DevOps Chat

Anshu Agarwal has a tremendous record of working in startups that had successful exits. Now for the first time, along with her co-founders, she is actually founding the startup herself. Nimbella is a serverless platform that is cloud agnostic and makes developing and deploying applications easy. Whether in a public cloud, private data center or both, Nimbella can help. In this chat we speak with A...

Christopher O'Malley is one of the leading voices in the DevOps for Mainframe community. He is relentless in advocating how the mainframe platform can not just exist, but thrive in todays agile/DevOps environments. His evangelism not only keeps his company Compuware front and center in the mainframe DevOps discussion, but really lifts the entire market. In this chat we catch up with Chris to talk...

In this DevOps Chat we speak with Manish Gupta, CEO co-founder of ShiftLeft. ShiftLeft is one of the up and coming DevSecOps companies. As evidence of such, they were recently chosen as one of the 10 finalists for this years #RSAC innovation Sandbox award. I have known Manish for many years in the security industry and it does not surprise me that he is once again at the top of a company that is s...

They say if you live long enough . . . Few things give me greater pleasure than seeing my friends well earned success. Rich Mogull and Mike Rothman (along with Adrian Lane, Jody Brazil & Brandy Peterson) have been chasing a dream for more than a few years now. How to make the SecOps persons life easier, while bringing security into the age of DevOps, automation, agile, CI/CD, etc. Say hello to Dis...

The RSA Conference is just a month away. Once again RSAC promises to be the place where the world gathers around security. With upwards of 50,000 people attending, it is big by anyone's standard. If you haven't already registered, here is a code for $100 dollars off a full conference pass (all sessions), 1U9DEVOPSFD or get a free expo pass, 1U9DEVOPSXP DevSecOps will be center stage this year, lit...

The RSA Conference is just a month away. Once again RSAC promises to be the place where the world gathers around security. With upwards of 50,000 people attending, it is big by anyone's standard. If you haven't already registered, here is a code for $100 dollars off a full conference pass (all sessions), 1U9DEVOPSFD a free expo pass, 1U9DEVOPSXP DevSecOps will be center stage this year, literally....

Tyler Shields is someone who has made the leap from technical security expert to business leader. At Veracode, CA and now Sonatype, Tyler is someone who can clearly enunciate the path forward for business leaders on what they should be doing in regard to DevSecOps, open source security and minimally viable security. Tyler gets it and you can learn a lot from him. Have a listen and enjoy

What exactly is a chief scientist? Eric Sheridan at WhiteHat tells us. More than that, Eric gives us what he calls the "the security addendum to the 12 factor App." I guess to understand this, you need to understand something about the 12 factor app process. Here is the website to learn: https://12factor.net/ Eric lays out a well reasoned approach to appsec and some good research findings from Whi...

In this DevOps Chat we speak with nClouds CEO JT Giri about the challenges SMBs face when moving to the cloud. As an AWS premier partner, nClouds specializes in helping these companies achieve a successful cloud migration. So why should SMBs migrate to the cloud? What are their challenges? How can they succeed? JT shares with us his insight, honed from helping dozens and dozens of SMBs do this suc...

In this DevOps chat we speak with our old friend Tim Woods, VP of technology alliances at Firemon. Firemon's mission has moved beyond the management of the firewall to managing your security. Recent acquisitions have enabled them to offer comprehensive security management across the entire hybrid environment. Tim and I discuss the current state of technology and what large enterprises are looking...

Scaling your testing is the scourge of many software teams. While test automation and continuous testing have made great strides, it is still hard to automate every QA test. Also engineering resources who can script these tests are hard to find. Enter Rainforest. Rainforest has a unique crowdsourcing solution to continuous testing. It combines crowdsourcing talent with automation to deliver a high...

Two megatrends for 2019 and beyond is scale and automation. The identity management space is a perfect example. Between all of the IP enabled devices (machines) coming on line, the billions of people and their identities, managing these billions and billions takes systems that will redefine scale and almost by definition have to be automated. Enter Forgerock. They are a leader in managed identitie...

In this DevOps Chat we look at some exciting new technology from a company called MissingLink. Yosi Tauguri is their CEO, founder and he is the guest on this DevOps Chat. Missinglink is part of the Samsung X product development team. Their mission is to use ai to help data engineers with deep learning problems that can transform organizations abilities to meet and exceed today's customers expectat...

Managing your machines identities is as or even more important than managing your personal identities. And with the explosion in the amount of machines thanks to IoT, containers, serverless and more their numbers are in the 10s of billions or more. That is a big job and someone has to do it. That is why Venafi just security a $100 million dollar round of funding. We caught up with Venafi CEO Jeff...

James Wickett is the man to go to for DevSecOps. The founder of the Rugged DevOps movement which has merged into the DevSecOps group, James is one of the most knowledgeable people on the subject of DevSecOps. In this DevOps Chat James shares his views on what is on the horizon for DevSecOps and what are the most important things we can do to make our teams more secure. Have a listen as James gives...

Unravel is making a name in the AIOps, APM and big data markets. We chat with Unravel CEO Kunal Agarwal in this DevOps Chat about what makes Unravel a must have for its customers. We also take a sneak peek ahead to what the near and not so near future holds for big data, AIOps and the tech scene in general. Great listen.

Portshift brings a new identity-based application security model from code to runtime. Cloud or on prem, Portshift works. In this chat we speak with CEO Ran Ilany and VP Business Ops Eran Grabiner about what is unique to the Portshift solution and why you should consider it for your own application security. Especially for your DevOps teams.

SauceLabs has unveiled its new headless browser testing capability which will allow for automated and continuous testing to perform even faster. I sat down with Lubos Parobek, VP of Product at Sauce to discuss what drove this development and how it can help DevOps teams be even more efficient with their testing.

Managing Macs, iPhones, iPads and other Apple devices at scale is not something really native to iOS or OSX. Enter Fleetsmith. In sort of a Puppet meets Apple, the Fleetsmith team automates configuration, management and security of your Apple devices. In this chat we sit down with Fleetsmith co-founder, CEO Zack Blum and company advisor, Puppet co-founder, Luke Kanies to discuss the mission and ch...

While everyone wants to focus on building a new app, the fact is there are many, many apps already out there. They need to be maintained, updated and modernized. How do you upgrade these legacy apps to new infrastructure, frameworks, languages, etc? App Modernization is a thing. In this DevOps Chat we speak with Matt Tarnawsky of IBM about App Modernization and Service Virtualization, testing and...

It seems every organization is chasing digital transformation. Some companies are succeeding, some are wallowing a bit, trying to figure out how to do it. Box is a company that is both successfully navigating digital transformation, as well as a catalyst for digital transformation at other organizations. In this DevOps Chat we speak with Paul Chapman, CIO of Box about these topics and he gives us...

RSA Conference is where the world comes to meet Security. For the last 14 years, the Innovation Sandbox Contest was where you could find out what the up and coming companies in security were up to. This year RSAC is doing something else in addition. The Launch Pad is where to come to if you have a great idea. You can pitch to VCs, the community and your peers - get great feedback. https://www.rsac...

Digicert a leader in the digital certificate world recently conducted a survey on the use and security around Internet of Things (IoT). In this DevOps Chat we spoke with Mike Nelson, VP of IoT Security at Digicert. Mike explains the results of the survey as well as what are the key things that the top tier companies are doing that sets them apart. You can get the full results of the survey and rep...

In just a little over 3 years Aqua Security has set their mark in the container security space. With their major new release of Aqua 3.5 they have again raised the bar with Serverless and Container Encryption upgrades and feature sets. I sat down with the Aqua Enforcer himself, Rani Osnat and "Boston" Andy Feit to discuss the details of this major release. Rani and Andy give us an inside peek.

As the old saying goes, "speed kills". When it comes to development, a lack of speed can kill too. Marko Anastasov and the Semaphore team have always strived to make Semaphore the fastest CI tool in the market. With version 2.0 of Semaphore they believe they truly are. Marko brings a unique perspective as a developer to leading the Semaphore team. He knows what he and his colleagues like and that...