DevOps – Another IT buzzword?

Our VP Of Sales EMEA, shared this post in his LinkedIn account, have a look!

Upsizing, downsizing, right-sizing, Client – Server, Fat Client, Thin Client, open source, outsource, enterprise integration, enterprise management, business process re-engineering, business process management.  A few of the buzzwords we have created in the industry in my memory.  Now we have DevOps!  So is it hype or reality?  The speed of business is changing.  Moving ever faster and requiring more flexibility to compete with the challenges of  new companies that are not held back by legacy.  Agility is seen as key to long term survival and short term profit.  So now the focus of attention has turned to the once dark corner of the data centre.  The interface between development and operations and how implementing a DevOps strategy can potentially offer a route to flexibility and agility.

Here is an interesting article from the Register

There are many many tools in the DevOps market already.  Some which organisations have already invested in and have tried to hand stitch together.  At Clarive we provide a platform that orchestrates what you already have and fills in the gaps of the things you don’t have.  The Clarive platform allows organisations in transition between traditional waterfall development methodologies to agile and allows all of the people to use the same tool.  The key thing though is flexibility – allowing for changes in tools, business and process.  So maybe this is DevOps Enterprise Integration Process Management right-sized in the cloud? (don’t quote me!  I am joking!)

Richard Wall – VP Sales EMEA

DEVOPS AND BIMODAL IT: MYTHS AND TRUTHS

DevOps and Bimodal IT are two terms which have recently come onto the radar in the world of enterprise IT.  Confusion surrounding the definition and use of these concepts is rife so we sought to demystify these terms and understand how analysts such as Gartner see them in play over the next few years.

Eddy Pauwels, VP of Sales and Marketing at Clarive Software, were interviewed by Enterprise Management 360º a few days ago…

“This is why I often speak about lean application and service delivery when an organization is serious about DevOps. I believe they should look at the following things; first of all, they should look at application delivery from an end-to-end or a holistic perspective and try to orchestrate it like this. It should try to automate whatever can be automated so that one can deliver at a speed of business and that can be ranging from a few times a year or frequently a few times a day or even an hour if really need be.”

“I believe that DevOps is one of the key answers to support a Bimodal IT organization providing of course that it’s implemented properly and supported by the right infrastructure tooling. As we’ve seen DevOps improve the collaboration and communication between development and operations and try to increase the level of automation in order to support the delivery at the speed of business.”

“A good DevOps tool or solution supporting Bimodal IT for me should at least have one of the following characteristics. Firstly, it should allow you to define and automate any discussion topic between development and operations, whether these are called releases, projects, springs, test cases, change requests or defects, you name it. Secondly, it should be able to provide you with dynamic end-to-end insight into status and activity within the delivery process regardless of the mode being used, so that you really get a deep understanding from a customer perspective inside the delivery process.”

To listen to the full interview, please click here

At the beginning of November, we were present at Gartner Symposium ITXPO in Barcelona.

During this event, everything was discussed around DevOps and Bimodal IT, so it was Eddy Pauwels’ speaking slot ” Non-disruptive, Single-Tool Devops for Bimodal IT on all Platforms”, thanks to his session, the audience know how to increase the coordination between change, release, and configuration management across platforms, deliver release at-the-speed-of-business, and maintain instant end-to-end delivery insight, without ripping and replacing the core infrastructure tools you like or development methodologies the audience may need.

Do you want a copy of the presentation…? Please send an email to [email protected] and we will be able to provide you one copy of it.

For the last day, more and more demos were done in our booth until the very last minute, got so many questions regarding releases, deployment, bimodal IT

All attendees can try our oculus glasses to experiment Clarive, they were able to see the continuous delivery in real time, want to try it? Come to see us at our next events and ask for a free trial!!

Release Management

During this event, Eddy Pauwels provides a good introduction into True DevOps Should Support  Top-down & Bottomup Release Management.
The difference between the Application Release Management Today, and the Real DevOps expectations.

We enjoyed learning about what the best practices in Release Manager are, the essence of DevOps, Top-down & Bottom-up Release Management…

Attendees could win a Real Madrid t-shirt answering right to 3 questions, and several of them did!! Congrats to our winner!!!

Did you attend the speaking session? Did you like it? Don’t hesitate to ask us the presentation HERE

CLARIVE @ DECODING DEVOPS IN BANGALORE

During his session about Lean Application Delivery, Eddy Pauwels spoke about DevOps being very similar to marriage: You want to unite 2 distinct entities (Dev and Ops, or man and woman) into something that adds more value (DevOps, or “married couple”). As within marriage, this is a cultural/behavioral journey without an end; it requires constant investment and adaptation. Every married person knows that this can only happen if you can communicate/collaborate well with each other.

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Broken windows is a criminology theory that says that if you let one window to be broken in an unoccupied building, more windows will be broken — as the building degrades, sooner or later a band of squatters will settle in. In a short time, the broken-into building becomes a hub where crime gravitates in the neighborhood. The theory suggests that, by tackling petty offences, police officers can effectively reduce citywide crime.

But broken windows theory goes deeper that just patrolling officers and crime watching.

It deals with changes in the cultural and social fabric of a community. It deals with social boundaries and how people adapt to the increasing diversion that starts with one seemly trivial incident such as a broken glass (or graffiti, littering, etc.). When a person walks by a broken window, perception of the surrounding changes. The domino effect starts with how a person reacts to the proliferation of rundown areas. Most avoid them. Some feel detached from that part of the community. Others join in and break more windows.

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During this event, Eddy Pauwels provides a good introduction into Clarive’s pragmatic solution and bimodal IT enabled delivery platform that adds value to both ALM and release/deployment teams.
Clarive wants to learn from you how Lean your Application Delivery process is today, and brainstorm together about improvement potential.
Please don’t hesitate to contact us HERE