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New research digs into digital transformation objectives for high-velocity organizations

It’s not surprising that the vast majority of organizations are undertaking digital transformation projects to keep up with the pace of change in business. What is interesting is how the age of an organization impacts the priority and objective of the elements of their respective transformation.

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Test Driven Cookbook Development in 2017

We are constantly asked to deliver our infrastructure faster at what seems like a compromise of its quality. Waiting until it’s time to deploy into production is not the moment to see if the cookbooks we have written will work.

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Configuration and Compliance as Code with VMware and Chef

I recently returned from a week in Las Vegas at the VMworld 2017 conference. Besides the pleasure of speaking about Chef solutions with VMworld attendees, I had the honor of speaking with Alan Renouf of VMware about some new technology that VMware and Chef were bringing to market.

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How Niu balances speed and compliance for their digital transformation customers

Companies come to Niu Solutions to help them tackle difficult digital transformations while preserving their need for compliance. Learn how they applied detect and correct practices to tackle these challenges. The old engineers’ adage of “fast, safe and cheap, pick two” doesn’t apply in the cloud-native application world.

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Take a test drive of Chef Automate on Microsoft Azure

Chef Automate on Microsoft Azure is a Continuous Automation platform that provides the tools for automating modern and legacy architectures: a release pipeline model for test, review, and deployment automation; visibility into what’s changing and why; and a comprehensive solution for compliance automation.

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GDPR as part of your corporate compliance profile

With the changes in EU regulation that GDPR introduces, specifically relating to the processing of EU citizens’ personal data, organisations are facing fresh challenges in how they prove compliance. GDPR brings particular burdens with the ‘Privacy by Design’ mandate that requires data privacy be part of the system design process from day one.

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Announcing new integrations with VMware on AWS

We are pleased to announce the release of two new integrations with VMware on AWS! We have created both knife-vcenter and kitchen-vcenter to take advantage of VMware on AWS and help drive your developers’ stories. Leverage kitchen-vcenter to drive your cookbook development in AWS, and promote it to your Software Defined Data Center (SDDC).

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Purposeful Patching with Chef Automate

As the environments we manage grow, so too does the potential risk to our systems as new vulnerabilities and exploits seem to crop up on a regular basis. As such, a question folks frequently ask is, “how can I use Chef to apply patches to the systems I manage?

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GDPR for Application Delivery Pipeline

With the changes in EU regulation that GDPR introduces, specifically relating to the processing of EU citizens’ personal data, organisations are facing fresh challenges in how they prove compliance. GDPR brings particular burdens with the ‘Privacy by Design’ mandate, that requires data privacy be part of the system design process from day one.

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Slalom’s approach to breaking down silos between DevOps and Security Teams

Part Automation, Part Culture When you think about your technology choices, its important to consider how those choices will impact the overall goals of the organization and not just one team. The tools you choose should reinforce the behaviors you want to see. Ultimately, this new way of working transforms your culture.

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