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Author: Charlene O’Hanlon

DevOps Experience: Agenda and Speakers Announced
DevOps Experience is coming up quickly, offering up the best in DevOps knowledge and capabilities in a completely virtual environment. That means no traveling, no missed or cancelled flights due to hurricanes named Florence, no lumpy hotel mattress, no substandard conference food. All the of the learning, none of the hassle.

MediaOps—the company behind devopsy.kinsta.cloud, Container Journal, Security Boulevard, DevOpsTV and more—and CA Technologies have teamed to present DevOps Experience, a free virtual summit chock full of information and education for the DevOps professional presented in a virtual reality environment. DevOps Experience is a true virtual conference, replete with theaters to view the keynotes and presentations, a conference lobby to chat and socialize and a virtual trade show floor with virtual exhibitor stands equipped with video, downloads and even schwag for attendees. And did I mention it’s free?

This year’s event, happening Sept. 20, offers up presentations and content from the biggest names in DevOps—Gene Kim, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Kohsuke Kawaguchi and our own Alan Shimel—as well as speakers from well-known companies who’ll be sharing what they’ve gleaned from their DevOps initiatives.

Besides the whole lumpy mattress thing, some of the benefits of DevOps Experience include:
- Complete control and access over every aspect of your digital experience.
- Live and on-demand viewing from your home or office.
- On the device of your choice (laptop, smartphone and tablet).
- Digital downloads and presentations for all the sessions.
And, perhaps most importantly, you will have unlimited playback post-event! (This is for attendees who register by Sept. 20 only!)

DevOps Experience is scheduled to take place Sept. 20 at a computer or mobile device near you. Visit the website for more information or to register for this daylong event. Registration—did we mention it’s free?—also includes access to the event on-demand. To register, click on the image below or this link.DevOps Experience will feature keynotes from a lineup of DevOps luminaries including:
- Gene Kim, CTO, researcher and co-author of “The Phoenix Project” and “The DevOps Handbook,” and founder of IT Revolution
- Nicole Forsgren, founder and CEO at DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA)
- Alan Shimel, editor in chief and founder of devopsy.kinsta.cloud and Security Boulevard
- Koshuke Kawaguchi, Create/lead developer of Jenkins, CTO, Cloudbees
- Aruna Ravichandran, VP Collaborative Marketing, Cisco; Author of DevOps for Digital Leaders & The Kitty Hawk Venture
In addition, DevOps Experience will include a number of Spotlight Sessions with topics designed to provide even greater value to attendees. Sessions include:
- In the The Accelerate State of DevOps Report, Gene Kim and Dr. Nicole Forsgren will present early look at the results of the first Accelerate State of DevOps Report conducted in partnership with Google Cloud.
- In the Superpowers Coming to Jenkins session, Kohsuke Kawaguchi will walk through Jenkins X projects, Jenkins Essentials and Configuration as Code and how they work together and how they make you even more productive.
- Women in DevOps Panel will feature powerful line-up of women leaders in DevOps, working in consulting and financial industries, airlines, startups and large enterprises. Moderated by acclaimed DevOps author, Aruna Ravichandran.
- DevSecOps Panel – Is Security the Gordian Knot? will feature an all-star panel led by Alan Shimel, founder and editor in chief of devopsy.kinsta.cloud and Security Boulevard.
Register Today at https://devopsexperience.io/#join-us

— saleem
September 12, 2018
DevOps Experience: Learn a Lot without Leaving Your Spot
The great thing about conferences is they can be hotbeds of learning: keynote presentations, seminars, one-on-one sessions, networking … the list goes on. The drawback, however, is the travel: delayed flights, the dreaded middle seat on the airplane, lost luggage, jet lag … the list goes on. That’s why virtual conferences are now my first choice: All the of the learning, none of the hassle.

MediaOps—the company behind devopsy.kinsta.cloud, Container Journal, Security Boulevard, DevOpsTV and more—and CA Technologies have teamed to present a free virtual summit chock full of information and education for the DevOps professional presented in a virtual reality environment. DevOps Experience is a true virtual conference, replete with theaters to view the keynotes and presentations, a conference lobby to chat and socialize and a virtual trade show floor with virtual exhibitor stands equipped with video, downloads and even schwag for attendees. And did I mention it’s free?

DevOps Experience will feature keynotes from a lineup of DevOps luminaries including:
- Gene Kim, CTO, researcher and co-author of “The Phoenix Project” and “The DevOps Handbook,” and founder of IT Revolution
- Nicole Forsgren, founder and CEO at DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA)
- Alan Shimel, editor in chief and founder of devopsy.kinsta.cloud and Security Boulevard, and
- Aruna Ravichandran, vice president of Global Marketing DevOps at CA Technologies and author of “DevOps for Digital Leaders” and “The Kitty Hawk Venture”
In addition, DevOps Experience will include a number of Spotlight Sessions with topics designed to provide even greater value to attendees. Sessions include:
- The Accelerate State of DevOps Report
- Delivering DevOps Practices for Mainframe
- Women in DevOps Panel
- DevSecOps, Why the Time is Now
DevOps Experience is scheduled to be held Sept. 20 at a computer or mobile device near you. Visit the website for more information or to register for this daylong event. Registration—which is free, by the way—also includes access to the event on-demand.

— Charlene O’Hanlon
July 30, 2018
Microsoft Snaps Up GitHub for $7.5 Billion

Recognizing the role GitHub plays in the larger developer and DevOps ecosystems, Microsoft is acquiring the software development platform for a cool $7.5 billion, the two companies have announced.

GitHub, the world’s leading software development platform, has more than 28 million users who “learn, share and collaborate to create the future,” according to the press release announcing the acquisition.

“Developers are the builders of this new era, writing the world’s code. And GitHub is their home,” wrote Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in a blog post. He noted Microsoft is the most active organization on GitHub, with more than 2 million commits made to projects.

“Microsoft has been a developer-focused company from the very first product we created to the platforms and tools we offer today. Building technology so that others can build technology is core to our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more,” he wrote.

GitHub CEO Chris Wanstrath was quick to point out the irony of Microsoft, once a bastion of proprietary software and apps, purchasing a repository for open source code.

“When GitHub first launched ten years ago, I could have never imagined this headline,” he wrote in his blog. “Git was a powerful but niche tool, clouds were just things in the sky, and Microsoft was a very different company. Open source and business, people said at the time, mixed as well as oil and water.”

That said, there is a certain synergy between the two companies, he noted. “We both believe that software development needs to become easier, more accessible, more intelligent, and more open, so more people can become developers and existing developers can spend more time focusing on the unique problems they’re trying to solve.”

Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft will acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion in Microsoft stock. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of the calendar year.

Keep checking devopsy.kinsta.cloud for updates on analysis on Microsoft’s purchase of GitHub and its potential impact on the DevOps community at large.

— Charlene O’Hanlon

June 4, 2018
PagerDuty Accelerates Enterprise Reach and Customer Growth While Surpassing Industry Milestones
Company’s platform for action addresses real-time work across multiple business units within enterprise

PagerDuty, the global leader in digital operations management, today announced its continued momentum into enterprise and the business growth achieved over the last several quarters.

The company has amassed an ever-expanding portfolio of more than 10,000 customers, including half of the Fortune 100. PagerDuty has also exceeded the $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) milestone through its award-winning products, hundreds of thousands of active users, and a few key strategic executive hires. As an early pioneer in the modernization of the incident management process within IT and developer operations, PagerDuty has rapidly evolved its platform to address the human operations factor in the always-on digital economy. The platform for action enables users in DevOps and other large business units such as security and customer service to achieve a balanced approach to addressing digital signal orchestration and overall employee well-being and health.

Founded by former AWS engineers Alex Solomon, Baskar Puvanathasan and Andrew Miklas, PagerDuty began as a Y Combinator-backed startup that was quick to identify the rise of digital and the cloud infrastructure that came with it. Their vision to build a product that could help developer and operations teams immediately respond efficiently at the first sign of problems was the first of its kind for true digital incident response.

In 2016, accomplished cloud executive Jennifer Tejada joined PagerDuty as the CEO and has led the company through the next critical phase in its growth. During her tenure, she has driven rapid innovation within the company and spearheaded a successful Series C round from Bessemer Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Accel Partners. Her passion for diverse and inclusive cultures has helped close the company’s gender equity pay gap, balance engineering management demographics between men and women, promote diversity during hiring practices, and reinforce an equitable culture and work environment. The company has doubled headcount over a two-year span and plans to continue strategic hiring through 2018 and beyond to scale the business accordingly to continue product and customer growth.

“From its onset, PagerDuty was built for people. We understand what digital disruption can do to the health and well-being of DevOps and other business users. As a result, our platform for action gives back lost time to the user and minimizes the ‘all hands on deck’ mentality to ensure a balanced operational response across teams,” said Tejada. “Growing in a sustainable way from $1 million to $100 million in six years is a monumental milestone for any company, especially in the SaaS world where you have to consistently deliver value to continually earn your customers’ loyalty. Our product, customer and company growth continues to accelerate our global expansion as we reimagine and humanize digital operations within enterprise.”

PagerDuty’s enterprise-grade digital operations management platform was built to protect businesses from downtime, solving a $700 billion-dollar problem.* The company’s unique platform enables customers like IBM, Gap Inc., Wynn Resorts and Netflix to go from digital signals to action in real-time and take advantage of a deep data set to resolve problems and provide insights into business and employee health.

“To ensure Evernote customers’ ideas are always with them and always in sync, we need to maintain as little downtime as possible,” said Evernote CEO Chris O’Neill. “By providing the insights we need across the organization, PagerDuty plays a pivotal role in helping us deliver a great customer experience.”

Platform Innovation
By driving continuous innovation, PagerDuty has moved beyond alerting and on-call management for large, complex organizations. In early 2018, PagerDuty built upon its deep data set by launching an industry-first Operations Health Management Service (OHMS). The service offering provides enterprises with visibility into the work-life balance challenges of IT professionals and identifies the operational and human deficiencies in an organization compared against the comparable index of all PagerDuty customers measured. The platform is about to introduce additional new products based off this same treasure trove of responder data focusing on reducing alert noise, accelerating learning and delivering new analytics that report business impact and trends over time.

Businesses, particularly enterprise, have embraced the DevOps approach to real-time work within their organizations. Other business units and functions are beginning to use the PagerDuty platform such as SecOps to automate alerting and security incident management and customer support to reduce the time to acknowledge and respond to newly opened cases.

Strategic Executive Hires
In the last year, PagerDuty bolstered its executive leadership team with the additions of the following executives:
- Jonathan Rende, senior vice president of product and marketing
- Rebecca Kline, general manager, growth
- Jukka Alanen, senior vice president of business development and corporate strategy
- Stacey Giamalis, senior vice president and general counsel
The company’s executive team led by Tejada is gender-balanced, global (65 percent born outside the U.S.) and brings over 150 years of technology management experience from hypergrowth, large technology companies around the world in sectors spanning applications, infrastructure, security, payments and consumer technology. Employee growth has more than doubled since 2015 and will reach 400 by the end of the year.

Leaders in Diversity & Inclusion
The company has built a leadership team committed to an inclusive environment where employees can flourish. Women account for 50 percent of the company’s engineering leadership team, and in 2017, PagerDuty achieved gender pay equity between men and women within 1-2 percent job for job. The company ensures all employees from different backgrounds feel like they have a voice within the business and feel recognized by management. PagerDuty has sponsored and funded five employee-led resource groups in support of women, its LGBTQ community, veterans, its black and Latinx community, and migrants. The company’s diversity and inclusion initiatives demonstrate a culture that promotes belonging and employee investment while driving outstanding business results.

To learn more about how PagerDuty is expanding to meet global demand for digital operations management, visit www.pagerduty.com.

*http://news.ihsmarkit.com/press-release/technology/businesses-losing-700-billion-year-it-downtime-says-ihs

About PagerDuty

PagerDuty is the leading digital operations management platform for organizations. Over 10,000 enterprises and small to mid-size organizations globally trust PagerDuty to improve digital operations, drive revenue, mitigate threats, protect assets, and delight customers. To learn more and try PagerDuty for free, visit www.pagerduty.com. Follow our blog and connect with us on Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and Facebook.

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— saleem
April 18, 2018
DBmaestro Named Best New DevOps Solutions Company by devopsy.kinsta.cloud

Company recognized for pioneering enablement of DevOps for databases

Boston MA, February 13, 2017 – DBmaestro, the pioneer and leading DevOps for database solution provider, was lauded for “standing out from the crowd” in the 2016 DevOps Dozen Awards. The voting was conducted by devopsy.kinsta.cloud and consisted of thousands of people in the industry who casted their votes in 12 categories.

According to the publication, DBmaestro is “pioneering the DevOps for the database market. DBmaestro has gained attention not just with a great product/service, but also by producing high quality content to help evangelize and educate the DBA market about DevOps.”

As to the future, devopsy.kinsta.cloud has lofty expectations for DBmaestro. “We expect big things from DBmaestro going forward. Can’t wait to see what they do for an encore.”

“The DevOps Dozen is meant to acknowledge the leaders, movers, shakers and innovators in the DevOps community,” wrote Alan Shimel, Editor-in-Chief of devopsy.kinsta.cloud. “With so many great companies and people involved in the DevOps world today, it is really hard to pick the very best. Congratulations to all who won these incredibly close races.”

“To have been named alongside Jenkins, Automic, Chef, IBM and others as a winner of the prestigious DevOps Dozen is a huge validation of everything we’ve accomplished,” said Yariv Tabac, Co-Founder and CEO of DBmaestro. “Early on, DBmaestro’s solution was strongly adopted by Global 2000 organizations, specifically among the financial and healthcare sector. More recently, awareness of database DevOps has increased and we see widespread interest from medium size companies as well. Database DevOps will continue to grow, and we are committed to remaining at the forefront of the industry.”

“The importance of enabling the database within a DevOps framework is increasingly understood by technical leaders,” said Co-Founder and CTO Yaniv Yehuda. “There is a strong need to automate the continuous delivery and integration process in order to accelerate time to market and ship high quality applications safely. DBmaestro is the only solution which addresses the three critical pillars of database DevOps readiness: agile database development, database release automation and process control (security, compliance and policy enforcement).

About DBmaestro

DBmaestro is the leading automation and DevOps for database solution provider. Its flagship product, TeamWork, enables Agile development and continuous integration and delivery for databases.

DBmaestro TeamWork enables collaborative database development, enforced source control, release, and deployment automation. Thus, significantly reducing the risk of costly downtime, cutting release automation costs by 80% and boosting development productivity by 15%.

Major enterprises in industries such as financial, healthcare and retail have already chosen DBmaestro as their database automation solution.

— Charlene O’Hanlon

February 16, 2017
Raising the Bar on DevOps for Enterprise Systems
What do you do when you are a leader in DevOps solutions for Enterprise Systems and you practice what you preach? You raise the bar to continually improve your offerings and share thought leadership about where the future lies for clients as they navigate the world of continuous delivery in a climate of digital disruption.

The primary reason why most companies adopt DevOps is to reduce cycle times and to improve responsiveness to the market. This is accomplished by breaking down organizational and role-based silos and by allowing people across the end-to-end software lifecycle to work more closely together. While culture is the most tricky part of a DevOps transformation, tools play a major role in enabling information to rapidly flow across people and lifecycle phases, reducing manual and error prone steps, and alerting people of issues as early as possible so they can be addressed. A key feedback loop comes from development in small batches, where frequent compile, build, deploy, and test cycles, allow you to discover issues within hours of the code having been written.

Over the last month, IBM has made major announcement improving our DevOps for Enterprise Systems solution to help our customers to more easily realize the value of DevOps. Here is a summary of the many announcements we have made.
- Integrated Suite: We announced the new Enterprise COBOL Suite, which provides one integrated suite of five tools targeting developers and systems programmers. The suite of tools allow you to do performance analysis, analyze abends, code and do unit testing, debug problems and manage complex files and data sets. Click here to see for the next level of details.
- Frequent build and release: Many customers have concerns that a transformation to DevOps may drive up their MIPS cost with frequent compile, build, deploy, and test cycles. To mitigate this concern, we announced the Enterprise COBOL VU Edition consisting of Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V5.2. This edition allows you to increase your compiles up to a factor of 10x without an increase in your MIPS cost.
- Integration Platform: In the blog All aboard the z/OS release train – Aqua is coming, my colleagues Kenichi Yoshimura (@kyosh1107) and Joe Winchester (@JoeWinchester) discussed how Explorer for z/OS Aqua has been expanded into an integration platform across the DevOps lifecycle, with initial capabilities for Development (RDz and PD Tools), Operations (CICS Tools), and Runtime (CICS Explorer). The Aqua release improves the user experience for application developer and system programmers, makes installation easier by allowing all of the above rich client tools to be installed using one installer, and makes deployment easier through push-to-client technology.
- Drinking our own Champagne: We have also built a brand new continuous build, deploy and test infrastructure that is shared across our tools running on our integration platform, Aqua. This allows us to build, deploy and test plug-ins across our integration platform to ensure that they are compatible before we make them available to you. This means higher productivity for our development teams and better quality for our customers.
The whole intent behind offering a suite of products with continuously improved end-to-end integration is to enable teams to realize the value of their DevOps investments more quickly. While we will continue to bring our “A” game to the Agile software delivery court, I am interested in what innovations you see coming that would increase IT’s value to the business.

About The Author

Per Kroll is Director of DevOps for Enterprise solution in IBM zSystems Software unit, where he oversees offerings management, development and support. Per also co-leads a DevOps transformation of 2,000 developers within IBM zSystems Software unit. Per has focused on helping organizations improve how they develop software throughout his career. In past positions, Per drove development of the world’s most broadly adopted commercial process library (Rational Unified Process), development of a measurement framework, and lead an open source project centered on agile best practices. Per has also managed development organizations spanning a dozen countries, support, product marketing and product management organizations. Per has authored more than 30 articles and 2 books, sold in more than 30,000 copies and translated to 6 languages.

Follow Per Kroll on Twitter: @perkroll and LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/perkroll
November 24, 2015
Coming to DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015? Must attend IBM sessions and Night at the Garage event!
DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015 is next week. Though only in it’s second year, it is a conference that any technical professional can get excited about, and is an event that IBM is proud to sponsor. Three days of discussion span topics from product integration, to agile and lean concepts, and how to start implementing DevOps and continuous delivery at enterprise scale.

We are bringing the full force of IBM DevOps to #DOES15 this year, with subject matter experts speaking in two keynotes and two sessions, and bringing even more knowledge to booth #8 to show IBM DevOps solutions in action. If you are going to be at DevOps Enterprise Summit this year, make sure you check out:
- DevOps and Innovation at USAA and IBM from Dibbe Edwards, Vice President Development, DevOps for Hybrid, IBM and Michael Bueche, Assistant Vice President IT Operational Excellence, USAA on Monday morning from 11am-12pm in the Grand Ballroom. Dibbe and Michael will discuss how DevOps initiatives combined with automation and culture changes are driving quicker user feedback and overall software delivery.
- Act like a Start-Up, Scale for the Enterprise from Rachel Reinitz, IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO, IBM Bluemix Garage, Dr. Angel Diaz, VP of Cloud Technology & Architecture, IBM, and Kristal York, Executive Mobile Strategist, PointSource on Tuesday afternoon from 2:15-3:15pm in Bayview A. Rachel, Angel and Kristal will discuss why and how IBM is implementing DevOps and how IBM’s global network of Bluemix Garages is providing the knowledge and experience that enables our clients to transform into digital businesses and deliver disruptive innovation.
- Test Automation For Mainframe Applications from Rosalind Radcliffe, IBM Distinguished Engineer & Chief Architect for DevOps and CLM on Wednesday morning from 9-10am in the Grand Ballroom. Rosalind will be talking about how to apply shift left testing to mainframe applications, including integration testing and virtual services to improve early testing.
- Organization Design Panel Discussion with Mustafa Kapadia, IBM DevOps Service Line Leader, as the facilitator join Jason Cox, Director, Systems Engineering at The Walt Disney Company, Jeff Einhorn, Senior Group Engineering Manager at Target, Jeff Raffo, Director – Personalization Technology at Nordstrom and Jim Penny, Solutions Director at IBM on Tuesday afternoon at 2:15 pm in the Exhibit Hall. The group will discuss about Organization Redesign and how some of the largest enterprises have been able to achieve this transformation. You may also get a box set of our For Dummies books or a limited edition IBM DevOps t-shirt with your visit!
Don’t miss out the Night at the Garage!

Finally, if you are looking for an immersive DevOps experience that includes complimentary beer, wine, local cuisine, and live entertainment, join us for a Night at the Garage! IBM is providing transportation on Monday night, October 19, from the Hyatt Regency SF to the Galvanize building that hosts the IBM Bluemix Garage, where you can network with other DevOps enthusiasts and witness the art of the possible firsthand at 5 interactive workstations. Register now to attend, space is limited! We look forward to meeting you there.

About the Author/Saleem Padani

Saleem Padani has 20-plus years of technology and business experience in product and application development, enterprise architecture, service delivery and solution marketing. Currently, he is responsible for overall go-to-market strategy and execution for IBM DevOps and Enterprise modernization capabilities for IBM. Follow him on twitter at @spadani1
October 15, 2015
Webinar: How Nationwide Insurance is Adopting DevOps for Variable Speed IT Systems

To drive towards faster innovation, and also ensure the stability of the core business, the need arises for what is being termed as “two-speed or variable speed IT.” While innovative Systems of Engagement demand speed, agility and experimentation, legacy Systems of Record need governance and predictability. Two-speed IT enables adoption of DevOps capabilities by adapting them to the “speed” of delivery. It requires two-speed business planning and processes and even two-speed organizational structure and budgeting. Join Carmen DeArdo, Director of Application Development at Nationwide Insurance, Sanjeev Sharma, lead DevOps Technical Evangelist at IBM, and Lee Reid, executive IT specialist as they show how IBM’s solution is helping Nationwide adopt DevOps practices for variable speed IT systems.

This webinar is the first in the Variable Speed DevOps – A Deep Dive series.

Event recorded Tuesday May 5th, 2015

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Your Host:

Alan Shimel, Editor-in-Chief devopsy.kinsta.cloud, An often-cited personality in the security and technology community and a sought-after speaker at industry and government events, Alan has helped build several successful technology companies by combining a strong business background with a deep knowledge of technology.

About Panelists:

Carmen DeArdo, Nationwide – Director – Tools and Technology Leader

Carmen DeArdo, Director – Tools and Technology Leader, Nationwide Insurance, An ardent advocate of DevOps and a leading speaker in the DevOps and technology related events, Carmen is responsible for driving continuous delivery utilizing DevOps, Lean and Agile techniques across Mobile, Distributed and Mainframe and other technologies.

Sanjeev Sharma, IBM Worldwide Lead – DevOps Technical
Sales and Adoption, IBM Cloud Unit

Sanjeev Sharma, IBM Worldwide Lead – DevOps Technical Sales and Adoption, IBM Cloud Unit, is a 20-year veteran of the software industry with expertise in DevOps, Mobile Development and UX, Lean and Agile Transformation, Application Lifecycle Management and Software Supply Chains. He is a DevOps Thought Leader at IBM and speaks regularly at conferences. He has written several papers and is the author of the DevOps for Dummies book.

Lee Reid, IBM – Senior IT Specialist

Lee Reid, Senior IT Specialist, IBM, is a senior solution architect with focus on practical adoption of software engineering tools, software delivery solutions, application life cycle management, and DevOps. He has over 25 years of experience in software engineering, design, programming, testing, development, tools & methodology, team leadership, and strategic planning.

March 31, 2015
IBM DevOps Webcast Nov 20 – Transforming Application Delivery for Continuous Innovation

What if you could deliver applications faster without compromising quality or accepting higher risk? Fast-moving adopters of technology are transforming software delivery to disrupt entire industries with rapid-fire, digital innovations that leverage cloud, mobile, big data and social.

How do you deliver 10-times faster business innovation instead of 10 percent incremental improvement? New and established companies are using DevOps to transform their software delivery process and are achieving dramatic improvements in overall speed, quality and business satisfaction.

Join executives from GE Capital, Forrester Research, IBM and others for a series of lightning talks with real experiences and best practices. Learn how you can adopt DevOps practices that deliver early wins and transform your application delivery process.

Date: Thursday, November 20th, 2014

Time: 8:30 – 9.30 AM Eastern Standard Time

Registration link: http://bit.ly/14z82GS

Speakers

Snehal Antani – CIO & Chief Architect, GE Capital Americas
Kurt Bittner – Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Kristof Kloeckner – General Manager, IBM Software Group
Steve Kagan – VP, IBM Global Business Services
Dibbe Edwards – VP Development, IBM Software Group

In the New York Metro Area?

Join us in-person for a free, full-day event.

Click here to sign-up: http://ibm.co/1ljyjQQ

Download the event flyer here: ibm.biz/jerseycityflyer

November 18, 2014
IBM Webcast Nov 18 : Rapid and Continuous Delivery to Hybrid Clouds

Organizations need to innovate at speed. As software has become increasingly critical to business outcomes, delivering high quality changes quickly has become a competitive necessity. With rapidly changing applications has come a dynamic, programmable infrastructure that can meet changing business needs in the blink of an eye. In a word: Cloud.

But how do development teams take advantage of cloud resources? How do organizations coordinate application changes across clouds? Where do platform as a service tools like Bluemix from IBM fit in? Can we move quickly without losing control or quality?

Join Eric Minick, IBM DevOps Evangelist (and UrbanCode guy), as he examines best practices, and approaches for tying together cloud infrastructure, platform as a service and deployment automation to boost the responsiveness of IT as a whole.

Date: Thursday, November 18th, 2014

Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm eastern standard time

Registration link: https://ibm.biz/BdEqve

About the Speaker:

Eric joined IBM through its acquisition UrbanCode. He has spent the last ten years helping organizations – large and small – adopt continuous integration, delivery and now –DevOps. He is a frequent speaker on the topic, and co-authored Application Release and Deployment For Dummies. Prior to consulting, Eric was a developer, test automation engineer and support engineer, and has contributed to multiple generations of UrbanCode products.

November 6, 2014