Gene Kim

Gene Kim

IT Revolution

Author & Researcher

Gene Kim is a multiple award-winning CTO, researcher and author, and has been studying high-performing technology organizations since 1999. He was founder and CTO of Tripwire for 13 years. He has written six books, including The Unicorn Project (2019), The Phoenix Project (2013), The DevOps Handbook (2016), the Shingo Publication Award-winning Accelerate (2018), and The Visible Ops Handbook (2004-2006) series. Since 2014, he has been the founder and organizer of DevOps Enterprise Summit, studying the technology transformations of large, complex organizations.

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Security and virtualization: The opening of Pandora’s Box

Gene KimJanuary 7, 2009

The cost and technical benefits of virtualization have created an internal frenzy to move more systems to a virtual environment.

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Go from ‘visibly victimized’ to ‘silently competent’

Gene KimMay 14, 2007

When Dr. Gene Spafford and I wrote the original version of the Tripwire software program in 1992, it was to help solve the security problem of how to restore systems to a known good state after they have been compromised. But since then, my area of passion has moved from computer security to IT operations.