DevOps Chat

John Worrall, ZeroNorth CEO, expands on the "why" of DevSecOps, focusing on the business benefit, gain and measurement of what we seek to accomplish through DevSecOps. John advocates we concentrate on the process and data enabling us to assess risk, prioritize the most beneficial security work. Learn more about ZeroNorth athttps://www.zeronorth.io.

Colby Dyess, Director of Cloud Product Management at Tufin, joins Mitch Ashley, CEO of Accelerated Strategies Group, to discuss security policy management across hybrid cloud, multi-cloud and cloud-native security. Colby shares experiences from working with customers during the rapid migration to the cloud in 2020. Learn more about security policy management and hybrid clouds at Tufin (https://tufin.com)

Observability and Accessibility are two keys to successful app development and deployment. They are also square within the sweet spot for DevOps teams to consider as part of delivering better applications better and faster. In this episode 7 of DevOps Unbound we are joined Sean Kelly of Trcentis, Paul Pinkney of Swisslog Healthcare and Paula Goyanes of LaunchDarkly to discuss accessibility and usability design in DevOps.

Home » Blogs » DevOps Unbound » DevOps Unbound: How to Lead a DevOps Transformation DevOps Unbound: How to Lead a DevOps Transformation DevOps Unbound: How to Lead a DevOps Transformation BY ALAN SHIMEL ON NOVEMBER 27, 2020 1 COMMENT (EDIT) Is C-level support required to have a successful digital transformation? In the sixth episode of DevOps Unbound streaming broadcast on TechStrong TV and DevOps.com’s sister site Digital Anarchist, Mitchell Ashley of ASG and Alan Shimel are joined by Eveline Oehrlich of the DevOps Institute, Louise McCarthy of Bain & Company and Mark Settle, author of “Truth from the Valley, A Practical Primer on IT Management for the Next Decade,” to discuss DevOps and digital transformation at the C level.

Mitchell Ashley of ASG and Alan Shimel are joined by Ming Gong of UST Global, Chris Rolls of TTC and Robina Laughlin of Guardian Life for a discussion on outsourcing DevOps. Some say you really can't outsource DevOps, others say of course you can. Have a listen and decide for yourself

Mark Smalley of Smalley.IT, and Lead Editor with Axelos of the ITIL 4 High Velocity, IT joins ASG CEO Mitch Ashley to discuss his work creating this new contribution to ITIL 4. Mark shares the 5 value investments important for organizations seeking to operate at high velocity and some of the insights gained from himself and others covered in this ITIL 4 module.

Akshay Anand, ITSM product ambassador at AXELOS, and David Crouch, senior advisor at Beyond20, join ASG CEO Mitch Ashley to share best practices and learnings from introducing and adopting Agile and DevOps in large organizations. Akshay and David discuss overcoming change management challenges and obstacles to increase adoption.

Software teams are rapidly adopting microservices, containers and container management to promote innovation and boost digital transformation. With any newly adopted technology comes questions about data and overall security. Accelerated Strategies Group conducted research into the security of data within containers, specifically, Kubernetes. ASG Analyst Charles Kolodgy, lead analyst on this research, joins ASG CEO Mitch Ashley and Zettaset CEO Tim Reilly dig into the results of this research and relate it to today's implementations using kubernetes. This research was commissioned by Zettaset. The full analyst report is available at https://accelst.com/report-kubernetes-data-protection/.

ITIL is well established as the process, certification and information resource library for service management across many IT organizations globally. With the recent updates comprising to ITIL 4, influences from Agile and DevOps are helping ITIL to expand and adapt to changes in how create software and build operations into the delivery process. Akshay Anand, Product Ambassador with AXELOS Global Best Practice, and Jon Stevens-Hall, Principal Product Manager at BMC Software, join Accelerated Strategies Group CEO Mitch Ashley to discuss the new innovations in ITIL 4. As major contributors to ITIL 4, Akshay and Jon share the approach they took with ITIL 4, incorporating ideas from the world of Agile and DevOps.

App Modernization and the state of mainframe DevOps was the topic of episode 4 of DevOps Unbound. Our panel included Rosalind Radcliffe of IBM, Sam Knutson of Compuware and BMC and Gerta Sheganaku of Tricentis, joining MItchell Ashley and Alan Shimel. It was a lively conversation about real life scenarios that enterprises face everyday. Join us and be sure to follow DevOps Unbound at https://devopsunbound.com

DevOps has not only reached mainframe groups in the enterprise but also to large applications such as SAP. Organizations are moving away from waterfall methods and mega releases that take many months to deliver. What's needed are many more rapid release cycles and deployments that support the accelerating pace necessary to do business. David Lees, CTO of Basis Technologies, joins MediaOps CEO Alan Shimel to explore how organizations implement DevOps into their SAP integration and deployment cycles. Having lived through this transition, David shares his unique perspectives on the necessity to break through bottlenecks and make changes in supply chains, finance and many other business processes needed to support the business.

The assumption that large, established enterprises — from insurance companies to government agencies— can’t adopt Agile processes or DevOps is based on the falsehood that legacy technology stacks won’t allow for it; that existing traditional mainframe applications or legacy applications that large enterprises are built on are incapable of adapting to these approaches. Accelerated Strategies Group recently released the new research report 5 Crucial DevOps Strategies For Cloud and Mainframe 2020, sponsored by ASG Technologies. In this episode of DevOps Chats, Jeff Cherrington and Anna Murray with ASG Technologies joins Mitch Ashley (CEO, Accelerated Strategies Group) to explore how mainframe app teams embrace DevOps, processes and tools to equip software teams, so mainframe apps continue to provide businesses with vital systems and capabilities far into the future. Download the report at https://library.devops.com/5-crucial-devops-strategies-for-cloud-and-mainframes

DevOps Unbound episode 3 is about open source and DevOps. We have a great cast of Tracy Miranda, ED of the Continuous Delivery Foundation, Alon Girmonsky, found of UP9 and Kevin Dunne of Tricentis. DevOps Unbound is an every other week video series about topics related to all aspects of Devops. It is available at https://digitalanarchist.com

In this episode, Mitchell Ashley and Alan Shimel are joined by Caroline Wong, CSO at Cobalt.io (https://cobalt.io), Andrew Van Der Stock, executive director at OWASP, and Dr. Grigori Melnik, CPO at Tricentis, to discuss DevSecOps and AppSec.

This is the first episode of DevOps Unbound. A new video/audio series produced by us here at MediaOps, sponsored by Tricentis. Episodes will run every other week. Once a month there will be a roundtable open to the public as well. In this episode, two respected leaders in the testing space, Dr. Girgori Melnick and James Bach join us to look at the history of testing. How has it enabled DevOps and accelerated software deployment. We look at automation and continuous testing and more. Great discussion. The video edition of this is available on https://digitalanarchist.com