Performance Testing and Functional Testing – Simultaneously?
By: Jim Azar, Sr. Vice President, CTO Can functional and non-functional testing co-exist? Why not, if the goal is to get excellent software at the end of the funnel. Any software development journey is incomplete without the vital phase of testing. In testing, many aspects of the software are checked against a set of criteria […]
Saltworks partners with Secure Code Warrior on secure coding for DevOps
Article published in Help Net Security. Saltworks announced a partnership with Secure Code Warrior to elevate the importance and accessibility of secure code education and skills development. By helping developers write secure code from the start, development teams can ship quality code faster, avoiding errors and reducing risks, and increase skills adoption. The partnership aligns with Saltworks’ strategy to […]
Getting Ready for Continuous Delivery? Avoid These Mistakes
By: Mark Lewis, SVP Sales and Marketing Enterprises can Mishandle Continuous Delivery in Various Ways. How Can You Avoid them? Scaling Continuous Delivery across the enterprise is critical for a successful DevOps transformation. Aimed at ensuring that you are building functionality that really delivers the expected customer value, continuous delivery reduces cost while improving time-to-market, […]
Migrate to Cloud with Confidence
By: Mark Lewis, SVP Sales and Marketing Cloud has become a staple delivery model for almost every enterprise’s digital transformation journey in the current age. It empowers businesses with the composite mix of advantages that only a cloud model brings – elasticity, cost reduction, flexibility, scalability, and agility. But the decision to migrate any application […]
Train Quickly or Lose Big: Virtual Platforms Are No Longer Optional
Article published in Association for Talent Development by David Hand, VP of DevOps Sales at Orasi Software. Pre-COVID-19, the global software product market was valued at close to $438 billion. The estimated market value for online education technology (by 2025) was roughly $350 billion. Fast forward to our current time in which virtual work is the […]
What is the Need for DevOps in Data Science and its Applications?
By: Jim Azar, Sr. Vice President, CTO The term business advantage has taken on a new connotation in recent years. Now, the real advantage that any enterprise strives for lies in two areas – both of which contribute to how quickly it can serve its customers delightfully. They are: applications and data-driven insights. If you […]
5 Top Benefits of DevOps for CIOs
By: Mark Lewis, SVP Sales and Marketing A lot of traditional IT was monolithic, reactive, and siloed. Applications had a long-drawn cycle. They were made in isolated phases by insular teams. The time between user-requirement gathering to actual roll-out was so stretched out that most requirements had lost their urgency and relevance by the time […]
What are some key Application Security pitfalls? How to avoid them?
By: Jim Azar, Sr. Vice President, CTO Applications are made to last, to deliver, and also to stay away from the bad guys. Security is an essential part of the success of any application. Application security is where applications are made as secure as possible. This process entails assessing, monitoring, finding, fixing, and enhancing the […]
How DataOps Empowers Enterprises with the Real Power of Data?
By: Jim Azar, Sr. Vice President, CTO We all know the value of Big Data by now. And attached to that big tide are concurrent waves of small data, real-time data, and warm data that have made enterprises think of data as the new competitive advantage. But harnessing the power of data is like putting […]
DevOps – Should it Matter to You?
By: Mark Lewis, SVP Sales and Marketing Every organization has the problem of the ‘silo’. Whether driven by culture, job function, or departmental structure, a ‘silo’ affects almost every enterprise in some form. In the software development world, the silo has ruled for many years. There has been a long-running boundary between development, operations, and […]
How to Build a DevOps Roadmap at Your Organization. And Why Does it Matter?
By: Jim Azar, Sr. Vice President, CTO When GitHub asked over 3,500 developers from 21 countries in its latest DevOps survey – it focused on three key areas: Development and Release Security Testing The following were the key observations of the survey: Continuous deployment has gained a stronghold, with 59 percent of companies deploying […]
How Can a DevSecOps Approach Enable Cloud Migration to Transform an Organization?
By: Mark Lewis, SVP Sales and Marketing Cloud has become a formidable force for enterprises across all verticals. It is no longer a technology choice that only some businesses use for cost or elasticity advantages. It’s becoming a fundamental shift for almost every business because of its multiple benefits. Moving to the cloud helps businesses: […]