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With the HPC User Forum this past week, we saw several High-Performance Computing (HPC) related news announcements. Starting off, Hyperion, who established the Forum in 1999, shared that HPC in...
For many organizations, becoming an Agile Enterprise is a transformative experience and Flux7 is no different. Today we continue our series on the Flux7 journey to become an Agile...
On October 11, 2019, Flux7 and AWS HPC experts will lead a one-day intensive technical workshop on AWS HPC services. Attendees to the hands-on training session will learn about services...
The transition to becoming an Agile Enterprise is one that touches every part of the organization -- from strategy to structure and process to technology. In our journey to share...
Last week Werner Vogels, AWS CTO, spelled out in an interview with WSJ CIO Today the Company’s Path to the Cloud Business. A fascinating read, Vogels shares how Amazon’s...
This article originally appeared on Forbes. Lead, follow or get out of the way. A phrase famously coined by George Patton and later by Chrysler’s Lee Iacocca, it is also...
The 2019 State of DevOps report by DORA has been released and it underscores a key finding from prior reports, that it is possible to optimize for stability without...
Legacy systems challenge established hoteliers to effectively innovate and compete with a myriad of market pressures. From OTAs to timeshares and new market entrants like Oyo, hotel executives must manage...
The Amazon API Gateway can be used to publicly publish an organization’s APIs. In just a few clicks, or a few lines of code, one can set up an API...
M&A activity was in the news this week with several significant industry announcements. Splunk announced a definitive agreement to acquire SignalFx, a SaaS provider of real-time monitoring and metrics...
Continuous testing is a DevOps best practice that helps ensure code quality. It implies that code is tested early, often and automatically, helping create a culture of test-driven development (TDD)...
Inc. magazine has announced its annual ranking of the fastest-growing companies in America and for the second year, Flux7 has been named to the prestigious list. We are truly honored...
As DevOps teams make progress in collaboration, automation and more, new services and functionality continue to emerge to help further streamline roles and processes. At DevOps World | Jenkins...
Few industries face the level of global competition that manufacturing does. To compete and realize the promise of Industry 4.0, manufacturers are increasingly embracing digital transformation. Evolving the business --...
The world’s first gigabyte hard drive was the size of a refrigerator -- and that wasn’t all that long ago. Clearly, technology has evolved, and so have our data...
Container security was top of mind this week as Kubernetes announced the results of its first security audit. The review looked at Kubernetes 1.13.4 and found 37 vulnerability issues,...
From luxury to grocery, the retail war continues. While some would say we’re witnessing a retail apocalypse, others contend it’s really the death of the boring middle. (HT Steve Dennis)...
At IBM's Investor Briefing 2019, CEO Ginni Rometty, addressed questions about the future of Red Hat now that the acquisition has closed. Framing what she calls Chapter Two of...
The Agile Enterprise is becoming the way successful companies operate and at Flux7 we like to lead by example. As a result, we have embraced many Agile practices across our...
Today’s marketplace is volatile. It is uncertain. It is complex and difficult to navigate. And to stay competitive, enterprises must react to change with unprecedented speed. As many of the...
Underscoring why DevOps security continues to be the leading thing that keeps CIOs up at night is the newest Data Breach report from IBM and the Ponemon Institute in...
As the start of a new series about becoming an Agile Enterprise, today’s blog focuses on organizational structure as agile teams are a key element to a successful Agile Enterprise....
GitLab unveils the results of its annual Global Developer Report. Focused this year on DevSecOps, the firm found that 89% of developers, operations, and security team members who work...
As more companies look to modernize their systems, the skills gap becomes even more pervasive. With both legacy and cloud-native development skills scarce, application modernization service suppliers can help customers...
A quick look at recent news headlines simultaneously reveals that the ‘Retail apocalypse’ continues , an NRF study says customers dig retail tech , Retail Stocks’ Punishing...
Top of the news this past week was the announcement that IBM has finalized its acquisition of Red Hat. Key messages IBM would have us take-away from the press...
Helping enterprises who are conducting an AWS cloud migration as part of a technology transformation project, we are often asked about IT governance and how to ensure policies and controls...
This article originally appeared on Forbes. As the CEO of a DevOps consulting organization, I speak regularly with CIOs and heads of IT about the projects they are working on...
As the pace slows a little in the summer months, we all gain a little more time for housekeeping. In keeping with that theme, in addition to the few...
Last week was the inaugural AWS re:Inforce conference, a two-day conference focused on AWS security architecture best practices. Over 7,000 attendees gathered to hear Stephen Schmidt, VP and CISO...
Verizon reports in its 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report that web applications are the top hacking action in terms of breaches, with nearly 70% of breaches taking place this way....
This article originally appeared on Medium The Hertz digital experience project presents an opportunity to examine continuous improvement and innovation. For those who may have missed the story, a...
Each year Gartner announces Cool Vendors in a variety of technology markets. We are honored to be recognized as one of five Cool Vendors named in the Gartner report, Cool...
The annual Jetbrains State of the Developer Ecosystem survey found that 45% of developers are now using a DevOps continuous integration / continuous delivery tool of some sort. And,...
A recent IDC survey of the Fortune 1000 found that the average cost of an infrastructure failure is $100,000 per hour and the average total cost of unplanned application downtime...
The oil and gas industry has a rich history and one that is deeply intertwined with regulation -- with Federal and State rules that regulate everything from exploration to production...
The Uptime Institute announced findings of its ninth annual Data Center Survey, unveiling several interesting -- and important -- data points. Underscoring what many in the industry are feeling...
According to the World Economic Forum, digital transformation could unlock approximately $1.6 trillion of value for the Oil and Gas industry, its customers and society. This value is derived from...
This article originally appeared on Forbes According to CareerBuilder's Mid Year Job Forecast, 63% of U.S. employers planned to hire full-time, permanent workers in the second half of 2018. This...
Palo Alto Networks made the most of a short week by announcing its plan to acquire container security company Twistlock for $410 million. It also announced plans to acquire...
Growjo is on a mission to identify the top growing companies across regions of the US and we’re excited to announce that Flux7 has been ranked among the fastest growing...
This article originally appeared on Medium. The other day I decided to re-watch Jurassic Park, the pop-classic from 1993 in which a theme park suffers a major power breakdown...
At its ChefConf 2019 held last week in Seattle, Chef announced several enhancements to its Chef Enterprise Automation Stack (EAS). New features include comprehensive Application Operations Dashboards which Chef...
Companies that want to increase their ability to deploy faster and increase uptime are using Landing Zones in AWS with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD). With benefits for security,...
Fresh off the presses this week is Mark Schwartz’s newest title, War and Peace and IT. Published by IT Revolution Press, the book is available in paperback, as an e-book...
At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe this past week, data from a new Codefresh survey finds that four of five developers cite a lack of DevOps automation as an obstacle...
As a DevOps consulting group, we are increasingly asked about achieving DevOps at scale. Indeed, we recently published a blog series on the topic, outlining a seven step process...
Join Kelly Loony, AWS Practice Lead-DevOps, and Erik Larson, Flux7 Solutions Architect, as they present a one day workshop on how Serverless Technology is impacting business now (and what you...
The Red Hat Summit held last week brought several pieces of noteworthy news, including the announcement of RHEL 8, OpenShift 4 and a new Red Hat offering for developers,...
DockerCon took place this past week in San Francisco. The key announcement from Docker at the show was the unveiling of its New Docker Enterprise 3.0 platform which includes,...
Earlier we wrote about accelerating cloud success with factories that support DevOps. Today we’re going to zoom out a little and explore how DevOps automation has become a lynchpin to...
Just days ahead of DockerCon, Docker announced a partnership with Arm to enable cloud developers to build applications for the cloud, edge, and IoT environments on the Arm architecture....
Keeping in line with the principals of a Well Architected Review (WAR), we are constantly challenged by our customers to help evolve their requirements into repeatable and automated patterns deployed...
The big buzz this week (pun intended) was from #CloudBeesDays where CloudBees announced the acquisition of Electric Cloud. The goal, according to a release by the company is to...
Organizations looking to modernize their applications are almost evenly divided between those that cloud-enable their legacy apps and those that go cloud native, according to IDC. Either way, they are...
Today Flux7 announced it has closed a round of funding from NewWave Partners, LLC. This is truly exciting news for us, and a significant milestone as we continue to expand...
An important tool provider to DevOps companies, Atlassian made several announcements at the annual Atlassian Summit, held last week in Las Vegas. Opsgenie, the incident management software Atlassian acquired last...
Join us at the IDC CIO Perspectives conference in New York as Flux7 CEO, Dr. Aater Suleman, presents on “Managing your IT Platform Transition to the Agile Enterprise.” In his...
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According to a report released by Cloud Foundry at its Cloud Foundry Summit last week, for the first time, a majority of companies are putting mission critical apps in...
When we started Flux7 in 2013, Aater and I were first-time entrepreneurs. While we knew we wanted to create a workplace that everyone enjoys coming to and being a part...
Technology leaders are increasingly being asked to help their companies use technology as a competitive platform to help further engage and serve customers. Yet, as customer needs -- and expectations...
Amazon was busy at its #AWSSummit in Santa Clara last week, announcing several new service offerings (or the general availability of solutions previously announced), including Deep Learning Containers, Concurrency Scaling...
According to research by Aberdeen, business data is growing exponentially, with the average company seeing the volume of their data grow at a rate that exceeds 50% per year. A...
At #DWS19, the DataWorks Summit in Barcelona, Cloudera introduced its strategy for bringing together Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) and Cloudera Distribution Hadoop (CDH) following its merger. According to Cloudera’s...
This article originally appeared on Forbes It’s frequently said that Kubernetes is one of the fastest-growing projects in open-source history (paywall). Along with containers and microservices, Kubernetes is gaining traction within...
‘Meet customers where they are.’ This advice is simultaneously sage and as helpful as “buy low, sell high”. To meet evolving customer needs and expectations requires a technology foundation that...
This week a new DevOps initiative was launched to create a next generation of continuous delivery collaboration. Designed to be a new foundation for the diverse continuous integration and...
In our last blog, we discussed the role of knowledge transfer (KT) in ensuring ongoing DevOps success. (In case you missed it, you can read it here) As promised, today...
“Na hee gnanena sadrusham” - Nothing is comparable to knowledge. As this Sanskrit proverb implies, nothing is as crucial as knowledge transfer (KT) for DevOps success. More than simple...
RSA took place last week and as a result, cloud security is in the news. According to the 6th annual DevSecOps Community Survey by Sonatype, CloudBees, Carnegie Mellon’s Software...
The technology field is experiencing a real pinch when it comes to finding skilled talent. In fact, over five million IT jobs will be added to the global economy in...
We are often asked by prospective customers about our remote approach to providing AWS DevOps consulting services as many enterprises are accustomed to working with service providers onsite. At Flux7,...
This week the annual RSA conference kicks off in San Francisco. The theme of this year’s Conference is “Better” with the intention of sparking discussion among enterprises about what...
Traditional IT is being put under increasing pressure by the business to do more with less, simultaneously driving innovation, growing customer satisfaction, and maintaining system security and compliance—all while increasing...
What do factories have to do with DevOps? Consider that the introduction of factories vastly improved society’s ability to manufacture goods, replacing a system where each component of a product...
Wonder how your DevOps efforts compare to others in the industry? Atlassian recently surveyed 500 software development and IT professionals about their tools and practices and released seven key...
The customer in today’s DevOps Case Study is a global supplier of financial service technology who was challenged by this organizational tension and other internal factors that constrained growth. It...
With the fast pace of evolving technology, new engineering approaches are necessary. From smart cities to green engineering, the opportunities in front of engineering firms are both large and exciting....
A few weeks ago we wrote about the growing demand for DevOps skills and this month’s Index by TIOBE affirms the greater thrust with Python now ranking third in its...
In a recent survey of over 70,000 developers, HackerRank found that professional growth and work-life balance are the two most important workplace considerations for developers, closely followed by interesting projects...
Join us at the IDC CIO Perspectives conference in Ft. Worth as G6 Hospitality CIO, Jessie Burgess, and Flux7 CEO, Aater Suleman, present at CIO Perspectives on “How G6 Hospitality...
A new report from Synergy Research Group reveals that Q4 2018 spending on cloud infrastructure services grew 45% over the year prior, resulting in a full-year growth rate of...
This past week Amazon and Microsoft announced earnings, with both reporting continued strength in their cloud businesses. For its part, AWS reported a 45% increase in revenue, to $7.4 billion...
In our DevOps consulting services, we work daily with AWS architectures on behalf of a wide variety of large enterprises. As a result, we were excited to see that Amazon...
Challenged with increased competitive pressure, many organizations turn to DevOps methodologies to increase agility, speed their time to market, access additional markets, and more. Helping address these pressures, DevOps process...
Happy Data Privacy Day! An international effort to promote privacy, data protection best practices, and to empower individuals and business to safeguard data, the day is celebrated across the United...
We recently had the opportunity to work with a publicly traded media organization to enable blue/green and rolling restart deployment pipelines for its customer-facing website. Part of a larger effort...
This article originally appeared on Forbes. As businesses increasingly realize that they are technology companies that happen to make a product or service, the line of business (LOB) often becomes...
A new year is a time for new beginnings; yet many organizations are kicking off the year with an ongoing search for talent that will aid them in their...
As we greet the new year, we are taking a look back at the best of 2018, sharing those blog topics that gave our readers the most inspiration in their...
According to research by IDG, 2018 saw a continued investment in the cloud by organizations big and small, with 73% of enterprises running at least one application, or a portion...
Working with dozens of financial services organizations, we understand first-hand the need for security and scalability as every minute of downtime has direct customer satisfaction and bottom line repercussions. As...
Developing games is much like the movies, novels, or any other business that relies on the ever-changing taste of popular culture. While not every game, (or book or film for...
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon was held in Seattle this past week, with a reported 8,000 in attendance. With a waiting list of 2,000 and a lengthy list of vendor announcements, the...
Our DevOps consulting team at Flux7 works with dozens of enterprises to help mature their IT programs and improve their operational excellence. In the process of moving from traditional IT...
For scalable, secure AWS DevOps, it’s important to start on the right foot. For this reason, we were recently contacted by our client, a marketing solutions provider to more than...
On the heels of AWS releasing a slew of new service features at its re:Invent show last week, DevOps tools providers are wrapping up the year with a few...
As a DevOps consulting group, we are increasingly asked about achieving DevOps at scale. Indeed, we recently published a blog series on the topic, outlining a seven step process for...
Consumers increasingly expect digital offerings from companies they do business with. Both B2B and B2C customers are placing increasing pressure on organizations to digitize and modernize their offerings. Yet, knowing...