Tyler Pace and Kenaz Kwa from Puppet Labs discuss why—besides security—it’s so important to know what’s running inside your containers, who at your organization should know, some things you can do with that valuable information. This episode was recorded ahead of their DockerCon 2017 presentation, "Peering into Black Boxes: What’s Really Inside You…

Jim Ford details ADP's rapid adoption of Docker containers and shares his thoughts on legacy application modernization in the enterprise. Skytap's Kelly Looney and Dan Jones also discuss modernization initiatives around cloud, microservices, and Martin Fowler's "strangler method."Por Skytap Cloud

Sanjeev Sharma, CTO of DevOps Adoption at IBM, discusses the different motivations and drivers for adopting DevOps, and what benefits doing so can bring at the enterprise level. We also discuss Sanjeev's newly released "DevOps Adoption Playbook."Por Skytap Cloud

Learning & Development Manager (Digital Learning) at Scottish Social Services Council, Keith Quinn, sits down with us to discuss the power of relatable, realistic, real-world narratives when utilized in virtual training. This episode was recorded at DevLearn 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada, where Keith presented his session, "Using Immersive Simulations …

On this week's episode, you'll first hear from Megan Torrance of TorranceLearning as we dive deeper into her focus on agile's ability to help virtual training professionals "figure out what the most important thing is (they) ought to be doing." After Megan's interview, we'll move on to our conversation with Jennifer Hofmann, President of InSync Tra…

As enterprises continue to modernize traditional architectures, tough decisions must be made around building a cloud strategy, what business problems are you trying to solve, and what will the TCO be of a move to the cloud, vs. continuing to invest in on-premises solutions. On this week's episode of The Skytap Podcast, we sat down with veteran IT s…

Puppet CIO and VP of Operations, Nigel Kersten, and Electric Cloud CTO, Anders Wallgren, join Skytap's Dan Jones and Noel Wurst to break down the 2016 State of DevOps ReportPor Skytap Cloud

Director of QA at Audible, Tanya Kravtsov, joins us this week to talk about her experiences in helping lead DevOps transformations. We discuss QA's role in DevOps, and how automation frees up testers to expand collaboration to other departments within their organization.Por Skytap Cloud

Founder and CTO of Utopia Solutions, Lee Barnes, sat down with us at STAREAST to share his thoughts on what makes up a successful, long-term test automation strategy. We discuss what realistic test automation statistics are realistic, which ones aren't, and how to determine if your organization is mature enough for an automation implementation.…

QA evangelist Dave Higgins sat down with us at STAREAST to discuss agile, DevOps, legacy vs. mobile apps, and more at Hotels.com. The online hospitality group has set an ambitious goal of having their 40+ dev/test teams doing continuous delivery by the end of the year—learn how they're they're going to get there in this week's episode!…

We sat down with The Training Clinic's Maria Chilcote learn more about how she—and others—see marketing as one of the keys to learning and development's future success. By embracing a marketing mindset, training professionals are able to more easily collaborate with other departments and better align themselves with the business goals everyone is t…

By observing peace and contributing to its growth on Peace Day each year, millions of people around the world have enabled some amazing things to happen that wouldn't have otherwise been possible. We interviewed Peace One Day's Jeremy Gilley to learn how others can help make world peace a reality one day.…

Senior instructional technology specialist Nina Talley sits down with us to discuss how baking quality into virtual training requires some careful pre-planning, especially when delivering training on a global scale where hardware and/or bandwidth constraints may come into play.Por Skytap Cloud

We sat down with Clark Quinn at the 2016 Learning Solutions Conference and Expo after attending his session, "Measurement Matters: The How and Why of eLearning Metrics.” Learn why Clark believes “L&D has the opportunity to be the most valuable part of your business" and what they have to stop doing in order to get there.…

Skytap's Noel Wurst and Sudesh Girdhari sit down with Ajay Pangarkar to discuss the disconnect that often exists between "the business" and training departments. With a background in finance, Ajay offers some excellent tips for trainers looking to avoid over-promising ROI to finance professionals, and how to deliver impressive results.…

Shannon Tipton sat down with us at Training 2016 to give us a preview of her session, “Creating Your 21st Century Toolbox.” Shannon explains how the modernization of training involves using traditional tools in a new way, and why training needs to be available whenever, and wherever students need it most.…

Sonatype VP and DevOps Advocate Derek Weeks sits down with Noel Wurst and Jason English to share strategies for building your organization's DevOps toolchain, and we all dive into the increased responsibility for quality in embedded software.Por Skytap Cloud

Gary Gruver joins us this week on the DevHops podcast to discuss his new book, Leading the Transformation: Applying Agile and DevOps Principles at Scale. Gary provides a wealth of info around DevOps at the enterprise level and how organizations can truly set themselves up for success as their initiatives expand across multiple services.…

Skytap VP of IT Operations Paul Farrall discusses his personal experience of a DevOps-style transformation at his previous company, Big Fish Games. Great content and easy listen if you are interested in DevOps or agile software delivery that takes operational concerns into account. Learn how team dynamics and trust can prove more important than ski…

Skytap DevOps consulting manager Kelly Looney and I had the chance to sit down with Accenture agile and DevOps lead Mirco Hering before his session, "Adopting DevOps Practices for Systems of Record" at the 2015 DevOps Enterprise Summit. Mirco shared his thoughts on where to begin your DevOps initiatives within legacy systems, and some common pitfal…

Ep. 7 with Justin Vaughan-Brown, global digital transformation evangelist for CA. With Jason English from Skytap. We talk DevOps, challenges in Application Modernization, Service Virtualization and more, prior to CA World '15 event.Por Skytap Cloud

How does service virtualization lead to continuous testing and a culture that's dedicated to quality? We sat down with Alaska Airlines quality analyst Ryan Papineau at STARWEST after his hugely popular session with Parasoft to find out.Por Skytap Cloud

We're joined this week by Wayne Ariola, Chief Strategy Officer at Parasoft, to discuss continuous testing's impact on software quality and release candidate risks/consequences when quality is sacrificed for speed. We also review three new beers this week, so tap in!Por Skytap Cloud

Lydia Casillas from Sky I.T. Group joins us for our third episode to discuss the challenges of testing mobile applications and the mobile web to ensure security, usability, and powerful "enterprise mobility." We also review beers from Stone, Freemont, and Alltech Lexington Brewing & Distilling Co.! Tap In!…

In this week's episode, Skytap's Noel Wurst and Jason English sit down with analyst Mike Kavis to talk about the growing adoption of DevOps by the enterprise, and what's driving that change in the way we develop software today.Por Skytap Cloud

Skytap's Jason English and F5's Lori MacVittie discuss the impact of cloud and virtualization on application availability - arguably the most important feature to application development teams and users alike. Noel Wurst hosts this first ever episode of the Skytap DevHops podcast.Por Skytap Cloud