Posts Tagged ‘DevOps’

We’re now well into the second half of 2017, with summer in full swing. As fast as the year has progressed, there’s still time to complete your innovation goals if you haven’t already. One goal of interest for many organizations is DevOps, an agile strategy focused on transforming organizational collaboration, communication, and go-to-market strategies. With […]

As DevOps grows in popularity, there are going to misconceptions for the innovation philosophy. From understanding the benefits to how organizational culture is changed, many will expect DevOps to create results out of thin air when that will be hardly the case. Our consultants speak with organizations daily who are making the transition. We hear […]

Microservices are top-of-mind for developers and innovators, especially in a connected world. With research firm Gartner predicting more than 20 billion connected things by 2020, being able to develop quickly and effectively will set organizations apart. Microservices are gaining traction for their ability to develop and deliver modern, lightweight and composable workloads. They achieve this […]

Infrastructure is a key part of every IT department before cloud or DevOps is even considered. Serving as the backbone of IT, it’s these components that keep every system running. In recent years, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) has become a competitive and popular space, led by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and their affordable and reliable offerings. Nonethelss, […]

So far this year, things are shaping up pretty well for DevOps, and we’ve put together some highlights for the technology trends that DevOps is heavily impacting. First, we are expecting more clearly defined DevOps principles and practices to emerge. In fact, J. Paul Reed, Managing Partner at Release Engineering Approaches, has declared that, “2017 will […]

Over the years, the implementation, application, and best practices of information technology have seen a gradual evolution. What started with local systems, iterative innovation, and analog systems has evolved into a world that’s always-on and ready to change at any given moment. Organizations who recognize this shift tend to stand the test of time and […]

A theme commonly supported and increasing in characteristic for many of our partners is that of open source. A movement started in the late 1990s, open source software originally began with the intent of software developers learning from each other and ultimately the release of the Netscape Browser (and eventually others including Mozilla Firefox). Today, […]

Last week, our own Ronda Kiser-Oakes and IBM’s Greg Wunderle sat down to discuss how DevOps helps innovative enterprises accelerate their time to deployment. As more enterprises plan to adopt by the end of the year, many executives are exploring migration, collaboration, and business plans to create the most successful outcomes. Below is a brief […]

Even though my father had been a software engineer for nearly three decades, he still ignored the need to own a smartphone. “I want to be contacted on my own terms”, he’d tell me, preferring that friends and associates call him on my family’s home line. He was adamant about his disinterest in jumping over […]

In our technology journey in 2017, we’ve covered DevOps numerous times and for good measure. Research firm IDC predicts that nearly 70% of Global Fortune 500 organizations will have implemented the development philosophy by the end of the year. There’s still confusion about what exactly DevOps is. To us, DevOps should not be thought of […]

As we’ve discussed in previous posts, customer success is a key part of the modern buyer’s journey. Even with signed contracts and revenue, organizations must still continue to add value to the customer experience. We discuss the art and science of customer experience with our customers on a regular basis, walking them through available technologies […]

Jenkins is a well known and frequently used Continuous Integration tool. With wide community support, Jenkins has a very large set of plugins available to accomplish almost anything you need. In this post, I will use the Job-DSL plugin to build a delivery pipeline which is a very common use case for a team following CI/CD […]