Blog Archives - Fierce Software

Digital Transformation at Scale, Part 1

Posted on November 10, 2020 (January 21, 2022) by zerograv

Themba Hinke, DevSecOps Lead Contributor At the small program level, digital transformation and modern software delivery is a known quantity. If the team wants it, the path is well worn. As digital transformation scales up to larger organizations, specifically government program offices and large government integration contracts, digital transformation faces a daunting set of institutional[…]

On Top of the [Training] World

Posted on June 20, 2019 (June 21, 2019) by Eric Updegrove

Training is something that is in our blood at Fierce. The first month at Fierce Software as a new hire? Training. Delivering training workshops to our customers? From coast to coast. 2019 Q1 Red Hat Training Partner? Fierce Software. Woaaah, just kinda rolled that last one in there. What can we say, we’re not bashful, but we don’t like to gloat. What[…]

Message from the top of Red Hat Summit

Posted on May 21, 2019 (May 23, 2019) by Eric Updegrove

Year after year, there seem to be more conferences, conventions, meetups, and user groups – just like acronyms, a never-ending supply in the Technology space! Here at Fierce Software we proudly support our vendors, and we’re known for making a show of it too. We don’t just wave our flags at events, we make our[…]

Well, well, RHEL – A look at the RHEL 8 Beta

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Eric Updegrove

Does anyone remember the calculator watch? I suppose I speak of it as a passing antiquated technology, but then again you can buy a new one off of Amazon right now. What’s really amazing is how computers are just an evolution of the calculator watch – fundamentally all computers do is compute values, store them[…]

We’re Hitting the Road

Posted on February 3, 2019 (February 4, 2019) by Eric Updegrove

Well, I don’t know about you but it’s been one crazy year so far – and we’re only in the first week of February! Busy would also be another good description of the last short while, but we like to think that’s a good problem to have. Fierce Software had a great close to the[…]

Hortonworks Public Sector Partner of the Year 2018

Posted on December 13, 2018 (December 21, 2018) by Eric Updegrove

As this year comes to a close and we look back and reflect, there are many things we at Fierce have to be grateful for. Our company as a whole has grown at an accelerated pace. As our team grows, so does our series of strategic partnerships and this has had a tremendous effect internally[…]

Go 0-100 real quick with Hortonworks Cloudbreak

Posted on October 14, 2018 (December 26, 2018) by Eric Updegrove

Not to brag, but we have some amazing partnerships with industry-leading open-source vendors. You may have heard some news about Hortonworks lately, that they recently went through a “little” merger. You can read up about it just about everywhere since it’s all the buzz but take it right from the horse’s elephant’s mouth on the[…]

DevOps Starter Pack

Posted on October 3, 2018 (December 26, 2018) by Eric Updegrove

If you didn’t know about it, Red Hat is running a DevSecOps Roadshow right now! They’re going on tour from city to city spreading the good word of Red Hat OpenShift and the value it delivers in a DevSecOps pipeline, and the benefit it draws into the Software Development Lifecycle. I was fortunate enough to[…]

Zero to Hero: Enterprise DevOps with CloudBees and Red Hat

Posted on September 20, 2018 (December 26, 2018) by Eric Updegrove

If you’ve had a look at our line card then you can probably deduce that we like Open-Source, yeah that one’s easy. We’ve partnered with some of the biggest Open-Source leaders and really enjoy and value the relationships we’ve built over time. In fact, we just recently were awarded Public Sector Partner of the Year[…]

Giving back: Contributing to Open-Source Software

Posted on September 16, 2018 (May 27, 2020) by Eric Updegrove

If you know a thing or two about us here at Fierce Software®, it’s that we live for Open-Source Software. Really, we mean that. Our strongest partnerships are with those around open-source solutions, such as Red Hat, Hortonworks, CloudBees, and Elastic. I could go on and on about the benefits and value of open-source, but[…]