Archives for February 2015
Month: February 2015

DevOps Perspectives from Pink15
I recently had the privilege of covering the Pink15 conference on behalf of Devops.com. Pink Elephant is a renowned leader in ITIL and ITSM education, consulting and conferences. Now in its 19th ...

Composable Environments for Continuous Delivery
The Continuous Deployment model discussed below requires some very specific properties for its platform substrate. Currently AWS is the the only environment that supports all the features needed to implement this. So ...

IBM InterConnect: HM Health Solutions shows how continuous delivery helps cure healthcare IT headaches
As a spin off business unit of health insurer Highmark, HM Health Solutions is tasked with helping not only that insurer but also other third-party insurers across the industry to optimize systems ...

How Deploy Frequency Impacts Infrastructure Stability
I recently took some time out from reading the Internet to read a very specific piece of research I found on the Internet from IDC - its "DevOps and the Cost of ...

Streamlining no matter how many speeds your IT operates at
IBM InterConnect 2015 took over the Mandalay Bay and MGM Grand conference centers this week with an estimated audience of more than 20,000 attendees. The event is filled with DevOps evangelists, hybrid ...

InterConnecting the Internet of Things
In every direction one turns in the so-called Internet of Things there is fragmentation. There are many programing languages, devices and, more recently, a disparate set of IoT development and management platforms that ...

To Be or Not to Be – Shadow IT
Is it being an innovator, or demonizing business decisions to use other vehicles, and cry foul? Sun Tzu, the famous Chinese strategist and philosopher, once said, “If ignorant both of your enemy ...

Four Steps to Free Your Organization From Scheduled Maintenance
Whether you’re an operations engineer or a customer, scheduled maintenance is often viewed as a given when delivering software as a service. While far better than surprise outages, planned downtime is still ...

Donnie Berkholz on IoT and the Modern Developer
It’s been nearly four years since Marc Andreessen wrote his famous column Why software is eating the world. It’s proven to be incredibly prescient. While software and the Internet has removed many ...

IBM InterConnect: Disruption and the stakes of DevOps
It's only a day into the main sessions at IBM InterConnect and it's already clear that the most persistent theme that'll be impressed upon the 21,000-strong crowd this year is one of ...

Dibbe Edwards, VP Rational Software Development at IBM, On Standardizing Tools, Process, and Technology to Build DevOps Success
We had the pleasure, for IBM InterConnect 2015, to speak with Dibbe Edwards, vice president, Rational Software Development about the success IBM has had in implementing DevOps processes within their organization. In ...

Technology is All About the Business
In 2011 I joined a company as their fifth employee. They had been in business a little over a year. They had a product. They had customers. Oh, and the other four ...