Josh Atwell, developer advocate at NetApp, Inc., wants to see more focus on the “Ops” in the DevOps movement.

John Troyer (@jtroyer) and Stu Miniman (@stu), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE media team, wanted to know how a company such as NetApp, a storage and data management company, remains relevant to storage administrators. Focus on the “Ops is key.”

The application evolution

“The ‘ops’ is focused on enabling developers and simplifying code deployment … so it can be consumed and used,” Atwell said. “That is forcing organizations to have new requirements. In the virtualization age, it was about doing more with less. Consolidating. When cloud became the norm as an operating model, it changed to ‘I also need it faster.’ Now we’re in an application evolution where not only do we need it to be available and reliable, but we need more with less, and we need it faster and we need it as a service as well.”

This evolution means the administrator’s role must evolve. The role of server administrator has morphed into the virtualization administrator. Atwell said that the network and storage industry will see more of these roles evolve.

Effectively operationalizing DevOps in the enterprise

Tim Carr, senior solutions architect, VCDX, at AHEAD, LLC, also joined in on the interview. And according to Carr, network, storage and compute engineers all need to work on the same team to operationalize DevOps in the enterprise.

“You have to add developers, take on agile methodology, and understand how to bring workflow together and deliver your product,” he said.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of the VMworld 2016.

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