Digitally disruptive competition drives DevOps trend

Source – techtarget.com From a leadership perspective, it is hard to argue against the goals of the current DevOps trend. DevOps seeks to integrate the work performed by a company’s application development team with the work performed by its systems operations team. The aim is to improve the quality and flow of that work through better communication, standardization, simplification, collaboration and automation. DevOps builds on the Lean and Agile development practices that promote systemic thinking and rapid value creation. In many ways, the DevOps trend

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Robust DevOps trend fueled by IT’s need for speed, survey says

Source – techtarget.com In his article “Digitally disruptive competition drives DevOps trend, Troy DuMoulin, vice president of research and development at Pink Elephant, the global IT Service Management (ITSM) training and service provider, laid out why the current DevOps push to improve the quality and delivery of IT services is unlike failed IT efforts in years past. DevOps-focused transformation The first question asked of the survey respondents was to identify what percentage of the respondents were actively working on a DevOps-focused transformation. The

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How one company’s DevOps success got them the green light to hire 1000 developers

Source:- techrepublic.com The business concept of doing more with less, which dominated enterprise IT for many years, is being turned on its head in a major way at one pharmaceutical company. The leadership at Express Scripts recently green-lighted the hiring of 1,000 new developers based on the success the company has had with one key tech trend: DevOps. The company got its start in the 1980s, relying heavily on mergers and acquisitions (M&A). And recently, the company began looking into

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How DevOps went mainstream in 2016

Source:- itproportal.com 2016 was the year that DevOps became part of IT organisations’ everyday language. While forward thinking, agile businesses have embraced DevOps from the outset, what we’re seeing now is what, in the Technology Adoption Lifecycle are known as “the late majority” shifting towards new DevOps practices. Bringing development and operations together to deliver what a business needs, quickly, reliably, flexibly defines the DevOps approach. It can transform how an organisation works, breaking down traditional barriers between IT teams

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