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Google Hangout: DevOps for Multi-Speed IT
Whether you call it two-speed IT, bi-modal IT or variable-speed IT, it is a reality as teams, projects and divisions within organizations deliver business capabilities. These business capabilities are composed of services and applications that, when orchestrated, deliver business value to users. Lines of business that need these capabilities do not care how these individual services and applications are delivered—they want them to be high-quality, to attain maximum customer and business value, and to be delivered quickly. This panel will consist of experts from IBM and several of our clients. The panelists will discuss how they have adopted DevOps in a two-speed IT model: the challenges faced, successes achieved and lessons learned.

Date: Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016

Time: 4pm eastern standard time
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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

Carmen DeArdo, Technology Director | 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.

Brad Schick, CTO/VP of Engineering | Skytap

As Chief Technology Officer, Brad Schick leads Skytap’s overall architecture, technical direction, and IP strategy. Brad also ensures Skytap’s technology aligns with the company’s vision and key partnerships. As Vice President of Engineering, Brad runs Skytap’s engineering, quality assurance, and operations teams. Brad is a software industry veteran with proven team and corporate leadership skills. Most recently, Brad was founder at Wegos, Inc., an innovative gaming start-up. Prior to Wegos, he was the Vice President of Engineering at Vizrea, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2007. Earlier in his career, Brad worked at Microsoft Corporation, where he led development teams on Windows and Internet Explorer. Brad has also been an instructor at the University of Washington and has a passion for hands-on problem solving and programming at all levels. Brad holds a B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts University and was recently the winner of the Startup Technology Star award presented by Puget Sound Business Journal.

Sanjeev Sharma, IBM Distinguished Engineer| IBM

Sanjeev is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, and the CTO for DevOps Technical Sales and Adoption at IBM, leading the DevOps practice across IBM. Over the past three years Sanjeev has become the client facing Technical Sales SME and Solution Architect for DevOps and is recognized as a Thought Leader for DevOps within IBM, with IBM’s customers and across the broader DevOps solution space. Sanjeev is responsible for leading the worldwide technical sales community for DevOps offerings across IBM’sa portfolio of tools and services. Sanjeev speaks regularly at conferences around the world, including IBM InterConnectr, IBM Innovate, IBM Pulse. IBM Impact and IBM Connect.
January 28, 2016
Google Hangout: What will DevOps look like in three to five years?
DevOps seems to be everywhere today. But what does the future hold for today’s tech darling? Will the principles and patterns of DevOps still be recognizable in three to five years? Or will the next new wave come along wipe out what seems to be a major change to the way software is developed and operated? This panel will try to peer into the crystal ball and foretell what the future of DevOps holds, and what it may look like in the near and farther future.

Date: Wednesday, January 27th, 2016

Time: 1pm eastern standard time
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*Google Hangouts are FREE. To participate in a Google Hangouts LIVE,
a Gmail or Google Profile is required.

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.

Our Guests

Raghunath Raman | Director – Digital APIs and Integration Delivery | Kaiser Permanente

22+ years of experience in developing and executing enterprise product strategy and global initiatives. -Strong technical background, verifiable record of product development, service deployments, operations and program management of multi-million dollar portfolios. – Demonstrated prowess to formulate & deliver highly complex programs throughout an organization. – Seasoned in managing and building complex, interdependent systems and enterprise frameworks. Speaker @ IBM interconnect 2015, Speechtek 2009 , Speechtek 2010, etc.

Chris Lazzaro | STSM, IBM Cloud Development, Collaborative DevOps |IBM

Chris is a lead architect, building tools that enable developer productivity and operational excellence in IBM Cloud. He strives to enable customers to make the digital transformation to the cloud with DevOps tools, standards, practices, and the ecosystem needed to innovate faster than their competition. Chris began his career with IBM Tivoli in 1998, building systems management tools, and he has helped transition those capabilities into SaaS and cloud-native operations tools. With a focus on innovative, leading-edge solutions, he has obtained recognition as an IBM master inventor.

Peter Klenk | Offering Manager, Bluemix Garage Method & Cloud DevOps Solution | IBM

Peter is the product manager for IBM’s cloud DevOps solutions. He has more than 20 years of business and technical leadership experience in the software development lifecycle and tools area. Peter led the product management team and was CTO for IBM Rational’s automated software quality portfolio, which included service virtualization, functional test automation, and performance testing. Previously he held several development management, architecture, and developer roles for Rational’s change and configuration management solutions. He has a degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
January 22, 2016
Webinar: Continuous Delivery with Jenkins Workflow and Docker Explained
Are you looking for tools to help you move to continuous delivery? Do you want to take advantage of Docker containers in your application development and delivery? Would you like to automate your software delivery process and define that delivery process in code that you can version control?

Join devopsy.kinsta.cloud and CloudBees for the January 20th webinar, Continuous Delivery with Jenkins Workflow and Docker Explained, to learn how to use Jenkins with Docker to:
- Scale the Jenkins platform to multiple teams and projects
- Build, test and publish Docker images with your application code
- Have an audit trail to trace your container images
- Build a pipeline with Jenkins Workflow to pull the above together
In this webinar, we will showcase how to use the new Jenkins Docker plugins and provide you with configurations you can use in your own environment.

Recording

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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 the Panelists

Neil Hudson, Principal Solutions Architect at CloudBees, is a dedicated technical expert with strong business acumen who helps organizations architect scaled DevOps solutions based upon Jenkins and its extensive network of connected capabilities. He has deep knowledge of enterprise solutions involving virtualization infrastructure, big data, storage, clustering, and high availability. He has extensive commercial experience with programming, design, architecture, and application servers. Prior to CloudBees, Neil worked at Red Hat architecting solutions with 100s of customers. In a previous life Neil had gigs developing trading strategies for high frequency trading markets.
January 21, 2016
Webinar: DevOps at GE Transportation

Reinventing Legacy Application to Respond to a Fast Pace World

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 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 the Panelist

Chris Lawther, Data Architect at GE Transportation, 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.

January 18, 2016
Webinar: Lessons Learned Scaling DevOps and Continuous Delivery for the Enterprise

More than ever, enterprise organizations must balance risk with the ability to respond rapidly to continually changing market conditions. However, many factors seem to create obstacles for adopting DevOps, including a legacy systems, bureaucracies, command and control culture and so forth.

In this webinar we heard from three highly regarded voices in the enterprise DevOps movement — renowned author, researcher, speaker and DevOps evangelist, Gene Kim, Capital One Product Manager, Tapabrata (Topo) Pal and VP of DevOps Strategy at XebiaLabs, Andrew Phillips, convene to discuss the processes, people, and technology you need to implement DevOps with Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing and Continuous Delivery.

The session will also included key findings from nearly 100 experience reports from large, complex organization who presented their DevOps transformations gathered at the recent DevOps Enterprise Summit including Macy’s, Capital One, Disney, Target, GE Capital, Western Union, Nordstrom and many more.

Attendees also learned:
– Top successful patterns in successful transformations
– Top learnings from DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015
– Top obstacles for DevOps transformations in large, complex organizations

Recording

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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 the Panelists

Gene 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.”

Tapabrata (Topo) Pal

Product Manager

Tapabrata has 20 years of IT experience in various technology roles (Developer, Operations Engineer and Architect) in the retail, healthcare and finance industries. Over the last three years, Tapabrata has served as Director of Capital One’s Enterprise Architecture group and led the company’s DevOpsSec initiatives. He is currently Director and Platform Engineering Fellow and is focused on next-generation infrastructure. Previously, Tapabrata spent some time in academics doing doctoral and post-doctoral research in the field of solid state physics.

Andrew Phillips

VP of DevOps Strategy

Andrew Phillips heads up strategy at XebiaLabs, developing software for visibility, automation and control of Continuous Delivery and DevOps in the enterprise. He is an evangelist and thought leader in the DevOps and Continuous Delivery space. When not “developing in PowerPoint”, Andrew contributes to a number of open source projects, including the multi-cloud toolkit Apache jclouds. University.

January 14, 2016
Webinar: The 2016 IT Guide to Onboarding and Offboarding Employees
A step-by-step guide to help streamline your processes while keeping your company secure.

You sit down to order lunch and your phone lights up, with numerous calls and texts flying in. An engineer was let go and it didn’t go so well. He/she has access to all of the source code, some production machines, and knows critical passwords. Do you have the right systems in place to cut off access quickly and securely?

In this webinar, JumpCloud Chief Product Officer, Greg Keller walks you step by step through the on-boarding and off-boarding process to ensure that you are both setting your employees up for success, and keeping your company secure.

What you will learn:
- How to onboard employees in a way that is accurate, efficient, and secure
- The four step process to off-boarding an employee
- The risks associated with improper off-boarding
Recording

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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 the Panelists

Greg Keller, Chief Product Officer, JumpCloud, is JumpCloud’s Chief Product Officer, overseeing the product management team, product vision and go-to-market execution for the company’s Directory-as-a-Service offering.
January 7, 2016
Webinar: Jenkins Workflow Explained

Teams everywhere are looking for tools to define the process they go through to get code to production and represent that as code.

Learn how to use Jenkins with Docker to:

Scale the platform to multiple teams and projects
– Build docker images
– Test and publish docker images
– Trace images through to container usage
– Trigger builds from changes published to a Docker registry
– Build a pipeline with Jenkins workflow to pull the above together

In this talk we will showcase how to use the new Jenkins Docker plugins and provide you with configurations you can further explore in your own environment.

Date: Wednesday, January 20th, 2015

Time: 1:00 pm eastern standard time

REGISTRATION LINK: (CLICK HERE)

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 the Panelists

Neil Hudson, Principal Solutions Architect, CloudBees

Neil Hudson, Principal Solutions Architect at CloudBees, is a dedicated technical expert with strong business acumen who helps organizations architect scaled DevOps solutions based upon Jenkins and its extensive network of connected capabilities. He has deep knowledge of enterprise solutions involving virtualization infrastructure, big data, storage, clustering, and high availability. He has extensive commercial experience with programming, design, architecture, and application servers. Prior to CloudBees, Neil worked at Red Hat architecting solutions with 100s of customers. In a previous life Neil had gigs developing trading strategies for high frequency trading markets.

December 8, 2015
Webinar: The 2016 IT Guide to Onboarding and Offboarding Employees
A step-by-step guide to help streamline your processes while keeping your company secure.

You sit down to order lunch and your phone lights up, with numerous calls and texts flying in. An engineer was let go and it didn’t go so well. He/she has access to all of the source code, some production machines, and knows critical passwords. Do you have the right systems in place to cut off access quickly and securely?

In this webinar, JumpCloud CEO Rajat Bhargava walks you step by step through the on-boarding and off-boarding process to ensure that you are both setting your employees up for success, and keeping your company secure.

What you will learn:
- How to onboard employees in a way that is accurate, efficient, and secure
- The four step process to off-boarding an employee
- The risks associated with improper off-boarding
Date: Tuesday, January 5th, 2015

Time: 2:00 pm eastern standard time

REGISTRATION LINK: (CLICK HERE)

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 the Panelists

Greg Keller, JumpCloud, Chief Product Officer

Greg is JumpCloud’s Chief Product Officer, overseeing the product management team, product vision and go-to-market execution for the company’s Directory-as-a-Service offering.
December 8, 2015
Webinar: The State of On-call 2015: It’s Getting Better

Join us as we talk about what we learned from the over 600 results we gathered during our second annual State of On-call survey.

In terms of changes from last year, we thought that…

– we would see an increase in the adoption of ChatOps.
– even more organizations would report having moved large parts of their infrastructure to the cloud.
– there would be a decrease in the number of people saying on-call is getting worse.
– an increase in DevOps practices would be obvious.

How right were our predictions? What tools are teams using with success during the firefight? How many people does it take to resolve an issue? We asked questions covering all aspects of being on-call and all phases of the Incident Lifecycle.

Hear what people have to say about being on-call!

Date: Tuesday, December 15th, 2015

Time: 2:00 pm eastern standard time

REGISTRATION LINK: (CLICK HERE)

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 the Panelist

Todd Vernon, CEO & co-founder, VictorOps

Todd started his engineering career at NASA before he realized he liked software more than hardware. Since then, Todd’s been the co-founder / CTO of Raindance Communications, helping take the company public and lead its eventual acquisition by West Corporation in 2006. After that, he was co-founder / CEO of Lijit Networks (now sovrn), which has grown into one of the largest real-time ad exchange platforms on the internet. In addition to VictorOps, Todd spends time mentoring TechStars companies and writes a startup column for Inc.
You can follow Todd on twitter @toddvernon.

November 24, 2015
Webinar: The State of On-call 2015: It’s Getting Better – Second Annual State of On-call Survey

Join us as we talk about what we learned from the over 600 results we gathered during our second annual State of On-call survey.

In terms of changes from last year, we thought that…

– we would see an increase in the adoption of ChatOps.
– even more organizations would report having moved large parts of their infrastructure to the cloud.
– there would be a decrease in the number of people saying on-call is getting worse.
– an increase in DevOps practices would be obvious.

How right were our predictions? What tools are teams using with success during the firefight? How many people does it take to resolve an issue? We asked questions covering all aspects of being on-call and all phases of the Incident Lifecycle.

Hear what people have to say about being on-call!

Recording

Slides

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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 the Panelist

Todd Vernon, CEO & co-founder, VictorOps

Todd started his engineering career at NASA before he realized he liked software more than hardware. Since then, Todd’s been the co-founder / CTO of Raindance Communications, helping take the company public and lead its eventual acquisition by West Corporation in 2006. After that, he was co-founder / CEO of Lijit Networks (now sovrn), which has grown into one of the largest real-time ad exchange platforms on the internet. In addition to VictorOps, Todd spends time mentoring TechStars companies and writes a startup column for Inc.
You can follow Todd on twitter @toddvernon.

November 24, 2015