Author: Jules Louis

  • New Frontiers in Cloud Security

    New Frontiers in Cloud Security

    Cloud Security has certainly come a long way since the early days of cloud adoption when many thought the very term Cloud Security was an oxymoron. While some studies still indicate that security is a chief inhibitor to wider cloud adoption, there is little doubt the industry has responded with new innovative methods of securing cloud data and infrastructure. However, there is still debate on what are the right technologies and ways to do this.

    In this webinar we will explore what some of the leading Cloud Security providers are doing to protect you, your data and your cloud infrastructure. Where should the emphasis be: on the cloud infrastructure, on your data, even on your endpoint? What is your responsibility versus your cloud provider? How can you work with your cloud provider and security vendor to be ensure you are doing the best you can? What does the near term and future hold?

    Join us as we host an all star panel from three of the leading cloud security vendors – Qualys, Alert Logic and Illumio for an in depth discussion on where the cloud security state of the art is and what you need to know.

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  • Webinar: An Under-the-Covers Look at CloudBees Jenkins Platform – Private SaaS Edition

    Webinar: An Under-the-Covers Look at CloudBees Jenkins Platform – Private SaaS Edition

    Last month CloudBees provided an overview of an exciting new product: CloudBees Jenkins Platform – Private SaaS Edition which enables you to easily roll out Jenkins-powered Continuous Delivery across your organization. This webinar will provide an under-the-covers look at the Private SaaS Edition architecture for DevOps engineers, CI/CD administrators, and interested developers.

    Join our subject matter experts for a comprehensive review of the Private SaaS Edition architecture and installation process, and come away with a thorough understanding of new application delivery paradigms made possible with Private SaaS Edition and Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service.

    Learn all the details about:

    • The easy configuration and installation of the Private SaaS Edition.
    • The robust architecture that provides easy provisioning of CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise Masters with built-in fault tolerance.
    • Best practices around managing elastic and ephemeral Jenkins Agents (slaves) with the integrated Jenkins Mesos Cloud plugin.
    • How the Private SaaS Edition can help your teams move to Continuous Delivery.
    Recorded 4/6/16

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  • Webinars: Where’s the heat: Top DevOps Use Cases in 2016

    Webinars: Where’s the heat: Top DevOps Use Cases in 2016

    Adopting DevOps is a journey, and for many organizations the journey has just begun. What use cases are they solving first? How are they solving them? And what kind of benefits are they realizing?

    Join industry analyst Amy DeMartine (Forrester) and General Manager and Vice President of Deployment Solutions Wesley Pullen (Electric Cloud) as they discuss the state of the market, and the critical capabilities organizations must have in order to accelerate their DevOps initiatives.

    In this webinar you will learn about:

    • Orchestrating the DevOps Toolchain
    •  Application Release Automation
    • Compliance and Auditability
    Recorded 3/29/16

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  • Webinar: How major enterprises are bringing their database Continuous Delivery up-to-date

    Webinar: How major enterprises are bringing their database Continuous Delivery up-to-date

    Leading organizations are increasingly adopting continuous delivery, yet they often find it challenging to support database release automation, while ensuring database updates are delivered rapidly and securely.

    These challenges have led a number of fortune 500 companies to database downtime caused by out-of-process updates, code overrides and other database glitches.

    Attend this webinar and discover how some of the leading organizations addressed these challenges through understanding:

    • The different requirements of application-code & database-code from a source control point-of-view
    • Why their database was often left behind
    • How they were able to use baseline aware analysis to overcome database updates challenges
    • How they automated their database Continuous Delivery, from development to build to deploy
    Recorded 3/22/16

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  • Webinar: Continuous Integration Using Docker

    Webinar: Continuous Integration Using Docker

    Simplify continuous integration with Docker. Join Marcel Birkner (codecentric), Brian Dawson (CloudBees), and Curtis Yanko (Sonatype) as they share essential tips, rules, and tools for getting your CI program started on Docker today.

    • Learn successful practices to align your organization and operations for CI success
    • Hear the key benefits of Docker-based CI
    • Receive free access to the Docker CI toolchain: GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus, Sonar, and Selenium
    Recorded 3/16/16

     

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  • Webinar: From Healthchecks to Real-time Metrics – Clever’s Journey

    Webinar: From Healthchecks to Real-time Metrics – Clever’s Journey

    Clever is an identity and authentication SaaS product serving millions of students, in tens of thousands of schools. Mohit Gupta, Product and Engineering Lead for Clever’s infrastructure, is responsible for the platforms that keep the product running every day.

    Most people are familiar with healthcheck and polling-based monitoring and alerting systems. Clever chose to go a different route – instrumenting metrics throughout their stack, from infrastructure up through custom metrics from the microservices behind the app. Mohit will discuss why Clever chose this direction, and why it’s important for operating SaaS products.

    John Bruce, Head of Solutions Engineering from SignalFx, will discuss how SignalFx was built for the world of DevOps and microservices, and demonstrate how customers like Clever use it every day.

    What you will learn:

    • Why you should use metric data for monitoring and alerting
    • What kinds of metrics really matter
    • How to reduce alert noise through analytics

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  • Webinar: 5 Key Metrics to Release Better Software Faster

    Webinar: 5 Key Metrics to Release Better Software Faster

    No matter how often you deploy your application, or how sophisticated your delivery pipeline is, you always need to know the quality status of the software you are building. This can only be done if you measure it. But measure what exactly?

    Join us for this webinar where Andreas Grabner and Brett Hofer, app performance evangelists, will look at five key metrics that will increase your confidence in securing a safe build for production.

    • Learn why metrics can be huge quality gateways
    • Identify key metrics to take back to your team (Dev, Test, Ops and Business)
    • Understand how to use, measure and report these metrics
    • 3 short use cases and how using metrics can help you avoid them

    After this webinar you’ll understand how specific key metrics can be set-up, understood collaboratively across teams, and help you produce better software, faster!

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  • Webinar: DevOps – More than just Automation

    Webinar: DevOps – More than just Automation

    Organizations globally have realized the proven benefits DevOps brings – reduced organizational friction, frequent deployments and tighter feedback loops. Benefits that originate with automating the deployment pipeline. But the reality is that DevOps is more than automation.

    Join as we dive deeper into what makes DevOps real.

    In this webinar, we will cover:

    • “Why DevOps?” through the lens of Incident Response
    • The importance of shared operational responsibility on organizational culture
    • Why reliable alerting means both tools and people
    • How aggregating alerts helps to maintain situational awareness

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  • Webinar: DevOps at GE Transportation – The re-emergence of IT and Software Development

    Webinar: DevOps at GE Transportation – The re-emergence of IT and Software Development

    Many corporations have been doing software development for decades. The re-emergence of IT and Software Development in the last several years has revolutionized the way that new software is being developed & deployed while leaving many legacy applications behind. Join us for this informative session to learn how GE Transportation is using DevOps to reinvent their portfolio of time-tested software applications to respond to a fast pace world.

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    Your Hostalan_new_head_shot

    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 the Panelist


    Lawther_photo1Chris Lawther, Data Architect at GE,
    as Data Architect at GE Transportation, Chris assumes multiple responsibilities including managing and defining database development processes, executing projects and improving database DevOps capabilities. During his 9 years at GE, Chris has been part of the transformation of IT into a fast moving, customer responsive organization. In his current role he has overseen the transformation of the database development and release process. Chris holds a bachelors degree in management information systems and supply chain management from Penn State University.
  • Google Hangout: Innovate Like a Startup, Scale for the Enterprise

    Google Hangout: Innovate Like a Startup, Scale for the Enterprise

    It’s what keeps your CEO awake at night – your industry getting disrupted by a competitor you can’t see today. The winners are quick to adapt, fast to innovate. But how do you act like a startup – nimble, energetic and creative – at enterprise scale. DevOps, fused with open technologies, hybrid cloud and design thinking, can close the gap by helping build an enterprise competency for delivering continuous innovation.

    Join us as industry leaders describe how they’re transforming their organizations to win. An innovation culture that addresses multi-speed IT. Blow-your-ears-back improvements in cycle time, cost and quality. Experimentation, feedback loops and A/B testing. And deploying updates to production – tens of times a day. Don’t miss it!

    Date: Wednesday, February 10th, 2016

    Time: 1pm eastern standard time

    HANGOUT LINK:(NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED*) 

    *Google Hangouts are FREE.  To participate in a Google Hangouts LIVE,
    a Gmail or Google  Profile is required.
     

    Your Hostalan_new_head_shot

    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.

    Our Guests


    gene-kim-devopsdotcomGene Kim | Author, Researcher, Speaker, Director, DevOps Enthusiast

    Gene is a multiple-award-winning CTO, researcher and author. He was founder and CTO of Tripwire for 13 years. Gene is a huge fan of IT operations and how it can enable developers to maximize throughput of features from “code complete” to “in production,” without causing chaos and disruption to the IT environment. He is passionate about IT operations, security and compliance, and how IT organizations successfully transform from “good to great.”

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    Angel L. Diaz | Vice President, Cloud Architecture & Technology
    Dr. Angel Diaz is IBM’s VP of Cloud Technology & Architecture. Angel and his team are responsible for the technology, architecture and strategy behind IBM’s Hybrid, open and secure cloud – empowering our clients with a new way to work. When he’s not working to bring greater value to clients through a flexible and interoperable cloud, he’s IBM’s leader for open technology where he is spearheading an industry IT renaissance driven by open source code, community and culture. A master of the art-of-the-possible, Dr. Diaz has been the driving force behind many of the most important Cloud, Data and Mobile open technology industry movements – all focused on enabling innovation that is built on simple, practical solutions.

    Dave Lindquist (2)David Lindquist | IBM Fellow, Vice President of Development, Cloud DevOps Services
    Mr. Lindquist, an IBM Fellow and VP, is responsible for the development of IBM’s Cloud DevOps Services, including: UrbanCode, Bluemix DevOps and our Bluemix Garagre Method. Prior to this role, Dave was the CTO for the IBM Cloud & Smarter Infrastructure Division and the IBM Tivoli Division. In 2007, he was appointed an IBM Fellow, IBM’s highest technical honor for his innovation and industry leadership. He joined the IBM Software Group in the mid 90s, where he has focused on the research and delivery of emerging Internet technologies, including Cloud, SaaS, Web infrastructure, Mobile and Wireless technology. His research has led to 48 patents, recognition as an IBM Master Inventor and election into the IBM Academy of Technology.