This week I had the pleasure of hearing Gene Kim speak about DevOps and release management again.  Although I’ve seen Gene present multiple times, I always leave his talks with more insight than the previous time.

During this presentation, it was Gene’s description of “the three ways”

They say that if you get enough chimpanzees together and give them access to enough computers, eventually they will make a Software Change, Configuration and Release Management solution as good as ChangeMan ZMF. I am not sure I can wait that long and I’ve seen how “Planet of the Apes” turns out. Of course, if you don’t have anyone working on improving your SCCM & RLM solutions, you’ll never keep up with the ever

We’re thrilled to announce Serena’s participation and sponsorship at three prominent industry events during the month of June.

June 18-20, we will be at Gartner’s IOM Summit in Orlando and O’Reilly’s Velocity Conference in Santa Clara. The following week, June 21-22, catch us at DevOps Days Mountain View.

Serena executives will be on hand at each event demonstrating release automation and release process control

One way or another, we are all involved in building the content of the release, getting the release ready, putting the release out there, and taking care of it when it gets there. The major theme of xChange13, Serena Software’s global user conference from September 16-18 in Miami, is all about what it takes to be a world-class software release organization.

We are going to have expert speakers from the world of DevOps and IT service management, including Read More

“Knowing the answers doesn’t make it any easier.” – Det. Sonny Crockett, Miami Vice

Crockett and Tubbs solved major Miami crimes in about 42 minutes of air time. At xChange13, Serena’s global user conference from September 16-18, the presenters have just 50 minutes to share their knowledge and wisdom so that you can solve your own technology challenges.

This week we announced most of the

The recent Best Management Practice Congress 2013 (Bad Neuenahr, Germany)  was a James Bond-inspired conference with the theme, “The (IT) World Is Not Enough.“  This is so fitting in today’s world of increasing demands on the business to produce more and release faster.  And it leads to the question: Can IT keep up with such rapid growth?

Serena customer Portigon AG presented at the Congress on this topic and how Read More

Our very own agile advocate and DevOps guru, Jonathan Thorpe, is set to deliver an insightful presentation at Agile Development Conference West in Las Vegas, focused on the ‘Evolution of Agile.’ He’ll speak on Wednesday, June 5^th at 3:45pm PT.

Agile development has evolved into a lifecycle

Serena StarTool FDM became Generally Available on April 30, 2013, just in time to announce at the recent Mainframe Virtual User Group (VUG).  Mark Henderson from the StarTool Development Team presented the StarTool products roadmap and the roster of feature updates in StarTool FDM 7.7.2.

Improved DASD support:

• Volume map (VMAP) command shows all areas of EAV
• Dataset statistics (USAGE) command shows EAV-specific DSCBs
• Allocate large PDSEs
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I am very pleased to announce that Serena’s Release Automation tool has recently been named a winner in this year’s Network Products Guide Awards in the Application Delivery category. This award showcases our continued charge as a leader in the adoption of Release Management and DevOps. This is the third consecutive year that a Serena solution has been a part of the awards finalists’

It is not easy to be selected as a speaker for xChange, Serena’s annual user conference. I always feel sorry for the many excellent presentation ideas we have to turn away, but I am so excited to think about the ones that were chosen for xChange13 from September 16-18 in Miami. This year’s list is more impressive than ever before.

We have a bumper crop of customer presentations, which we’ll announce next week.  These are my personal favorite sessions