DevOps
IT Trends and Comments for 2012
This blog appears in the Prism Micorsystem EventTracker newsletter. That posting does not include the footnoted hotlinks that are included here. The beginning of a new year marks a time of reflection on the past and anticipation of the future. The result for analysts, pundits and authors is a near irresistible urge to identify [...]
The Many Faces of Application Performance Management
It doesn’t take a genius to know that business applications have to perform well, particularly if those applications service a company’s customers. This is why most IT staffs understand the importance of application performance management (APM) for protecting and enabling their business’ reputation and success. But selecting APM solutions can be a very confusing experience [...]
IBM: Getting to Nimble Application Development
Earlier in my career, I spent several years managing a PC application development team. One thing that I learned from this experience was exactly how dedicated programmers were to their tools. I remember one programmer who had spent 20 years working with COBOL. He felt it was his mission to prove COBOL was superior to [...]
IBM: Smarter DevOps processes and integration = Business Agility
Unrelenting change and escalating complexity appear consistently as the top challenges facing enterprise executives fighting for success in today’s global market. In fact, IBM’s most recent global survey of executives found that ‘80% of CEO’s anticipate turbulent change and bold moves’ lie ahead, as they define and implement strategies and plans to deal with these challenges. [...]
IBM: The Power of Business Agility
Agility is a word typically associated with physical dexterity, defined by Wikipedia as, “Agility is the ability to change the body’s position efficiently, and requires the integration of isolated movement skills using a combination of balance, coordination, speed, reflexes, strength, endurance and stamina.” In its latest announcements, IBM uses a similar concept of agility but [...]
The Viability of Collaborative DevOps
Companies that pay attention to emerging trends and adapt quickly are most likely to succeed, while laggards suffer the consequences of latecomers and miss business opportunities. The DevOps movement is one of these emerging trends that companies should be taking seriously despite numerous failures by vendors to jump start this area in the past. However, [...]
How Isbank Transformed IT’s Value through DevOps Integration
During IBM’s Pulse conference, we attended a session where presenters from Isbank described how they accomplished an integration project to solve issues within its IT department, specifically to integrate and streamline processes between development and operations (DevOps). At first glance, their DevOps integration project seemed like a nuts-and-bolts kind of project – involving IT [...]
Perspectives on IBM Pulse: What a Difference a Year Makes
This year’s IBM Pulse conference was interesting because it reflected changes that are happening in the industry – one of them being the shifts from vision to reality. Last year, two of IBM’s major initiatives promoted the ideas of cloud computing and Dev Ops to IBM’s mainstream customers. This year, many of IBM’s customers shared [...]
IBM Watson – An Example of Dev Ops
I found some interesting outtakes from a recent IBM briefing on the effort and technology behind IBM’s Watson (which is a computer-based Jeopardy “contestant” that will compete against two of the Jeopardy game show’s all-time champions.) As expected, the technology and effort behind this project are very impressive: ninety clustered, commercially-available IBM POWER 750/755 systems with [...]
A tale of microprocessors and DevOps
At an IBM analyst event earlier this week, Steve Mills, IBM Senior VP & Group Executive, Software and Systems, made some interesting observations about how the microprocessor industry makes no distinction between design and fabrication anymore. He noted that it is simply impossible to produce new high density, high performance microprocessors without tightly integrating fabrication [...]
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