IT-business agility
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: 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, [...]
IBM Customers’ Cloud Transformations
Cloud computing adoption by IBM customers is alive and well, as attested to by the broad array of IBM customers sharing their cloud building experiences at this year’s IBM Pulse 2011 conference… Despite the differences among IBM’s cloud customers, such as size, industry and type of clouds, they share similar perspectives regarding the foundational elements [...]
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 [...]
HP Expands its Cloud Offerings
With its latest cloud announcements, HP makes a major shift in the nature of its cloud offerings. Up to this point, HP’s cloud offerings focused on HP Services delivering offerings — including cloud strategy workshops, and assorted services to assist customers in building their own clouds. Customers were encouraged to use HP’s management software to [...]
The zEnterprise System: Delivers Business Value
For a number of years now, the mantra has been that some 70% (and frequently more) of the effort of IT operations has been devoted to simply maintaining existing infrastructure. This leaves a maximum of 30% of IT’s time available to apply their creative energies to achieving business goals in new and innovative ways. Every [...]
Does SOA + Agile Programming = Crappy Business Agility?
Service oriented architectures (SOA) and agile programming techniques are about changing complex business applications at faster rates. However, true business agility is not about doing more application changes faster. True business agility is about doing more application changes faster without sacrificing the application’s performance or quality of service. From my perspective, achieving that second part [...]
HP’s Application Lifecycle Management
By Jasmine Noel and Audrey Rasmussen A recent briefing with HP to discuss their Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) strategy left us quite impressed with their approach. The refreshing thing about our ALM strategy discussion with HP was their focus on “business outcomes”, rather than the product or engineering focus that HP has relied on in [...]
Tools to tame heterogeneous virtualization management
As I mentioned in my perils & pitfalls blog, virtualization is elevating the daily stress for over-extended datacenter administrators to alarming levels. Higher business agility and lower capital costs through virtualization can’t be achieved without sophisticated, complete, and always-on management of heterogenous virtual computing resources. In other words, agile management of heterogeneous virtualization is critical [...]
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