The Skytap Podcast

Tyler Pace and Kenaz Kwa from Puppet Labs discuss why—besides security—it’s so important to know what’s running inside your containers, who at your organization should know, some things you can do with that valuable information. This episode was recorded ahead of their DockerCon 2017 presentation, "Peering into Black Boxes: What’s Really Inside Your Containers?”

Jim Ford details ADP's rapid adoption of Docker containers and shares his thoughts on legacy application modernization in the enterprise. Skytap's Kelly Looney and Dan Jones also discuss modernization initiatives around cloud, microservices, and Martin Fowler's "strangler method."

Sanjeev Sharma, CTO of DevOps Adoption at IBM, discusses the different motivations and drivers for adopting DevOps, and what benefits doing so can bring at the enterprise level. We also discuss Sanjeev's newly released "DevOps Adoption Playbook."

Learning & Development Manager (Digital Learning) at Scottish Social Services Council, Keith Quinn, sits down with us to discuss the power of relatable, realistic, real-world narratives when utilized in virtual training. This episode was recorded at DevLearn 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada, where Keith presented his session, "Using Immersive Simulations to Develop Real-world Skills."

On this week's episode, you'll first hear from Megan Torrance of TorranceLearning as we dive deeper into her focus on agile's ability to help virtual training professionals "figure out what the most important thing is (they) ought to be doing." After Megan's interview, we'll move on to our conversation with Jennifer Hofmann, President of InSync Training, where you'll learn how modern training and blended learning are enabling the creation of "authentic learning environments."

As enterprises continue to modernize traditional architectures, tough decisions must be made around building a cloud strategy, what business problems are you trying to solve, and what will the TCO be of a move to the cloud, vs. continuing to invest in on-premises solutions. On this week's episode of The Skytap Podcast, we sat down with veteran IT solutions executive and CSC Distinguished Engineer, JP Morgenthal, to get his take on tackling this monumental task so many organizations are facing today.

Puppet CIO and VP of Operations, Nigel Kersten, and Electric Cloud CTO, Anders Wallgren, join Skytap's Dan Jones and Noel Wurst to break down the 2016 State of DevOps Report

Director of QA at Audible, Tanya Kravtsov, joins us this week to talk about her experiences in helping lead DevOps transformations. We discuss QA's role in DevOps, and how automation frees up testers to expand collaboration to other departments within their organization.

Founder and CTO of Utopia Solutions, Lee Barnes, sat down with us at STAREAST to share his thoughts on what makes up a successful, long-term test automation strategy. We discuss what realistic test automation statistics are realistic, which ones aren't, and how to determine if your organization is mature enough for an automation implementation.

QA evangelist Dave Higgins sat down with us at STAREAST to discuss agile, DevOps, legacy vs. mobile apps, and more at Hotels.com. The online hospitality group has set an ambitious goal of having their 40+ dev/test teams doing continuous delivery by the end of the year—learn how they're they're going to get there in this week's episode!