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Tony Bradley

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Tony Bradley is a respected authority on technology. He writes for a variety of online and print media outlets and has authored or co-authored a number of books, including Unified Communications for Dummies, Essential Computer Security, and PCI Compliance. A CISSP for over 10 years, he has been recognized by Microsoft as an MVP in Windows and Windows security for nine consecutive years. Before founding Bradley Strategy Group and launching TechSpective.net, Tony was Chief Marketing Officer for Zecurion—a leading data loss prevention company.

DevOps requires change in IT culture. But when recruiting DevOps talent, what are the specific skills and traits to look for? This article offers...

7 keys to finding phenomenal DevOps talent

Hit the ground collaborating

You might ask yourself: Can I outsource some of your DevOps requirements? Yes, but you must learn about the challenges of outsourcing and how to...

The challenges of outsourcing in the age of DevOps

Culture for hire?

Citizen developers are here to stay. Traditional IT departments cannot respond to business needs quickly enough. Can organizations safely harness...

How IT can stop worrying and learn to love the citizen developer movement

Just *@&!!! get it done

DevOps is often considered much or more a shift in IT culture than tools and practices. This article considers the changes, even when all are not on board. What if the whole organization hasn't embraced the DevOps culture?

DevOps is often considered much more of a shift in IT culture than tools and practices. This article considers the changes, even when all are not...

Is DevOps culture an all or nothing proposition?

All in

What are the top concerns regarding security testing that make organizations and developers reluctant to adopt automation? What are the benefits of...

How to overcome common objections to automated security testing

Don't be so old-fashioned

DevOps is fueled in large part by feedback. Here's how to feed it.

Read how development teams can use feedback and continuous assessment to measure and improve innovation.

3 steps to measurable innovation with continuous assessment

Prime your DevOps pipeline

DevOps is a hot trend in IT, and companies are seeking skilled DevOps talent. Is there really a DevOps guru or DevOps expert? And can they help...

Hiring for DevOps: Look beyond the gurus and ninjas

"Experts" need not apply

The same tools that automate change can also be used to automate and accelerate security efforts. Here's how.

The same tools that automate change can also be used to automate and accelerate security efforts. Here's how.

Why you need to automate security for continuous delivery

Keeping up with the pipeline

DevOps projects often have no clear

The only thing worse than something going wrong is not learning from it. Read about how agile postmortems can help improve your future DevOps...

Make the most of mistakes: Best practices for agile retrospectives, postmortems

Live and learn

Microservices provide a variety of benefits for developing, deploying, and managing apps, but also come with unique challenges when it comes to scalability and meeting spikes in demand.

Microservices are the newest trend in IT, but what do they mean for your application development? Find out how to use them to maximum advantage.

The challenges of scaling microservices

Demanding but in-demand

There's a large and growing skills gap when it comes to DevOps roles. Formal education struggles to keep up with rapid changes in technology and industry certifications are attempting to fill the void.

The rapid pace of change in technology makes it difficult for training and certification programs to keep up, and DevOps training is in the infant...

The state of DevOps education: Can training keep up with the tech?

New-school IT

Traditional dev and ops and security all have different objectives that often conflict. Streamlining an organization to function more efficiently and effectively requires merging these different mindsets and finding ways for everyone to cooperate.

Developers and operations have different mindsets and different goals. DevOps brings the two together and encourages compromise and collaboration.

When DevOps is realized: Overcoming traditional dev and ops mindsets

Come together

Many organizations are moving to embrace DevOps, but different businesses or teams approach it differently. Is there a role or department that should drive DevOps by default? Who should lead the DevOps initiative in order for it to be successful?

What is the "right" way to approach DevOps? Is there a right way? Tony Bradley explores the issue of leadership in DevOps.

Driving DevOps: Where should the leadership begin?

Get going or goodbye

Try to resist if you like, but stubbornly clinging to hardware-defined data centers will leave you at a competitive disadvantage.

Data centers are changing, and software-defined data centers are the way of the future—offering increased scalability, relevance, agility, and...

Why you should embrace the software-defined data center

Getting soft

We break down the 10 key controls outlined by ISACA and gather insight and commentary from security and DevOps experts to help you understand what the ISACA controls mean for your organization.

ISACA's new guidelines outline 10 key controls all DevOps practitioners should consider. Experts break down the good and bad from the report.

A detailed analysis of ISACA's 10 key DevOps controls

Command and control

Kubernetes 1.0 is the first official release of the Google-developed container orchestration platform, which will now be managed by a consortium of DevOps vendors and tech giants under the umbrella of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Kubernetes 1.0, the Google-developed container orchestration platform, has been donated to the CNCF, a who's who of DevOps vendors and tech giants.

Does Kubernetes make containers ready for prime time?

Priming for production

A deeper look at the Puppet Labs 2015 State of DevOps Report, including expert insight from DevOps leaders and an analysis of the top 10 things you should know from this year's report.

Here are 10 key takeaways, stats and insights from the Puppet Labs 2015 State of DevOps Report, with commentary from top DevOps experts and leaders.

2015 State of DevOps Report: Top 10 takeaways and insights

A DevOps barometer

New players Whale Path and Chaordix have emerged in the market research and analysis game, crowdsourcing information and research to go head-to-head with high-paid technology analyst firms like Gartner and Forrester.

New players Chaordix and Whale Path crowdsource information and research to go head-to-head with high-paid analyst firms like Gartner and Forrester.

Crowdsourcing market research could end the Magic Quadrant quest

Disrupting the kingmakers

The anti-Google ad-blocking strategy coming from Europe will offend customers and alienate developers, ultimately causing more harm than good.

Carrier ad blocking would ding mobile developers, deliver backlash

Power grab

The big news out of DockerCon was the Open Container Project, but there's plenty of other news to make organizations and developers happy.

The big news out of DockerCon was the Open Container Project, but Docker delivered plenty of other news to make organizations and developers happy.

Docker gives developers plenty to be happy about at DockerCon

Pleasing the plumbers

Docker has risen to the top as the de facto container technology, but it's not the only game in town.

Docker has risen quickly to the top as the de facto container technology, but it's not the only container platform available as containers go...

Is Docker just the first "killer app" in the container revolution?

Can't contain it

The pace of developing and updating mobile apps requires that organizations embrace DevOps tools and principles in order to keep up.

The pace of developing and updating mobile apps requires that organizations embrace DevOps tools and principles in order to keep up.

Keeping up with the Facebooks: DevOps delivers faster mobile app development

App expectations

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