Enterprise DevOps Activity By @IoT2040 | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]

“Oh, dev is dev and ops is ops, and never the twain shall meet.” With apoloies to Rudyard Kipling and all of his fans, this describes the early state of the two sides of DevOps. Yet the DevOps approach is demanded by cloud computing, as the speed, flexibility, and scalability in today's so-called “Third Platform” must not be hindered by the traditional limitations of software development and deployment. A recent report by Gartner, for example, says that 25% of Global 2000 companies will be DevOps shops by next year! “As we see more IT shops running like software companies, we’ll see more DevOps implementations from CIOs,” said BDP International CIO Angela Yochem, in a report from The Wall Street Journal. Thus I get very excited by the prospect of our upcoming DevOps Summit in New York June 9-11. The summit will again have two full tracks devoted to DevOps – one focused on developers, and one focused on operations. DevOps guru and CA Technologies exec Andi Mann is once again serving as Conference Chair. Scheduled sessions include: Jason Bloomberg of Intellyx on architecting agility for the enterprise Shannon Lietz of Intuit on security Gordon Haff of Red Hat on microservices and containers Marck Hornbeek of Spirent Communications on creating Best Practices blueprints for DevOps Charles Kendrick of Isomorphic Software on optimizing DevOps Lorie MacVittie of F5 Networks on extending DevOps with microservices Tapabrata Pal of Capital One on his company's DevOps migration There are, and will be, many more, of course, so go to http://devopssummit.sys-con.com to find out the latest information. I received my operations trial by fire in the 1980s, with my first real job in the industry, as Managing Editor of Unix Review. We decided to eat our own dogfood, so produced as much of the magazine as we could with a Callan Data Systems unix-based system, a machine I fondly called the anti-christ. As system administrator for this machine—and the rudimentary Digital PDP-based network in which it (sometimes) interacted, the last thing I wanted was to be pestered by software developers seeking to “improve” how we did things. Over the ensuing decades, I've done things such as launch the JavaOne event, consulted for Sybase, and worked at Tibco, so have been immersed in the dev world through many generations of languages, frameworks, and architectures. The Gartner report hints at the enormity of what's going on. The DevOps Summit 2015 at Cloud Expo brings the full picture into full focus. The DevOps migration is a difficult one for most enterprises, but of more importance than anything since the dawn of the Worldwde Web and ubiquitous Internet presence. The twain shall meet.

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