Secure DevOps: A simple plan to deliver business value

Source:- techbeacon.com DevOps—the movement to break down silos, deliver software faster, and overall create a better experience for customers—is spreading from startups and experimenters to the enterprise. Many security team leads would cringe at the idea of faster development cycles in an IT department that has even less time and patience for standard security checks, but James Wickett, a senior DevOps engineer, sees not just opportunity, but necessity. “Traditional information security is going to die if we don’t respond to

March 4, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, IT trends Leave a comment

Three Tips To Ensure That DevOps Adds Real Value To Your Business

Source:- forbes.com If you work in tech, chances are you have an opinion on DevOps. Either you think it’s a worthless exercise that creates more problems than it solves, or that it’s a must-have in today’s workplace. At my company AppLovin, we stand solidly in the pro-DevOps camp: not only for what it does for our operations, but for what DevOps does for our business. If you do go with having DevOps, it’s crucial that you think of it as

February 25, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices Leave a comment

Six Tips for Using DevOps to Combat Security Vulnerabilities

Source:- samsung.com Growing requirements from stakeholders for rapid app deployment means more businesses need to explore DevOps to ensure collaboration between their development and operations teams during the development life-cycle. In a recent BMC/Forbes security survey, 60 percent of executives said their IT and security teams “have only a general or a little understanding of each other’s requirements.” Additionally, the report revealed that these two groups often have goals that are out of sync. Such complications lead to companies taking

February 21, 2017 bestdevops DevOps Tools, IT trends Leave a comment

What will we do when everything is automated?

Source:- opensource.com Recently, I came across a study the caused me to think beyond the day-to-day world of code-slinging in which I live. According to the study Myth and the Reality of Manufacturing in America (PDF), conducted by Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University in Indiana: “Almost 88% of job losses in manufacturing in recent years can be attributable to productivity growth, and the long-term changes to manufacturing employment are mostly linked to the productivity of American

February 21, 2017 bestdevops DevOps Best Practices, IT Training, IT trends Leave a comment

IT operations best practices to boost team performance and morale

Source:- techtarget.com IT teams have to automate where possible to free up time, while encouraging individuality within the team. This article isn’t about DevOps or any fancy management paradigm — it’s about IT operations best practices that every organization can use to maximize team productivity. Managers and IT administrators alike can take these practical steps — there’s nothing fancy about documenting a patch procedure — to prevent common snags and foster long-term good morale. SMART targets One of the biggest

February 18, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, DevOps Updates, IT trends Leave a comment

‘Coding is dead, automation the real deal’

Source:- thehindubusinessline.com MUMBAI, FEBRUARY 17: If you’ve been spending years learning a programming language such as Java or .Net, there’s a message for you from your potential employers: “Coding is dead”. Yes, coding as we know it, may not longer be relevant in the world taken over by machine learning and automation. “Coding is dead. I don’t need to do any native development anymore,” Nitin Rakesh, newly appointed CEO of IT services firm Mphasis, told BusinessLine. ‘Cloud first’ “Large public

February 15, 2017 bestdevops Agile, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, IT trends Leave a comment

Why Digitization Requires A New IT Operating Model

Source:- informationweek.com Digitization offers IT teams unprecedented opportunities to create value by becoming digital change agents for the enterprise, but the way most IT teams operate cannot support this ambition. As technology becomes central to company strategy and growth, IT teams face faster business change and rising volatility in demand, and they must rethink how they respond to technology spending outside of IT. In this environment, traditional ways of running IT, such as plan/build/run, are falling short. CIOs need a

February 9, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

14 best tech jobs in America in 2017

Source:- cio.com For the second year in a row, data scientist tops the list of Glassdoor’s Best Jobs in America followed by DevOps engineer and data engineer. Though Glassdoor expanded 2017’s list to 50 — up from 25 in 2016 — technology jobs continued to dominate the list, with fourteen roles represented on the list from the IT industry. “In particular for tech jobs, companies across all industries are hiring workers for these needed positions, including employers in healthcare, finance,

February 8, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps Leave a comment

How a rebirth at the edge will change the cloud

Source:- networkworld.com For enterprise IT, the cloud has finally reached the tipping point. It is no longer a question of whether cloud is part of the strategic plan for most organizations, but simply when and how they will realize the move to cloud. If you’re an IT leader, however, you may not want to get too comfortable with your cloud strategy. Despite having just fully arrived in the cloud era, we are about to move on—at least according to Peter

January 20, 2017 bestdevops DevOps Best Practices, DevOps News, DevOps Updates, IT trends Leave a comment

DevOps trends emerging for 2017 and beyond

Source:- enterprisersproject.com As the year draws to a close, we look towards the future and the emerging trends that are set to shape the world of software delivery for 2017 and beyond. One of the most powerful, overarching trends we saw in the recent year is the growing adoption and maturity of DevOps practices. From its grassroots, small-teams beginnings, DevOps has mushroomed and is now at the point of becoming the standard way of working (or rather, the pursuit and

January 17, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Process, IT trends Leave a comment

Making the case for DevOps in the boardroom: Are you ready?

Source:- itproportal.com Gone are the days when a ‘good enough’ approach to digital will keep your organisation competitive. Your customers and partners demand savvy, delightful digital experiences at any time, from any device. To help you benchmark where your organisation stands today in delivering such compelling experiences, Axway recently partnered with industry analyst firm Ovum to conduct a global survey on the modernisation of B2B integration. Consisting of responses from 450 senior IT decision makers, the primary research study outlines

January 12, 2017 bestdevops Agile, DevOps, DevOps News, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Why 2017 looks like a year of change for software development jobs

Source:- searchcloudapplications.techtarget Software development jobs are in a state of flux. Mobile computing is compressing Agile’s already weekslong-shortened development cycles into mere days. DevOps entwined app development with operations. No-code/low-code tools yanked app building from the ranks of professional programmers, empowering so-called citizen developers. What does 2017 hold in store for application developers? We asked John Carione, who previously worked at EMC, RSA and Adobe, and is currently a product and corporate marketing leader at no-code/low-code vendor QuickBase Inc., based

January 12, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps News, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Popularity of application containers begins to shadow DevOps, PaaS

Source:- searchsoa.techtarget.com Application container adoption is on the rise, both in terms of market growth and developer interest. According to a report from 451 Research, the application container market will grow from $762 million in 2016 to $2.7 billion by 2020. “Despite making up a relatively small portion of the overall cloud-enabling technologies market, application containers will see the fastest growth compared to other segments, with an estimated CAGR of 40% through 2020,” the report said. When asked about the

January 12, 2017 bestdevops Agile, DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, DevOps News, DevOps Updates Leave a comment

Report: Agile and DevOps provide more benefits together than alone

Source:- sdtimes.com DevOps and agile are two of the most popular ways businesses try to stay ahead of the market, but put them together and they provide even more benefits. A new report, Accelerating Velocity and Customer Value with Agile and DevOps, from a reputed comapny revealed businesses experienced greater customer satisfaction and brand loyalty when integrating agile with DevOops. “What’s particularly interesting in this research is what it’s revealed about the compounded effect of using both agile and DevOps

November 19, 2016 bestdevops IT Training Leave a comment

Why orchestration services are important in the DevOps age

Modern organizations are under pressure to produce big results with short deadlines. Orchestration services can help IT to stay on track and thrive. Source: Why orchestration services are important in the DevOps age

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