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Upcoming Event: DevOps India Summit 2020
DevOps experts and business leaders from across the globe will come together to share their thoughts on DevSecOps, security and governance in DevOps during the third edition of DevOps India Summit (DOIS). Presented in a virtual environment, DOIS20 will take place on Sept. 9, at 9 a.m. IST.

At DOIS20, attendees will have the opportunity to interact with industry experts and learn how they have successfully implemented DevSecOps practices. The DevOps practitioners will share their experience and expertise, focusing on their company’s transformation to DevSecOps.

DOIS20 features an exceptional lineup of more than 35 DevOps thought leaders, including:
- Mark Miller, senior storyteller and DevOps advocate at Sonatype (keynote speaker)
- Piotr Lewandowski, senior staff site reliability engineer at Google Cloud (keynote speaker)
- Alan Shimel, founder and CEO at MediaOps (keynote speaker)
- Mirco Hering, global DevOps practice lead at Accenture (keynote speaker)
- Rosalind Radcliff, distinguished engineer and chief architect for DevOps at IBM
- Dr. Niladri Choudhuri, founder and CEO at Xellentro
- Hasan Yasar, technical director at Software Engineering Institute
- Sanjeev Sharma, co-founder and principal analyst at Accelerated Strategies Group and author of “The DevOps Adoption Playbook” and “DevOps For Dummies”
- Vandana Verma, Global Board of Directors at OWASP Foundation
- Ramesh Pasapula, assistant vice president at Wells Fargo
- Sailaja Vadlamudi, director of security and data privacy at SAP Labs and WiCSP founder
The online environment at DOIS20 features a lobby, an expo hall lined with booths full of downloadable resources and an auditorium where attendees can watch sessions from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. IST. The expo hall will be open throughout the event, giving attendees the opportunity to chat with vendor sponsors and download information.

All registered attendees will have the chance to participate in contests and win incredible prizes, attend Q&A sessions with the speakers and will also receive a link to access the virtual summit on-demand.

For more information and to register, visit the DevOps India Summit 2020 website.
July 28, 2020
State of Software Delivery Management Report 2020
Accelerated Strategies Group conducted the State of Software Delivery Management 2020, surveying software delivery practitioners and key industry leaders to assess the current state of software delivery management (SDM) and examine the impact of SDM adoption as a capability. The primary research, commissioned by CloudBees, was published on Tuesday, July 21.

The State of Software Delivery Management Report 2020 defined SDM as “a core competency for any organization or team responsible for delivering business value via software applications and systems.” The report studies the impact of SDM and how it helps organizations accelerate their digital transformation by providing the necessary tools to effectively and efficiently deliver software.

The report identified three key SDM capabilities to help organizations increase their software delivery efficiency and effectiveness:
- Organizations must quantify the impact of their investment in software delivery.
- Organizations must enhance the ability of software delivery teams to communicate and collaborate.
- SDM can provide end-to-end visibility into the value flow of their software delivery streams.
Based on the results of the research, adopting SDM strategies can help mitigate major challenges faced by software delivery practitioners, IT management, product stakeholders and executive leadership, and improve an organization’s ability to deliver software in a lean and agile manner. SDM capabilities provide businesses the ability to effectively make decisions on where in the value stream to invest, and to quantify the impact of their investments.

Download the State of Software Delivery Management 2020 to learn more about SDM and to get insights and access to all the data Accelerated Strategies Group gathered from one-on-one interviews with key industry experts.
July 21, 2020
Time Series Virtual Summit Speaker Spotlight: Jon Herlocker and Miroslav Malecha

The Time Series Virtual Summit will bring together InfluxData community members for a unique learning experience focused on the impact of time series data. Presented in a virtual reality environment, the event will take place on July 16, at 10 a.m. EDT.

Miroslav Malecha

Jon Herlocker

Jon Herlocker, president and CEO at Tignis, is one of the speakers that will be presenting at the Time Series Virtual Summit.

Jon invites anybody who has the responsibility to turn large quantities of sensor data from physical plants or manufacturing lines into business value to attend his session, “How an Analytics Platform Detects Reliability Threats and Eliminates Obstacles Impeding Results Using InfluxDB.”

“Viewers will see Tignis’ unique physics-driven approach to machine learning for physical plants and manufacturing lines,” said Jon. “We’ll also share our approach to using InfluxDB to accelerate delivery of our solution to our customers.”

Jon will discuss how Tignis uses IoT sensors to reduce unexpected downtime at manufacturing plants and school campuses. Attendees will learn how by using a time series database they can improve their competitive advantage and accelerate their go-to-market strategy.

“Time series data from physical plants and manufacturing lines can be turned into significant business value, and we have proven that InfluxDB can be an effective component of that,” said Jon.

Another time series specialist that will be sharing his knowledge and his experience with InfluxDB is Miroslav Malecha, director of product management at Bonitoo.

In his session, “Using Time Series for Geo-Temporal Analysis,” Miroslav will discuss how to use InfluxDB’s Flux for Geo-Temporal analysis. He’ll briefly cover what Flux is, how to use specific Flux geo functions and finish with a quick demo of how to use InfluxDB.

You can hear from Jon, Miroslav and more time series experts at the Time Series Virtual Summit. To check out the agenda, the full lineup of speakers and to register (for free), visit the Time Series Virtual Summit website.

July 15, 2020
Time Series Virtual Summit Speaker Spotlight: Al Sargent and Samantha Wang

The Time Series Virtual Summit will bring together InfluxData community members for a unique learning experience focused on the impact of time series data. Presented in a virtual reality environment, the event will take place on July 16, at 10 a.m. EDT.

Samantha Wang

Al Sargent

Al Sargent and Samantha Wang of InfluxData are on a mission to help developers understand how time series databases provide real-time observability and monitoring.

“The best software engineering teams in the world understand that time series data is different; it can’t be managed using a traditional database, and requires a purpose-built database,” said Al Sargent, senior director of product marketing at InfluxData.

Al will be the first speaker to take the virtual stage at the Time Series Virtual Summit. During his presentation, he will explore the unique challenges of managing time-series data, why time series data needs to be treated differently than other data types and what to look for in a time series database.

Any developer that’s building applications using time series data (or planning to), such as data from IoT sensors, monitoring data or customer usage data will benefit from Al’s educational session.

Another great session you must definitely attend is “Monitor your Cloud Metrics with Time Series” by Samantha Wang, product manager at InfluxData.

Samantha will discuss the importance of time series data for cloud monitoring, and how you can view your metrics in real time with InfluxDB Cloud.

“I will walk through how to write metrics into InfluxDB Cloud using Telegraf and how users can take their analysis one step further with Flux,” said Samantha. “Lastly, I will review InfluxDB Templates, one of our newest community InfluxDB products, that provides a packaged solution for various common monitoring use cases.”

Join Al and Samantha to learn more about time series databases and understand how InfluxDB Cloud can be your end-to-end solution for writing data to monitoring and alerting — all optimized for time series data.

You can hear from Al, Samantha and more time series experts at the Time Series Virtual Summit. To check out the agenda, the full lineup of speakers and to register (for free), visit the Time Series Virtual Summit website.

July 14, 2020
Time Series Virtual Summit Speaker Spotlight: John Gleeson and Benjamin Sirb
The Time Series Virtual Summit will bring together InfluxData community members for a unique learning experience focused on the impact of time series data. Presented in a virtual reality environment, the event will take place on July 16, at 10 a.m. EDT.

Benjamin Sirb

John Gleeson

John Gleeson and Benjamin Sirb of Storj Labs, will be at the Time Series Virtual Summit to discuss how the InfluxDB contributes to Stroj’s decentralized cloud storage platform.

“Our team uses time series data to operate our decentralized cloud storage platform, which provides enterprise-grade object storage and is the largest of its kind,” said John Gleeson, vice president of operations at Storj Labs.

Tardigrade, powered by Storj Labs, offers decentralized cloud storage that is automatically encrypted, easily implemented, highly performant, very economical and resilient. By equipping their customers with fast, secure and fully distributed storage, their users no longer need to manage their infrastructure. The Storj platform enables applications to store and share data across a distributed network with end-to-end encryption.

In their talk, John and Ben will dive into:
- Storj’s redefinition of a cloud object storage network.
- How InfluxData fits into Storj’s Open Source Partner Program.
- Collecting and managing high volume real-time telemetry data from a distributed network.
“Attendees can expect a deep dive on how time series data allows for real-time analysis of a highly complex system, which operates in a low trust environment while maintaining industry standard SLA’s for data availability and durability,” said Benjamin Sirb, senior data scientist at Storj Labs.

As vice president of operations, John is responsible for direct sales, partnerships, customer success, community, product management and data science as well as growing the international presence for the Storj decentralized and distributed cloud storage network. He is responsible for operationalizing core processes to ensure the business scales as the company and network grow.

Ben joined Storj Labs in 2018, bringing six years of experience in academia, research and consulting to his role as senior data scientist. Drawing from his knowledge of probability theory, Ben has been instrumental in researching the theoretical foundations and practical applications of decentralized networks at Storj.

If there is one thing they both would like the audience to keep in mind is that “the data science behind distributed and decentralized cloud storage is intense!”

Join John and Ben to discover how InfluxDB is a component to Storj’s Tardigrade service and workflows.

You can hear from Ben, John and more time series experts at the Time Series Virtual Summit. To check out the agenda, the full lineup of speakers and to register (for free), visit the Time Series Virtual Summit website.
July 13, 2020
Time Series Virtual Summit Speaker Spotlight: James Governor, Sameer Farooqui and Russ Savage

The Time Series Virtual Summit will bring together InfluxData community members for a unique learning experience focused on the impact of time series data. Presented in a virtual reality environment, the event will take place on July 16, at 10 a.m. EDT.

Russ Savage

Sameer Farooqui

James Governor

The Time Series Virtual Summit features a stellar lineup of time series experts, including Sameer Farooqui, Russ Savage and keynote speaker James Governor.

James Governor is an analyst and co-founder at RedMonk. James advises developers on technology strategies, open source and how to be more productive. During his keynote presentation, “Reframing and Retooling for Observability,” he will explain how observability is changing the way applications are built and managed. James will also discuss what this means for developers and how observability can be used to derive deep insights into system performance and user experience.

Sameer Farooqui is a strategic cloud engineer at Google. Sameer focuses on Streaming Analytics and helps commercialize new streaming solutions such as time series forecasting and anomaly detection. In his session, “Analytics and ML on Time Series Data in Google Cloud,” Sameer will talk about the benefits of running time series databases in the Google Cloud Platform, and how to take advantage of Google Analytics tools.

Russ Savage is a product manager at InfluxData, where he focuses on enabling DevOps for teams using InfluxDB and the TICK Stack. Russ will give the closing remarks, wrapping up the event with ways to get involved and learn more about the time series community.

You can hear from James, Sameer, Russ and more time series experts at the Time Series Virtual Summit. To check out the agenda, the full lineup of speakers and to register (for free), visit the Time Series Virtual Summit website.

July 10, 2020
Financial Services: Future Proofing Your Digital Transformation Strategy
The Financial Services: Future Proofing Your Digital Transformation Strategy virtual event will explore the state of development and DevOps in the finance industry, and how organizations can digitally transform their strategy in order to release new, compliant applications and safely adapt to change at any speed demanded by the business. The virtual event will take place on July 9 at 2:30 p.m. CEST (8:30 a.m. ET).

CloudBees is bringing together a stellar line-up of thought leaders to discuss the impact of digital transformation in financial services, including:
- Sacha Labourey, CEO of CloudBees
- Jost Hoppermann, VP and principal analyst at Forrester
- Chafin Bryant, software engineering manager at Capital One
- Keith Blizard, SVP of public cloud services at Fidelity Investments
The experts will discuss the challenges the financial services industry faces in adopting DevOps.

At the Financial Services: Future Proofing Your Digital Transformation Strategy virtual event you will learn:
- How to assure separation of duties and access controls without stifling innovation.
- About Capital One’s DevOps success story and how they’ve tackled some of the unique challenges of CI/CD in the finance industry.
- How to incorporate legacy and hybrid technology into your release trains and processes.
- How to scale across geographies, teams, applications, regulations and environments – and still get the velocity and reliability expected by the business.
- About Fidelity’s cloud transformation journey and CI/CD best practices.
- How to build bridges across devs and ops; employees and contractors.
Join the CloudBees community and learn how to future-proof your digital transformation strategy. To check out the agenda and to register, visit the Financial Services: Future Proofing Your Digital Transformation Strategy website.
July 3, 2020
Upcoming Event: Time Series Virtual Summit
The Time Series Virtual Summit will bring together InfluxData community members for a unique learning experience focused on the impact of time series data. Presented in a virtual reality environment, the event will take place on July 16, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. EDT.

This virtual event will focus on the impact of time series data and how it can be used to help build and optimize solutions for real-time visibility into stacks, sensors and systems.

Here’s a preview of some of the speakers:
- James Governor, analyst and co-founder at RedMonk
- Al Sargent, senior director of product marketing at InfluxData
- John Gleeson, VP of operations at Tardigrade.io
- Jon Herlocker, president and CEO at Tignis
- Michael Ellis, community manager at InfluxData
Plus, speakers from companies such as AWS, Google, Microsoft and more.

The industry leaders will share their thoughts on time series data, discuss the benefits of a time series database and the challenges of data management.

At the Time Series Virtual Summit you will learn:
- How to use a time series database to improve their competitive advantage and accelerate their go-to-market strategy.
- How to manage risk in decentralized networks with time series.
- How IoT can help manufacturers reduce downtime.
- How to use observability to derive deep insights into system performance and user experience.
The online environment features a lobby, an expo hall lined with booths full of downloadable resources, and an auditorium where attendees can watch the sessions. You can interact directly with time series experts and network with other attendees by joining the chat rooms.

Discover what’s next from the InfluxData community and learn how you can get involved. To check out the agenda, the full lineup of speakers and to register (for free), visit the Time Series Virtual Summit website.
June 19, 2020
Participate in the Checkmarx 2020 Survey
Checkmarx, the global leader in software security solutions for modern enterprise software development, and devopsy.kinsta.cloud are conducting a survey about the implementation of DevOps and related automation and security tools.

The purpose of the survey is to help organizations evaluate their DevOps maturity, find out what are the most used DevOps tools and the most common challenges organizations are facing with their current DevSecOps model.

The survey consists of 16 short multiple-choice questions. The results will depend on several factors including:
- The organization’s progress on their DevOps adoption journey.
- The role of the respondents in their organization and their responsibilities for DevOps transformation.
- Automation and security tooling capabilities respondents are using for DevOps and cloud-native applications.
- The respondents’ ability to overcome challenges and obstacles standing in the way to successfully implementing DevOps.
We urge everyone in the DevOps space to participate in this survey. The more data we can gather, the more we’ll find out about the adoption of DevOps and AppSec tools. We’re counting on you to make this report even more valuable. Invite your friends and colleagues to contribute to the survey, too — the more the merrier.

Click on this link to complete the survey.

We will make an announcement when the report is ready. Stay tuned!
June 19, 2020
Pega Low-Code Platform on Display at PegaWorld iNspire

Low code enables developers to create applications using visual tools and models. Developers looking for resources to improve their productivity might find Pega’s low-code platform quite helpful.

Jennifer Gill, senior director of technical product marketing at Pega, joined ASG’s Mitch Ashley for an interview on the benefits of low-code in designing applications.

During the pandemic, Pega has helped customers develop apps such as a COVID-19 tracker for a large healthcare organization, which was built in less than a week. And in just five days, Pega worked alongside the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs and T-Systems to build a new app that provides COVID-19 financial aid to self-employed workers and small to medium-sized businesses.

Pega has its own DevOps tool, Deployment Manager, which enables organizations to execute their own unit testing.

Also built into the Pega platform is the Pega Express Methodology, which guides users step by step from smaller implementations to complex transformations, laying the foundation to easily add new app functionality as business needs change.

As for the future of Pega, Gill said we can expect more automation and more intelligence built into the platform.

Meanwhile, you can join her at PegaWorld iNspire, an interactive virtual event taking place Tuesday, June 2, at 9 a.m. EDT, to learn more about the technology behind Pega.

The event will also feature a live demo on low code, during which attendees will learn how to define core app components and what tools they can use to manage and govern low code at enterprise scale.

Check out Jenn’s interview for TechStrong TV below to learn more about Pega’s low-code platform.

May 29, 2020