CollabNet and HP join forces to talk about DevOps

One of the hottest topics in software development today is DevOps. There really doesn't seem to be any consensus on what DevOps is, but there's definitely a lot of buzz around the subject. Paul Peissner, Director of Business Development at CollabNet and Durga Sammeta, Senior Product Manager from HP, join CM Crossroads publisher, Patrick Egan in this episode of The Crossroads to find out what DevOps really is and how it can help you in your software development process.

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DevOps Developments

In this episode of The Crossroads, CM Crossroads Editor-in-Chief Bob Aiello and Sasha Gilenson, CEO & Co-founder of Evolven Software, discuss the challenges of implementing and supporting automated application deployment.

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Sasha explains what Devops is really all about and how it is impacting our industry and how it can impact your application release and deployment. These strategies are having a major impact in how organizations manage their continuous build and deployment efforts to support Agile software development and Agile CM. Sasha concludes by giving us his predictions into what lies ahead for Devops and how it will effect technology organizations and their efforts to meet industry demands.

ThoughtWorks Studios Announces Go 2.1

Recently, ThoughtWorks Studios announced Go 2.1, the latest release of their Agile Release Management tool.  In this episode of The Crossroads, Patrick Egan, Publisher of the CM Journal, talked with Jez Humble, Build and Release Principal for ThoughtWorks Studios about continuous integration trends and how Go 2.1 helps developers deal with the "last mile".

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The "last mile" of software development is the step from dev complete to release.  And Go 2.1 automates all the steps for an application to go into production.  It makes the process completely transparent and allows teams to see what version of each application is in use in each environment, audit back to the source and perform one-click deployments of new versions of software. Also, Go detects which tests broke, which test broke them, and who was responsible, even when run across a grid.  Jez tells us what's new in this version, why you'd choose Go over an open source CI tool, and chats about what's next for ThoughtWorks.

AnovaStorm Secures Initial Funding to Optimize Web Deployments

As business requirements demand greater release frequency to stay competitive and take advantage of market opportunities, the bottleneck in many enterprises has now moved to the application deployment phase.  So, with a team of former BuildForge executives, AnovaStorm recently received two million dollars in initial funding to provide a solution to this problem.

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In this episode of The Crossroads, Patrick Egan, Publisher of the CM Journal, talked with Derek Hutson, Chief Executive Officer of AnovaStorm about this new endeavor.  AnovaStorm combines built-in application server intelligence with a flexible deployment process framework that enables enterprises to automate, standardize and track their deployment activities, thereby reducing cost, improving staff utilization, and easing compliance requirements.

So, how is AnovaStorm different from other web deployment solutions?  Derek says that AnovaStorm takes a more holistic approach and provides intelligent web deployment automation software that brings predictability, efficiency and auditability to your mission critical web applications.