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John J Balena

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John J Balena

John J. Balena is a thought leader in the areas of DevOps, Cloud, IT Automation, Security & Compliance, ITSM and ITOM. He is Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Services for the Orca application configuration automation and compliance solution.

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DevOps Best Practices: Break Down Silos, Avoid Drift and Optimize for Flow

In organizations trying to achieve agility with stability and quality, silos (of teams, tools, and processes) create major stumbling blocks to managing configuration drift between pre-production and production systems. Breaking down those silos, improving visibility into configuration drift and facilitating collaboration for improved flow are the keys to overcoming this challenge. The challenge of staying [โ€ฆ]

May 16, 2014 ยท 3 min

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Merging creation with operations: facilitated collaboration enables continuous delivery

So much has been written lately about the challenge of improving IT agility in the enterprise. The best sources of insight on why this challenge is so difficult are the CIOs, application owners, ecommerce and release engineering executives, and VPs of I&O, grappling to change their organizations right now. At a conference I attended recently, [โ€ฆ]

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