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Alan Shimel

http://www.ashimmy.com
As Founder, CEO & Editor-in-chief of MediaOps, the company behind DevOps.com, Container Journal, Security Boulevard and Digital Anarchist, as well as co-founder of the DevOps Institute, Alan Shimel is attuned to the world of technology, particularly cloud, DevOps, security and open source. With almost 30 years of entrepreneurial experience, Alan has been instrumental in the success of several organizations. Shimel is an often-cited personality in the security and technology community and is a sought-after speaker at industry and government conferences and events. In addition to his writing, his DevOps Chat podcast, DevOps TV and Digital Anarchist audio and videos are widely followed. Alan attributes his success to a combination of a strong business background and a deep knowledge of technology. His legal background, long experience in the field, and New York street smarts combine to form a unique personality. Mr. Shimel is a graduate of St. Johns University with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics, and holds a JD degree from NY Law School.
JFrog swampUP: An Insight into Insight Partners

JFrog swampUP: An Insight into Insight Partners

| devops culture, Digital Anarchist, Insight Partners, jfrog, JFrog swampUp 2019
Another great event we covered on the Digital Anarchist tour this summer was the JFrog swampUp event in San Francisco. Among the many great interviews we did at swampUp, one was with ...
DOES London 2019: Give Repos the Respect They Deserve

DOES London 2019: Give Repos the Respect They Deserve

| DOES London 2019, github, Repos, repositories
Think about it. could we have a DevOps or even agile without code repositories (repos)? Repos allow for version control, team collaboration, testing on check in and more. So much of what ...
burnout

DOES 2019: Understanding the Effects of Burnout

| burnout, DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2019, DOES London 2019, fatigue, stress, workplace
If you work in the IT field, cybersecurity, the startup world or any other high-pressure job, you or someone you know has probably suffered from burnout in one form or another. If ...
Armory DevOps Chat

DevOps Chat: Armory Discusses $28M Funding, Continuous Delivery

| Armory, continuous delivery, devops chat, Spinnaker, VC funding
The tribe at Armory announced the company's $28m series B funding, led by Insight Partners. Armory enables continuous software delivery at enterprise scale, powered by Spinnaker. That is a crisp mission statement, ...
JFrog swampUP

JFrog swampUP: DevOps Culture Is a Powerful Force

| devops culture, Digital Anarchist, jfrog, swampUP, video
The notion that culture is such an important part of DevOps and high-performing IT teams gets plenty of lip service, but not every organization really buys into it. In my years covering ...
Kentik: Cloud Native Applications Need Network Analytics

Kentik: Cloud Native Applications Need Network Analytics

| AIOps, cloud-native, DataOps, Kentik, network analytics
Moving everything into the cloud seems to have taken the spotlight from the network. As the internet is ubiquitous, who worries about the networks? Kentik has a notion that in the age ...
DevOps Chat: 'War, Peace & IT' With Marc Schwartz

DevOps Chat: ‘War, Peace & IT’ With Marc Schwartz

| AWS, business value, devops, devops chat, digital transformation, IT leaders, Marc Schwartz, War Peace & IT
Marc Schwartz is one of those rare individuals who is not only a great IT exec, but he also can analyze what works and doesn't work and write it up in a ...
CloudBees' Acquisition of Rollout: The CEOs' View

CloudBees’ Acquisition of Rollout: The CEOs’ View

| acquisition, CD, cloudbees, feature flags, m&A, testing
As Mike Vizard reported yesterday, CloudBees, as part of its mission to build "the world’s first end-to-end automated software delivery system," announced another acquisition: Rollout, a developer of a feature flag application ...
True Digital Adoption Empowers Humans

True Digital Adoption Empowers Humans

| digital adoption, Digital Anarchist, video, Walkme
True Digital Adoption empowers humans to use use technology which is almost exclusively digital. What are the killer apps that you use all the time? OK, of those handful (for most of ...
DevOps Chat Serverless Intelligence

DevOps Chat: Serverless Intelligence With Lumigo’s Aviad Mor

Lumigo finds itself in the middle of one of the biggest waves in infrastructure deployment today, serverless. This is no accident, the company was started about a year ago with the mission ...