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My second column from FierceDevOps is up. It’s essentially a write-up of my DevOpsDays Austin talk (see slides here): a quick check-in on how DevOps is doing (good!) and my advice on what it can do to keep being successful. Check out the piece, tell me what you think!

Can DevOps declare victory yet? Not quite, but soon. Figuring out when a technology inflection point happens is always hard, if not impossible, in real-time. It’s easy to point backwards and say when ERP, agile software development, the Web, business intelligence, mobile or cloud suddenly became “normal.” I think DevOps is right at the door of that point, and as some recent Gartner predictions have proffered, we could see something like a quarter of all large enterprises using DevOps next year.

Chris Kemp speaking recently: “Openstack is not a product, it is a collection of projects designed to be productised,” he said. The companies making that effort today, he said, are focusing on large-scale opportunities. “Customer participation drives the change that customers want,” he said, and with not many users deploying OpenStack to date there’s therefore not much impetus for change or innovation. What is OpenStack?

And, when I actually think about what is going on, I’m using Microsoft Outlook on my Apple iPhone to read my Google Gmail. I’ve used it since back when it was Acompli. It’s good stuff! I’m looking forward to the desktop Outlook working well in OS X (I run the preview and last I checked it didn’t work with GMail, need to check again). What a world! Outlook is a good, mobile email client

Quick overview of the new OpenStack version. OpenStack Kilo Rolls With Network, Storage Upgrades

Microsoft Corp. wants to reach annualized revenue of $20 billion in its corporate cloud business in the fiscal year that ends in June 2018. At the moment, it’s: The company last week said it has a current run rate of $6.3 billion for the cloud business, which includes its Azure data-center services and cloud versions of Office software and customer management programs. Microsoft targeting $20bn cloud business by 2018, currently at $6.

According to data compiled by Pew Research for its annual State of the Media report, awareness of podcasts grew significantly last year. One-third of all Americans now say they have listened to a podcast; 17% said they had listened to one in the last month alone, as of January. You know, over whatever the survey base is (US), but Pew is pretty legit. Podcasting has something like 17% market penetrarion

From the perspective of the xMatters engineering team, Serediuk and Dunn-Krahn told me they see themselves as a service provider helping the business and customers to achieve their goals. They got those super short pieces over at FierceDevOps. Organizational change is only first step to ensure DevOps success

“But microservices want to bring you into tomorrow,” says Winterberg. “Microservices add a bit to the category concept, defining a service over all application layers, including the UI. So people already doing SOA may gain a kind of new freedom by adopting microservice ideas.” That freedom includes technology independence and an alternative to aging technologies, because individual services within an application can be gradually swapped out for those based on more-modern technologies, without having to replace the entire application.