Software quality matters. Adopting DevOps practices and increasing collaboration between Dev and Ops helps align teams around what matters to the business: Shipping product. Thorough testing is a critical step that is often handled manually, introducing risk and unpredictability into the process. Join Electric Cloud and Tricentis as we demonstrate proven techniques to ensure your software quality by automating more of your end-to-end software development lifecycle, including testing.
Join this webinar to learn:

• How DevOps practices help your Dev, QA and Ops Teams work more efficiently
• How test automation eliminates manual handoffs and increases coverage
• How detecting errors quickly can help developers optimize quality

 Date: Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015

 Time: 2:00pm eastern standard time

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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:

Dr. Gerd Weishaar Vice President of Product Management, Tricentis

Dr. Gerd Weishaar has over 20 years of experience in product development and product management from various software companies, including Segue Software, Rational Software and IBM.  As VP of Product Management at Tricentis, Dr. Weishaar currently manages a team of experts who have a strong focus on market demands and needs.  His team is responsible for managing the entire product life-cycle of the Tricentis Tosca Testsuite and product marketing related content and communication. Dr. Gerd Weishaar is a computer science graduate of the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, where he also obtained his Ph.D. He is also an MBA graduate of the prestigious MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Anand Ahire Director Product Management at Electric Cloud

Anand has over 13 years of experience in product management, marketing and development and is a Pragmatic marketing certified product leader and customer advocate. Prior to Electric Cloud, he lead product marketing teams at BMC Software and eGain Communications and is very experienced in agile development methodology, DevOps, Continuous Delivery, IT Service Management (ITIL V3 Certified), application monitoring and automation. He holds an MBA in Information Systems and Marketing from Asia’s most premium business school Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a Bachelor of Engineering Electronics and Telecom from the College of Engineering Pune.

New technology developments like DevOps, IaaS, and SaaS allow organizations to do more and make faster decisions with fewer staff and less budget. But, allowing anyone within an organization to deploy the technology they want with virtually no centralized oversight is a recipe for disaster. In this webinar DevOps evangelist and author Gene Kim and JumpCloud CEO, Rajat Bhargava, discuss how modern IT teams build decentralization into their organization while maximizing the security that their IT team needs to keep their organization safe.

In this webinar, you will learn how to leverage decentralization safely to increase the pace that your business operates. Gene and Rajat will discuss actionable steps and controls for the following areas:

• Hybrid Infrastructures
• DevOps culture
• BYOD workplaces
• SaaS Apps
• Remote workers
• Wifi access points
• Software Applications

 Recorded: Wednesday, July 1st, 2015

Post-Webinar Q&A:

Q. If an IT organization is supporting software development but it is not Agile, does DevOps methodologies make a difference?

A: Yes, as we mentioned previously, you’ll want to adjust your DevOps methodology to match your particular situation. Some organizations use Kanban instead of DevOps. The key here, though, is to build a process that is iterative and works to drive value on an incremental basis. – RB

Q.  I can see how Web Services, SPAs, and APIs can be done easily this way, but do you do ‘legacy style’ stateful web apps this way as well? If so, how do you deal with deploying mid process blowing up the user’s application state?

A: Yes, of course, DevOps can be leveraged for ‘legacy applications’. You will alter your test / release process to ensure that you don’t ‘blow up a user’s application state’. DevOps is a methodology and not a prescriptive process. You’ll adjust the process to match your particular situation, and, of course, that can include how you deploy more ‘thick’ applications. – RB

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:

Gene Kim is a multiple award-winning entrepreneur, the founder and former CTO of Tripwire and a researcher. He is passionate about IT operations, security and compliance, and how IT organizations successfully transform from “good to great.”

Rajat Bhargava is co-founder and CEO of JumpCloud, a provider of Directory-as-a-Service solutions. An MIT graduate with two decades of experience in industries including cloud, security, networking and IT, Rajat is an eight-time entrepreneur with five exits including two IPOs, three trade sales and three companies still private.

There’s a lot of noise in the market about what DevOps is and how to do it. Some might say that it’s more easily defined by what hasn’t been said about it. If you’re not interested in arbitrary definitions or doing something just for the sake of doing it, this webinar is for you.

You have critical business goals to achieve: to ship software faster without breaking things in the process. But manual, error-prone infrastructure and environments, plus an increasingly complex end-to-end process of getting code from development to production, present serious challenges.

Join SaltStack and XebiaLabs on May 21^st, 1pm EST for a 45-minute session that will examine these challenges and show how the combination of XL Release, XL Test and Salt accelerates software cycles. Learn how XL Release, XL Test and SaltStack deliver advanced automation capabilities, enable data-driven improvement and provide continuous insight into your end-to-end software release process in a way other tools simply cannot.

Event Recorded Tuesday, May 21st, 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:

Andrew Phillips heads up product management at XebiaLabs. Andrew is an evangelist and thought leader in the DevOps, Cloud and Continuous Delivery space. He sits on the management team and drives product direction, positioning and planning.

Matt Meservey, Director, Product Management, SaltStack

Matt began his career in information technology as a systems and support engineer for Legato. With hands-on experience managing large-scale IT infrastructures, Matt transitioned to product management overseeing the development of systems management products for Altiris and Symantec. Matt brings more than 15 years of experience to SaltStack where he is responsible for all SaltStack Enterprise product management functions. Matt works with the SaltStack engineering team and the massive Salt developer community to deliver next-generation systems management software.