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Keep Learning About Cloud... With The Doppler Online. Visit cloudtp.com/doppler Blockchain & Smart Contracts The combination of smart contracts in the blockchain ecosystem is a very powerful tool in helping to provide solutions to a multitude of business challenges and goals, but the magic does not happen by itself. Simply creating a blockchain and a smart contract does not guarantee it cannot be intentionally or unintentionally misused. It is up to us as technologists, to ‘think like lawyers.’ State of the Hybrid Enterprise: What’s Next for Dev and Ops? The hybrid enterprise is here. You can now balance on-premisess systems, such as traditional systems and private cloud, with the exploding use of public clouds. This transformation changed IT forever, and presented some new opportunities for most enterprises. We look at the state of today’s hybrid enter- prise and what’s next for Dev and Ops. Swimming at the Surface of the IT Ocean Enterprise IT effectiveness relies on achieving as much capability as possible with the highest possible efficiency. But with the already rapid pace of innovation accelerating even more quickly, it is necessary to adapt as fast as possible when new technologies and tools surface. Don’t Kick the Cloud – Design for Failure! AWS, Azure and Google offer the opportunity to deploy robust services that will survive and failover gracefully through inevitable outages, but you must design for these failures. The DevOps Handbook for Unicorns and Horses Gene Kim, DevOps expert and author at “The Phoenix Project” and “The DevOps Handbook” joins us on The Doppler podcast to discuss enterprise case studies and what to avoid when starting your own DevOps initiative. SPRING 2017 | THE DOPPLER | 73