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Case Study: Hearst Business Media achieves enterprise DevOps transformation and automated deployments with Chef
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Enterprise DevOps at Hearst Business Media
Hearst Business Media, a global technology leader serving finance, healthcare and transportation markets, faced the challenge of changing how a large, geographically and culturally diverse enterprise develops and delivers software. With over 2,500 dev and ops staff, a heterogeneous mix of Windows, data center and growing cloud workloads, and fragmented toolsets across business units, Hearst needed to standardize processes, contain costs, and accelerate delivery without disrupting existing teams.
Under VP of DevOps Pauly Comtois, Hearst used a measured, CTO-driven framework and Agile engagements to consolidate tools, retrain teams, and introduce a shared toolchain centered on Chef. By automating deployment, configuration and environment state across Dev, QA and Production, the company reduced silos, created repeatable workflows, achieved economies of scale, and began delivering higher-quality software faster while winning buy-in through early, demonstrable value.
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Hearst
Pauly Comtois
VP of DevOps