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REP SPOTLIGHT: Omnikron

DevOps Institute: Tell us a little about your organization.

Omnikron: With over 30 years of industry experience, we have honed IT and project management training techniques to ensure that course material caters to our clients’ needs. Our training is not just lectures from a book. We offer world-class courses, assessments and simulations in a variety of formats and at various paces. As the workplace has changed in the 21st century, so has the training approach here at Omnikron.

DevOps Institute: What other topics do you teach or consult on?

Omnikron: Omnikron’s most popular training includes ITIL, PMP, TOGAF9, Change Management, DevOps, Security & Security Awareness and Cloud.

DevOps Institute: What type of interest in DevOps are you seeing in your region?

Omnikron: There is a lot of talk about DevOps and our classes are slowly but surely increasing in size. Hopefully by the end of the year, we will have a packed house for our classes.

DevOps Institute: How do you think that DevOps contributes to the business’ value stream?

Omnikron: We have honed in on ITIL for years and DevOps is such an easy transition for most of our students. Not only are the students enjoying the class, but they are able to use their past experience to share stories in class as well as apply what they have learned outside the class.

DevOps Institute: What topic area in DevOps excites you the most?

Omnikron: Organization consideration and practices seems to be the favorite among our students. Plenty of dialogue has been given around this particular topic.

DevOps Institute: Why should enterprises and individuals consider formal DevOps training?

Omnikron: Because DevOps is designed to help our student continually improve their services to their internal and external customers. Can’t get any better than that!

July 5, 2016
DevOps Connect: CD Summit and Jenkins Days Fall Schedule Announced
Call for Speakers Open for Seven Events Produced in the US and Europe, By devopsy.kinsta.cloud and Sponsored by CloudBees and IBM

Boca Raton, June 21, 2016 – devopsy.kinsta.cloud, where the world meets DevOps, along with premier sponsors, CloudBees, the enterprise Jenkins Company and IBM, today announced that their DevOps Connect: CD Summit/Jenkins Days roadshow will continue this fall with Seven Dates in the US and Europe. The call for speakers to present at these events is now open (links at bottom).

DevOps Connect: CD Summit/Jenkins Days are two day events focused on continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD), as the fundamental best practice for enterprise software delivery. The events feature one day of hands on workshops on Jenkins, IBM, DevOps Fundamentals, and DevOps transformation. The second day is highlighted by morning keynote presentations, followed by a multi-track format of sessions in the afternoon featuring technical discussions, related business/management topics and Jenkins. Also included are networking lunch, refreshments and after event reception.

The fall event series includes:
- Atlanta, October 5-6
- Denver, October 12-13
- Austin, November 16-17
- Seattle, December 5-6
- Los Angeles, December 15-16
- Berlin, TBA
- Amsterdam, TBA
These events are designed for enterprise IT managers and buyers along with developers, engineers, sys admins, and architects. With three main tracks focused on IT managers, technical engineers, and Jenkins practitioners, attendees will get access to the best minds in CD, CI, and DevOps. The presenters are experienced developers, build managers, quality assurance leads, DevOps practitioners, IT managers/executives, architects and IT operations professionals who are recognized within the DevOps community.

“These CD Summits/Jenkins Days are a great way for novices and experienced DevOps teams to learn about the latest trends, best practices and open source technologies like Jenkins”, said Andre Pino, VP of Marketing CloudBees. “These events will complement the international Jenkins Word Event being held in Santa Clara in September and are a great way to learn about latest developments in the Jenkins community.”
About DevOps Connect

If you would like to find out more information about DevOps Connect or CD Summit and Jenkins Days, please visit http://www.devopsconnect.com

About devopsy.kinsta.cloud

Launched in 2014, devopsy.kinsta.cloud has quickly established itself as an indispensable resource for DevOps education and community building. We make it our mission to cover all aspects of DevOps—philosophy, tools, business impact, best practices and more.

Our site is the largest collection of original content related to DevOps on the web and one of the top result for DevOps-related search terms. Our content includes in-depth features, bylined articles, blog posts and breaking news about the topics that resonate with IT readers interested in DevOps: teamwork through improved IT culture, continuous integration, automated deployment, agile development and infrastructure-as-code among them.

devopsy.kinsta.cloud is comprised of thought leaders who understand both DevOps and how to create compelling, informative content. The team behind devopsy.kinsta.cloud has real-world experience in technology, cloud, online media, DevOps, IT and startups.

About CloudBees

CloudBees (www.cloudbees.com), the enterprise Jenkins company, is the continuous delivery (CD) leader. CloudBees provides solutions that enable DevOps teams to respond rapidly to the software delivery needs of the business. Building on the strength of Jenkins, the world’s most popular open source continuous delivery hub and ecosystem, the CloudBees Jenkins Platform provides a wide range of CD solutions that meet the unique security, scalability and manageability needs of enterprises. The CloudBees Jenkins Platform supports many of the world’s largest and most business-critical deployments.

Backed by Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Verizon Ventures, CloudBees was founded in 2010 by former JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey and an elite team of continuous integration, continuous delivery and DevOps professionals. Follow CloudBees on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+.

About IBM

https://www.ibm.com/ibm/devops/us/en/

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June 27, 2016
London Calling: DevOps Enterprise Summit and DevOps Connect: CD Connect/Jenkins Days, 2 for 1
As is to be expected from a world capital city, London is also a hotbed of DevOps adoption. The local London DevOps community is thriving with a near constant stream of DevOps conferences. There are however two great events coming up that are can’t miss. DevOps Connect: CD Connect/Jenkins Days in May and Gene Kim’s DevOps Enterprise Summit in June are both in London. Now you can attend both for the price of one!

Right now due to the devopsy.kinsta.cloud sponsorship of DOES London and the generosity of the sponsors of both events, if you sign up for the full £179 two-day ticket for DevOps Connect: CD Summit/Jenkins Days you will receive the full £179 back in the form of a credit towards your ticket for DOES London. You wind up attending CD Connect/Jenkins Days for free!

So what do you get from attending DevOps Connect: CD Summit/Jenkins Days and the DevOps Enterprise London? Glad you asked. Let me give you some of the highlights to look forward to.

First DevOps Connect: CD Summit/Jenkins Days:
1. Two-day event, day one features keynotes and three tracks, plus lunch, refreshments, exhibit area and demo theater.
2. Day two of the event are deep dive workshops on Jenkins, DevOps Transformation, automating deployment in Hybrid Clouds, DevOps Foundation and DevOps Lift off and the Nexus World Tour: Rugged DevOps Heroes Assemble. You can pick and choose which of these workshops to attend, there is on price for admission to all of them.
3. The event is being held at the KIA OVAL, KENNINGTON OVAL,SE11 5SS LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.
4. The keynote and headline speakers for the event are pretty amazing:
Sacha Labrourey, CEO and Founder CloudBees, former CTO JBoss speaking on “Why Jenkins Has Become the Engine of Continuous Everything.”

Sanjeev Sharma, CTO & Distinguished Engineer for DevOps, IBM on “Adopting DevOps at Enterprise Scale.”

Gary Gruver, Author of “Leading the Transformation”, Previously executive IT positions at Macy’s and HP, speaking on Leading the Transformation: “Applying Agile and DevOps Principles at Scale.”

After this great morning of keynotes, there are three tracks all full of great speakers and topics after lunch. You really don’t want to miss this event and if you were planning on going to the DevOps Enterprise Summit London, you can go to CD Summit/Jenkins Days for free.

Why go to DevOps Enterprise Summit London? Well if you want to hear about the experiences of large enterprises in adopting DevOps, there is no better place. In the previous two Summits held in San Francisco, Gene Kim and team have done a great job of shining a light on “horses” DevOps transformations. This first London edition of the franchise promises to be equally as great. It will be held at the Hilton Metropole in London.

Some of the speakers scheduled to present include:

Gene Kim, Author, Researcher and Founder of IT Revolution.

Gareth Rushgrove, Senior Software Engineer, Puppet.

Jason Cox, Director, Systems Engineering, The Walt Disney Company.

This is just the tip of the iceberg really. There will be over 25 speakers at DOES London, as well as community space, breakout sessions and more.

While London has more than its share of DevOps events, I am not sure it has experienced the likes of these two events before. Please don’t miss them and look forward to seeing you there.
May 9, 2016
DevOps Connect: CD Summit Jenkins Days, Dallas Today & Tomorrow

Our first DevOps Connect: CD Summit/Jenkins Days kicks off today in Dallas at the Irving Convention Center. This is a two day event full of DevOps, CD, Bluemix, Jenkins, DevSecOps and more! The first day is workshop day. We are offering 5 great workshops:

Essential DevOps Workshop

IBM DevOps Assessment Workshop: Using a Value Stream Map For Ten Times Faster Application Delivery

Jenkins Users Workshop

IBM Bluemix Garage Method Workshops – see the method in action

Nexus World Tour: Rugged DevOps Heroes Assemble

You can click the links to get information on each of these. There is still time to come down and take one of these if you read this early on Tuesday.

If these sound interesting to you, I have good news. Day 2 promises to be even better than day 1. Day 2 (Wednesday, April 6) kicks off with three keynotes in the morning:

Adopting DevOps at Enterprise Scale – Mustafa Kapadia, DevOps leader, IBM

Why Jenkins Has Become the Engine of Continuous Everything – Kohsuke Kawaguchi (KK), CTO of CloudBees and Jenkins Founder

Leading the Transformation: “Applying Agile and DevOps Principles at Scale” – Gary Gruver, DevOps leader and author of “Leading the Transformation”

That is just the morning! After the included lunch, we have a full afternoon of three tracks. One is dedicated to Jenkins, one is DevOps management related and one is technically focused sessions on DevOps.You can visit the site to get the full schedule. So if you are in the Dallas area Tuesday or Wednesday please come join us.

Also thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, we are offering special discounts to the next 25 people. Use code HALF50 when registering. Only the first 25 will be accepted so if the discount doesn’t work, you weren’t one of the first 25. Even without the discount it is still worth the $99 cost of admission. It includes lunch, refreshments and end of day reception on Wednesday.

Speaking of sponsors, a huge shout out to CloudBees and IBM as our producing sponsors of this entire yearlong roadshow. Also many thanks to the DevOps Institute and Sonatype as workshop sponsors. SumoLogic is also a sponsor of our Dallas event. We also are happy to have as association sponsors Women Who Code and the DevOps Live! Meetup Group. If you come by please stop and say thanks to this great group of sponsors!

As an added bonus the DevOps Connect: CDSummit/Jenkins Days is co-located at the Innotech Dallas conference. So you get to experience that as well. It really is going to be a great even, hope you can join us.

For the rest of you not in Dallas these next two days, please check out http://DevOpsconnect.com to see when this great roadshow is coming to a city near you.

April 4, 2016
DevOps Connect at RSA: In Security, Choose Increments
Earlier this week the worlds of DevOps and information security collided at the DevOps Connect Rugged DevOps event, held in conjunction with RSA Conference 2016. The security-centric audience got to hear from a number of thought leaders across the DevOps and infosec worlds about ways security pros and DevOps teams can work together and establish incremental improvements in application security, as IT picks up the pace of software delivery.

Among the talks, Forrester Analyst Amy DeMartine discussed her team’s findings after studying the “best of the best” in implementing Rugged DevOps patterns. There are seven habits universal across organizations that are succeeding with this new way of developing and deploying secure applications, she notes.

“Think of it as a fitness program, and the muscles that you are building up are those that strengthen application security,” she says.

These habits included a number of obvious practices, along with a few surprises, including:
- Increase trust and transparency between Dev, Sec and Ops.
- Understand the probability and impact of specific risks.
- Use the continuous delivery pipeline to incrementally improve security practices.
- Standardize third-party software and then keep current.
- Govern with automated audit trails.
- Test preparedness with security games.
All are good tips for getting security, dev and ops to work better at delivering code both faster and more securely. But the seventh habit probably raised the most CISO eyebrows and could have the most potential to effect meaningful change and collaboration:
- Discard detailed security road maps in favor of incremental improvements.
According to her, the “best of the best” organizations in Rugged DevOps have security leaders that make it a habit to ditch detailed security road maps in favor of a establishing broad vision and achieving incremental security improvements over time.

As she related in her talk, she’s seen too many organizations develop extensive and extremely detailed multiyear road maps only to see them grow obsolete not only because of rapid changes in the IT environment, but also the constant pivots attackers make in their attack techniques.

Instead, she said, security leaders have to take the same continuous improvement approach that their peers in development and operations have made in their shift to DevOps.

“This is a mind shift change that has to happen,” she warns.

To achieve good results, security leaders should be focused on “real-time, actionable measurements” to focus on improvements that matter, such as decreasing remediation time for vulnerabilities.

“In DevOps, we call this Plan, Do, Check, Act, where you’re taking very small changes. Say you want to insert static analysis right after a developer checks in new code. So you’re going to go off and plan. The plan is to insert static analysis,” she says. “Then you’ll do—we’re going to look at tools, we’re going to create our rules. We’re going to check to make sure it works, if it improves things. And then we’re going to move on to the next thing—maybe it’s tightening our rules or maybe it’s adding another tool.”
March 3, 2016
John Willis, Jez Humble & Josh Corman Headline DevOps Connect: Rugged DevOps at RSA

A week from today, February 29th, we gather in San Fransisco for DevOps Connect: Rugged DevOps @ RSA Conference at the Moscone Center. This is the 2nd year we are holding this conference and the line up is I think even stronger than last year! I am really happy and proud of the group that Mark Miller and Josh Corman have put together.

Best of all, if you are in San Fransisco we have free RSA passes that will allow you to join us all day at the conference and can also get you into the Expo all week if you like. Check out the website for full details. If you don’t want to get all the details just register for a free ticket, go here and use code 1U6DEVXPO for a free expo pass which will get you into our event on Monday.

In the meantime, here are some of my very best picks for the day:

Josh Corman & John Willis kicking things off with, Guns , Germs and Steel of the Software Age

Jez Humble & Nicole Forsgren presenting, What We Learned from Three Years Sciencing the Crap Out of Devops

Rich Mogull of Securosis on, Architectures, Design Patterns, and Coding for Rugged DevOps at Scale

Dan Glass presents The R.O.A.D. to Rugged DevOps for a Major Airline

Amy DeMartine of Forrester on Seven Habits of Rugged DevOps

Shannon Lietz presents The Journey to DevSecOps

Justin Arbuckle of Chef will be speaking on Transformation by Compliance

and rounding out my top picks, two of the leaders of the Austin DevOps community:

Ernest Mueller and James Wickett presenting Lean Security: Add Business Value without Bringing Waste

Of course these are just some of my picks. I can honestly say that there isn’t a bad session in the whole day. I think looking back people will review this lineup and be amazed at the blending of the DevOps tribe and security tribe into one great day of learning and sharing.

Also did I mention the DevOps (no) Wining cocktail party afterwards?

So what are you waiting for? Click on over, register for your free RSA Expo pass and be sure to click off that you will be joining us on Monday. Seating is first come, first serve and people come and go through they day. If you are in San Fran, hope to see you Monday!

February 22, 2016
Flash Mob Inflection: Rugged DevOps Revolution

Truthfully, I was never a huge fan of the HBO series “The Sopranos.” It’s not that it wasn’t entertaining; I just didn’t agree with the “best ever” label that so many espoused during the show’s halcyon days.

This had something to do with living in Hoboken, N.J., at the time and feeling the show was a heavily glamorized caricature of the real-life Mafioso I still perceived to be in my midst. More specifically, it’s hard for anything mob-related to stand up next to “Goodfellas” and “The Godfather”—among my favorite films, ever.

Either way, I currently find myself identifying with the series’ defining sentiment (copped directly from The Godfather, but hammered home as The Sopranos main theme): “Just when I thought I was out … they pull me back in.”

It wasn’t that I assumed that I’d never delve back into the domain of IT security after transitioning into the DevOps market last year; leveraging DevOps methodologies to improve security, policy compliance and related workflows stands as a core element of the overall movement.

But, in recent months and weeks it has become increasingly obvious that the security facet of the larger DevOps revolution appears poised for explosion as the buzz around emerging best practices, business models and solutions providers grows from a low hum into a steady roar.

After spending a few days talking DevOps security with Derek Weeks of Sonatype at CA World ’15 (we were booth neighbors and dinner mates) and giving more consideration to his company’s angle on securing the systems development life cycle (SDLC) supply chain, the internal gears really got spinning.

Regardless of whether you buy into Sonatype’s security-heavy approach, the concept of aggressively and proactively addressing security across the DevOps spectrum makes infinite sense. The ultimate downfall of applications security has always been the challenge of securing all the underlying layers of code (and today, microservices), especially as applications are assembled using heavier doses of shared, open source componentry.

As further evidence, nearly every major solutions vendor focused on the DevOps space—whether oriented toward the vibrant application performance management (APM), configuration management and continuous testing segments, among many others—seems to have launched some initiative aimed at integrating security into their products.

The rise of security capabilities adjacent to—and supporting inclusion into—the DevOps world, such as container giant Docker’s Content Trust initiative, along with the advancement of related startups including Twistlock, Scalock and StackRoxs, offers more proof of this growing momentum. And that’s only the container security piece of the puzzle.

Of course, there are also a number of emerging startups aimed at addressing the DevOps security opportunity, backed by well-known venture capitalists. A shortlist might include providers such as Immunio, Prevoty and UpGuard (formerly known as ScriptRock, which recently rebranded itself under the guise of a “DevOps security” provider), and we’re sure to see many more. And don’t forget the growing emphasis on DevOps security among established security industry stalwarts such as CyberArk, Snort and Tripwire, among others.

For a comprehensive list of the various types of DevOps security best practices and tools that we should expect to see gain wider adoption, this October 2015 blog by noted security analyst Adrian Lane of Securosis serves as a basic framework. Each of the areas of focus that he cites clearly offers significant opportunity for both new and existing methodologies.

Finally, one need look no further than this year’s RSA Security Conference, to be held in San Francisco at this end of this month, as tacit proof of the continued growth of what people now varyingly refer to as DevSecOps or Rugged DevOps (I prefer the latter as it just sounds cooler).

In addition to multiple conference sessions, notably a “DevOps Throwdown” between security industry veterans Caleb Sima, Chris Wysopal and Gary McGraw, there’s also the 2nd Annual DevOps Connect: Rugged DevOps Edition. If last year’s event is any indication (standing room only, venue literally at max capacity), this daylong DevOps security track at RSA will be an even more high-profile element of the entire week.

Further, if DevOps security—or, at the very least, the growing focus on adjacent segments such as container security—isn’t the unofficial theme of this year’s entire RSA show, I’d be extremely surprised.

Meanwhile (self-serving), my employer CA Technologies absolutely has a lot going on that complements and contributes to this growing DevOps Security market momentum.

For all of those reasons, here I find myself again, drawn closer back into the security space that I’ve called home for roughly the last decade. I guess that’s just how it goes, as DevOps and security are inarguably two of the most significant trends in IT these days and inextricably linked at their respective cores.

There are definitely worse fates out there. But, just when you think you’re out …

February 19, 2016
John Willis on Kata Presentation at cdSummit SoCal

I didn’t really have a chance to report much on the DevOps Connect: cdSummit SoCal we held late last year. The event featured a full day of some great DevOps, CD/CI sessions. It was co-produced with CloudBees and IBM, with SauceLabs, Sonatype, Sumo Logic and JFrog joining as sponsors. For me, the highlight of the day was John Willis on Kata. It was the headline presentation of the day.

If you are lucky enough to have caught John’s presentation on this before, good for you. According to John, there really is not a good recording of him presenting this. Hearing that, we ran out and bought a video camera to capture what I think is one of John’s classic presentations and one that is very important to understanding DevOps.

For those who don’t know, Kata is about how Toyota became a world power in auto manufacturing by following lean principles and other teachings of Deming. Sometimes called the patron saint of DevOps, Deming is certainly a hero to John and many others in the DevOps movement. But I think it is John’s unique style that really makes this presentation such a classic.

So here is John “Batchagalupe” Willis on Kata from the DevOps Connect: cdSummit SoCal:

Also, we are going to be producing a roadshow of cdSummit-Jenkins Days in conjunction with CloudBees and IBM. The full schedule will be on DevOpsConnect.com shortly, but the first event is slated for April 6 in Dallas. Other cities include New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Denver, Austin, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and Bangalore. Each will feature a day of workshops and a full day of multi-track sessions on Jenkins, CD and DevOps. If you are interested in speaking or sponsoring any of these, you can contact me at editor@devops.com.

Hope you enjoy John’s presentation. We will be posting several other presentations from the cdSummit SoCal event in the next few days.

January 22, 2016
The Women of DevOps
No, this isn’t about some new calendar featuring scantily clad IT chicks. In fact the fact you even thought that is half the problem. This article arises out of the fact that I was speaking with a colleague the other day and once again had to regretfully recite that something like 95% of you reading this article are male (as well as every other article here). Why is this? Why aren’t there more women in DevOps specifically and IT in general?

Don’t get me wrong this is not a DevOps specific issue. We go through the same issue in the infosec realm as well. In spite of the fact that many trade mags in security have featured prominent woman in security and many security conferences have featured panels and discussions on this. The good news is slowly but surely this is starting to change. We are seeing more woman in the infosec world.

So lets take that strategy from infosec and lets use it for DevOps. Lets feature some prominent woman in the DevOps world. I want to emphasize that these woman are here not just because they are woman and not men, but irregardless of their sex, they are remarkable people worthy of the recognition.

Also before we get started, let me say that I compiled this list based upon people I have met, heard or read about. I don’t know all of these woman personally, though many of them I have met. Feel free to comment and add your favorites and choices.

So here is my first list of the women of DevOps:

1.

Bridget Kromhout is a Principal Technologist for Cloud Foundry at Pivotal. Her CS degree emphasis was in theory, but she now deals with the concrete (if ‘cloud’ can be considered tangible). After years in site reliability operations (most recently at DramaFever), she traded in oncall for more travel. A frequent speaker at tech conferences, she helps organize the AWS and devops meetups at home in Minneapolis, serves on the program committee for Velocity, and acts as a global core organizer for devopsdays. She podcasts at Arrested DevOps, occasionally blogs at bridgetkromhout.com, and is active in a Twitterverse near you.

So that is the official bio (from her speaking appearance at Velocity). I only met Bridget in person recently but have been a fan for a long time. From her leadership in turning the DevOps Days MSP into one of the best in the world, to designing the DevOps against humanity cards and just the respect she gets from her peers in the DevOps community she is worthy to be the first person on this list.
1. Julie Tsai, here is her official LinkedIn bio:Director of Engineering, Information Security for retail giant. Technical Operations leader and Systems Architect with proven decision-making and managerial ability. Experienced as CISO reporting to CEO, and concurrent Ops/IT head, for privately-held $100 mm Internet Advertising company with Fortune 1000 clients. IPO-readiness audit response; PCI,GLB compliance; SOX significant deficiency remediations; forensics experience. Ops due diligence representation; post-transaction department merging; deep budget cutting. Contract negotiation and budget optimization. Change management, incident management, uptime and DR/BC. Developed intuition for “what’s going to break next.”
Notwithstanding the above, I couldn’t wait to add Julie Tsai to this list. She presented at our DevOps Connect: DevSecOps at RSA Conference last year (8 months pregnant and all) and just blew me away. She was so bright it was like a shining star up there on the stage. Her accomplishments speak for themselves. To me she represents the kind of person I would want my daughter or son for that matter to grow up and be professionally.

3.

Helen Beal, fanatical about making life on earth fantastic – with nearly 20 years’ experience working with companies to elicit real business value from software, Helen heads up the DevOps practice at Ranger4 focusing on how organisations can embrace DevOps philosophies to influence their IT culture and behaviours and implement tools for change. Helen is also a bibliophile and fond of llamas.

The first person on this list that I also consider a personal friend, Helen has become a DevOps evangelist bar none over in the UK and beyond. She is constantly appearing, speaking and evangelizing on behalf of Ranger4 while organizations should adopt DevOps. She has also developed several DevOps workshops and lift offs. If you get a chance you should catch Helen at a DevOps event near you.

4.

Terri Potts is an Engineering Fellow at Raytheon where she is the Information, Intelligence and Services Business Software Technical Director. She has worked at Raytheon since 1998 and has been an advocate and champion for modern software development methods since 1999. Her current professional interests include software and systems architecture, model driven software development, domain specific languages, software product lines, software factories and DevOps. Terri has been successful leading adoption of DevOps on Raytheon programs. Prior to working for Raytheon Company, she served eleven years in the United States Air Force in all phases of software acquisition and development of defense systems.

Another speaker from last year DevOps Connect: DevSecOps at RSA Conference, she is also speaking at DOES next month. Terri is a dynamic individual who is spreading the DevOps gospel in the federal market and is smart enough to relate the story as a lesson for us all. Terri is a true leader, man or woman in the DevOps world.
1. Heather Mickman is the leader for the API and Integration team at Target and a DevOps enthusiast. Throughout her career, Heather has continuously embraced hard technology challenges from consulting large Fortune 50 companies on Supply Chain approach, implementing warehouse automation technologies, running large Ops & Support organizations, and establishing enterprise security approaches. She has a passion for technology, building high performing teams, driving a culture of innovation, and having fun along the way. Heather lives in Minneapolis with her 2 sons and 2 dachshunds.
Taking the disaster that was Target IT and using it as a tool for transformational change via DevOps is worthy of all of our praise. If you get the chance to hear how Heather has helped lead this transformation (another DOES speaker) you should not miss it. Interesting note is how many large retailers have adopted DevOps successfully. Somewhat of a little known secret, but retail seems to be a prime vertical for DevOps adoption.

6.
Rosalind Radcliffe is a Distinguished Engineer within the IBM. She is Chief Architect for CLM and DevOps. She is responsible for driving the DevOps for multi platform architecture. This includes z System and Power system. In addition she is responsible for the architecture for the Collaborative Management capability for Enterprise solutions. This includes UrbanCode Deploy and Rational Team Concert’s support for standard Mainframe development activities. She is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and a Master Inventor. Prior to Rational, she was in Tivoli responsible for the SOA Management Strategy for IBM.

Another person I have met in person and interviewed several times here on devopsy.kinsta.cloud. Rosalind’s CV is beyond impressive. Speaking with her though you know you are in the presence of intelligence. I enjoy speaking with her and reading what she writes. She recently wrote Mobile to Mainframe DevOps for Dummies as well. Rosalind is a real thought leader in every sense of the word.

These are my first 6 women of DevOps. I will add to this list in the weeks ahead.
September 17, 2015
There is only one DevOps Connect

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that is true I guess the folks over Informa Telecoms and Media Ltd are very, very sincere. Why else would they change the name of their DevOps Conference from “DevOps Summit” (which name they “borrowed” from the Sys-Con folks) to DevOps Connect Europe. No matter that we here at devopsy.kinsta.cloud have already held several events in Europe and London specifically with our DevOps Connect name. No matter that we have a website and own the domain http://www.devopsconnect.com. Why shouldn’t they just use our name and employ the “colorful” technique of registering a hyphenated play on the domain name? I guess that alone should tell you all you need to know about this company and the events they produce.

Now of course we can go hire some International copyright attorneys and litigate first usage and ask for injunctions and damages. But why bother? I am a big believer in letting the market be the judge, jury and executioner. I am perfectly fine with using devopsy.kinsta.cloud to get out the word about these kinds of business practices and letting the market act.

The event these people want to put on will probably be no better than the several DevOps Summit events they put on previously. I have heard from exhibitors, speakers and attendees of those events that they were less than successful. Mind you I haven’t attended any, just reporting on what I was told. Ultimately though if they were successful they wouldn’t be trying to rebrand using someone else’s name. Hard to argue with that logic.

I am asking our readers (and there are many of you in London, as it is our single biggest city for viewers) to let this company know that copying others business names will not stand. The best way to do this is to not attend, don’t participate and get the word out that this is not the way business is done.

Don’t be fooled by the attempt to piggyback our brand and success, we have nothing to do with that event. In fact we will be holding several DevOps Connect events in London and elsewhere in Europe in the fall. Details will be announced shortly but there will be lots of opportunities to participate.

Some of you may ask, “you haven’t given us the link to this event?” You’re right, I have not and for good reason. I have already given this company and their event more ink than they are probably due.

So be aware of imitators, remember there is only one DevOps Connect and those are the events put on by us at devopsy.kinsta.cloud. We hope to see you at them and will be sure to let everyone know when we do. Until then don’t reward imitators.

June 25, 2015