Test teams feel the need to adopt DevOps, but that migration is not always seamless, according to a new survey by LogiGear. That may be because 25 percent of respondents said their Ops/IT team is always helpful to the test team and its needs; 37 percent said Ops teams regularly help bring about good test environments; 27 percent said Ops can be "slow or difficult" ...
Vendor Forum
July 24, 2017
Pete Cheslock
Threat Stack
SecOps is a seamless collaboration between your IT security and IT operations teams. The goal is to streamline security processes, and ensure that every piece of code that makes it into production is as secure as possible. If you've ever thought of revamping your company's current security operations to make it more agile, or if you've been thinking about building out a SecOps function, here are 5 tips you should keep in mind ...
July 20, 2017
Tim Bedard
Venafi
Financial services organizations are high value targets for cyber criminals all over the world. Because of this, it is imperative that the keys and certificates used by financial service DevOps teams are properly protected. If not, bad actors can easily exploit cryptographic assets and wreak havoc on sensitive corporate data, all while remaining undetected ...
July 18, 2017
Tim Mackey
Black Duck Software
In the last year, businesses around the globe significantly increased their use of open source and although they readily acknowledge growing concerns about open source-related security and operational risks, the effective management of open source is not keeping pace with the increase in use ...
July 17, 2017
Ruth Zive
Blueprint
A Forrester survey confirmed what high-performance organizations have already said – DevOps is here to stay. Diving into the details, however, the study also shows that the DevOps journey may be in for a rude awakening. Companies in all industries are embracing DevOps for superior productivity, but many organizations struggle to overcome barriers that prevent them from translating these programs into improved business results ...
July 14, 2017
Anand Akela
Tricentis
Despite the pervasive belief that security and development teams have conflicting priorities, initiatives such as creating DevOps environments and focusing on product innovation have the two teams aligned toward a common goal of creating secure software, according to a new study from Veracode ...
July 10, 2017
Nigel Kersten
Puppet
DevOps practices lead to higher IT performance, according to the 2017 State of DevOps report This higher performance delivers improved business outcomes, as measured by productivity, profitability, and market share ...
June 15, 2017
Stephen Hamrick
SAP
In the development community, creating additional efficiency through improved collaboration has been prevalent for some time. But despite the head start on the rest of the corporate world when it comes to collaboration, many organizations function today as they did 15-20 years ago. Since time is money in the tech world, outdated collaboration is a huge missed opportunity ...
June 14, 2017
Josh Gray
Cedexis
Given the efforts we put in these days to deconstructing monolithic applications, and using distributed microservices to make us more agile, the potential for app performance to take a nosedive because of unseen (and unanticipated) network congestion and outages is only getting greater. There is help at hand, though, in the form of new ways to program network awareness directly into your code ...
June 12, 2017
Joyce Lin
Postman
What if you discover a fatal error or an exploit in your app? What if your app is down during a crucial time? As a developer, how you react to a crisis can mean the difference between minor blip and an embarrassing or costly company blunder. Here's a crisis management plan to get things right when they go wrong ...
June 08, 2017
Justin Collier
SmartBear Software
Recently, the results from SmartBear Software's annual survey, the State of Code Review 2017: Trends & Insights into Dev Collaboration were released. One point I found interesting is that it suggests only 66 percent of organizations can get releases out on time. Why are the other 34 percent struggling to get releases out the door? ...
June 05, 2017
Ben Bernstein
Twistlock
Developers love using containers to build, run and ship applications in a flexible and simple way. However, the technology has received backlash for not being as secure as other (traditional) methods, such as Virtual Machines (VMs). Securing containers and securing VMs requires a completely different process. Below are four key differences between securing containers versus securing VMs ...
May 31, 2017
Aruna Ravichandran
CA Technologies
DevOps results in improvements in software delivery performance, according to a new first-of-its-kind study by CA Technologies to quantify the benefits for companies that combine DevOps methodologies with Cloud-based tools and delivery mechanisms ...
May 23, 2017
Pete Waterhouse
CA Technologies
When organizations adopt containers and microservice style architectures in production, systems become incredibly complex. For operations it's a shock because it means coming to grips with many new container tech nuances - plus letting go of the old monitoring rule book ...
May 18, 2017
Eric Robertson
CollabNet
In Part 3 of my Q&A with industry analysts, I ask: What trends will have the biggest impact on the software industry and DevOps in particular this year and beyond? How can enterprises set themselves up to succeed with so many rapid changes occurring in development and delivery? ...
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