend 21st Cloud Expo, October 31 -
November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, and June 12-14,
2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY, and learn what is going on,
contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is on the
right path to Digital Transformation.
Track 1. Enterprise Cloud | Cloud-Native
Track 2. Big Data | Analytics
Track 3. Internet of Things ... (more)
@MicroservicesExpo Stories By Elizabeth White  21st International Cloud Expo, taking place October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. Cloud computing is now being embraced by a majority of enterprises of all sizes. Yesterday's debate about public vs. private has transformed into the reality of hybrid cloud: a recent survey shows that 74% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy. Me... Sep. 21, 2017 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 5,530 | By Jason Bloomberg Many organizations are now looking to DevOps maturity models to gauge their DevOps adoption and compare their maturity to their peers. However, as enterprise organizations rush to adopt DevOps, moving past experimentation to embrace it at scale, they are in danger of falling into the trap that they have fallen into time and time again.
Unfortunately, we've seen this movie before, and we know how it ends: badly.
Sep. 21, 2017 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,070 | By Elizabeth White  Today companies are looking to achieve cloud-first digital agility to reduce time-to-market, optimize utilization of resources, and rapidly deliver disruptive business solutions. However, leveraging the benefits of cloud deployments can be complicated for companies with extensive legacy computing environments.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Craig Sproule, founder and CEO of Metavine, will outline the challenges enterprises face in migrating legacy solutions to the cloud. He will also prese... Sep. 21, 2017 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 907 | By Liz McMillan  Most of the time there is a lot of work involved to move to the cloud, and most of that isn't really related to AWS or Azure or Google Cloud. Before we talk about public cloud vendors and DevOps tools, there are usually several technical and non-technical challenges that are connected to it and that every company needs to solve to move to the cloud.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Stefano Bellasio, CEO and founder of Cloud Academy Inc., will discuss what the tools, disciplines, and cultural... Sep. 21, 2017 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 725 | By Liz McMillan  The “Digital Era” is forcing us to engage with new methods to build, operate and maintain applications. This transformation also implies an evolution to more and more intelligent applications to better engage with the customers, while creating significant market differentiators.
In both cases, the cloud has become a key enabler to embrace this digital revolution. So, moving to the cloud is no longer the question; the new questions are HOW and WHEN. To make this equation even more complex, most ... Sep. 21, 2017 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 962 | By Pat Romanski  With the rise of DevOps, containers are at the brink of becoming a pervasive technology in Enterprise IT to accelerate application delivery for the business. When it comes to adopting containers in the enterprise, security is the highest adoption barrier. Is your organization ready to address the security risks with containers for your DevOps environment?
In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 21st Cloud Expo, Chris Van Tuin, Chief Technologist, NA West at Red Hat, will discuss: The top security r... Sep. 21, 2017 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 608 | By Elizabeth White Agile has finally jumped the technology shark, expanding outside the software world. Enterprises are now increasingly adopting Agile practices across their organizations in order to successfully navigate the disruptive waters that threaten to drown them. In our quest for establishing change as a core competency in our organizations, this business-centric notion of Agile is an essential component of Agile Digital Transformation.
In the years since the publication of the Agile Manifesto, the conn... Sep. 21, 2017 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,193 | By Flint Brenton The nature of the technology business is forward-thinking. It focuses on the future and what’s coming next. Innovations and creativity in our world of software development strive to improve the status quo and increase customer satisfaction through speed and increased connectivity.
Yet, while it's exciting to see enterprises embrace new ways of thinking and advance their processes with cutting edge technology, it rarely happens rapidly or even simultaneously across all industries. Sep. 21, 2017 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,335 | By Karthick Viswanathan These days, APIs have become an integral part of the digital transformation journey for all enterprises. Every digital innovation story is connected to APIs . But have you ever pondered over to know what are the source of these APIs? Let me explain - APIs sources can be varied, internal or external, solving different purposes, but mostly categorized into the following two categories. Data lakes is a term used to represent disconnected but relevant data that are used by various business units wit... Sep. 21, 2017 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,240 | By Liz McMillan "NetApp's vision is how we help organizations manage data - delivering the right data in the right place, in the right time, to the people who need it, and doing it agnostic to what the platform is," explained Josh Atwell, Developer Advocate for NetApp, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Sep. 21, 2017 01:15 AM EDT Reads: 3,200 | By Liz McMillan  One of the biggest challenges with adopting a DevOps mentality is: new applications are easily adapted to cloud-native, microservice-based, or containerized architectures - they can be built for them - but old applications need complex refactoring. On the other hand, these new technologies can require relearning or adapting new, oftentimes more complex, methodologies and tools to be ready for production.
In his general session at @DevOpsSummit at 20th Cloud Expo, Chris Brown, Solutions Marketi... Sep. 20, 2017 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,141 | By Elizabeth White Leading companies, from the Global Fortune 500 to the smallest companies, are adopting hybrid cloud as the path to business advantage. Hybrid cloud depends on cloud services and on-premises infrastructure working in unison. Successful implementations require new levels of data mobility, enabled by an automated and seamless flow across on-premises and cloud resources. In his general session at 21st Cloud Expo, Greg Tevis, an IBM Storage Software Technical Strategist and Customer Solution Architec... Sep. 20, 2017 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,146 | By Pat Romanski  DevOps at Cloud Expo – being held October 31 - November 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA – announces that its Call for Papers is open. Born out of proven success in agile development, cloud computing, and process automation, DevOps is a macro trend you cannot afford to miss. From showcase success stories from early adopters and web-scale businesses, DevOps is expanding to organizations of all sizes, including the world's largest enterprises – and delivering real r... Sep. 20, 2017 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 4,212 | By Pat Romanski  The last two years has seen discussions about cloud computing evolve from the public / private / hybrid split to the reality that most enterprises will be creating a complex, multi-cloud strategy. Companies are wary of committing all of their resources to a single cloud, and instead are choosing to spread the risk – and the benefits – of cloud computing across multiple providers and internal infrastructures, as they follow their business needs. Will this approach be successful? How large is the ... Sep. 20, 2017 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,036 | By Elizabeth White  Many organizations adopt DevOps to reduce cycle times and deliver software faster; some take on DevOps to drive higher quality and better end-user experience; others look to DevOps for a clearer line-of-sight to customers to drive better business impacts. In truth, these three foundations go together.
In this power panel at @DevOpsSummit 21st Cloud Expo, moderated by DevOps Conference Co-Chair Andi Mann, industry experts will discuss how leading organizations build application success from all... Sep. 20, 2017 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 798 | By Elizabeth White  You know you need the cloud, but you’re hesitant to simply dump everything at Amazon since you know that not all workloads are suitable for cloud. You know that you want the kind of ease of use and scalability that you get with public cloud, but your applications are architected in a way that makes the public cloud a non-starter. You’re looking at private cloud solutions based on hyperconverged infrastructure, but you’re concerned with the limits inherent in those technologies. Sep. 20, 2017 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,536 | By Mehdi Daoudi  ‘Trend’ is a pretty common business term, but its definition tends to vary by industry. In performance monitoring, trend, or trend shift, is a key metric that is used to indicate change.
Change is inevitable. Today’s websites must frequently update and change to keep up with competition and attract new users, but such changes can have a negative impact on the user experience if not managed properly. The dynamic nature of the Internet makes it necessary to constantly monitor different metrics. O... Sep. 20, 2017 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 755 | By Elizabeth White  Enterprises are moving to the cloud faster than most of us in security expected. CIOs are going from 0 to 100 in cloud adoption and leaving security teams in the dust. Once cloud is part of an enterprise stack, it’s unclear who has responsibility for the protection of applications, services, and data.
When cloud breaches occur, whether active compromise or a publicly accessible database, the blame must fall on both service providers and users.
In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Ben Johnson, C... Sep. 20, 2017 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 913 | By Liz McMillan As DevOps methodologies expand their reach across the enterprise, organizations face the daunting challenge of adapting related cloud strategies to ensure optimal alignment, from managing complexity to ensuring proper governance. How can culture, automation, legacy apps and even budget be reexamined to enable this ongoing shift within the modern software factory? Sep. 20, 2017 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,201 | By Pat Romanski  "When we talk about cloud without compromise what we're talking about is that when people think about 'I need the flexibility of the cloud' - it's the ability to create applications and run them in a cloud environment that's far more flexible,” explained Matthew Finnie, CTO of Interoute, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 20th Cloud Expo, held June 6-8, 2017, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. Sep. 20, 2017 01:45 AM EDT Reads: 4,788 |
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Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP, was first introduced by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991. The initial version HTTP/0.9 was designed to facilitate data transfers between a client and server. The protocol works on a request-response model over a TCP connection, but it’s evolved over the years to include several improvements and advanced features. The latest version is HTTP/2, which has introduced major advancements that prioritize webpage performance and speed.
Digital transformation will come from increased investments in technology. But, at the same time, it will also come from increased scrutiny and commitment to quality of the existing services. To ensure this outcome, companies must be committed to the quality spelled through common acronyms such as SLAs, MTTR and MTTD. While these concepts have been around since the time of gurus such as Edward Deming, they are as critical as ever to ensuring technology meets its goals and sets itself up correctly for the future. SLAs and ITOps can inform each other and bring about mutual modernization.
According to this year’s Internet Trends Report, the cloud is steadily expanding and companies are spending more on these services. Businesses are opting to use these third-party services rather than build their own internal tool because they are often easier and less expensive to deploy. There’s no need to assign IT resources and purchase necessary hardware to deploy a new software solution, so the business unit can sign a contract and start using a solution almost immediately.
The most powerful business benefit for large enterprise organizations migrating to the Cloud is the modernization of their legacy applications.
For example in Canada legacy woes contribute to a perception IT is just there as a maintenance function, not to add strategic value, meaning that they find themselves too busy to innovate.
As Gartner described Canadian CIO’s face a scenario where there is lower buy in to the value of technology and thus a perception it is more of an operational cost not a strategic enabler, the biggest consequence being a lack of investment in upgrades and modernizat...
Two apparently distinct movements are in the process of disrupting the world of enterprise application development: DevOps and Low-Code.
DevOps is a cultural and organizational shift that empowers enterprise software teams to deliver better software quicker – in particular, hand-coded software.
Low-Code platforms, in contrast, provide a technology platform and visual tooling that empower enterprise software teams to deliver better software quicker -- with little or no hand-coding required.
Two disruptive approaches with remarkably similar value propositions. Except that one emphasizes h...
The year 2017 so far has been the year of digital transformation with cloud , IoT , APIs and Low code application development gaining focus . Companies that build Low Code Platforms and help organisations build business applications are beginning to see these technologies scale up. Low code platforms market is expected to scale up to $20B by the end of the decade, says Forrester. So ,when a lot of business enterprises across the globe have been talking about this low code revolution we delve deep into the realms of this application development methodology and its role in digital transformati...
DevOps sees the coming together of practices, philosophies, and tools that allow you to create services and applications very quickly. This means that you can improve on your apps and evolve them at a much faster rate than those developers who are using traditional software development processes. We’ve talked about DevOps, in general, a great deal, but today, we’re going to dig a little deeper and take a look at Java DevOps specifically.
In our first installment of this blog series, we went over the different types of applications migrated to the cloud and the benefits IT organizations hope to achieve by moving applications to the cloud. Unfortunately, IT can’t just press a button or even whip up a few lines of code to move applications to the cloud. Like any strategic move by IT, a cloud migration requires advanced planning. 
In the decade following his article, cloud computing further cemented Carr’s perspective. Compute, storage, and network resources have become simple utilities, available at the proverbial turn of the faucet. The value they provide is immense, but the cloud playing field is amazingly level. Carr’s quote above presaged the cloud to a T.
Today, however, we’re in the digital era. Mark Andreesen’s ‘software is eating the world’ prognostication is coming to pass, as enterprises realize they must become software companies to remain competitive.
The value IT brings to such companies is unquestiona...
Snowflakes are beautiful, unique creations. But, let’s keep them in nature. They don’t belong in our server infrastructure. Snowflake servers, where every configuration is just a little different, can introduce unnecessary security vulnerabilities and complications. While common in IT infrastructure, in the DevOps realm they are gradually becoming ancient history. At All Day DevOps 2016, Erlend Oftedal (@webtonull), with Blank and head of the OWASP Norway chapter, discussed the benefits of immutable infrastructure practices within serverless architectures. Erlend walked us through the positive...
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