Enterprise Initiatives
59 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 6 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsReady to champion your DevOps project? Hosted by Mike Kavis, Enterprise Initiatives provides lively discussions with some of the top thinkers and practitioners in the industry, focusing on hot topics including DevOps, PaaS, the Internet of Things and more.
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Securing Your Containers in the Cloud
November 09, 2017 22:14 - 21 minutes - 30.1 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Ben Bernstein, CEO and Co-founder of Twistlock. We discuss the myths surrounding the security of applications in containers in the cloud and advice for people just starting a container initiative.
Adopting Cloud and DevOps Across 2,000+ Developers at Vanguard
October 26, 2017 18:06 - 23 minutes - 36.2 MBWe discuss why Vanguard went to the public cloud, the value of DevOps and best practices for IT leaders who are just getting started on their cloud initiative.
Multi-Cloud vs Hybrid Cloud: What’s the Difference?
August 24, 2017 23:28 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Issy Ben-Shaul, Co-Founder & CEO at Velostrata. We discuss the difference between hybrid cloud and multi-cloud. Hybrid is anything that’s not just one cloud provider, which includes multi-cloud. Multi-cloud is a strategy where some workloads are running on one cloud, some on another. One trend we see is that big enterprises are splitting workloads more and more between at least two major public clouds for a multi-cloud strategy. According to Gartner, 7...
Edge Computing and how it Transforms Enterprises
August 16, 2017 13:01 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Don Duet, President and COO at Vapor IO. We discuss the many definitions floating around for what edge computing is. Some call it fog computing or MEC (mobile edge computing). It is simple. It is a perspective that as the shift goes from wireless networks and person-to-person interaction to machine-to-machine interaction, underlying architectures must change along with that shift. For things like IoT and distributed data, they require reliability and s...
Kubernetes Wins at Orchestration Engines, but Still Needs Backup
August 07, 2017 12:33 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Shannon Williams, Co-Founder and VP, Sales at Rancher Labs. We discuss how Kubernetes has won the war as a leader in orchestration. However, it is still not easy to use or maintain. We explore what organizations need to consider to build operational efficiencies around the technology. Kubernetes, Docker, and containers are very different from something like VMware and Amazon in terms of adoption. When new technology comes into an organization, they usu...
Kubernetes in Enterprises of all Sizes
July 06, 2017 19:07 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Brian Gracely, Director of Product Strategy at Red Hat. Brian discusses a small bank in Ohio and how they have a business use-case for Kubernetes. Because Kubernetes was built to manage Google-sized technology, it is surprising that there is a reason to apply it to a small brick and mortar bank just starting with web and mobile. What they noticed in the switch is that because customers get paid on Fridays and are more likely to check if they got paid o...
RightScale’s 2017 State of the Cloud
March 04, 2017 01:48 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBWe discuss RightScale’s State of the Cloud report analyzing trends in the cloud. RightScale helps customers adopt cloud by helping them with a cloud management and optimization. This is the sixth year of the report so we can start to see trends over time now and there were a few interesting takeaways this year. In the report, RightScale asks two big questions for enterprises. First is about cloud strategy and what their intention is on cloud – to use private, public, or combinations of tho...
The DevOps Handbook for Unicorns and Horses
February 23, 2017 21:38 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Gene Kim, DevOps expert and author at "The Phoenix Project" and "The DevOps Handbook." We discuss “The DevOps Handbook”, which was started over five and a half years ago and released in October 2016. Gene co-wrote the book with Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, and John Willis. The book includes over 48 case studies that range from unicorns like Google, Amazon, Facebook, but also horses like Nordstrom, Target, and Capital One. Many of the case studies came f...
Security and DevOps are Never 100% Done
July 21, 2016 21:43 - 34 minutes - 62.8 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Jim Ford, Chief Strategic Architect at ADP. We discuss Docker adoption, DevOps, and security for a company as big as ADP with over 630,000 customers, 35 million users in 100 countries, and 55 million stored social security numbers. We see how DevOps processes and security is never a completed initiative and can always be improved. We also see how DevOps at ADP varies significantly across projects and seems to mold to the team using it.
Hybrid Cloud is Not a Choice, It’s a Realization
July 13, 2016 15:50 - 36 minutes - 66.1 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Rob Hirschfeld, Founder and CEO at RackN. We discuss the differences between Docker Swarm and Kubernetes as well as the debate about how many companies use containers the right way. We also look at hybrid and how it can be easy to lift a container from Amazon and move it to Google, but there will still be key differences in networking and storage between the two that make the shift more complex. Last, we talk about the pros and cons of going all in on on...
The State of DevOps 2016 Recap
June 22, 2016 04:46 - 26 minutes - 47.8 MBOur guests on the podcast this week are Luke Kanies, CEO, andAlanna Brown, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Puppet. We discuss key findings from Puppet's 2016 State of DevOps Report. The report separates high performers by key metrics: deploy frequency, lead time for changes, mean to to recover, and change failure rate. Puppet found that high performers had 200x more frequent deployments than low performers, and 2,555x faster lead times. We look at how IT can take notes from the lean man...
Trends in DevOps and Docker Adoption
May 12, 2016 17:38 - 21 minutes - 39.6 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Kim Weins, VP of Marketing at RightScale. We discuss RightScale’s recent State of the Cloud Report, taking a deep dive into DevOps and Docker adoption. Adoption is increasing across the board for configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, and Ansible, but Docker has seen the greatest growth since last year. Last year 13% of the teams surveyed were using Docker, while this year 27% are using it and 35% reported they plan to use it in the future....
How Fiber Optic Sensing Changes Everything for IoT
April 14, 2016 05:45 - 35 minutes - 64.4 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Michael Heflin, CEO at Sensuron. We discuss Sensuron’s research on fiber optic sensing, which is sure to change the game for internet of things in multiple industries from aerospace to energy to medicine. These sensors may be expensive now, but in less than ten years they are predicted to be offered at a consumer-level price. Small data, or data directly from sensors, is becoming increasingly important as internet of things spreads more widely.
Digital Manufacturing: High Mix and Low Volume for IoT
April 08, 2016 03:42 - 14 minutes - 27.1 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Heather Andrus, Managing Director at Radius. We discuss hardware development for internet of things, overcoming the challenges of getting a new device to work reliably and scaling production. Cloud data storage will be a key factor in the future of hardware and connected devices.
The Future of 3D Printing
April 05, 2016 16:01 - 19 minutes - 32.1 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is John Dulchinos, VP, Global Automation and 3D Printing at Jabil. Up until 2016, 3D printing was only used for creating models, however on the immediate horizon is a new generation of printers that will allow you to print parts with the quality for real end use. We discuss how designs can be optimized in a number of hours, accelerating the product introduction process. We also discuss how 3D printing will impact traditional manufacturing and design for con...
Why Bimodal IT is Not the Answer
March 22, 2016 18:56 - 23 minutes - 43.9 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Damon Edwards, Founder atDTO Solutions and SimplifyOps and one of the early thought leaders in the DevOps movement. We discuss why Bimodal IT is the problem, not the solution. It is true that if technology moves too quickly an organization can lose control, but that does not mean the opposite is true and that an organization is completely safe if it moves very slowly. Large enterprises who have been successful at implementing DevOps practices include Tic...
Docker’s Third Birthday and What’s New in IoT
March 16, 2016 20:45 - 18 minutes - 34.7 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Solomon Hykes, Founder and CTO at Docker. We discuss Docker’s upcoming third birthday and how they have been able to grow an entrepreneurial and engineering-focused team that moves quickly. We look at innovations in internet of things and the importance of Docker’s recent acquisition of Unikernel Systems.
5 Tech Challenges on Everyone’s Mind
March 08, 2016 13:52 - 26 minutes - 49 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Sean Hull, a cloud solutions architect specializing in data & DevOps at scale. We discuss the five tech challenges on Sean’s mind from issues with Docker, Redshift and Hadoop, to DevOps automation, to too much hardware and Amazon’s disruption of VC’s. Sean blogs weekly on his Scalable Startups blog. Find him on twitter at @hullsean and LinkedIn.
Hybrid Cloud and Why It’s Here to Stay
February 19, 2016 10:38 - 29 minutes - 54.7 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Rob Hirschfeld, Founder and CEO at RackN. We discuss hybrid devops and why the hybrid cloud is here to stay. We talk about the importance of abstraction layers in allowing each team to use whichever vendor works best for them while continuing to be supportable. We debate the security of containers versus private cloud and how the discussion is changing with the emergence of new companies that monitor security overall and will not run a container with a v...
The Collision of Consumer and Industrial IoT
February 04, 2016 17:44 - 33 minutes - 45.9 MBWe discuss how the industrial and consumer IoT worlds are beginning to collide with technologies such as the Apple Watch and Microsoft Kinect. We also look at the growth of IoT in 2015, specifically focusing on the increase of acquisitions and mergers in the semiconductor space. Finally, we consider the transcendence of drones, robots and augmented reality into mainstream movements in 2016 and beyond.
The Best Way to Compete with Disruptors? Speed up Your Delivery.
January 28, 2016 18:08 - 24 minutes - 44.1 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Matthew Lodge, Chief Operating Officer at Weaveworks. We discuss how speed triumphs over size when competing as a disruptor, which is why microservices and containers are increasingly important to allow companies to keep up. A focus on small, dispersed teams changes the landscape of cloud computing. With many new companies entering the microservices market, we anticipate future trends for the next few years from mergers and acquisitions to IPOs.
The 1-2 Punch of Big Data Processing in the Cloud
October 20, 2015 17:06 - 17 minutes - 31.8 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Jason Parsons, Senior Architect and Big Data expert at Cloud Technology Partners. We discuss the benefits of real time, big data processing in the cloud and why some companies are hesitant to migrate from their traditional data centers. Jason explains why planning is key when moving from on-premise centers and why all companies should begin their cloud initiatives with a minimum viable product before going into full production.
Smart Monitoring, Automation, and Open Source at Yahoo
October 20, 2015 12:14 - 20 minutes - 38.4 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Preeti Somal, VP of Engineering at Yahoo. We discuss the cloud challenges that come with supporting over a billion consumers per day at Yahoo. One way the Yahoo team simplifies this is through automation and smarter monitoring. Yahoo also leverages open source projects such as Hadoop and OpenStack, which helps onboard employees through their many mergers and acquisitions.
Current Cloud Trends from AWS re:Invent 2015
October 09, 2015 05:01 - 17 minutes - 31.1 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Mike Draper, Vice President, Principal Architect at Cloud Technology Partners. We discuss 2015 cloud trends and news from this year’s AWS re:Invent. With topics from big data, application migration, security, and internet of things, there is no shortage of new products and services available in the industry. The most notable announcements so far have been the release of AWS Database Migration Service and Snowball, a 50TB shippable data storage appliance.
Understanding Complex Cloud Systems Through Behavior
October 07, 2015 12:53 - 32 minutes - 59.6 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Dave Zwieback, Author of Beyond Blame, Head of Engineering at Next Big Sound, and CTO at Lotus Outreach. We discuss how to reach a blame-free culture where outages are linked to multiple conditions instead of one person. Dave shares his framework for Learning Reviews and effective Postmortems. In an increasingly complex world, it is impossible to predict how a system will fail, but through these practices we can see emergent trends and understand how to ...
Why Large Enterprises are Going Public Cloud
September 24, 2015 18:50 - 20 minutes - 36.7 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Tom Gallagher, VP and Client Partner at Cloud Technology Partners. We discuss why large enterprises are rapidly switching from the private cloud to the public cloud and the massive cost benefits that come with that decision. We also look at bottlenecks that arise from using legacy processes and how to avoid them with DevOps adoption.
Best Practices for Continuous Integration & Delivery
September 18, 2015 10:05 - 24 minutes - 44.5 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Paul Duvall, Chairman and CTO at Stelligent, and author of “Continuous Integration” and “DevOps in AWS”. We discuss continuous integration and the cultural changes that must occur for an organization to make the switch to continuous delivery and integration. We also hear about the most common tools being used for continuous integration, continuous delivery, and testing.
How Jenkins Shapes Development and Business Strategies
September 11, 2015 13:13 - 12 minutes - 23.4 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Kohsuke Kawaguchi, Creator of Jenkins and CloudBees. We discuss highlights and takeaways from theCloudBees Jenkins User Conference, which emphasizes the strong community around Jenkins. Jenkins makes continuous delivery a strategic enabler because it changes the speed at which optimizations can reach users’ hands. We also get a preview of what we can expect with Tiger from CloudBees.
Unleashing “The DevOps” With Matt Stratton
September 03, 2015 23:28 - 32 minutes - 59.1 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Matt Stratton, Senior Solutions Architect at Chef and Co-Host of the Arrested DevOps Podcast. We discuss building DevOps communities in new cities with DevOps days, as well as best practices from Orbitz and Target in DevOps adoption. Matt highlights great ways to start small with DevOps (maybe even without calling it DevOps) in your organization to gain traction and prove results to make adoption smoother in large companies.
How to Succeed with DevOps? Make Room for Experimentation!
August 27, 2015 13:41 - 19 minutes - 35.1 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Helen Beal, Head of DevOps at Ranger4 Limited. We discuss how successful DevOps transitions depend on culture, so to start companies must identify their current problem areas. Helen describes the most successful DevOps culture as a place where each individual has autonomy as part of the larger team and where experimentation is encouraged.
Using IoT to Make Better Decisions on the Edge
August 17, 2015 15:14 - 24 minutes - 44.6 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Nicola de Carne, Founder, President and VP of Marketing at Wi-Next. We discuss ways to manage data on the edge, by allowing end nodes to react and make decisions close to industrial machines without communicating back to a centralized ERP. We also see how the most disruptive part of IoT is not the new technologies, but the innovative ways businesses use the new information to optimize their initiatives.
Why Containers are Critical for the Best PaaS Solution
August 13, 2015 16:20 - 22 minutes - 40.8 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Ruslan Synytsky, CEO at Jelastic. We discuss why containers are a key component to the right PaaS solution for enterprises, stressing the importance of giving customers freedom with architecture so they do not get locked into specific technologies. We also learn about the differences between technology adoption in Europe versus the US.
How CoreOS Revolutionizes Container Security
August 07, 2015 15:40 - 22 minutes - 41.4 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Alex Polvi, CEO at CoreOS. We discuss how CoreOS fundamentally improves the security of the internet by modeling the infrastructure best practices developed by Google, Facebook and Twitter. Alex also breaks down the specifications of CoreOS’ new innovative products from Rocket to App Container to Tectonic.
The Future of IT is Composability and Integration
August 03, 2015 15:46 - 24 minutes - 44.9 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is JP Morgenthal, Global Solutions Executive at CSC. We discuss the architecture of microservices and how to overcome the challenge of making different tools work together. We learn about the importance of hiring engineers who can compose services into an integrated system.
The Importance of Systems Thinking for Cloud Migration
July 28, 2015 02:23 - 25 minutes - 46.9 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Kacy Clarke, Vice President and Principal Architect at Cloud Technology Partners. We discuss common issues companies face when migrating to AWS, and the importance of systems thinking. Listen in to discover the best strategy to launch your DevOps initiative.
A Changing Mindset for Disaster Recovery
July 17, 2015 00:06 - 31 minutes - 57.3 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Tim Crawford, CIO Strategic Advisor at AVOA. We discuss the need for disruption in disaster recovery practices after recent tech issues grounded all United Airlines flights, and halted trading at the New York Stock Exchange. Listen in to learn more about how disaster recovery practices must change from just building more redundancy to completely re-architecting systems on the cloud that do not break.
Designing the IT Architecture of the Future
July 09, 2015 20:53 - 27 minutes - 50.8 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Adrian Cockcroft, Technology Fellow at Battery Ventures. We discuss what makes Docker and Netflix highly successful, especially through their use of well-designed IT architecture and DevOps.
Privacy and the Internet of Everything
July 08, 2015 13:53 - 21 minutes - 39.1 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Jess Groopman, Industry Analyst at Altimeter Group. We discuss her recent report, ‘Consumer Perceptions of Privacy in the Internet of Things’ and see how forward-thinking companies can incorporate privacy, trust, and education for consumers to differentiate their businesses.
Rodney Rogers on What's Next for Virtustream
June 09, 2015 16:28 - 28 minutes - 52.1 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Rodney Rogers, Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Virtustream. EMC recently acquired Virtustream for $1.2 billion, in a growing trend of M&A activity. As the cloud market grows, we will see more companies consolidate to acquire new capabilities, talent, or IP. Listen in to find out what’s in store for Virtustream.
The State of the OpenStack Movement
June 05, 2015 14:18 - 19 minutes - 36.6 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Randy Bias, VP of Technology at EMC. We discuss his recent ‘State of the Stack’ presentation. Highlighting the tension seen within the OpenStack community on the issue of re-writing code and reducing complexity for users. Listen in to see what the future holds for OpenStack.
Is big data compatible with the cloud?
May 28, 2015 20:33 - 16 minutes - 7.67 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Joey Jablonski, VP and Principal Architect at Cloud Technology Partners. We discuss the differences between on-premises and cloud-based big data projects. While on premise systems once offered the greatest capabilities for analyzing your application’s data, the tides have turned as public cloud providers continue to roll out new technologies for analyzing ever larger data sets. Listen in to discover which approach is the best fit for your big data project.
Why the Internet of Things Calls Boston Home
May 18, 2015 21:49 - 26 minutes - 12.2 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Chris Rezendes, Founder of INEX Advisors and Partner at IoT Capital Partners. We discuss why Boston is a hotspot for the Internet of Things. While the Northeast has a strong foothold in the B2B market where IoT thrives, Boston also fosters many innovative companies working on connected devices and technologies. Listen in to learn what makes Boston a prime location for the advancement of IoT.
Why Everyone is Excited About Containers
May 06, 2015 21:19 - 14 minutes - 6.57 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Jon Baier, container expert and Senior Cloud Architect atCloud Technology Partners. We discuss why containers have risen in popularity and whatadvantages they bring to cloud computing. Platforms, like Docker and Kubernetes, maximize resource usage, and increase flexibility for development teams. Listen in to learn how containers will continue to gain support and which companies are leading the charge.
LeanUX and DevOps: A Match Made In Heaven
April 27, 2015 14:27 - 20 minutes - 11.7 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Jeff Sussna, Founder of Ingineering.IT. We discuss the parallels between LeanUX and DevOps, identifying how each can benefit from the other’s methodologies. LeanUX uses nimble processes to create a digital experience designed for the end user, whileDevOps uses three ways to integrate feedback between development and operations teams. Listen in to learn how to successfully create a digital service offering by incorporating LeanUX and DevOps processes.
Field of Drones: How UAVs are Reshaping Agriculture
April 22, 2015 20:53 - 16 minutes - 7.37 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Tom McKinnon, Founder and CTO of Agribotix. We discuss drones and their many applications in agriculture, especially around crop monitoring and production. Using near infrared cameras Agribotix turns drone imagery into actionable information enabling farmers to efficiently seed and fertilize fields. Listen in to learn how drones could revolutionize farming, and what obstacles stand in their way.
How to Architect for the Internet of Things
April 08, 2015 20:30 - 18 minutes - 8.34 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Jim Haughwout, Chief Technology Architect at Savi Technologies. We discuss Internet of Things sensors and the growing demand for data driven architectures to support the sheer volume of data being collected. It’s clear that many businesses adopting the Internet of Things are unprepared for the volume of data that needs to be processed. Listen in to learn how to put your Internet of Things strategy into place as the technology continues to evolve.
Mitchell Hashimoto Talking Vagrant, Atlas, and Automation
April 01, 2015 20:42 - 23 minutes - 10.8 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Mitchell Hashimoto, Founder of HashiCorp. We discuss golden images which ensure that every copy of a replicated environment is identical. Image creation has historically caused organizational problems, however, new technologies utilize configuration management tools that are DevOps friendly creating an easy and valuable process that enables teams to iterate often and deliver a consistent product to end users. Listen in to learn more.
Private Cloud: DIY or Managed Services?
March 24, 2015 18:02 - 18 minutes - 8.42 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Jesse Proudman, Founder and CTO of Bluebox. We discuss Walmart’s recent OpenStack success storyand the expanding capabilities of DIY private clouds. While DIY private clouds require large investments in configuring open source software to meet business needs, they can have several advantages over managed services alternatives. Listen in to learn how a DIY model could make or break private cloud deployment.
SOA vs. Microservices – Deep Dive With Jason Bloomberg
March 20, 2015 15:01 - 18 minutes - 33.5 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is Jason Bloomberg, President at Intellyx. When we build services we want them to be lightweight, stateless and scalable while doing one thing really well. In today’s cloud world, we’re revisiting what to takes to make a good service in the first place. Listen in to learn why following “the book” doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re solving key business problems.
Industrial IoT
March 10, 2015 14:35 - 12 minutes - 5.76 MBOur guest on the podcast this week is David Houghton, Director at Bright Wolf. We discuss the evolutions of connected technologies leading to the Internet of Things (IoT). Industrial use cases are transforming operational efficiency, remote monitoring asset tracking, preventative maintenance, and safety and regulation benefits. Listen in to learn how IoT extends beyond commercial use cases.