DevOps Chat

Akshay Anand, ITSM product ambassador at AXELOS, and David Crouch, senior advisor at Beyond20, join ASG CEO Mitch Ashley to share best practices and learnings from introducing and adopting Agile and DevOps in large organizations. Akshay and David discuss overcoming change management challenges and obstacles to increase adoption.

Software teams are rapidly adopting microservices, containers and container management to promote innovation and boost digital transformation. With any newly adopted technology comes questions about data and overall security.

Accelerated Strategies Group conducted research into the security of data within containers, specifically, Kubernetes. ASG Analyst Charles Kolodgy, lead analyst on this research, joins ASG CEO Mitch Ashley and Zettaset CEO Tim Reilly dig into the results of this research and relate it to today's implementations using kubernetes.

This research was commissioned by Zettaset. The full analyst report is available at https://accelst.com/report-kubernetes-data-protection/.

ITIL is well established as the process, certification and information resource library for service management across many IT organizations globally. With the recent updates comprising to ITIL 4, influences from Agile and DevOps are helping ITIL to expand and adapt to changes in how create software and build operations into the delivery process.

Akshay Anand, Product Ambassador with AXELOS Global Best Practice, and Jon Stevens-Hall, Principal Product Manager at BMC Software, join Accelerated Strategies Group CEO Mitch Ashley to discuss the new innovations in ITIL 4. As major contributors to ITIL 4, Akshay and Jon share the approach they took with ITIL 4, incorporating ideas from the world of Agile and DevOps.

App Modernization and the state of mainframe DevOps was the topic of episode 4 of DevOps Unbound. Our panel included Rosalind Radcliffe of IBM, Sam Knutson of Compuware and BMC and Gerta Sheganaku of Tricentis, joining MItchell Ashley and Alan Shimel.

It was a lively conversation about real life scenarios that enterprises face everyday. Join us and be sure to follow DevOps Unbound at https://devopsunbound.com

DevOps has not only reached mainframe groups in the enterprise but also to large applications such as SAP. Organizations are moving away from waterfall methods and mega releases that take many months to deliver. What's needed are many more rapid release cycles and deployments that support the accelerating pace necessary to do business.

David Lees, CTO of Basis Technologies, joins MediaOps CEO Alan Shimel to explore how organizations implement DevOps into their SAP integration and deployment cycles. Having lived through this transition, David shares his unique perspectives on the necessity to break through bottlenecks and make changes in supply chains, finance and many other business processes needed to support the business.

The assumption that large, established enterprises — from insurance companies to government agencies— can’t adopt Agile processes or DevOps is based on the falsehood that legacy technology stacks won’t allow for it; that existing traditional mainframe applications or legacy applications that large enterprises are built on are incapable of adapting to these approaches.

Accelerated Strategies Group recently released the new research report 5 Crucial DevOps Strategies For Cloud and Mainframe 2020, sponsored by ASG Technologies. In this episode of DevOps Chats, Jeff Cherrington and Anna Murray with ASG Technologies joins Mitch Ashley (CEO, Accelerated Strategies Group) to explore how mainframe app teams embrace DevOps, processes and tools to equip software teams, so mainframe apps continue to provide businesses with vital systems and capabilities far into the future.

Download the report at https://library.devops.com/5-crucial-devops-strategies-for-cloud-and-mainframes

DevOps Unbound episode 3 is about open source and DevOps. We have a great cast of Tracy Miranda, ED of the Continuous Delivery Foundation, Alon Girmonsky, found of UP9 and Kevin Dunne of Tricentis.

DevOps Unbound is an every other week video series about topics related to all aspects of Devops. It is available at https://digitalanarchist.com

In this episode, Mitchell Ashley and Alan Shimel are joined by Caroline Wong, CSO at Cobalt.io (https://cobalt.io), Andrew Van Der Stock, executive director at OWASP, and Dr. Grigori Melnik, CPO at Tricentis, to discuss DevSecOps and AppSec.

This is the first episode of DevOps Unbound. A new video/audio series produced by us here at MediaOps, sponsored by Tricentis. Episodes will run every other week. Once a month there will be a roundtable open to the public as well.

In this episode, two respected leaders in the testing space, Dr. Girgori Melnick and James Bach join us to look at the history of testing. How has it enabled DevOps and accelerated software deployment. We look at automation and continuous testing and more. Great discussion.

The video edition of this is available on https://digitalanarchist.com

Accelerated Strategies Group has just delivered their State of Software Delivery Management Report, commissioned by CloudBees. In this DevOps Chat we speak with Mitchell Ashley, CEO, founder of ASG about the report and why it is important for everyone managing software delivery today