Larry Gordon is co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer of New York-based xOps, an IT services company exclusively focused on devops. Larry has held senior leadership positions at Cognizant and Capgemini and has founded and led IT services and software companies in the security, devops and digital transformation segments. He has also been a successful angel investor in the energy and cloud spaces.
The opinions expressed in this blog are those of Larry Gordon and do not necessarily represent those of IDG Communications, Inc., its parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies.
Established MSPs and outsourcers have come to rely upon new specialty devops services firms for expertise
Devops is expensive, potentially 24/7, and key to the business, so offshore considerations should be in the strategic mix
Alert fatigue is a common plague among devops organization. To eliminate it requires the right tools and techniques and managers have to make sure the processes thresholds are correct
Devops is not just tools and skills. It requires the right leaders and the right leadership skills to make sure the culture and processes are correct
Open source tools can cost-effectively help devops engineers see and correlate data from multiple data streams more easily