5 AWS Automation Tips That Will Save You Time and Money
As the leading cloud provider, Amazon Web Services offers an overwhelming variety of services, with a complex pricing scheme to match. For this reason, there are many third-party solutions designed to help you plan and manage your AWS usage and take advantage of integrated tools. Amazon also offers several features designed to make your cloud-based processes faster and easier to manage. A major advantage of AWS is that it allows you to automate many processes, which will save you time and money if done correctly. The following tips should provide you with an idea of the processes and services that lend themselves to automation.
Multi-National Pharmaceutical Creates Strategic IT Roadmap with Flux7
The customer we’re highlighting today is a juggernaut in the pharma industry whose drugs and vaccines earn it multi-billions in revenue. Clearly, its R&D and supporting business functions are doing a lot right. In these situations we often hear the old adage, ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’ Yet, the IT team saw a clear opportunity to take its practice to the next level, bringing greater throughput, additional repeatability, scalability and reliability to the business. With lots of ideas and no clear starting point, the pharma company called on the strategic IT consulting services team at Flux7 to help create a strategic IT roadmap.
IT Modernization and DevOps News Week in Review 10.14.19
Welcome to cybersecurity awareness month which has kicked off in a highly unusual manner. Eighteen companies in the industry have joined forces in an effort to improve cross-product interoperability through an initiative called the Open Cybersecurity Alliance (OCA). Launched by the open standards group OASIS, OCA brings together the likes of IBM Security, McAfee, CrowdStrike, CyberArk, Fortinet, ThreatQuotient, and more to develop “protocols and standards which enable tools to work together and share information across vendors”.
What is Low Code? What is No Code? A Primer with Low Code Examples
Much has been written about the rise of citizen developers (anyone outside of IT who builds business applications) as empowered by a new slate of Low Code platforms. According to a recent survey by Information Today, 76% reported that at least some portion of their applications were developed outside of IT. Addressing a persistent lack of developer resources, Low Code gives business units the ability to create applications with fewer handoffs that allows faster time to production. Low Code platforms enable these benefits by providing citizen developers with reusable drag and drop components and flowcharts for business logic that allow them to easily create applications that meet specific business and/or customer requirements.
Agile Enterprise Case Study: Agile Training and Teammate Satisfaction
Today I have the privilege of sharing with you the last article in our series on becoming an Agile Enterprise. (ICYMI, start at the beginning of the series here with Flatarchies and The Agile Enterprise.) Last week we discussed the role of an Agile Culture and in continuing with that theme, today I’ll dive a little deeper and share our experience with training’s impact on growing both corporate agility and teammate satisfaction. Spoiler Alert: It does both!
Week in Review 10.7.19
Following last week’s State of DevOps report, we have news from TrendMicro whose survey released today found that organizational silos create an unnecessary security risk with a lack of security involvement in DevOps projects creating cyber risk for 72% of IT leaders. While DevOps is reportedly a bigger priority today than a year ago (79% of respondents), 34% admitted that their security teams are not always consulted in project plans.
Q&A with Flux7’s New HPC Consulting Practice Lead
This week Flux7 is proud to announce our new consulting practice dedicated to helping organizations take advantage of cloud-based High Performance Computing (HPC) to accelerate innovation. Our new HPC practice allows enterprises to innovate at scale, and minimize time to market. Leading the new practice is Flux7 Solution Architect, Derek Magill, who joins us today to share more about himself and cloud-based HPC opportunities and challenges.
Agile Culture and the Agile Enterprise: A Flux7 Case Study
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 Enterprise, with a focus on culture. (Don’t miss our earlier articles on the role of OKRs and Flatarchies.) As with other parts of our journey, we have learned many lessons along the way, (and will continue to learn) as we embrace continuous improvement as a core part of our Agile Culture.
IT Modernization and DevOps News Week in Review 9.30.19
This week Puppet unveiled its annual State of DevOps report with several significant findings. Focused this year on patterns and practices that help organizations integrate security into the software development lifecycle, Puppet unearthed several ways better security integration leads to better business outcomes.
Dr. Suleman to Keynote October 15 IDC Keynotes & Cocktails Event
We are proud to announce that Dr. Suleman, CEO and co-founder of DevOps consulting firm Flux7, has been chosen to keynote the upcoming IDC Keynotes & Cocktails event in Austin, TX on October 15th, 2019. Dr. Suleman will address how to adopt DevOps in an AWS cloud migration, while IDC presents its latest DevOps research.
DevOps Foundation for Digital Transformation: Live GigaOm Webinar
Join us on October 9th at Noon from the comfort of your desk as we bring you a free 1-hour webinar on how to scale DevOps efforts beyond the pilot a…
IT Modernization and DevOps News Week in Review 9.23.19
GitLab Commit, held in New York last week, brought us news that GitLab completed a $268 million Series E round of fundraising. The company reports that it is now valued at $2.75 billion and that it plans to invest the cash infusion in its DevOps platform offerings — including monitoring, security, and planning.