Teaching an elephant to dance

Your organization's current-and future-digital transformation is based on your culture and technology choices. It is an evolutionary process, and the stages of change and the final result look different for each organization. This e-book examines the stages of "digital Darwinism" and helps you determine how your organization should evolve to effectively control your digital transformation- taking your technology "elephant" and teaching it to be agile, process -driven, and adaptive.

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2018 Hybrid Cloud eBook: The New Normal

Where once Operations teams built extensive, high-availability data centers, today they extend their capabilities with the elastic storage, compute, and delivery capacity of public cloud services. In this eBook we look at some of the considerations Ops - and especially the newly-minted DevOps - teams must keep in mind as they integrate public cloud services into their hybrid cloud environments. From the serious - to the quirky, this collection of perspectives provides a window into the challenging world of the hybrid cloud operation.

Chapters Include:

  • The problem lurking inside your hybrid IT strategy
  • SaaS comes at you fast
  • 10 ways to make outage mitigation fun
  • Cloud capabilities turn developers into operational experts
  • Self-sourced data won’t get you where you want to go
  • Metrics that beat Murphy’s law
  • Cloud-first + DevOps-first = 81% competitive advantage
  • Optimizing for resources and consumers alike

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SecOps Report: 52% of Companies Sacrifice Cybersecurity for Speed

A recent Threat Stack survey finds that over 50% of companies admit to cutting back on security measures to meet a business deadline or objective. As long as companies are willing to sacrifice security at the altar of speed, the long-held dream of marrying DevOps and security simply won’t come true.

This report examines why the vision for SecOps hasn’t become a reality at most organizations. Key findings indicate that:

  • 68% of companies state that their CEOs demand DevOps and security teams not do anything to slow the business down
  • 62% say their Ops teams push back when asked to deploy secure technology
  • 57% say Ops teams push back on security best practices
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Enabling Database Development Agility for DevOps

Join guest speaker IDC research director Melinda Ballou and Quest® Toad® product manager John Pocknell as they discuss the state of DevOps and the value it provides for continuous application delivery.

This session will highlight the advantages of bringing database development into the DevOps pipeline. You’ll learn how this prevents bottlenecks from occurring when application releases require database changes. You’ll also get to see how new tooling helps integrate Oracle database development processes to accelerate DevOps momentum.

You’ll gain a deeper understanding of:

  • The challenges and benefits of DevOps
  • Key factors for DevOps success
  • How software can support DevOps processes and integration of the database
Speakers
  • Melinda Ballou: Research Director, Agile ALM, Quality and Portfolio Strategies
  • John Pocknell: Sr. Product Manager, Quest Software
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Unleash your DevOps Strategy by Synchronizing Application and Database Changes

Need an easier way to keep up with business and customer demands? In this educational session, you’ll learn how to integrate database changes with your DevOps strategy. And before you say, “That’s only for application development” – don’t worry. You’re about to see how to extend those same time-saving concepts to database teams.

So what’s the secret to DevOps for databases? Implementing specific processes and tools to synchronize database and applications as they are deployed. You’ll get step-by-step guidance from Oracle expert and Toad Product Manager John Pocknell to help you streamline database development.

In this DevOps training session, you’ll learn how to:

  • Shorten your database development cycles without compromising quality and performance.
  • Integrate code-quality reviews and functional code testing into your continuous integration workflow.
  • Work smarter and become more agile by delivering code 40 percent faster.
Speakers
  • John Pocknell: Sr. Product Manager, Quest Software
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The 2018 State of Database DevOps – Survey on DevOps Adoption Rates

This report contains the results of Redgate’s latest annual survey SQL Server database professionals, across a range of industries and company sizes.

Over 700 organizations were asked whether they had adopted, or were planning to adopt, DevOps practices and how many of them had applied the same principles to their databases. The report looks at how things have developed over the last 12 months, and what key challenges and requirements are driving DevOps adoption in 2018.

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