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DSE digital transformation recap
February 18, 2022 • Global Partner Solution and Technology ISV Team
DSE did this through not one but many different technology providers—an entire ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISVs) with Red Hat’s software at the center. Next-generation application development, security, AI/ML, edge, application migration, and observability were all focus areas in the company’s journey. Here’s a sampling of everything it accomplished!
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Davie Street Enterprises embraces cloud technologies and services
December 17, 2021 • Vincent Power

DSE has done this by finding platforms, services, and processes that best align with its goals—made possible by the combination of Red Hat products and our partner ecosystem. In this post, we will focus on those operational efficiencies and how they can be further enhanced through the use of Red Hat Cloud Services, all of which are built on Red Hat OpenShift.
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Davie Street Enterprises becomes an AI company
December 3, 2021 • John Senegal

This article will look into how the previous project and a whole new set of problems will transform DSE into an AI company. It will explore the lessons learned both technically and organizationally. It will also show how the lessons learned powered solving new problems using AI.
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DSE measures and improves DevOps
November 5, 2021 • Dave Meurer, Phillip Lamb

He needed to be able to demonstrate, quantifiably, that the changes were having the desired effect. Let’s see how he led DSE toward a DevSecOps practice using measured approaches from Google’s DevOps research and assessment team.
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Davie Street Enterprises’ DevSecOps journey to the hybrid cloud
October 22, 2021 • Dave Meurer

Ok, let’s see it for real.
Last we saw Zachary L. Tureaud, he was in the early days of his promotion by Monique Wallace to lead Davie Street Enterprises' (DSE’s) shift towards DevSecOps. Tureaud laid out a comprehensive DevSecOps solution that includes Red Hat and its security partner ecosystem and is designed to shift security left in the DevOps life cycle. His goal is to not let security slow DSE’s application delivery down.
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Davie Street Enterprises leaps into Industry 4.0 with edge technologies
October 6, 2021 • John Senegal

However, it looks ahead soberly and sees some very big challenges in modernizing its warehouse operations and is not sure how to address them. In this post, we’ll share how DSE plans to add predictive maintenance capabilities with Red Hat and an ecosystem of vendors, and begin its path toward Industry 4.0.
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Using NGINX Ingress Controller on Red Hat OpenShift
September 15, 2021 • Cameron Skidmore

In this post, we’ll cover how Gloria Fenderson, DSE’s Senior Manager of Network Engineering, plans to use Red Hat OpenShift and the NGINX Ingress Controller to deliver applications on a cluster running across multiple types of underlying infrastructure. Both NGINX and Red Hat solutions are designed to enable the deployment of container-based environments across multiple clouds; we'll see now how easily this is accomplished.
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Use automated snapshots to defend against ransomware with NetApp and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
August 12, 2021 • George James

During one of the security audits, DSE discovered that it did not have a cohesive strategy to recover from a ransomware attack.
In this post, we’ll see how Zachary L. Tureaud, DSE’s Director of Security Engineering, plans to use Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and ONTAP Snapshot technology to prevent and react to ransomware attacks.
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Expanding automation to Windows environments with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Chocolatey
July 14, 2021 • David Rojas

However, after hearing his peers in the network and development area bragging about all the new technologies they are using, Lu is upset no one has spoken to him about modernizing his area. Today he decides to demand an explanation.
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Davie Street Enterprises transforms its applications with Red Hat
June 10, 2021 • John Senegal

DSE's current application set is typical of an organization in the manufacturing industry. For this industry, inventory management or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are perhaps the most critical. We examine the company’s transformation of its ERP system, called Parts and Supplies (PAS), and the software tools that support it. Daniel Mitchell, the Chief Architect at DSE, will be leading this effort, addressing critical decisions (like build or buy) to support a successful transformation.
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Installing and using Dynatrace to prevent outages
May 20, 2021 • David Rojas

Ranbir Ahuja, Senior Director of Operators, has been following the efforts with much curiosity. For the most part, Ahuja is excited at the progress yet is concerned that from his perspective one of the largest single drivers for this transformation hasn’t been directly addressed.
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Shifting left: Davie Street Enterprises implements DevSecOps
April 1, 2021 • Dave Meurer

To launch DevOps into production, DSE is holding itself accountable for ensuring security is integrated into the culture and process. Security has been the top priority for DSE ever since its 2020 website outage, which involved a security breach among other factors. Security has now almost grinded DSE’s traditional development cycles to a halt, so this transformation over to DevOps couldn’t have come at a better time.
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Davie Street Enterprises embraces GitOps with GitLab
March 18, 2021 • Phillip Lamb

Of course, revamping the entire application stack would take way more time and money than they had available. The increasing fragility of the application environments meant his team spends almost all of their time just keeping the lights on. He realizes that he doesn’t have to modernize everything at once, but he needs to start somewhere. It’s a question with - for once - an easy answer: they need to modernize their version control in the same way the operations team has modernized its version control.
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Automation of BIG-IP with Red Hat Ansible Automation and F5
February 17, 2021 • Cameron Skidmore
DSE Chief Architect Daniel Mitchell has been put in charge of Davie Street Enterprises’ (DSE) digital transformation. He's feeling pressure from management since the website crashed last month, and was down for 46 hours straight. Shifting from one-off configurations and into an Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) model is now critical for DSE. It took a crisis, but management realized that procrastinating isn’t an option and have tasked Mitchell to lead various teams to modernize their infrastructure.
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Automating IP Address Management with Red Hat Ansible and Infoblox
February 4, 2021 • George James

In one instance, an IP address overlap combined with a misconfigured load balancer caused an outage with an inventory tracking system. This took almost two days to resolve and cost the company more than $100,000 in lost revenue. As a result, the WAN deployment was delayed and eventually scaled back. This also contributed to delays in migrating services to the cloud.
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Davie Street Enterprises: A case study in digital transformation
January 18, 2021 • David Rojas
The company isn't real, but its struggle is very real for many organizations. Throughout this series, we will explore the business problems any number of organizations are challenged with and how DSE, with the help of Red Hat and its partners, plan to solve those problems. To start, let’s learn more about DSE, its business, and some of the associates involved in its digital transformation journey.
Davie Street Enterprises employees and their roles
Name |
Title |
Description |
Susan Chin |
Sr. Director Development |
Susan is new to DSE (1 year) and was brought on after her predecessor was fired after the development team failed to release the updated website on time and when they did it crashed for 46 hours causing the company almost 1 million in lost sales. Her primary charter is to change how the development team functions and endure failures like this never occur again. She is under tremendous pressure to correct the ship ASAP without adding cost. |
Andres Martinez |
Principal Developer |
Andres has been working at DSE for 14 years and has seen it at its best and worst. He is the primary developer on the company website. He is overworked and many projects rely on his expert knowledge. He is on the verge of quitting as the pressure and workload seems unsurmountable. Andres reports directly to Susan due to the critical work he does |
Daniel Mitchell |
Chief Architect |
Daniel is new to DSE. He was hired as part of a larger effort to modernize the staff starting with certain key positions. He comes from a fairly small startup with some very creative ideas but knows he will have to be able to scale those ideas as well as show ROI on them fast. |
Stephanie Wilson |
Director of Plant Operations |
Stephanie has witnessed incredible growth in her 31 years at DSE; her plants can't keep up with demand. The order system is outdated and fails often, causing delays delivering Widgets. She is concerned about Virtual Widgets' impact on her operations. |
Ranbir Ahuja |
Sr. Director IT Operations |
Ranbir has been at DSE for 7 years. When he started he came in super excited about modernizing IT Operations at DSE but after many attempts that have failed due to poor choices in solutions and lack of planning he has become very disillusioned. He has many promising ideas but hasn’t found the right combination of toolset and partner to carry this out. When the website crashed for 46 hours even though it ended up being an issue with the code as well as a lack of proper load balancing there was a lot of finger pointing directed at operations. He never wants his teams to be in that position again. |
Dan Johnson |
Sr. Director of Sales |
Dan started just a few weeks ago and was brought on board due to his experience building sales campaigns around virtual products. He has new and innovative ideas but already seeing that selling those ideas at DSE will not be easy. He is chartered to increase sales by 18% in the first year. Doing that alone with the legacy products and associated application is impossible and he is growing impatient at the lack of progress on the Virtual Widgets. |
Monique Wallace |
CIO |
Monique was recently promoted to CIO from the COO position she held for 12 years. Overall she has been at DSE for 34 years and knows it like the back of her hand. She has a strong development background from earlier in her career. The CEO has made it clear that she needs to cut costs, improve operational efficiencies through technology and deliver on the promise of Virtual Widgets. One of her biggest challenges has been aligning IT Operations, Plant Operations, and Development to work together on this goal. |
Gloria Fenderson |
Sr. Manager of Network Engineering |
Gloria has been at DSE for over 18 years and spent 15 of them as a network engineer. She knows the pains an engineer suffers and what it takes to keep a network up and running. She also knows what doesn’t work. As she was promoted into a management role she was intent on changing how networking is done but lately has been feeling like giving up. |
Zachary L. Tureaud |
Director of Security Engineering |
Zachary has been at DSE for 5 years and spent all of his time on the Security Operations team responsible for threat detection and remediation. A rising rock star performer at DSE, Zachary was the obvious choice to be offered a new role at DSE as Director of Security Engineering to ensure Security is part of the very fabric of DSE’s new DevOps culture change. |
Randy Lu |
Senior System Administrator |
Randy has been working at DSE for more than 30 years. In fact, he was part of the team that installed the set of PC’s all running Windows 95. He has worked in system administration for most of his career and is very set in his ways. He knows more about DSE’s Windows environment than anyone in the company. He doesn’t like change and wants things to be easy or he will fight the process. |