Devops Chat

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

Accelerated Strategies Group has just delivered their State of Software Delivery Management Report, commissioned by CloudBees. In this DevOps Chat we speak with Mitchell Ashley, CEO, founder of ASG about the report and why it is important for everyone managing software delivery today

The whole Data/DataOps space is becoming very hot. For StorPool it is more of a case of the rest of the world catching up to what they have been doing for a while now. They are the leading distributed block storage provider globally. In this DevOps chat we speak with Boyan Krosnov, founder product at StorPool. Boyan gives us the background on StorPool as well as a good look at the state of the distributed storage/data market.

strongDM wasn't founded to help with remote workers forced out of the office by COVID19. They have been around for 5 years now. But they do excel at allowing you to manage and audit remote access to all of your assets including DBs, servers and clusters (as well as apps and services) anywhere from anywhere. In this DevOps Chat we speak with strongDM Justin McCarthy, CTO & Co-Founder about how the company's technology works and how it is helping companies move to remote access given current conditions. Get more information at https://www.strongdm.com/

When the cloud first caught on there was a problem with Shadow IT. Developers spinning up instances in AWS without the IT team knowing they existed. Now with the ease of CI/DC automated deployments, the problem of Shadow Code has arisen. Code being added to apps that did not go through the entire team process. In this DevOps Chat we speak with Elad Koren, VP of Product at Perimeter X about the Shadow Code issue and how his company can help.

DevOps World/Jenkins World has long established itself as a leading venue for DevOps practitioners to learn, share their knowledge, build a top-notch community. But what about leaders, people in leadership roles at companies who utilize DevOps as a vital part of there business and technology strategies? Sam Fell, CloudBees Area Vice President Enterprise Markets, joins DevOps Chats to discuss the newly announced Software Delivery Leadership Forum. DevOps World 2020 is expanding its focus and content by bringing leaders together with content specifically tailored for business and technology leaders. Accelerated Strategies Group, where Mitch Ashley is CEO, is leading the programming of the DevOps World 2020 Software Delivery Leadership Forum.

The current situation with so many working from home has shined a spotlight on potential security issues with many of our collaboration solutions. Adeya, says they have the answer, offering Swiss, Simple collaboration on a military grade scale. I sat down with Francois Rodriguez of Adeya's exec team to discuss what makes Adeya both simple and secure, as well as what the offering is all about. This is more than video conferencing by the way. This is a well developed and tested collaboration suite that has been in use by the Swiss military and others for years. Have a listen and check out Adeya

With so many working from home (WFH), security is being tested perhaps like it never has before. The good folks at SpecOps have made their password auditor product free during this trying time. We spoke with Darren James of SpecSoft about this release and some other tools they have released to help people through the rough spots. Darren had some good insights he shared and we discussed. Have a listen

Daniel "Spoons" Spoonhower made a bit of a name for himself while he was at Google, as did his two co-founders. They were there at the birth of the microservices wave that has swept through the software world. They left Google and started LightStep to help all developers build better, more scalable applications. With their new release they have pushed the bar higher. In this podcast here from Spoons as to what they are doing and where he sees things moving.

In this DevOps Chat we chat with Kirsten Newcomer,Senior Principal Product Manager, Red Hat. It is a great discussion on the state of DevSecOps and how the Red Hat Open Shift team is trying to make it easier for devs, DevOps and cyber folks to work together to create more secure applications.

Many companies are responding to the large number of people working from home as a result of the public health situation. Today Qualys rolled out a totally free 60 day version of their cloud-based security and compliance solution at no charge. We spoke with Sumedh Thakar about the free release and how Qualys is helping enterprises with their remote workforce.

WhiteSource one of the leaders in the Software Composition Analysis space recently released their annual report on "The State of Open Source Security Vulnerabilities". It is chock full of good data and findings on what is the current state of open source security and how things are trending. I had a chance to sit down with Rhys Arkins, Director, Product at WhiteSource to see what some of the highlights were. Rhys was happy to share and show us some of things you should be mindful of.