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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...

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 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

The whole Data/DataOps space is becoming very hot. For StorPool it is more of a case of the rest of the world catching up to what they have been doing for a while now. They are the leading distributed block storage provider globally. In this DevOps chat we speak with Boyan Krosnov, founder product at StorPool. Boyan gives us the background on StorPool as well as a good look at the state of the dis...

strongDM wasn't founded to help with remote workers forced out of the office by COVID19. They have been around for 5 years now. But they do excel at allowing you to manage and audit remote access to all of your assets including DBs, servers and clusters (as well as apps and services) anywhere from anywhere. In this DevOps Chat we speak with strongDM Justin McCarthy, CTO & Co-Founder about how the...

When the cloud first caught on there was a problem with Shadow IT. Developers spinning up instances in AWS without the IT team knowing they existed. Now with the ease of CI/DC automated deployments, the problem of Shadow Code has arisen. Code being added to apps that did not go through the entire team process. In this DevOps Chat we speak with Elad Koren, VP of Product at Perimeter X about the Sha...

DevOps World/Jenkins World has long established itself as a leading venue for DevOps practitioners to learn, share their knowledge, build a top-notch community. But what about leaders, people in leadership roles at companies who utilize DevOps as a vital part of there business and technology strategies? Sam Fell, CloudBees Area Vice President Enterprise Markets, joins DevOps Chats to discuss the n...

The current situation with so many working from home has shined a spotlight on potential security issues with many of our collaboration solutions. Adeya, says they have the answer, offering Swiss, Simple collaboration on a military grade scale. I sat down with Francois Rodriguez of Adeya's exec team to discuss what makes Adeya both simple and secure, as well as what the offering is all about. This...

With so many working from home (WFH), security is being tested perhaps like it never has before. The good folks at SpecOps have made their password auditor product free during this trying time. We spoke with Darren James of SpecSoft about this release and some other tools they have released to help people through the rough spots. Darren had some good insights he shared and we discussed. Have a lis...

Daniel "Spoons" Spoonhower made a bit of a name for himself while he was at Google, as did his two co-founders. They were there at the birth of the microservices wave that has swept through the software world. They left Google and started LightStep to help all developers build better, more scalable applications. With their new release they have pushed the bar higher. In this podcast here from Spoo...

In this DevOps Chat we chat with Kirsten Newcomer,Senior Principal Product Manager, Red Hat. It is a great discussion on the state of DevSecOps and how the Red Hat Open Shift team is trying to make it easier for devs, DevOps and cyber folks to work together to create more secure applications.

Many companies are responding to the large number of people working from home as a result of the public health situation. Today Qualys rolled out a totally free 60 day version of their cloud-based security and compliance solution at no charge. We spoke with Sumedh Thakar about the free release and how Qualys is helping enterprises with their remote workforce.

WhiteSource one of the leaders in the Software Composition Analysis space recently released their annual report on "The State of Open Source Security Vulnerabilities". It is chock full of good data and findings on what is the current state of open source security and how things are trending. I had a chance to sit down with Rhys Arkins, Director, Product at WhiteSource to see what some of the highl...

Gaining real insights, often unique insights can catapult companies ahead of the competition, but that's easier said than done. Splunk recently released its new report, "What Is Your Data Really Worth?" which produced some very compelling results. Leading-edge data innovators use data to raise gross profits by 12.5%. 97% of this top tier meet or beat their customer retention targets. Mature organi...

Contrast Security has released the first "Route Intelligence" functionality in the latest version of their next generation security platform. https://www.contrastsecurity.com/contrast-news In this DevOps Chat we speak with Contrast's CTO/co-founder, Jeff Williams, about what route intelligence is and why you should have a look at it. Contrast continues to set the bar in DevSecOps, pushing beyond v...

Datical has been a leader in the DevOps for databases since even before the term was used. What many may not realize was that the open source Liquibase project was a major contributor to Datical's success. So it should be no surprise then that in filling the open President's seat, they would tap an open source veteran. Dion Cornett, has open source credibility from his time at Red Hat and MariaDB....

SauceCon 2020 (https://saucecon.com/) by the good folks at Sauce Labs is just about a month and half away (April 27). As part of our lead up to the show and our coverage including live broadcasting on Digital Anarchist, we caught up with newly minted, Chief Product Officer, Matt Wyman. Matt discusses how continuous testing, automation and DevOps has led to better testing. With that though we are m...

Sumo Logic has been one of the pioneers in DevSecOps and log analysis for many years now. In this DevOps Chat we speak with Founding VP of Product & Strategy, Bruno Kuric about the Sumo Continuous Intelligence Platform and how it is taking security into the next era. Have a listen as Bruno explains how Sumo is trying to meet the challenges of keeping up with the speed of business, today.

A new company announced their launch and Series A funding. Esper (https://esper.io)is building a platform for android device deployment and application management. Not just for Android phones either. The Esper founders are betting that Android will be the dominant form for embedded devices in both headless and IoT deployments. The CEO/co-founder of Esper, Yadhu Gopalan knows a little something abo...

Rancher Labs is a great example of a start up that was smart enough to sense the way the market was moving and adopted a strategy to capitalize on it. But if you know Rancher co-founder, CEO Sheng Liang, you should not be surprised. Sheng has been seeing the market and staying one step ahead for a long time. In this DevOps chat we sat down with Sheng and spoke about the recent momentum at Rancher....

Tufin Technologies announced Secure Cloud https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200211005174/en/Tufin-SecureCloud-Enables-Companies-Secure-Hybrid-Cloud. The product combines and builds on Tufin Orca and Tufin Iris to offer one product for comprehensive cloud security policy. We had a chance to catch up with Tufin CTO and co-founder, Reuven Harrison to chat about this and the state of the market...

How do you know if your cyber team is up to snuff? Like any good team, they need training and practice to stay on top of their game. The concept of cyber ranges for red and blue teams has been in use for a few years now. Gov and military organizations have been some of the big leaders in this space. Rangeforce comes out of Estonia where NATO teams used the idea of a cyber range to train up their t...

Ask any tech person what is involved in evaluating and purchasing tech tools and their eyes will often roll into their heads. While open source and free versions have made it easier to get the tools into people's hands, evaluating them to choose what is the best fit for your organization is still more art than science. In this podcast we sit down with two security industry veterans to talk about w...