Forex Dreamer: Fireside Chat Next Week: Building a DevOps Strategy and Environment

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Join us for the next fireside chat, featuring Mike Kavis, VP/Principal Architect, Cloud Technology Partners, and Matt Stratton, Solutions Architect, Chef.

The need for accelerated application deployment has given rise to the DevOps movement. However, despite the undoubted benefits that DevOps promises, many IT organizations struggle to understand and get started with a DevOps strategy and project. This fireside chat will focus on the practicalities of implementing a DevOps process.

Register to attend next week's webcast.

Date: Tuesday, June 30th, 2015
Time: 1 pm PT / 4 pm ET / 8 pm GMT
Format: 60 min. with real-time Q&A. Twitter via #CLFchat

Key questions we'll address:

Who needs to be involved in a DevOps implementation?
How can you identify what needs to be changed to implement end-to-end automation?
How can DevOps ensure compliance and security needs are addressed?
What is a common DevOps tool chain?
What are the biggest mistakes IT organizations make when they get started on DevOps?
What about NoOps?
Does DevOps mean people losing their jobs?

If you attended a previous fireside chat, you will automatically be registered for this edition and will receive a confirmation email.

Guest: Mike Kavis, VP/Principal Architect, Cloud Technology Partners
Mike has served in numerous technical roles such as CTO, Chief Architect, and VP positions with over 25 years of experience in software development and architecture. He is an analyst and blogger at Forbes, The Virtualization Practice and DevOps.com, and is the author of "Architecting the Cloud: Design Decisions for Cloud Computing Service Models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)".

Mike Kavis, VP/Principal Architect, Cloud Technology Partners

Guest: Matt Stratton, Solutions Architect, Chef
Matt Stratton has over 15 years experience in IT operations, ranging from large financial institutions such as JPMorganChase and internet firms, including Apartments.com. He is devoted to concepts like Continuous Delivery and Infrastructure as Code, and his license plate actually says "DevOps". He is the creator and co-host of the popular "Arrested DevOps" podcast.

Matt Stratton, Solutions Architect, Chef

Hosted by Bernard Golden, VP of Strategy, ActiveState
Named in Wired.com as one of the ten most influential people in cloud computing, Bernard Golden has authored or co-authored four books on virtualization, including Virtualization for Dummies and Amazon Web Services for Dummies, and is the cloud computing advisor for CIO.com.