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 and deliver a real foundation for innovation and digital transformation. Hosted by GigaOm Research analyst Jon Collins and Aater Suleman, CEO and co-founder of DevOps consulting firm Flux7, the discussion will share how to effectively create a DevOps foundation and scale for success ..read more

With the HPC User Forum this past week, we saw several High-Performance Computing (HPC) related news announcements. Starting off, Hyperion, who established the Forum in 1999, shared that HPC in the cloud is gaining traction, with new major growth areas coming from AI/ML/DL, big data analytics, and non-traditional HPC users from the enterprise space ..read more

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 ..read more

Join Flux7 and AWS Solutions Architects as they present an in-depth, one day workshop on AWS Container Services. Designed for infrastructure administrators, developers, and architects, this workshop is designed as an introductory session that provides a mix of classroom training and hands-on labs. Attendees will learn about AWS services with a focus on using Kubernetes ..read more

On October 11, 2019, Flux7 and AWS HPC experts will lead a one-day intensive technical workshop on AWS HPC services. Attendees to the hands-on training session will learn about services such as Batch, Parallel Cluster, Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), FSX for Lustre, and more. In this introductory session, through a mix of classroom training and hands-on labs led by AWS Solutions Architects, you will learn about AWS HPC services as well as best practices and select industry workloads ..read more

The transition to becoming an Agile Enterprise is one that touches every part of the organization -- from strategy to structure and process to technology. In our journey to share the story of how we at Flux7 have moved through the process, today we will discuss how we have adopted specific supporting technologies to further our agile goals. (In case you missed them, check out our first two articles on choosing a Flatarchy and our OKR journey ..read more

Last week Werner Vogels, AWS CTO, spelled out in an interview with WSJ CIO Today the Company’s Path to the Cloud Business. A fascinating read, Vogels shares how Amazon’s early IT challenges led to Amazon Web Services, which has become a revenue engine for Amazon. According to the company, AWS has generated $8.4 billion in sales last quarter. A good read if you’re on your own cloud evolution ..read more

This article originally appeared on Forbes. Lead, follow or get out of the way. A phrase famously coined by George Patton and later by Chrysler’s Lee Iacocca, it is also an apt prescription for the challenges CIOs face as organizations look to become agile enterprises. With the path to agility often running directly through IT (as it enables those digital projects the CEO sees as driving competitiveness), the CIO stands front and center in an organization’s transition to enterprise-wide agility ..read more

The 2019 State of DevOps report by DORA has been released and it underscores a key finding from prior reports, that it is possible to optimize for stability without sacrificing speed. The study also found that the use of cloud is predictive of high performing organizations, with the highest performing teams 24x more likely to execute on DORA’s five critical capabilities of cloud computing. And, high performers favor strategies that create community structures across the organization. Examples include Communities of Practice and supported Proofs of Concept, that are likely to ma ..read more

Legacy systems challenge established hoteliers to effectively innovate and compete with a myriad of market pressures. From OTAs to timeshares and new market entrants like Oyo, hotel executives must manage many moving parts in order to compete for customers, gain and sustain their loyalty. To compete effectively, a strong IT strategy that supports the ability to counteract competitive pressures via innovation is needed. In today’s blog, we’ll take a look at how a few hoteliers transformed their systems in order to innovate and compete, in the process helping address specific business ..read more