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15 Out-of-the-Box Predictions for IT This Year

New article quoting me on predictions for 2015  in eWeek. Out of 15 prediuctions from EMC, Microsoft, etc, I landed 3 (all connected to CA’s strategic solutions) including Passwords Give Way to Continuous Security… On the heels of a year fraught…

Impressions of DevOps in Europe

I recently had the pleasure and privilege of traveling around Europe for a series of conferences and events focused primarily on DevOps to help me understand how DevOps is faring in Europe and to see what customers and others are…

Five lessons from Europe for enterprise DevOps

Here are five top lessons that I learned from organizations about DevOps in the enterprise from my travels in Europe late last year. I recently visited Europe for the Continuous Delivery (CoDe) conference in Copenhagen, DevOps Days Berlin, and DevOps Days…

2015 Virtualization Predictions — Virtualization Review

Virtualization Review collects my predictions for 2015! So here it is: I predict 2015 is the year virtualization goes mainstream! read all of my predictions at 2015 Virtualization Predictions — Virtualization Review.

Top Skills for Enterprise

There is one question I hear almost every time I talk with my large enterprise customers about DevOps: What skills do my people need to be successful with DevOps? Talk of DevOps almost immediately focuses on culture – like having…

CIO Checklist: Ready For The Disrupted, Digital World? – InformationWeek

IT leaders can take these steps today to stay relevant. Just don’t confuse “checklist” with a simple fix. Disruptive digital technologies are creating a new application-driven economy that is changing the way CIOs need to approach their jobs. The evidence…

3 Tips to Shape Human Behaviors and Achieve Your DevOps GoalsDevOps.com

  DevOps raises many questions around processes and technologies, but it is important to remember that people are the essential piece that makes DevOps work. Since my post on Generalists vs. Specialists here on DevOps.com, I have had many questions…

CA: Life After (And/Or With) The Mainframe – IT-TNA | IT-TNA

Steve Wexler quotes me in his article on CA’s transition from mainframe to the emerging application economy. “We’re pulling our customers into this new world but we’re not ignoring where they came from,” said CA’s Andi Mann, VP of Strategic…