More than ever, enterprise organizations must balance risk with the ability to respond rapidly to continually changing market conditions. However, many factors seem to create obstacles for adopting DevOps, including a legacy systems, bureaucracies, command and control culture and so forth.
In this webinar we heard from three highly regarded voices in the enterprise DevOps movement — renowned author, researcher, speaker and DevOps evangelist, Gene Kim, Capital One Product Manager, Tapabrata (Topo) Pal and VP of DevOps Strategy at XebiaLabs, Andrew Phillips, convene to discuss the processes, people, and technology you need to implement DevOps with Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing and Continuous Delivery.
The session will also included key findings from nearly 100 experience reports from large, complex organization who presented their DevOps transformations gathered at the recent DevOps Enterprise Summit including Macy’s, Capital One, Disney, Target, GE Capital, Western Union, Nordstrom and many more.
Attendees also learned:
– Top successful patterns in successful transformations
– Top learnings from DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015
– Top obstacles for DevOps transformations in large, complex organizations
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Your Host
Alan Shimel, Editor-in-Chief DevOps.com,, An often-cited personality in the security and technology community and a sought-after speaker at industry and government events, Alan has helped build several successful technology companies by combining a strong business background with a deep knowledge of technology.
About the Panelists
Gene Kim
Author, Researcher, Speaker, Director, DevOps Enthusiast
Gene is a multiple-award-winning CTO, researcher and author. He was founder and CTO of Tripwire for 13 years. Gene is a huge fan of IT operations and how it can enable developers to maximize throughput of features from “code complete” to “in production,” without causing chaos and disruption to the IT environment. He is passionate about IT operations, security and compliance, and how IT organizations successfully transform from “good to great.”
Tapabrata (Topo) Pal
Product Manager
Tapabrata has 20 years of IT experience in various technology roles (Developer, Operations Engineer and Architect) in the retail, healthcare and finance industries. Over the last three years, Tapabrata has served as Director of Capital One’s Enterprise Architecture group and led the company’s DevOpsSec initiatives. He is currently Director and Platform Engineering Fellow and is focused on next-generation infrastructure. Previously, Tapabrata spent some time in academics doing doctoral and post-doctoral research in the field of solid state physics.
Andrew Phillips
VP of DevOps Strategy
Andrew Phillips heads up strategy at XebiaLabs, developing software for visibility, automation and control of Continuous Delivery and DevOps in the enterprise. He is an evangelist and thought leader in the DevOps and Continuous Delivery space. When not “developing in PowerPoint”, Andrew contributes to a number of open source projects, including the multi-cloud toolkit Apache jclouds. University.
