DevOps Experts Headline DevOpsDays Raleigh 2018 Conference

The organizers of DevOpsDays Raleigh 2018 have secured some of top DevOps experts for their third annual event. The Research Triangle’s version of the worldwide conferences returns to Raleigh’s McKimmon Center September 10-11.

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Sun Tzu and the Survival of the DevOps Fittest

“The Art of War” by Sun Tzu, a fifth century B.C. Chinese general, provides many modern parallels if applied to providing service. Sun Tzu talks about the “Art of War” being the path to safety or ruin, while good DevOps or service management certainly matches up there.

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The Key to Aligning ITIL® and DevOps: Find a Balance

ITIL is a framework that provides an organization with best practices for operating IT services in support of business needs. DevOps, on the other hand, is less clearly defined and structured. One simple way to think of it is that it promotes closer harmonization between IT operations and development teams to increase time to market …

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The Key to Aligning ITIL® and DevOps: Find a Balance

ITIL is a framework that provides an organization with best practices for operating IT services in support of business needs. DevOps, on the other hand, is less clearly defined and structured. One simple way to think of it is that it promotes closer harmonization between IT operations and development teams to increase time to market …

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Four Reasons Why a DevOps Approach Complements ITIL

Unlike ITIL, DevOps is more of a philosophy than a formal framework. DevOps, which is short for Collaboration between Development and Operations, arose as a movement within IT best practices when IT managers began to realize that something needed to be done to close the communications and collaboration gap between development groups and support operations staff. After some time and examination, it became clear that there was no inherent conflict between the DevOps movement and ITIL—the two, in fact, are quite complementary.

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