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  • CircleCI Adds Private Orbs to DevOps Toolchain

    CircleCI Adds Private Orbs to DevOps Toolchain

    CircleCI announced today it is enabling IT reams to configure their own private integrations around its namesake continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform.

    The company enables integrations with third-party services via reusable config packages, based on YAML files, known as orbs. Now, internal IT teams can create private orbs that they can securely reuse to invoke, for example, a frequently accessed microservice via the command line interface (CLI) and invoked via the CircleCI platform.

    CircleCI CEO Jim Rose said the goal is to make DevOps teams more efficient at a time when the number of microservices organizations are reusing is increasing steadily. Rather than having to manually integrate each of those services every time they are needed, a private orb will consistently automate the process using the same template, said Rose. That approach, over time, will enable DevOps teams to more easily build and maintain an ecosystem of microservices, Rose added.

    In general, Rose said, with more DevOps teams now working from home to help limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a greater need to automate as many tasks as possible to enhance overall DevOps productivity. Constructing an orb gives DevOps teams a relatively simple way of achieving that goal, Rose said. Today, there is often a small, elite group within DevOps teams that builds tools to automate processes in a way that the rest of the DevOps team can more easily consume. Private orbs make it easier for anyone on the DevOps team to create a reusable process, said Rose.

    Many of those DevOps teams are, of course, attempting to accelerate digital business transformation initiatives launched in response to the pandemic. Those initiatives are generally based on applications being constructed using microservices that, ideally, developers will reuse across multiple projects. The CircleCI private orbs can be remotely invoked from anywhere via the CI/CD platform the company manages on behalf of DevOps teams that employ it.

    It’s not clear to what degree IT organizations are shifting CI/CD platforms to the cloud in the wake of the pandemic. In theory, a cloud-based platform is more accessible to DevOps teams that, like most employees, are working from home. Even after the pandemic eventually subsides, many members of DevOps teams will undoubtedly be working from home more regularly.

    In the meantime, a recent analysis of data from 11 million workflows on the CircleCI platform suggests that, after an initial spike of activity in the early days of the pandemic, DevOps teams settled into a more deliberate pace of application development after quickly adjusting to what has become the new DevOps normal. That new normal is likely to change again once COVID-19 vaccines become more widely distributed, but there will certainly be no returning to the way applications were built and deployed prior to the pandemic.

  • CloudBees Appoints New CEO to Drive Next Level of DevOps Growth

    CloudBees Appoints New CEO to Drive Next Level of DevOps Growth

    CloudBees announced today the appointment of Stephen DeWitt as its new CEO, taking over from Sacha Labourey, who will become chief strategy officer.

    Labrourey said after leading the company for the past 10 years, and after a banner year that saw the company generate more than $100 million in revenue, the time was right to appoint a new CEO to take the company to next level. The move also allows Labourey more time to focus on product development.

    Stephen DeWitt
    Stephen DeWitt, CloudBees CEO

    DeWitt most recently served as chief strategy officer for Automation Anywhere, a provider of a robotic process automation (RPA) platform. DeWitt previously served as the CEO of WorkMarket, a labor automation platform for enterprises, Azul Systems, a provider of platform for running Java applications and Cobalt Networks, a provider of Linux servers.

    Without committing to a specific initial public offering (IPO) date, DeWitt said the ultimate goal is to put the processes in place that will enable CloudBees to grow to $200 million in revenues and beyond.

    Achieving that goal will also require tighter integration across what has become a diverse portfolio of DevOps platforms, DeWitt said. The challenge is providing IT organizations with all the benefits of that integration without locking them into any specific component, DeWitt added.

    Going forward, DeWitt said IT teams should expect to see CloudBees invest more in artificial intelligence (AI) to further automate DevOps processes. There are many low-level DevOps tasks that could be automated using machine learning algorithms to reduce the level of friction DevOps teams often encounter.

    Becoming a $200 million company, however, is more difficult than becoming a $100 million company, DeWitt said. Not only does the company have to put the processes in place to grow, but CloudBees today faces more viable competition than it did when it first pioneered the adoption of DevOps best practices.

    The number of organizations adopting DevOps best practices is not only increasing, but organizations that have implemented continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms also are employing them more widely. Instead of only being employed by pockets of development teams, entire enterprises are now using DevOps best practices and standardizing on a CI/CD platform. Many of those decisions are being driven by the need to accelerate digital business transformation initiatives in the wake of the economic downturn brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

    As the application development stakes rise, C-level executives are also getting more involved in application development and deployment decisions, DeWitt said. Those executives not only want to accelerate the rate at which applications are built and deployed, they also want greater visibility into processes that now have a direct impact on revenue streams, DeWitt said.

    It remains to be seen just how quickly DevOps platform providers, as a whole, will grow, but with more venture capital pouring into the sector by the day, there is no shortage of fuel to throw on the proverbial DevOps fire.

  • Sentry Updates Tool for Monitoring JavaScript Apps

    Sentry Updates Tool for Monitoring JavaScript Apps

    Sentry today announced it has updated its JavaScript SDK tool for monitoring applications to provide a more comprehensive view of application health.

    Previously, Sentry’s JavaScript SDK enabled JavaScript developers to insert lines of code that would tell them, for example, how many times an application failed. A new release health capability now also identifies what percentage those fail instances represent of the total number of times that application was successfully launched.

    Developers can, in effect, better gauge adoption of a JavaScript application by tracking the percentage of crash-free sessions and crash-free users over the application’s life cycle.

    Ben Vinegar, vice president of engineering for Sentry, said the JavaScript SDK is designed to provide developers with a monitoring capability that doesn’t require an IT operations teams to stand up and manage an entire application performance management (APM) platform. That approach also eliminates the need to instrument JavaScript applications with agent software, Vinegar said.

    The JavaScript SDK consumes tens of kilobytes of memory after it is embedded directly within a JavaScript application, said Vinegar.

    In general, JavaScript is increasingly being used to build complex applications, using frameworks such as React, as an alternative to Java. Over the years, IT organizations have developed a certain amount of bias around how Java applications should be monitored and managed using APM platforms. However, as JavaScript developers assume more responsibility for their applications after deployment, they need real-time monitoring tools that can consume JavaScript application metrics and are built in to existing APM platforms, .

    Of course, APM platforms are managing more than just JavaScript applications, so they’ll remain useful for the forseeable future. However, ease of observation and monitoring is a significant factor when application developers choose a language in which to build an application, and it’s up to individuals to remediate issues that might arise in production. Developers, therefore, have a vested interest in discovering potential issues before that application is deployed.

    Historically, developers have not had access to JavaScript application monitoring tools that they could easily implement on their own. Sentry’s tools makes it possible for developers to identify performance issues, including calls to application programming interfaces (APIs) and other common errors, and address those before an application crashes.

    It’s possible, as performance and security issues shift left and developers become more accountable for user experience, that developers might one day instrument and monitor applications on their own – if for no other reason than self-preservation. Every minute a developer spends remediating a production issue in an existing application is one less minute they will have to write new code.

  • Meet the Winners of the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards

    Meet the Winners of the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards

    This is the moment you have all been waiting for. It is time to announce the honorees for the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards, and we couldn’t be more excited to share the names of the most outstanding leaders and tools in the DevOps community. Although, I must say, all the finalists have done an amazing job at making the DevOps community better through their mentorship, service and innovative ideas, and every single one is deserving of special recognition.

    The DevOps Dozen Awards recognize the best of the best in the maturing DevOps space and this year’s winners have demonstrated exceptional leadership and support to the community through 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year was a tough year for all of us for sure, but it was also a year of agility, innovation and rapid digital transformation. The 2020 honorees have displayed resilience, determination, commitment and willingness to embrace change in a year of unprecedented challenges to drive their business—and the industry—forward. Congratulations to each and every one of the honorees.

    Winners have been chosen from among the finalists with general public voting being weighted for 40% of the final total and our judges selections for 60% of the weighted total. Our team has gone through thousands of votes to pick out the winners in each category—it was not an easy task. Many thanks to our panel of judges for making the hard calls and to everyone who voted and nominated candidates.

    Ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to present to you the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards honorees:

    DevOps Dozen Community Awards

    Best DevOps Industry Implementation

    Lloyds Banking Group, the largest financial services organization in the UK, is the winner of the Best DevOps Industry Implementation award. Lloyds Banking Group has invested heavily in driving the adoption of Agile development and DevOps practices across its business to strategically modernize its digital service capabilities and align with customer expectations.

     

    Best DevOps Survey/Analysis/Research

    The Best DevOps Survey/Analysis/Research award goes to Puppet’s 2020 State of DevOps Report. The report focuses on two areas that can help organizations scale their DevOps initiative: a platform approach to software delivery and applying DevOps principles to change management. It is the ninth year in a row that Puppet produces a State of DevOps Report. It is the longest-running and most widely referenced DevOps research in the industry.

    Best DevOps Related Video Series (Video)

    The Best DevOps Related Video Series is DevOps Unbound, a bi-weekly video series that focuses on DevOps, automation, CI/CD and testing. Top industry leaders join the series to explore the challenges and issues that software delivery and IT teams face on a daily basis.

     

    Best DevOps Related Podcast Series (Audio Only)

    The Modern Mainframe: Building a Better Software Delivery Platform is the Best DevOps Related Podcast Series. The Modern Mainframe is a podcast by Compuware that explores mainframe modernization and how to transform mainframe culture, processes and tools with DevOps to help your business compete in a digital age. Building a Better Software Delivery Platform is episode 9 of the podcast, featuring Compuware DevOps Architect Rick Slade.

    Best DevOps Books / eBook of the Year

    Standing On Shoulders: A Leader’s Guide to Digital Transformation by Jack Maher and Carmen DeArdo is the Best DevOps Books / eBook of the Year. This must-read provides leaders with practical, actionable information about the breadth of Agile, Lean and DevOps topics that are generally dealt with individually; and explains how each of these are necessary but alone are not sufficient to avoid market disruption of your business. The authors focus on how to build an employee and customer-obsessed culture with an organizational structure that drives speed and efficiency, while leveraging technology to enable speed to value that is faster, safer, better and cheaper.

    Top DevOps Evangelist

    The Top DevOps Evangelist award goes to Helen Beal, chief ambassador at DevOps Institute. Helen is a well-known DevOps evangelist leading the DevOps Institute Ambassador program’s efforts to provide broad-based thought leadership and localization. She is an analyst at Accelerated Strategies Group and an editor at InfoQ. Recently, Helen has been working with a group of ambassadors to develop a new, online DevOps Capability Assessment (DOCA), launching in 2021. Taking on strategic advisor roles with Plutora and Moogsoft has given her the opportunity to dive deep into value stream thinking and observability. She is the host of Day-to-Day DevOps, a BrightTalk series that focuses on topics ranging from neuroscience, to ChatOps, to AIOps and everything DevOps related.

    Best DevOps Transformation (Non-Vendor)

    The winner of the Best DevOps Transformation award is Fidelity Investments, a financial services company that supports financial institutions with innovative investment and technology solutions to grow their businesses. Fidelity’s embrace of cloud-based platforms has yielded tangible improvements, such as better operational resiliency.


    Best DevOps Virtual Event of the Year

    The DevOps Dozen award for the Best DevOps Virtual Event of the Year goes to DevOps World 2020. The virtual event, featuring more than 100 business and technical breakout sessions, focused on how DevOps is transforming the world of software delivery and how businesses are adapting their ways of thinking during the COVID-19 pandemic. Top industry leaders discussed where DevOps is headed and how the audience can best leverage advanced practices to succeed in the future.

    Most Innovative DevOps Open Source Project

    Grafana Loki was chosen as the Most Innovative DevOps Open Source Project. Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus.

     

     

    DevOps Executive of the Year

    The DevOps Executive of the Year is GitLab CEO and Co-Founder Sid Sijbrandij. Sid’s career path has been anything but traditional. He saw the first Ruby code in 2007 and loved it so much

    that he taught himself how to program. It was during his time as a Ruby programmer that he first encountered GitLab, and quickly discovered his passion for open source.

    In 2012, he helped commercialize GitLab, and by 2015, he led the company through Y-Combinator’s Winter 2015 batch. Under his leadership, the company has experienced 50x growth in the last five years, expanded from nine to more than 1,300 remote team members across 65+ countries and regions and is now valued at $2.75 billion. A champion of the open source community and a pioneer in scaling remote organizations, Sid is altering conventional wisdom on DevOps practice.

    Best DevOps Presentation of the Year

    On Ramp to Open DevOps for Mainframe by George DeCandio, chief technology officer of the Mainframe Software Division at Broadcom, is the winner of the Best DevOps Presentation of the Year award. In this keynote presentation, George DeCandio explained what you need to adopt an open strategy and how you can integrate with existing DevOps tools such as Git and Jenkins, or into existing cross-platform CI/CD pipelines. George discussed how Zowe, OMP’s first project devoted to the mainframe, is opening mainframe system commands, data sets and source libraries so you can integrate with tools that know nothing about mainframe.

    Best DevOps.com Article of the Year

    How to Reduce Engineer Burnout During COVID-19 by Henry Jewkes, staff software engineer at Split, is the Best DevOps.com Article of the Year. Henry explains how to cope with burnout effectively as it becomes increasingly common during the COVID-19 pandemic.

     

    DevOps Dozen Tools and Services Awards

    Best End to End DevOps Tool/Service

    The winner of the Best End to End DevOps Tool/Service in 2020 is GitLab. GitLab has demonstrated to be the most efficient solution for DevOps teams to collaborate and build software. The GitLab solution is the result of the collaboration between thousands of community contributors and feedback from the more than 100,000 organizations that have adopted GitLab to power their DevOps transformations. The GitLab community contributes code, documentation, translation, design and product ideas based on their real-world challenges, making GitLab more useful and valuable.

    Best DevOps Repo/GitOps Tool/Service

    The DevOps Dozen award for the Best DevOps Repo/GitOps Tool/Service goes to GitHub, the most popular open-source version control code repository. GitHub is great to manage and maintain code in the cloud and contribute to projects quickly with automatic environment setup.

     

    Best CI/CD Tool

    CircleCI was chosen, by the public and the judges, as the Best CI/CD Tool. CircleCI is the leading CI/CD solution for software innovation at scale. The CircleCI platform allows teams to build and deliver software in the cloud or on their own infrastructure. CircleCI manages more than 35 million builds per month on Linux, macOS and Windows.


    Best Value Stream Management Tool

    The 2020 DevOps Dozen winner of the Best Value Stream Management Tool is Digital.ai Value Stream Platform. Digital.ai enables the world’s largest enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives by combining industry-leading enterprise Agile planning, application security, continuous testing, software delivery and AI-powered analytics in the first intelligent value stream platform. Digital.ai Value Stream Platform provides a unique view of the software delivery lifecycle through the customer experience lens to better align with business objectives and scale Agile and DevOps processes.

    The Digital.ai Value Stream Platform features end-to-end connectivity, visibility with AI-powered analytics, continuous testing and quality, release management and flow optimization, and measurable outcomes through quantified metrics. The platform allows organizations to set business goals based upon market needs, deliver products and technologies to achieve those goals, measure and analyze results, and make adjustments to continuously improve.

    Best Observability Solution

    The award for Best Observability Solution goes to Splunk Observability Suite, a comprehensive combination of solutions designed to help IT and DevOps teams tackle new monitoring challenges that other tools haven’t been able to effectively address. The Observability Suite helps users maintain the highest levels of business performance and adaptability, improve release quality and velocity, improve developer efficiency, minimize downtime, and deliver world-class digital experiences.

    Best DevSecOps Solution

    JFrog Xray was voted the Best DevSecOps Solution of 2020. JFrog Xray is a universal impact analysis product enhancing artifact security, container security and OSS license compliance across your DevSecOps pipeline. JFrog Xray scans your artifacts, builds and Release Bundles for OSS components being used, and detects security vulnerabilities and licenses in your software components.

    Best Testing Service/Tool

    Tricentis Tosca, a continuous testing platform that accelerates testing to keep pace with Agile and DevOps, is the winner of the Best Testing Service/Tool of 2020. With the industry’s most innovative functional testing technologies, Tricentis Tosca breaks through the barriers experienced with conventional testing tools. Simplifying end-to-end functional testing, Tricentis Tosca automates tests across all layers of modern enterprise architectures.

    Best Kubernetes Platform/Service

    The Best Kubernetes Platform/Service award goes to Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. 

    Red Hat OpenShift is an open source enterprise Kubernetes platform offering a consistent hybrid cloud foundation for building and scaling containerized applications.

    Best Cloud Native Security Solution/Service

    Styra’s Declarative Authorization Service (DAS) is the winner of the Best Cloud Native Security Solution/Service award. Styra DAS was purpose-built to solve the authorization challenges of cloud-native, containerized application, and the infrastructure they run upon. Built on the open source project Open Policy Agent (OPA), Styra policy-as-code solutions have been proven in production, at scale, in many of the largest cloud-native deployments in production today.

    Styra DAS allows enterprises to define, enforce and validate authorization policy across services, teams, clusters and clouds. As businesses move their cloud-native applications from development through to production, Styra DAS provides the tooling to minimize the risk of human error, offload compliance overhead and ensure security and compliance best practices are enforced across your environment. Styra DAS simplifies policy creation with a built-in library of best practices and security policies, as well as a point and click interface for building custom policy from scratch.

    Best DevOps for Mainframe Solution

    It was very difficult to choose a winner in this category. There was a tie between two solutions, CA Endevor Bridge for Git by Broadcom and Compuware’s Topaz, and after a long discussion the judges decided that both should be honored as the Best DevOps for Mainframe Solutions of 2020.

    CA Endevor Bridge for Git is a component of the CA Endevor Integrations for Enterprise DevOps. It connects Git to Endevor via an Enterprise Git Server, such as GitHub, Bitbucket or GitLab. Git as well as traditional mainframe developers can easily collaborate on the same mainframe application managed in Endevor. Only code that is pushed from local Git repository to the Enterprise Git repository is recognized by the integration and gets propagated to Endevor.

    Topaz is a modern Agile platform of mainframe development and testing tools that integrates into the DevOps toolchain, empowering any developer, regardless of experience, to understand and work on any program, no matter how old or complex, so that their organizations can easily maintain and innovate from their base of mainframe investments.

    Best DevOps for DataOps/Database Solution

    The Best DevOps for DataOps/Database Solution is InfluxDB. Developed by InfluxData, InfluxDB is an open-source time series database that empowers developers to build IoT, analytics and monitoring software. It is purpose-built to handle the massive volumes and countless sources of time-stamped data produced by sensors, applications and infrastructure.


    Best New DevOps Tool/Service Provider

    The winner of this category is Opsera, the first continuous orchestration platform for DevOps teams. The Opsera platform automates any CI/CD toolchain, enables declarative pipelines and provides unified insights across the entire software delivery process.

     

     

     

    Winners will receive both digital and physical trophies and badges celebrating their achievements.

    Thanks for supporting DevOps.com and the DevOps community. For more information, visit the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards website and stay tuned for the 2021 DevOps Dozen Awards.

  • Announcing the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards Finalists

    Announcing the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards Finalists

    We are excited to announce the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards finalists. For six years in a row, we have been honoring the most outstanding leaders in the DevOps community. This year, we decided to expand our awards program to include two different sections: DevOps Dozen Tools and Services Awards and DevOps Dozen Community Awards.

    Those who made it to the finals have demonstrated exceptional performance and service to the community during the past year. Finalists were picked based on most nominations. Congratulations to each and every one of the finalists in the 24 categories. It is quite an accomplishment to make it this far.

    Without further ado, here are the finalists for the 2020 DevOps Dozen² Awards.

    DevOps Dozen Community Awards

    1. Best DevOps Industry Implementation
    1. Best DevOps Survey/Analysis/Research
    1. Best DevOps Related Video Series (Video)
    1. Best DevOps.com Podcast of the Series (Audio Only) of the Year
    1. Best DevOps Books / eBook of the Year
    1. Top DevOps Evangelist
    1. Best DevOps Transformation (Non-Vendor)
    1. Best DevOps Virtual Event of the Year
    1. Most Innovative DevOps Open Source Project
    1. DevOps Executive of the Year
    1. Best DevOps Presentation of the Year
    1. Best DevOps.com Article of the Year

    DevOps Dozen Tools and Services Awards

    1. Best End to End DevOps Tool/Service
    1. Best DevOps Repo/GitOps Tool/Service
    1. Best CI/CD Tool
    1. Best Value Stream Management Tool
    1. Best Observability Solution
    1. Best DevSecOps Solution
    1. Best Testing Service/Tool
    1. Best Kubernetes Platform/Service
    1. Best Cloud Native Security Solution/Service
    1. Best DevOps for Mainframe Solution
    1. Best DevOps for DataOps/Database Solution
    1. Best New DevOps Tool/Service Provider

    Finalists will receive a badge to display on their website and social media with a link to the voting/survey site.

    Voting for the winners in all 24 categories is now officially open to the public. Click here to vote for the leaders, tools and companies you think are truly deserving of an award for their exceptional service to the DevOps community. Winners will be chosen from among the finalists with general public voting being weighted for 40% of the final total and our judges selections for 60% of the weighted total. The deadline for public voting and judges submissions is Jan. 8, 2021.

    Winners will be announced at Predict 2021 Virtual Summit and will receive both digital and physical trophies and badges celebrating their achievements.

    Thanks to everyone who voted and nominated candidates. Good luck to all the finalists!

  • Microsoft Advances DevOps Agenda

    Microsoft Advances DevOps Agenda

    Microsoft, at its online Ignite 2020 conference, has launched a bevy of updates that collectively further adoption of best DevOps practices on the Microsoft cloud platform, including for the first time a preview of an ability to store artifacts created using low-code Power Apps tools on GitHub.

    In addition, Microsoft announced a preview of an update to Visual Studio 2019 16.8 that will add support for GitHub Codespaces, a previously announced capability that automatically creates repositories on GitHub. GitHub Codespaces is currently available in beta and soon will be accessible directly from within Visual Studio.

    Microsoft also revealed it has enhanced the Git tooling experience in Visual Studio to enable more asynchronous collaborations. A GitHub extension for Visual Studio Code enables developers to work with GitHub Issues and Pull Requests directly in the editor. Development teams that need to work in real-time alternatively can employ Visual Studio Live Share.

    A publish experience in Visual Studio also now has the option to generate a GitHub Actions workflow for continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) environments in Azure resources using the deployment secrets configured in a GitHub repository. GitHub Actions for Azure can now also scan Azure resources for policy violations and vulnerabilities in container images and issues involving Azure Resource Management (ARM) templates.

    Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told conference attendees the velocity at which applications are developed and deployed has become even more critical as organizations embrace digital business transformation in the wake of the economic downturn brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

    GitHub support for Power Apps is especially significant because it will make it easier for so-called citizen developers to collaborate with professionals developers as they jointly develop applications, he said.

    Other notable updates to the Microsoft tools portfolio include a preview of an instance of the Azure Logic Apps workflow platform that can be deployed as a containerized runtime.

    A .NET 5 Release Candidate is also now available, with general availability expected next month. This update adds support to smaller, faster single-file applications that use less memory when employed within microservices and containerized applications. It also includes significant performance improvements, support for Windows ARM64 and new releases of C# 9.0 and F# 5.0 languages.

    Microsoft also announced several updates to App Service to make it easier and more cost-effective to migrate and modernize .NET web apps on the Azure cloud. A new Premium v3 (Pv3) App Service Plan can handle large-scale web apps, supporting more apps per instance and larger, memory-intensive apps with up to 32GB per instance. Microsoft is also making Windows Containers support in App Service generally available and will soon make Reserved Instance (RI) Pricing for App Service available to reduce costs.

    Finally, Microsoft made several Kubernetes enhancements, including a preview of a start/stop cluster feature that will be added to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and announced general availability of an Azure Policy add-on for AKS, which makes it possible to audit and enforce policies across Kubernetes clusters. Microsoft also made generally available Bridge to Kubernetes extensions for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code that allow teams to develop against microservices within a running AKS cluster to enable debugging existing services without having to reconfigure or deploy a new cluster.

    Nadella said keeping track of developer velocity and overall “tech intensity” within an organization is critical to success. It’s not yet clear how many organizations have put the metrics in place to measure either. However, it is clear that organizations that have yet to fully embrace best DevOps practices are already being left behind.

  • MediaOps Teams with Gary Berman to Add “CyberHero Adventures: Defenders of the Digital Universe” to Its Award-Winning Lineup of Video Series

    MediaOps Teams with Gary Berman to Add “CyberHero Adventures: Defenders of the Digital Universe” to Its Award-Winning Lineup of Video Series

    Hacking Victim Turned Cyber Advocate Gary Berman Joins MediaOps to Co-Produce and Distribute His Unique Show Highlighting Cyber and IT Thought Leaders Protecting the Public

    Boca Raton, Fl – Sept. 14, 2020 —  MediaOps, the place to tell your story in the most powerful way, today announced it has teamed with hacking-victim-turned-cyber-advocate Gary Berman to co-produce and distribute the “CyberHero Adventures: Defenders of the Digital Universe” video podcast. The show will join MediaOps’ award-winning lineup of video programming including TechStrong TV, DevOps Unbound and CISO Talk, all on the Digital Anarchist platform.

    “CyberHero Adventures: Defenders of the Digital Universe” is an educational and entertaining series based on interviews with cybersecurity and IT thought leaders who protect the public from cyber attacks. Berman conducts in-depth interviews with industry experts to discuss real-life cyber crime stories, anecdotes and lessons learned.

    Berman was a victim of cyber criminals earlier in his career, when he ran his own marketing firm, which ended in the loss of his business. Berman pivoted from being a victim ​to becoming an advocate, and after a 25-year career in marketing, entered the cybersecurity field with a mission to protect others from suffering the life-altering consequences of being hacked. In each episode, he shines a light on all the unsung heroes who toil in anonymity to keep us safe at work, home and school.

    As an advocate, Berman was challenged by the complexity of cyber technology, attempting to distill complicated technology information into a communications platform accessible not just to the cybersecurity community but also to the general public. With support from the tech community contributing real-life stories of cybercrime, Berman launched the cyber hero comics series. The “CyberHero Adventures: Defenders of the Digital Universe” show was launched from the comics.

    “I am proud to join the world-class professionals at MediaOps, as the next step in accomplishing my mission. Together, we are creating a highly engaging, entertaining and informative show that will be the antidote to the ‘Zoomification’ of the cybersecurity and IT community,” said Berman.

    “Gary brings a fresh, unique perspective to his cyber awareness mission. We look forward to working with him and making his show a must-watch for both the cyber community and civilians looking for sound cybersecurity advice,” said Alan Shimel, CEO of MediaOps. “Our mission is bringing quality programming to our ever-growing audience across our omniversal channels. The CyberHero Adventures video series is a great example of this.”

    “CyberHero Adventures: Defenders of the Digital Universe” will be available via the Digital Anarchist network and streamed via TechStrong TV, which is available on the web at LinkedIn Live (DevOps.com page), Facebook Live (DevOps.com page), YouTube (DevOps TV channel), Techstrong.tv, DigitalAnarchist.com and the MediaOps community sites (DevOps.com, Security Boulevard and Container Journal). The show will also be available on the DevOps.com mobile app for iOS and Android and on TV via DevOps.com app for OTT channels on Apple TV, Roku and Amazon Fire TV.  Episodes are available on-demand at Digital Anarchist, the next-gen streaming service for tech communities, which offers in-depth coverage on DevOps, cybersecurity, cloud-native and digital transformation, adding high-quality content on a regular basis.

     

    ABOUT MEDIAOPS

    MediaOps, the place to tell your story in the most powerful way, is an omniversal media company covering IT industries and practices that are re-shaping the world of technology, including DevOps, Cloud-Native, Cybersecurity and Digital Transformation. Through a convergence of new media distribution platforms, we deliver the experiential stories IT professionals need to gain fresh insights and learn new skills. For marketing partners, MediaOps delivers unparalleled access to inform and engage with a highly involved IT community, for thought leadership, demand generation and specialized campaigns. MediaOps is not only the most trusted name in technology media, but the most loved as well.

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  • MediaOps Video Productions Wins 2020 dotCOMM Awards

    MediaOps Video Productions Wins 2020 dotCOMM Awards

    We are pleased to announce that MediaOps is the recipient of not one, not two, but three 2020 dotCOMM Awards for excellence, in multiple video categories: TechStrong TV in the category of video series, DevOps Unbound for video podcast and CISO Talk in video news and information.

    The dotCOMM Awards are an international competition honoring excellence in web creativity and digital communication. They are administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP), an international organization that oversees awards and recognition programs and honors outstanding achievement and service to the profession. AMCP judges are industry professionals who look for companies and individuals whose talent exceeds a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a benchmark for the industry.

    At MediaOps we are committed to creating and producing high-quality content to tell your story in the most powerful way, pushing the bounds of broadcast technology and creativity—and having fun while doing it.

    We are proud of everything we have accomplished so far, and these awards reflect the hard work and dedication of our talented and skilled team members, who strive for perfection to exceed the expectations of our audience.

    MediaOps Productions Take Top Awards

    Platinum Award for Video Series:

    TechStrong TV, a streamed broadcast featuring fresh video news and information three days a week and replays of prior shows two days a week, on the Digital Anarchist network. Covering DevOps, cybersecurity, cloud native and digital transformation, TechStrong TV keeps its viewers up to date on the latest news and features  interviews with thought leaders and education in the hottest IT areas.

    Gold Award for Video News and Information:

    CISO Talks, a bi-weekly series that explores the latest in cyberspace, featuring industry experts and newsmakers in the field. Hosted by MediaOps editor in chief Alan Shimel and Unisys CISO Matthew Newfield.

    Gold Award for Video Podcast:

    DevOps Unbound, a bi-weekly/monthly roundtable sponsored by Tricentis, which provides a deep dive into DevOps, with an emphasis on automation, continuous delivery, accelerating transformation, testing and quality.

    The MediaOps team would like to thank the dotCOMM Awards for recognizing the content we publish and the hard work that goes into it. Most of all, we would like to thank you, our audience, for all the support you have given us throughout the years.

    These three series, along with more than 1,500 other videos, podcasts and webinars, are available on MediaOps’ Digital Anarchist video platform and streamed via TechStrong TV.

  • MediaOps Video Productions Recognized for Excellence by Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP), Winning Multiple dotCOMM Awards

    MediaOps Video Productions Recognized for Excellence by Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP), Winning Multiple dotCOMM Awards

    TechStrong TV Wins Platinum Award for Video Series, DevOps Unbound Awarded Gold for Video Podcast and CISO Talk Takes Gold for Video News and Information.

    BOCA RATON, Fla., Sept. 10, 2020 — MediaOps, the place for IT to tell its story in the most powerful way, has been named the recipient of three 2020 dotCOMM Award for excellence, in multiple video categories: TechStrong TV in the category of video series, DevOps Unbound for video podcast and CISO Talk in video news and information.

    The dotCOMM Awards are an international competition honoring excellence in web creativity and digital communication. They are administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP), an international organization that oversees awards and recognition programs and honors outstanding achievement and service to the profession. AMCP judges are industry professionals who look for companies and individuals whose talent exceeds a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a benchmark for the industry.

    “We are honored to be recognized for not one, not two, but three of our video productions,” said Alan Shimel, CEO of MediaOps.”We made a bet a few years back that video was going to be an integral component of how our audience would engage with us. We built in-house expertise in video production and distribution. These awards are validation of the quality and innovation we are delivering.”

    “DevOps Unbound receiving this recognition so early in its run speaks volumes,” said Brent Remai, CMO of Tricentis. “We’ve been collaborating closely with Alan to develop a series that tackles enterprise DevOps ‘growing pains’ head on. The focus on honest discussion and lively debate really sets it apart. We’re looking forward to watching it become an integral part of the DevOps community.”

    “It is an honor to team up with Alan Shimel at MediaOps on the CISO Talk series,” said Unisys Chief Information Security Officer Mat Newfield. “The ability to bring in the best and brightest in our field and have an open and honest conversation on important topics has been incredibly rewarding. I am excited for the future of this project and am looking forward to many more great episodes.”

    MediaOps Productions Take Top Awards

    Platinum Award for Video Series:

    TechStrong TV, a streamed broadcast featuring fresh video news and information three days a week and replays of prior shows two days a week, on the Digital Anarchist network. Covering DevOps, cybersecurity, cloud native and digital transformation, TechStrong TV keeps its viewers up to date on the latest news and features  interviews with thought leaders and education in the hottest IT areas.

    Gold Award for Video News and Information:

    CISO Talks, a bi-weekly series that explores the latest in cyberspace, featuring industry experts and newsmakers in the field. Hosted by MediaOps editor in chief Alan Shimel and Unisys CISO Matthew Newfield.

    Gold Award for Video Podcast:

    DevOps Unbound, a bi-weekly/monthly roundtable sponsored by Tricentis, which provides a deep dive into DevOps, with an emphasis on automation, continuous delivery, accelerating transformation, testing and quality.

    These three series, along with more than 1,500 other videos, podcasts and webinars, are available on MediaOps’ Digital Anarchist video platform and streamed via TechStrong TV, which is available on the web at LinkedIn Live (DevOps.com page), Facebook Live (DevOps.com page), YouTube (DevOps TV channel), Techstrong.tv, DigitalAnarchist.com and the MediaOps community sites (DevOps.com, Security Boulevard and Container Journal). TechStrong TV is also available on the DevOps.com mobile app for iOS and Android and on TV via DevOps.com app for OTT channels on Apple TV, Roku and Amazon Fire TV.  Episodes are available on demand at Digital Anarchist, the next-gen streaming service for tech communities, which offers in-depth coverage on DevOps, cybersecurity, cloud native and digital transformation, adding high-quality content on a regular basis.

     

    ABOUT MEDIAOPS

    MediaOps, the place to tell your story in the most powerful way, is an omniversal media company covering IT industries and practices that are re-shaping the world of technology, including DevOps, Cloud-Native, Cybersecurity and Digital Transformation. Through a convergence of new media distribution platforms, we deliver the experiential stories IT professionals need to gain fresh insights and learn new skills. For marketing partners, MediaOps delivers unparalleled access to inform and engage with a highly involved IT community, for thought leadership, demand generation and specialized campaigns. MediaOps is not only the most trusted name in technology media, but the most loved as well.

  • MediaOps Helps GitLab Power the First GitLab Commit Virtual, a 24-Hour User Event Unlike Any Other

    MediaOps Helps GitLab Power the First GitLab Commit Virtual, a 24-Hour User Event Unlike Any Other

    GitLab and MediaOps Collaborate to Bring GitLab Commit as a Free Global Virtual Event Providing Everyone the Opportunity to Join DevOps Discussions and Network with Thought Leaders from Microsoft, Google, HubSpot and Forrester

    BOCA RATON, Fla. —  MediaOps, the place for IT to tell its story in the most powerful way, announced it is collaborating with GitLab to help power the first-ever Virtual GitLab Commit Event. The 24-hour conference takes place Aug. 26, bringing together DevOps luminaries from around the globe for a free, interactive learning experience.

    The GitLab Commit Virtual community event features eight different content tracks, with more than 80 speakers, including panels, demos and thought-leader presentations. Speakers will showcase the power of community and share DevOps best practices through strategy and technology discussions, lessons learned, behind-the-scenes looks at the development life cycle and more.

    “GitLab Commit was created to be a home for DevOps learning and collaboration and tailored with the end user in mind,” said John Jeremiah, product marketing manager at GitLab. “At GitLab, we believe that anyone can contribute. This event will offer the opportunity for attendees around the world to participate and contribute, no matter what time zone they’re in.”

    The virtual environment features auditoriums with more than eight different tracks, an expo hall lined with booths featuring interactive chats and downloadable resources, a virtual photo booth, speaker networking sessions via Zoom and behind the scenes interviews. It offers the best of a physical environment in a virtual context combined with the advantages and convenience that a virtual environment offers.

    “Partnering with GitLab is exhilarating because of the enthusiasm of both the GitLab team and GitLab community at large,” said Alan Shimel, CEO of MediaOps. “That enthusiasm helps us to reach further and higher to ensure that GitLab Commit Virtual is the biggest, best virtual event we have produced to date. It really is a don’t-miss event for the DevOps World.”

    The agenda for GitLab Commit Virtual features a mix of topics including technical sessions, live coding, deep-dives and case studies covering DevSecOps, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, open source, all-remote and more.

    This year’s event features outstanding sessions from DevOps and 20+ industries, including:

    • “The Power of GitLab,” opening keynote by Sid Sibrandij, CEO GitLab.
    • “DevOps Works! Why Hasn’t Security Kept Up?” a keynote session by Joni Klippert, StackHawk.
    • “DevSecOps in Government and Highly Regulated Industries,” a keynote session by Nicolas Chaillan, U.S. Air Force.
    • “Real World DevOps,” by Abel Wang, Microsoft.
    • “Why Your Organization Should Embrace the Community Model,” by Karl Cardenas, State Farm.
    • “Getting Fuzzy: Blurring the Lines of Traditional QA and Security Testing,” by David DeSantos and Sam Kerr, GitLab.
    • “State of the Market: Empowering Developers to Find and Fix Security Flaws,” by Amy DeMartine, Forrester.
    • “Leading DevOps Transformation with GitLab Data,” by Bobbi Wenzler and Nicole Schultz Northwestern Mutual.
    • “GitLab for Collaboration Beyond Code,” by Molly DeBlanc, GNOME Foundation.
    • “How the U.S. Army Cyber School Created ‘Courseware as Code’ with GitLab,” by Ben Allison, U.S. Army Cyber School.
    • “Measuring DevOps,” by Nathen Harvey and Dina Graves Portman, Google.
    • “How To Create an Equitable and Inclusive Culture That Transcends Physical Walls,” by Eimear Marrinan and Meaghan Williams, HubSpot.

    In addition to the sessions, attendees can visit the virtual exhibit hall to interact with partner sponsors including Google Cloud, Oracle, Pulumi, VMWare Tanzu, Chef, Lightstep, RedHat and ServiceNow. The expo hall will be open throughout the event, giving attendees the opportunity to chat with the sponsors and download information at any time.

    Registered attendees will also receive a link to access the virtual environment on-demand for up to 30 days after the live event. To see the full agenda and to register, please visit the GitLab Commit Virtual website.

     

    ABOUT GITLAB

    GitLab is a DevOps platform built from the ground up as a single application for all stages of the DevOps lifecycle enabling Product, Development, QA, Security, and Operations teams to work concurrently on the same project. GitLab provides a single data store, one user interface, and one permission model across the DevOps life cycle. This allows teams to significantly reduce cycle times through more efficient collaboration and enhanced focus.

    Built on Open Source, GitLab works alongside its growing community, which is composed of thousands of developers and millions of users, to continuously deliver new DevOps innovations. More than 100,000 organizations from startups to global enterprises, including Ticketmaster, Jaguar Land Rover, NASDAQ, Dish Network, and Comcast trust GitLab to deliver great software faster.

    GitLab is the world’s largest all-remote company, with more than 1,300 team members in 68 countries and regions.

    ABOUT MEDIAOPS

    MediaOps, the place to tell your story in the most powerful way, is an omniversal media company covering IT industries and practices that are reshaping the world of technology, including DevOps, Cloud-Native, Cybersecurity and Digital Transformation. Through a convergence of new media distribution platforms, MediaOps delivers the experiential stories IT professionals need to gain fresh insights and learn new skills. For marketing partners, MediaOps delivers unparalleled access to inform and engage with a highly involved IT community for thought leadership, demand generation and specialized campaigns. MediaOps is not only the most trusted name in technology media, but the most loved as well.