DevOps
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 [...]
Full DEV/TEST environment for Mainframe Apps on a PC!
One would think that a near complete Rational-based, mainframe application Development/Test environment able to support some 10 developers running on an x86 server would capture some attention in the IT market, if not from the pundits. Whatever the reason for the lack of attention, this needed a deeper look. Here’s what IBM is offering.
Measuring the Positive Impact of Devops
Fostering application collaboration between development and operations should be a cornerstone any business agility strategy. The amount of rework developers have to do to fix deployment rollbacks and application performance problems determines the upper limit on business agility. The more deployment and production problems your developers must fix the less time they have to develop [...]
HP’s Application Lifecycle Strategy
by Audrey Rasmussen & Jasmine Noel The virtual wall between IT Operations and IT Development is reminiscent of the Berlin Wall – it existed for a long time, served as a clear delineation of different cultures, separated people into two distinct groups, and was seemingly impenetrable (at least until the Wall finally came down.) Over [...]
Nolio: Application Service Automation
Nolio is a relatively new company focused on increasing application performance, reducing application management costs by tackling the inherent problems in deploying and updating complex, datacenter applications. The company founders’ experiences with converting software products into an online software service created a wish-list of application-centric deployment, maintenance, update management, and process automation capabilities. Nolio was [...]
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 [...]
Can DevOps overcome us-vs-them
I find it interesting that Andi Mann’s Myopic View of DevOps Misses the Mark is fairly dismissive of DevOps because developers “create messes” for operations to clean up. However, many of the responses and defenses of DevOps are laden with some sharp comments about “slow moving” operations groups (e.g. Perhaps DevOps Misnamed?). Clearly the us-vs-them wall [...]
IBM’s Service Lifecycle Management
Many IT process integrations to date have focused primarily on processes for IT Operations, as well as interlinked Service Desk and Operations processes. IBM’s recent Dynamic Infrastructure for Service Management announcements extends IBM’s service management capabilities not only within the data center, but IBM continues to expand its reach to monitor and manage business assets [...]
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