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  • DigitalOcean Releases Block Storage, Enabling Developers and Businesses to Build and Scale Larger Applications 

    Highly Available and Flexible SSD-Based Storage Enables Teams of Developers to Scale Production Workloads, Add Disk Space, and Build Distributed Applications Without Changing Droplet Size
    NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwired – Jul 13, 2016) – DigitalOcean, provider of the cloud computing platform designed for developers, today released Block Storage, the number one product request from customers. Block Storage is a highly available and scalable SSD-based offering that will enable developers to easily attach extra disk space to DigitalOcean Droplets (cloud servers). DigitalOcean’s Block Storage costs $0.10/GB per month and is based on provisioned capacity only, therefore there is no need for complicated formulas to determine the overall cost for transactions or IOPs limit.
    DigitalOcean was founded in 2011 with the mission to simplify the complexities of infrastructure by offering one simple and robust platform for developers to easily launch and scale their applications. The company has taken a “developer first” mentality and is now evolving its platform to further support the business needs of the developer. DigitalOcean has become the second largest and fastest growing cloud computing platform in the total number of public facing apps and websites, according to Netcraft. More than 700,000 registered customers have launched more than 18 million Droplets combined on DigitalOcean, nearly doubling from 10 million six months ago.
    “We set out on a mission to build a simple and robust cloud computing platform so that engineering teams can spend less time configuring and automating their infrastructure and more time focused on software development,” said Ben Uretsky, co-founder and CEO, DigitalOcean. “By adding a highly performant Block Storage offering to our platform, developers can easily deploy and manage their SaaS applications and businesses as they scale. This is one step closer to building the next generation platform.”
    The Easiest Way for Developers to Attach and Scale Storage to Support Their Businesses and Applications
    Block Storage is a complementary product to DigitalOcean’s Droplets, which provide compute power and local storage, by making them more expandable and flexible. By attaching Block Storage to DigitalOcean Droplets via the control panel or API, developers can achieve the following benefits:
    • High Availability: Block Storage stores data on hardware that is separated from the Droplet, replicating it multiple times across different racks and reducing the chances of data loss in the event of hardware failure.
    • Scalable and Flexible: Developers can easily scale and resize SSD-based Block Storage volumes from 1GB to 16TB and move it between Droplets. The ability to attach extra Block Storage to Droplets dramatically increases their flexibility, enabling developers to scale applications, databases, binary assets, shared and distributed filesystems and more.
    • Reliable and Secure: All the data is encrypted at rest and transmitted to the Droplets over isolated networks.
    Supporting Quotes
    • GitLab developer Patricio Cano said: “Storage is a very real challenge for big teams or teams that work with lots of data. Storing assets will always take a lot of space which usually forces people to prioritize what they want to store or spend increasingly more money for each additional unit of storage. Using GitLab’s GitHost as an example, without Block Storage, the amount of disk space an instance has is tied together with the plan the customer selects. With Block Storage, customers can now choose the right plan based on their team’s needs (amount of RAM and processors) without having to worry about limited disk space, because they can now add up to 16TB of extra storage. For GitLab and our customers this is great news. We’re excited to see how Block Storage in conjunction with Git LFS will enable users to easily store and version control their files.”
    • Mesosphere Co-founder and Chief Architect Benjamin Hindman said: “Developers across all platforms want simple, high-performance cloud storage like what DigitalOcean offers with its new Block Storage service. We’re excited to work with DigitalOcean as part of the open source DC/OS storage interest group, in an effort make Block Storage available for DC/OS users, and to improve the overall storage experience for developers.”
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    About DigitalOcean 
    Founded in 2011, DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure provider focused on simplifying web infrastructure for software developers. DigitalOcean has become the second largest and fastest growing cloud computing platform in the total number of public facing apps and websites, according to Netcraft.com. The company has raised $123 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Access Industries, IA Ventures, CrunchFund, and Techstars. The company is headquartered in New York City with data center regions throughout the world. For more information, simply visit https://www.digitalocean.com or follow @digitalocean

  • DigitalOcean Releases Block Storage, Enabling Developers and Businesses to Build and Scale Larger Applications

     

    Highly available and flexible SSD-based storage enables teams of developers to scale production workloads, add disk space, and build distributed applications without changing Droplet size

    NEW YORK – July 13, 2016 – DigitalOcean, provider of the cloud computing platform designed for developers, today released Block Storage, the number one product request from customers. Block Storage is a highly available and scalable SSD-based offering that will enable developers to easily attach extra disk space to DigitalOcean Droplets (cloud servers). DigitalOcean’s Block Storage costs $0.10/GB per month and is based on provisioned capacity only, therefore there is no need for complicated formulas to determine the overall cost for transactions or IOPs limit.

    DigitalOcean was founded in 2011 with the mission to simplify the complexities of infrastructure by offering one simple and robust platform for developers to easily launch and scale their applications. The company has taken a “developer first” mentality and is now evolving its platform to further support the business needs of the developer. DigitalOcean has become the second largest and fastest growing cloud computing platform in the total number of public facing apps and websites, according to Netcraft. More than 700,000 registered customers have launched more than 18 million Droplets combined on DigitalOcean, nearly doubling from 10 million six months ago.

    “We set out on a mission to build a simple and robust cloud computing platform so that engineering teams can spend less time configuring and automating their infrastructure and more time focused on software development,” said Ben Uretsky, co-founder and CEO, DigitalOcean. “By adding a highly performant Block Storage offering to our platform, developers can easily deploy and manage their SaaS applications and businesses as they scale. This is one step closer to building the next generation platform.”

    The Easiest Way for Developers to Attach and Scale Storage to Support Their Businesses and Applications

    Block Storage is a complementary product to DigitalOcean’s Droplets, which provide compute power and local storage, by making them more expandable and flexible. By attaching Block Storage to DigitalOcean Droplets via the control panel or API, developers can achieve the following benefits:

    • High Availability: Block Storage stores data on hardware that is separated from the Droplet, replicating it multiple times across different racks and reducing the chances of data loss in the event of hardware failure.
    • Scalable and Flexible: Developers can easily scale and resize SSD-based Block Storage volumes from 1GB to 16TB and move it between Droplets. The ability to attach extra Block Storage to Droplets dramatically increases their flexibility, enabling developers to scale applications, databases, binary assets, shared and distributed filesystems and more.
    • Reliable and Secure: All the data is encrypted at rest and transmitted to the Droplets over isolated networks.

    Customer Quotes

    • GitLab developer Patricio Cano said: “Storage is a very real challenge for big teams or teams that work with lots of data. Storing assets will always take a lot of space which usually forces people to prioritize what they want to store or spend increasingly more money for each additional unit of storage. Using GitLab’s GitHost as an example, without Block Storage, the amount of disk space an instance has is tied together with the plan the customer selects. With Block Storage, customers can now choose the right plan based on their team’s needs (amount of RAM and processors) without having to worry about limited disk space, because they can now add up to 16TB of extra storage. For GitLab and our customers this is great news. We’re excited to see how Block Storage in conjunction with Git LFS will enable users to easily store and version control their files.”
    • Mesosphere Co-founder and Chief Architect Benjamin Hindman said: “Developers across all platforms want simple, high-performance cloud storage like what Digital Ocean offers with its new Block Storage service. We’re excited to work with Digital Ocean as part of the open source DC/OS storage interest group, in an effort make Block Storage available for DC/OS users, and to improve the overall storage experience for developers.”

    About DigitalOcean

    Founded in 2011, DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure provider focused on simplifying web infrastructure for software developers. DigitalOcean has become the second largest and fastest growing cloud computing platform in the total number of public facing apps and websites, according to Netcraft.com. The company has raised $123 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Access Industries, IA Ventures, CrunchFund, and Techstars. The company is headquartered in New York City with data center regions throughout the world. For more information, simply visit https://www.digitalocean.com or follow @digitalocean.

  • Follow the Simple Path of Nirvana to DevOps

    Follow the Simple Path of Nirvana to DevOps

    Perhaps the title of this post is a misleading, as nothing is truly “simple. But there is a well-defined pathway to achieving DevOps goals for any size company. Just follow a step-up pattern by adopting the principles of agile, continuous integration and continuous delivery, and you will reach your goal of DevOps. This path is a natural progression of DevOps maturity that an organization can follow while adopting key principles and technology solutions along the way.

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    Agile Development

    Adopting agile development methodologies often is the first step maturing organizations take, as they no doubt have heard the resounding benefits of leaving behind waterfall software development life cycles. There is a reason this is the first step. It helps your organization’s employees mature into a tightly knit working machine that fosters improvements in driving down technical debt while also laser-focused on building key features.

    As agile teams continue their maturation, they’ve roped in key business stakeholders who are able to grasp the drivers of technology challenges and are able balance out the growth needs of the business with the sustainability requirements of the technology teams. Suddenly, teams are investing a minimum of 20 percent of their sprint time to dealing with technical debt and reporting out these victories to their product owner(s). These small wins become major victories as the unwieldy pieces of infrastructure and software of the business become relics and folklore of yesteryear.

    But there is an underlying reason why agile development is the most crucial first step: It truly empowers the developers to improve the customer experience and feel good about it. With the scrum master’s shields up protecting the team from burnout and ensuring sprint planning happens, team members are more likely to be passionate about their work and the results of their efforts to the business and customer. This is where the empowerment of DevOps really begins.

    Continuous Integration

    As teams mature along the agile development continuum, the next step in their DevOps maturation is moving on to  continuous integration. Continuous integration is the process by which a company automates its software build process: code check-in triggers a build job that then triggers a test validation job and so-on. This process enables teams to continuously integrate their code build with downstream processes, avoiding manual touchpoints.

    In addition, this paradigm allows for faster feedback loops to ensure a higher quality product, and empowers diverse teams to work together utilizing automation as the “middle man.”

    Continuous Delivery

    The third step in DevOps maturation is continuous delivery. Often businesses confuse “delivery” with “deployment”—in fact, continuous delivery is simply the process to ensure that at any given point a company’s software is in a state where it can be deployed. This is useful for quick iterations, A/B testing and a more mature way of delighting customers fast and often.

    A key component of continuous delivery is ensuring that software is ready for production. When a team is doing continuous delivery, they’re assured that they’re nimble and responsive and adhere to the highest quality standards.

    DevOps

    At this point, the company has reached the DevOps nirvana state. This is where software is not just delivered continuously, but all of the operational needs are constantly met. Monitoring, metrics, the ability to automatically roll back software releases, scalability and much more are the key building blocks to a powerful DevOps organization.

    With this thoughtful step-by-step process of DevOps adoption, organizations can meet the needs of business in a mindful and cohesive way without compromise.

    I’d love to hear any feedback or tips on DevOps at @jsin.

    About the Author/Jason Shawn

    jason-profileJason Shawn is a technology leader in DevOps and Cloud. His began his career as a software developer and has held multiple functional and managerial roles which has found him with a unique perspective on the software development lifecycle. He’s extremely passionate about Continuous Delivery, Agile software development, and empowering teams to adopt DevOps and Agile principles in their daily lives. He is also a member of the Cloudbees Customer Advisory Board and enjoys public speaking, travel, and time with his family.

  • Jelastic PaaS Doubles CPU Power for the Same Price

    Jelastic Cloud hosting becomes more cost effective and optimized in terms of computing performance

    Palo Alto, Calif, (PRWEB) July 12, 2016

    Jelastic Cloud Platform for DevOps and hosting business is thrilled to announce that CPU power for all computing environments has been doubled, and the price for the resource unit stays the same.

    Each Jelastic cloudlet (dynamic and reserved) now has 2x more CPU power than before. A new Jelastic cloudlet size equals to 128 MiB RAM and 400 MHz of CPU.

    “We’ve decided to provide such bonus for developers after a deeper research of their applications needs. The increased cloudlet power makes Jelastic even more high performing and affordable. From now end users get twice more CPU resources and their invoices remain unchanged.” said Ruslan Synytsky, CEO of Jelastic.

    So, what does this mean for Jelastic PaaS users?

    The CPU performance of each container within Jelastic cloud environments is increased by 100%. A new cloudlet sizing became more suitable for a wider list of applications and workloads, including web and game projects, analytic servers and databases, builds and batch processing, and others.

    These changes will significantly speed up the cloud applications that intensively use CPU. Therefore, Jelastic Cloud hosting becomes even more cost effective and optimized in terms of computing performance.

    “Many web applications are not obviously CPU heavy, and therefore we found that customers would deploy them with quite minimal cloudlet limits.” said Damien Ransome, Service Director ofLayershift, a Jelastic Platinum partner offering service from the UK and USA. “Our tests revealed that increasing the peak CPU power often provides a substantial performance benefit. As we only charge for average CPU consumption over an hour, this throttling effect was not necessarily apparent to our customers – but just because you CAN run something on a slow CPU does not mean that you SHOULD! Doubling the CPU power offered per cloudlet ensures that all of our customers now benefit from this extra performance boost by default, and at no additional cost. Let’s be honest; who doesn’t want better performance for free?”

    All changes are applied automatically to the existing and newly created environments, so no manual steps are required to take advantage of these new extra-performance cloudlets.

    Full information about Jelastic resource consumption and pricing can be found in thedocumentation. And the current performance of containers in Jelastic can be checked by registering at one of cloud hosting service providers for free trial period.

    About Jelastic

    Jelastic is a DevOps PaaS and CaaS for business that can be deployed on bare metal hardware or any IaaS. The platform provides certified containers for Java, PHP, Ruby, Node.js, Python and .NET and the ability to use custom Docker containers. Jelastic offers agile deployment models without coding to proprietary APIs, flexible automatic scaling for stateless and stateful applications, collaboration, access control, monitoring, backup and disaster recovery, built-in billing and business analytics tools, while driving down TCO with high density and hardware utilization. For more information, visit us at http://www.jelastic.com

  • LogiGear Launches Continuous Testing Solution and Service to Enable Faster High Quality Testing 

    New solution is an addition to the company’s evolving frameworks and technologies

    Foster City, CA, July 12, 2016— LogiGear, a world leader in software testing solutions, today announced the launch of its Continuous Testing (CT) solution and service to enable improvements in automated testing in DevOps environments. LogiGear’s Continuous Testing solution and its full-range of testing automation services will help customers with the transformation from manual to continuous testing methods.

    Continuous Testing is a process of executing automated tests at every stage of the software delivery pipeline. CT allows for fixing errors quickly, enhancing the speed of delivery, thereby reducing time to market, allowing firms to save time and resources. CT is an integral part of Continuous Delivery and DevOps practices and LogiGear’s experts help companies achieve maximum ROI by supporting the transformation to Continuous Delivery (CD) and DevOps initiatives.

    “DevOps and Continuous Delivery are gaining traction because of its potential to deliver high quality results faster. Continuous Testing is essential to achieving success. However, many companies face challenges in completing the transformation,” said Hung Nguyen, CEO of LogiGear. “With the Continuous Testing solution and services, LogiGear will ease the pain of transformation for them.”

    LogiGear’s CT solution and service helps solve common challenges associated with Continuous Testing, including creating a unified platform for quality reporting and collaboration as well as enabling companies to achieve Continuous Testing with Legacy systems. LogiGear’s solution also removes high start-up costs, a popular challenge associated for most firms looking to adopt DevOps.

    For additional information on Continuous Testing Solution, or on the full range of software testing and development services provided, visit LogiGear.com.

    About LogiGear

    LogiGear Corporation (http://www.logigear.com) provides leading-edge software testing technologies and expertise, along with software development services that enable companies to accelerate business growth while having confidence in the software they deliver. Founded in 1994 by top thought leaders in the software testing industry, LogiGear has completed software testing and development projects for prominent companies across a broad range of industries and technologies.

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    For more information or interview requests:

    Joanne Hogue

    Smart Connections PR

    (410) 658-8246

    joanne@smartconnectionspr.com

  • REP SPOTLIGHT: Soft2Solve

    REP SPOTLIGHT: Soft2Solve

    DevOps Institute: Tell us a little about your organization,

    Soft2Solve: We work with our customers in order to help them to enhance IT performance, saving cost, and training on best methods, process and practices, selecting at the same time the best solutions for Spanish Speaker Customers.

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

    Soft2Solve: Cost savings in some specific areas as printing, energy.

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

    Soft2Solve: The interest is initial. Most of customer are aware of DevOps initiatives, but they are still learning and looking how movement evolves and how they can set up the practices on their companies. Some of them already started with agile methodologies in development.

    In the other side, most of them already have ITSM practices implemented, based mainly in ITIL.

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

    Soft2Solve: First, aligning IT with the business requirements in terms of speed, flexibility and agility. Then it contributes to analyze the bad processes in place and getting high cost savings when implementing DevOps practices. It also enhances the internal relationships between IT departments, as usually there is a big fight between them. Also, that impact on quality and speed to answer the business.

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

    Soft2Solve: It is an IT answer to the business requirements to follow the business needs; meanwhile, being more productive and less expensive. In other areas, the automatization is a base for DevOps.

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

    Soft2Solve: Although sometimes the organizations do not know, any new change—especially culture changes—need internal sponsors as much as possible in the organizations. These people have to be trained by third-party independent people outside their organizations that are aseptic and not influenced from the internal existing culture and way of doing. These people will be the people that will support the change and the IT alignment with the business organization and will answer quickly to business requirements.

  • PagerDuty Introduces Response Mobilizer and Response Bridge for Seamless Collaboration and Dynamic Incident Response

    New features facilitate coordinated response by bringing together the right people and information

    San Francisco – July 11, 2016 – PagerDuty, the leader in modern incident management, announces the availability of Response Mobilizer and Response Bridge, two new features that enable seamless collaboration between responders for dynamic incident response and faster resolution. Using PagerDuty’s new Response Moblizer feature, customers can notify and enlist additional experts and critical stakeholders to an incident.  With the PagerDuty Response Bridge, customers can share a conference bridge for real-time collaboration on open incidents. Together, these features allow customers to respond at scale with the right people and contextual information for faster incident resolution.

    Outages in the digital economy have serious customer experience and revenue implications that push ITOps and DevOps teams to constantly seek better tools and processes to mitigate the impact on their business. Critical incidents typically require a greater level of organization because the impact can span across multiple teams and business units, however, delays in enlisting the right subject matter experts cross-functionally can be detrimental for a time-sensitive resolution. Beyond the standard on-call schedules, PagerDuty Response Mobilizer allows customers to rapidly bring the right people together with the right contextual information to address business-critical issues in real-time. By helping customers recruit the right responders, PagerDuty reduces mean-time-to-resolve (MTTR) by minimizing the amount of time spent searching for responders . After gathering the right responders and key stakeholders, PagerDuty Response Bridge enables teams to collaborate via their existing conference bridge or chat tools. With custom messages that include critical incident context for new responders, PagerDuty provides a single incident view to coordinate the ideal response.

    PagerDuty Response Mobilizer and Response Bridge enables customers to:

    • Notify the Right People: Easily select and invite individuals by name or escalation policy to collaborate directly on any PagerDuty incident
    • Mobilize Teams Immediately: Decrease response times by customizing how team members are notified (phone, push notifications, SMS), and identify their response status in real-time and escalate if necessary
    • Access Contextual Information: Include a brief message to responders detailing why they are needed and leverage the rich, contextual details already embedded inside every incident so all responders are immediately aligned
    • Conferencing Support: Include meeting details in any PagerDuty incident and invite responders to collaborate in a meeting, dramatically reducing MTTR
    • Leverage existing Conferencing Platform: PagerDuty supports multiple conferencing providers, including Cisco WebEx, GoToMeeting, and Blue Jeans, so teams can operate within their established communication channels

    “Many companies take 30-60 minutes just to get the right people on a conference bridge during business-impacting outages or incidents,” said Tim Armandpour, senior vice president of product development, PagerDuty. “When down-time is your business’s enemy, how fast you respond to an incident matters to the bottom line. PagerDuty Response Mobilizer and Response Bridge drastically reduce the amount of time and effort needed to collaborate and resolve an incident, but more importantly, mitigate a business issue.”

    PagerDuty Response Mobilizer and Response Bridge are available to all Standard and Enterprise customers today. To learn more, read our blog posts about Response Mobilizer and Response Bridge.

    About PagerDuty

    PagerDuty is an agile incident management solution that integrates with IT Ops and DevOps monitoring stacks to improve operational reliability and agility. From enriching and aggregating events to correlating them into actionable alerts, PagerDuty streamlines the incident management lifecycle by reducing noise and resolution times. With hundreds of native integrations with operations tools, automated scheduling, advance reporting and guaranteed reliability, PagerDuty is trusted by over 7,000 organizations globally to increase business and employee efficiency. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by leading venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Baseline Ventures, and Ignition Partners. Try PagerDuty for free at www.pagerduty.com.

  • The 2016 State of Software Supply Chain Report is Here

    The 2016 State of Software Supply Chain Report is Here

    Our State of the Software Supply Chain Report has just been released.  Over the past year, we’ve amassed a great deal of data with respect to the staggering volume and variety of open source components flowing through software supply chains into development environments. This year, we assessed behaviors across 3,000 organizations and performed deep analysis on more than 25,000 applications.  

    The results we discovered ranged from staggering to surprising to sobering.  For example, we measured organizations consuming an average of 229,000 components annually.  The good news is, these components help companies accelerate their development and innovation.  At the same time, we saw 6.8% of components used in applications marked with at least one known security vulnerability — adding high levels of security debt.  Not all components are created equal.

     

    The 2016 State of the Software Supply Chain Report: software supply chains by the numbers.
    Software supply chain infographic from 2016 report.  See full image here.

     

    The 2016 State of the Software Supply Chain Report blends public and proprietary data with expert research and analysis to reveal the following:

    • Developers are gorging on an ever expanding supply of open source components.  Billions of open source components were downloaded in the last year.
    • Vast networks of open source component suppliers are growing rapidly.  Over 10,000 new versions of open source components are introduced daily.
    • Massive variety and volume of software components vary widely in terms of quality.  1 in 16 parts include a known security defect.
    • Top performing enterprises, federal regulators and industry associations have embraced the principles of software supply chain automation to improve the safety, quality, and security of software.

    We invite you to read the report and leverage the insights to understand how your organization’s practices compare to others. Then, let us know what you think @sonatype.

    If you would like to join a live discussion on this year’s report, please join us on Wednesday, July 13th. Save your seat here.

  • DevOps is Becoming Mainstream in Australia

    DevOps is Becoming Mainstream in Australia

    DevOps has taken root in Australia, where its practitioners are showing a high level of sophistication.

    According to Paul Muller, vice president of Strategic Marketing, Software, at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Asia Pacific and Japan, interest in DevOps at Australian organizations rose, fell back and then rose again—a pattern that reminds us of Gartner’s Hype Cycle.

    DevOps has progressed from the stage where its devotees were seen as a ‘radical fringe’ fighting against the organizations where they work, and is quickly becoming part of mainstream IT, he said, observing he has even heard the CEO of a bank talking about DevOps. (The banking sector in Australia is highly concentrated, with the ‘Big Four’ collectively accounting for around 80 percent of the market, with the customer-owned, regional and foreign-owned banks taking the rest.)

    More generally, executives increasingly realize “their business is only as good as their software,” he said.

    He sees innovation occurring in what are sometimes regarded as very traditional sectors (automotive, banking and finance, to name two) as companies realize that they face—or soon will face—competition from “software-savvy startups.”

    The success of DevOps shows “Adam Smith was wrong”—that is, overspecialization is bad, he observed.

    “The sophistication here is higher than I would have expected,” and higher than in most places outside Silicon Valley, said Muller.

    The Australian DevOps community benefits from the huge amount of volunteer effort that goes into organizing events such as meetups. HPE is helping with its ‘DevOps Days’ that expose the company’s customers to HPE’s DevOps culture and practice, allowing them to “live a day in the life of this modern process” and take a better understanding back to their own organization.

    One DevOps mistake he has seen made that generally results in failure is what he calls “processes of fetish,” where people simply try to copy another organization’s practices instead of developing a true understanding of DevOps.

    He also drew attention to the shortcomings of measuring productivity in terms of lines of code or function points delivered. That overlooks, for example, the contribution of a person who does a lot of coaching.

    Muller drew particular attention to the importance of scaled agile to larger organizations with multiple internal and/or external teams that need to work together to successfully complete projects. In such environments, problems arise if it is not used.

    To be successful, DevOps requires the right collection of people, the right measurement and reward system, and the right tools (such as HPE ALM Octane, which can among many other things handle the synchronization of data across multiple teams), he said.

    But it’s not just about implementation: organizations and teams still need to generate ideas that can be put into production. There are tools to help that process, Muller said, and HPE is teaching its innovation methodology to other organizations.

    Many businesses spruik their innovation credentials and want their developers to focus on innovation. Agile and DevOps help free up developers’ minds—along with those of their colleagues in business units—to do just that, Muller said.

  • Iterative Indicators: Measuring DevOps ROI

    Iterative Indicators: Measuring DevOps ROI

    It’s well-established that application of ROI measurements to IT investment remains an imperfect science, and the same goes for ongoing adoption of DevOps methodologies.

    The fuzzy math of vendor-driven ROI calculators aside, even the most respected industry watchers have long struggled to create concrete parameters for assessment of technology spending. This, in large part, has been related to the fact that the requirement for continued investment has outweighed the value of short-term metrics.

    At the same time, it’s hard to put a price on the influence that paradigms including mobility, virtualization and the cloud are having on today’s business world. The scope of the so-called Applications Economy is only truly beginning to be realized.

    For in-depth discussion of DevOps ROI, register today for the upcoming webcast “Maturity Metrics – Analyzing the 2016 State of DevOps Report” with noted industry expert Gene Kim.

    With DevOps, the challenge of ROI measurement evokes similar characteristics as with these other bellwether movements. The affect that leveraging DevOps to become more agile and respond adeptly to changing customer expectations will have, long-term, ultimately will be realized as much in organizational viability as in any immediate cost-savings or other factors.

    That said, the recently published 2016 State of DevOps Report, assembled by the researchers at DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA), goes further down the path toward creating meaningful ROI metrics than any other such previous effort.

    For starters, the 2016 report builds on previous year’s conclusions that so-called “high-performing organizations”—those already deeply engaged in DevOps practices—are “decisively outperforming their lower-performing peers in terms of throughput,” and this gap continues to widen.

    Moreover, DORA contends that high performers deploy applications code 200 times more frequently than slow performers and achieve 2,555 times faster lead times. Perhaps even more importantly, in particular as it relates to the ability to improve applications performance, the report estimates that leading DevOps practitioners lay claim to 24 times faster recovery times and three times lower change failure rates.

    The State of DevOps Survey, completed by roughly 4,600 technology practitioners, also found that high-performing teams spend far less time on so-called “unplanned work and rework”—most often required to address existing problems—allowing them to spend nearly 50 percent more of their time on new work. The latter brand of effort is typically aimed at adding or improving feature functionality—or, in simple terms, innovation.

    As increased software velocity and reduction of MTTR represent the most critical differentiators in today’s environment, where an end user may wait only seconds for an app to load before abandoning your brand altogether, these conclusions obviously carry impressive weight.

    Finally, based on a framework established by research analysts at IDC which suggests that hourly application downtime costs can range from $1.25 to $2.5 billion for a Fortune 1000 firm, and that the average cost of a critical application failure is $500,000 to $1 million per hour, the State of DevOps Report allows for the conclusion that high-performing organizations save an average of more than $91 million per year.

    Much of this advantage is found, the researchers note, in the form of lower applications change failure rates, or those updates to software code that result in subsequent performance issues or outages. While high-performing DevOps practitioners experience an average change failure rate of 7.5 percent, medium-performing organizations see that figure rise dramatically, to a whopping 38 percent.

    If the undeniable adage that “time is money” applies in today’s Applications Economy as much—if not more than ever—than these ROI calculations would appear to infer substantial meaning.

    Later this month, Gene Kim, one of DORA’s founders and a key contributor to the State of DevOps Report, will host a webcast with CA Technologies expert Aruna Ravichandran to discuss DevOps ROI and many other related topics. Register for that event today.