What lane do you travel on the DevOps highway?
Last week we kicked off our webinar series on Variable Speed DevOps. The discussion was lively and informative. For myself as moderator the webcast was as comfortable as an old pair of slippers. Two of...
View ArticleWebinar: Show Me Success Before I’ll Invest in DevOps – A HM Health Solutions...
Whatever your conviction, the reluctance by senior management to justify new investments and sponsor major change in existing software delivery practices and technologies, while theoretically...
View ArticleBudgeting for DevOps Success
One concept that seems to be universal across all IT departments is the admins lament of “how do I convince my boss that we should spend the money.” Whether it is security, QA or development tools,...
View ArticleWebinar: Build, test and deploy mobile apps with back-end mainframe services...
You may already have a good understanding of the hybrid cloud and its benefits. But how do you get the value of the last three decades of investment in your backend infrastructure into the hands of...
View ArticleFollow the Unicorn: Transform your Enterprise Applications
For those of us that work on Enterprise Systems such as the mainframe, the claims that the Unicorns (1) make, can be pretty astounding. Dozens and sometimes hundreds of releases a day from big...
View ArticleThe Simple Math of DevOps
We are living in an information- infused society, much dependent on various technological innovations taking place all around us. In such conditions, as consumers become more connected, they are...
View ArticleBimodal IT and Remodeling Traditional IT for Greater Agility
Bimodal IT is a Gartner concept created to help CIO’s understand that IT organizations need to support both traditional and agile modes of IT solution delivery and operation in order to make wise...
View Article“Show Me The Money!”– Delivering DevOps Value
HM Heath Solutions delivers new business applications in the healthcare industry to 35 million customers. In order to embark on their DevOps journey to improve software delivery, Valerie Scott, their...
View ArticleThe Calculus of DevOps
This is the second in a series of blogs, partnering with Lee Reid, who wrote the first installment “The Simple Math of DevOps” and Sanjeev Sharma both of who are outstanding DevOps Thought Leaders from...
View ArticleThe Art of DevOps
This is the third in a series of posts on DevOps. The first written by my colleague Lee Reid was titled The Simple Math of DevOps. The second The Calculus of DevOps was written by IBM client, and my...
View ArticleMulti-Speed IT versus Bimodal IT
I wanted to continue our revue of the recent IBM InterConnect conference in Las Vegas last month. We kicked off the revue with the release of our first videos from the show on Monday. Since then we...
View ArticleMainframes and the Myth of Bimodal in DevOps
Rewind 20 years ago when we lived in a business world where big companies with unlimited resources beat out smaller, more strapped companies. The digital era—also known as the “age of the customer”—is...
View ArticleThe Perfect Combination: Imperative Orchestration, Declarative Automation
There are two fundamental approaches of how to design automation processes, declarative (also often known as model) and imperative (also often known as workflow or procedural). The purpose of this...
View ArticleDevOps in Legacy Systems: A Mission Impossible?
The word “legacy” evokes mixed reactions from the IT and business crowds alike. For those who depend on legacy systems such as the zSeries and iSeries platforms, it is a way to deliver stable and...
View ArticleDevOps Chat: IBM z14, Built for DevOps from the Ground Up, with Hayden Lindsey
IBM recently GA’ed perhaps its biggest zSystems mainframe release in the last decade or longer. The z14 mainframe from IBM has also been designed from the ground up to be DevOps-empowered. From APIs...
View ArticleBimodal IT and Remodeling Traditional IT for Greater Agility
Bimodal IT is a Gartner concept created to help CIO’s understand that IT organizations need to support both traditional and agile modes of IT solution delivery and operation in order to make wise...
View Article“Show Me The Money!”– Delivering DevOps Value
HM Heath Solutions delivers new business applications in the healthcare industry to 35 million customers. In order to embark on their DevOps journey to improve software delivery, Valerie Scott, their...
View ArticleThe Calculus of DevOps
This is the second in a series of blogs, partnering with Lee Reid, who wrote the first installment “The Simple Math of DevOps” and Sanjeev Sharma both of who are outstanding DevOps Thought Leaders from...
View ArticleThe Art of DevOps
This is the third in a series of posts on DevOps. The first written by my colleague Lee Reid was titled The Simple Math of DevOps. The second The Calculus of DevOps was written by IBM client, and my...
View ArticleMulti-Speed IT versus Bimodal IT
I wanted to continue our revue of the recent IBM InterConnect conference in Las Vegas last month. We kicked off the revue with the release of our first videos from the show on Monday. Since then we...
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