This month TechBeacon shows you how to turn your development operation into a DevOps-friendly software factory, how testers can break into data science, the best open source cloud management tools, and the new security risks surrounding single-sign on.

DevOps at scale: How to build your software factory

Last month Micro Focus Chief Technologist Yaniv Sayers explained Why a software factory is key to your enterprise DevOps success.

This month he shows you step-by-step how to get started. And don’t miss his blog post on how his team used Micro Focus tools to build a better software factory—and how you can too.

How I jumped from software testing to data science

Ken Johnston is Principal Data Science Manager at Microsoft, but he started out as a software tester. Here’s how learning data science improved his testing — and how he made the transition to a full-time data science gig.

4 essential open-source tools for cloud management
Deloitte Chief Cloud Strategy Officer David Linthicum recommends free tools you can download today to use inside or outside of a public cloud platform. “Cloud computing gives you the ability to leverage both open-source and closed-source technology on demand, which turns the ROI model for open source on its head,” he says. Read on to find out why.

Single sign-on still open to attack: An inside look

While single sign-on (SSO) technologies have matured, some implementations still suffer with security issues, as Micro Focus Fortify security researchers revealed at Black Hat in Las Vegas. Here's what went wrong, and what you can learn from it. And in this companion article, learn the five ways companies can get SSO right in today's complex, hybrid IT environments.