Alan Shimel is founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of Techstrong Group, a Futurum company, and a member of Futurum's executive leadership team. A technology entrepreneur, media executive and industry commentator, Shimel has spent more than three decades building businesses, communities and media platforms serving enterprise technology professionals, including co-founding StillSecure, a network security company, and the DevOps Institute, a DevOps certification and training body. At Techstrong, he leads a portfolio of media brands including DevOps.com, Security Boulevard, Cloud Native Now, Techstrong AI, Techstrong IT, Digital CxO, Platform Engineering, Techstrong Semi and Techstrong TV, along with a growing portfolio of events, educational programs and digital communities. With more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, Shimel is a familiar voice in the space and was an early advocate of the DevOps movement, helping bring DevOps practices into mainstream enterprise technology. His work today spans cybersecurity, DevOps, cloud-native technologies, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and digital transformation, and he hosts popular programs including Techstrong Gang, Shimmy Says and Still Cyber, After All These Years. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics from St. John's University and a Juris Doctor from New York Law School.
Meet Clair, open source vulnerability analysis on containers
DockerCon Barcelona has lots of buzz coming out of it and we will be covering all of the action here this week. We wanted to lead off with a story that was ...
Containers Enable DevOps and Hybrid Clouds, But Sandboxes Are Also Critical for IT Success
Gartner predicts that by 2016, nearly 25% of the Global 2000 IT organizations will be mainstreaming DevOps methodologies for bringing applications into production IT. A recent 451 Research survey of enterprises found ...
CoreOS releases Tectonic to General Availability
After months if not years of development and beta testing with many users CoreOS is taking the wraps off its Tectonic complete container infrastructure stack. We have reported several times on Tectonic ...
Docker acquires Tutum, another piece in building a complete offering
Docker today announced that it has acquired the NY based, TechStars accelerated company Tutum which has developed a “cloud service to deploy and manage Dockerized applications into production on any infrastructure.” This ...
Illumio brings security to the Docker Mesosphere ecosystem
Illumio, a Silicon Valley Unicorn announced that its Adaptive Security Platform (ASP)TM will now work with Docker in the Mesosphere Data Center OS (DCOS). This integration brings a new level of security to ...
Container Q & A with Apcera CEO, Derek Collison
I recently had a chance to speak with Apcera CEO Derek Collision about his views on where the market is around containers. Below is the Q & A of our conversation. Also ...
CenturyLink open sources its own Docker dog food
There are many companies that are parasites on the open source community. They take, take, take but don’t give anything back to the open source community in spite of their protests that ...
Suse Linux supports Docker
There has been much written about CoreOS support for Docker. Red Hat is one of the leading contributors of Docker code. However, there is another major Linux distro that has added extensive ...
CloudBees and Jenkins support Kubernetes with 3 new plugins
In conjunction with the release of Kubernetes v1.0 and the formation of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, CloudBees, the enterprise Jenkins company and managers of the Jenkins community announced three new plugins ...
Google Kubernetes v1.0 released – it just got real
Today the good folks at Google Cloud Platform announced the release of Kubernetes v1.0. While acknowledging that there is still much work to be done, this milestone means Kubernetes is ready for ...
