Red Hat CEO: Today’s IT department is in a fight for its life
There’s a new trend called “devops” that is sweeping the enterprise IT world and its become a life-or-death career situation for many IT departments.
The word smooshes up the IT terms “development” (meaning writing software) and “operations” (meaning maintaining software and all the tech needed to run it).
“Devops is all about how do things faster,” Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst tells Business Insider. It’s the IT department’s version of Facebook’s famous mantra “go fast and break stuff.” Whitehurst is the CEO of a 7,500-employee open source software company so famous for its culture, Whitehurst is writing a book about it for Harvard Business Review.
