Devops Chat

This is the first in a new series of DevOps Chats that we will be recording featuring Derek Langone, CEO of XebiaLabs. Derek will be sharing his unique view as the CEO of one of the leading agents of DevOps transformation in the enterprise, XebiaLabs. If you are an executive looking at digital transformation, you should listen to what Derek has to say. Enjoy!

In his role as chief product officer at New Relic Jim Gochee has had a front row seat to dozens, if not hundreds of organizations undergoing digital transformation. He gives us some of his observations and tips in this interesting DevOps Chat. Enjoy!

In this DevOps chat we sit down with Judit Sharon, CEO of OnPage. OnPage has been providing alerting and incident management services primarily to the health care industry before DevOps was called DevOps. As DevOps has exploded on the scene, the security and functionality built into OnPage was a perfect fit for ITOps and DevOps teams. As a result OnPage has expanded beyond its Health Care industry roots to become a very popular solution in the DevOps space. OnPage recently conducted a survey on the state of alerting in the IT Ops space. Judit gives us some insight into the findings, but you can download the full survey report at https://www.onpage.com/the-state-of-it-operations-ebook/. Great conversation, enjoy!

Harry Sverdlove has a long history in security first at Carbon Black and now as the founder CTO of EdgeWise Networks which emerged from stealth last August. Edgewise has solutions around Network Security and the cloud. Many think network security does not apply to cloud, but oh yes it does. By the same token (no pun intended), network security plays with DevSecOps as well. Harry and I have a great discussion on this and more.

GitLab has a very complete and ambitious plan to offer a complete DevOps solution to its customer base. Leveraging open source plus great service and premium feature sets, GitLab has become a leader in the DevOps field. I spoke to GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij and new VP of product marketing, Ashish Kuthiala about the vision of GitLab being a single application for the whole software development and operations lifecycle.

Have you ever thought you had a great idea for a business, but weren't sure what comes next? Think you can do better than those people you work for now? Just had the dream of starting your own company? If so there is a new playbook for you. My friends Rajat Bhargava and Will Herman have written the Startup Playbook to help. We sit down with serial founder, Bhargava to discuss the new book, what is the best advice in there and 3 tips that every founder should know. A bit off of our usual DevOps, but a great chat. Enjoy! Also, you can download a kindle version of the book for 99 cents! Here is the link: https://www.amazon.com/Startup-Playbook-Founder-Founder-Veterans-ebook/dp/B078QCRYWJ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding Finally a few times at the end I referred to the book as the Founders Playbook. I tried to dub in Starters Playbook, but frankly my interviewing skills are better than my sound engineer skills. Apologies.

Few areas in DevOps are hotter than continuous testing. Automating various types of tests as part of your CI/CD pipeline is a bit of a holy grail in the DevOps world. Tricentis is a company that is offering a tried and proven enterprise solution in this area. Having perfected their technology over the last 6-7 years and having raised $165m in capital, Tricentis is poised to deliver. In this DevOps Chat we sit down with Tricentis CEO Sandeep Johri to discuss the market, the opportunity and what Tricentis is up to. Great conversation!

The environments that we deploy applications in have certainly changed over the last 10 years. This is true for the way we secure applications as well. Barracuda Networks has ridden this wave to cloud native and making solutions for developers, devops teams and security and risk teams. We speak to Tim Jefferson, VP of public cloud for Barracuda on how they are adapting and helping to shape this market

Application Security Requirements & Threat Management (ASRTM)is a great way to: • Lowering costs to build secure software • Making security measurable • Turning unplanned work into planned work • Freeing up time away from remediation, and into feature development • Having a single process that works with in-house, outsourced, and commercial software • Providing confidence that software is secure, when requirements are linked to verification In this chat with Rohit Sethi of Security Compass, we discuss ASRTM and how it helps DevOps teams, security teams and DevSecOps.

One of the hottest new trends in the cybersecurity world is what is being called "Deception". While honeypots and such have been around for a long time, the idea of purposely deceiving your attackers has really gained momentum, especially in the age of APT (advanced persistent threats). The team at Illusive Networks has pioneered this approach to safeguarding your infrastructure. In this Security Boulevard Chat we sit down with Illusive Networks Ofer Israeli to discuss the "art of deception."

Rosalind Radcliffe is a treasure of the mainframe world. It is always an interesting interview whenever we get the chance to speak with her. In this chat, Rosalind updates us on the newest generation of Big Iron from IBM, the z14 systems. Rosalind also tells us about some of the new capabilities of z14 that allow you to go as fast as you need it in your organization. Rosalind says it is time to move away from thinking of bi-modal IT. Even multi-speed IT is outdated. Today's mainframe can keep up with anything you throw at it.

Michael Kaczmarksi is an IBM Fellow and CTO of DevOps and Service Management. In his distinguished career at IBM he has obviously seen technologies come and go. Michael gives us an inside look at IBM's Cloud Private offering and how it relates to DevOps, Service management, hybrid cloud and so many other contemporary technologies in the market today.

In this DevOps Chat we are joined by Andy Richman of Park My Cloud and Samir Mehra of Cloud Health Technologies. Both of these cloud experts give sound advice on how you can best and most efficiently manage your cloud infrastructure whether it is on AWS, Azure, Google or anywhere else. If you are interested in optimizing your cloud deployments (who isn't?), then have a listen.

They already number in the billions, but connected devices or IoT were not all built with security as top of mind. In this chat we speak with Mike Nelson, VP of IoT Security at DigiCert, a global leader in digital security for connected systems and devices. Mike tells what to do with your legacy devices and systems to help make them more secure and what to look for in systems going forward so that you can be as secure as possible. Great practical advice.

In this DevOps Chat find out how the developers of Wolfpack (http://wolfpack.run) are saving over 50% of their prior costs for cloud by using Park My Cloud's cloud management platform. Though the cloud offers many benefits to app developers and others, controlling the costs of these apps can sometimes elude organizations big and small. Cloud sprawl can quickly lead to cloud bills. In this chat we speak with Jonathan Chashper, CEO of Wolfpack about how his company got a handle on the cloud and is saving over 50% of what they were paying before.

Microservices and Containers: Mastering the Re-Platforming of the IT Infrastructure The re-platforming of the enterprise IT infrastructure is no small undertaking and is usually provoked by a shifting set of key business drivers. That is precisely the case today. The term digital transformation is in the hearts, minds and on the lips of top-level business executives and IT leaders alike. The underlying traditional or legacy infrastructures that have dominated enterprise IT for nearly 30 years simply cannot handle the workloads or power the applications that will drive business decisively forward. Both microservices and containers are destined to play a major role in this enterprise re-platforming, for different reasons. Containers for their part hold significant benefits both for developers and the development effort as well as for the organization itself. Understanding this range of benefits is instrumental to securing IT budget for containers going forward. In this interview, Jim Scott, director, enter

Chef Habitat is growing up. Along the way it is really becoming quite a useful platform for application automation, including beefing up your security and compliance. We had a great update from the Chef team on what is new with Habitat. We have two Chef folks, Jaime Winsor, a co-author of Habitat and Tasha Drew, senior product manager and Blake Irvin of SmartB, a Habitat user.

Chef has spent a lot of time bringing security and compliance into the software development lifecycle (SDLM). They have several solutions both open source and commercial which can help with your DevSecOps practice. I had a chance to sit down with Dan Hauenstein and Dominick Richter. Dominick is one of the founding members of dev-sec.io and co-creator of Chef Compliance.

Container adoption rates are skyrocketing. Securing these environments is both a tremendous opportunity and a daunting challenge. Aqua Security has taken on this challenge. With their most recent funding announcement and other momentum news, they are making their play to lock down the container security market and establish themselves as the market leader. I had a chance to catch up with Rani Osnat of Aqua to hear about their funding news, how they are going to use the money and what the challenges are in the container security space.

Do you know suffer from Cloud Sprawl? Do you know how many instances you have and what is on each one? Getting handle and managing your cloud, hybrid cloud or multi-cloud can quickly outgrow companies both big and small. In this DevOps Chat we speak with ParkMyCloud CEO Jay Chapel who gives us some practical tips and advice how to get cloud sprawl under control.