4 Tech Imperatives in 2016 to Prepare for Tomorrow
Around the start of every new year come a bevy of predictions about what’s coming (or what someone, or some vendor, or some analyst hopes is coming) in the year ahead. Rather than do that, based on recent conversations with many CIOs, I’ve collected what I think are imperative to-do’s for CIOs and IT leaders […]
Companies Failing to Innovate or Evolve Legacy IT Infrastructure
Biggest hurdles to innovation include lack of skills, no long term planning, poor funding and collaboration, survey finds. We’ve been writing a lot about what it takes for IT organizations to transform their business-technology systems to drive agility and innovation. Interestingly, according to a recent study conducted by the Business Performance Innovation (BPI) Network, most […]
CIOs Must Fight for Relevance in Face of Tech Storms
The past two decades have seen their share of technological disruption – retail, books, music, newspapers, and traditional data centers by – virtualization and cloud computing. With the impact of cloud computing and mobile BYOD trends on traditional IT departments, there has been an ongoing discussion in recent years about whether or not CIOs and […]
Successful technology leaders will embrace the citizen developer
There’s just no slowing down the consumerization of IT. The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend itself has created an enterprise market that will hit $266 billion in 2016, according to a recent report by Markets and Markets. Goldman Sachs released a study earlier this year that found the global software-as-a-service market will reach $106 […]
For more mobile wins, enterprises must find their MVPs
The demand for enterprise mobile apps just isn’t letting up. The research firm Gartner expects that by the end of 2017 enterprise user thirst for mobile apps will be growing five times more quickly than internal IT organizations can deliver those apps. And a recent Opinion Matters survey found that enterprises are already hitting deep […]
Five must see TED Talks for leaders
We are always looking for new ways to inspire leadership. Here are five excellent TED Talks for leaders that we curated for you: How great leaders inspire action In his TED Talk, “How great leaders inspire action”, Simon Sinek (author of Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action) looked at how […]
Five often expressed obstacles to enterprise IT innovation
Business leaders know, for their business to succeed in the years ahead, that their IT and developer teams need to innovate. But surveys show that too often the IT teams may not be able to deliver the innovative value that the business seeks. Have a look out our recent Q&A, The IT mandate: Be a […]
Enterprises still struggle to leverage IT as a tool to innovate
When trying to build great organizations today, it’s no longer sufficient to simply be agile enough to respond to meet today’s market demands. No. While that may have been good enough a decade ago. Today, enterprises need to be able to anticipate market changes and use technology to innovate ahead of the market. As readers […]
The IT mandate: Be a catalyst of business innovation
On the heels of their recent study, Accelerating Business Transformation Through IT Innovation: Getting the Business Leader Take on the IT Change Mandate, we had a conversation with Dave Murray, head of thought leadership at the BPI Network. The study found that IT organizations increasingly want to use technology to drive innovation and business growth, […]
Driving Innovation with DevOps
DevOps isn’t just about working faster, more effectively, and at a lower cost. A big part DevOps is also about driving business innovation. Sure, DevOps correctly applied is known to cut costs and reduce downtime, but as this Rackspace 2014 survey found, DevOps is also, across many organizations, increasing sales as well as employee […]
Q&A with Mark Carrizosa of Soha Systems on secure transition to DevOps and cloud computing
We recently spoke with Mark Carrizosa, vice president of security at secure application delivery service provider Soha Systems about the trends he sees with enterprises moving to cloud services. Prior to recently joining Soha Systems, Carrizosa held the position of principal security architect at Walmart where he developed and implemented the company’s global e-commerce security […]
Part 2: Meeting relentless mobile app demand
As we discussed in Meeting the Relentless Mobile App Demand of the Enterprise, the enterprise thirst for mobile apps will far outstretch what enterprise internal development teams will be in a position to produce. Developers will need every edge provided to them in order to help their enterprise success. And there’s no doubt that IT […]
The Myth of DevOps as a Catalyst to improve Security?
Few topics within DevOps discussions elicit more controversy than the relationship between DevOps and information security. Do DevOps practices help to improve security, or do most organizations simply automate and bring their existing bad internal processes along into DevOps? With this topic in mind, I recently had an engaging conversion with Adam Muntner on this […]
Meeting the Relentless Mobile App Demand of the Enterprise
Talk to any CIO today and one of the most pressing challenges they face is building mobile apps that enterprises want to use as fast as they need them. Most enterprises today have huge mobile app backlogs with no sign of it getting any better. According to Gartner, the demand for enterprise mobile apps will […]
Five Common Aspects to Building a Continuous Collaboration Culture
For some reason talk of DevOps and culture can spark heated debate. Some contend DevOps is mostly all about culture, others say it comes down to the tools that enable collaboration. Some say it’s all about building the right processes. What if, to differing degrees, they are all right? Right. It can be a silly […]
It’s time security pros shake their DevOps fear, uncertainly, and doubt
There’s been considerable discussion recently about how to make certain good security practices remain integrated within DevOps-driven environments. To get the scoop from a security pro who is experienced working on delivering security programs in development environments, I turned to Andrew Storms for some insight. Storms has been leading IT, security and compliance teams for […]
Q & A Cloud Security Alliance’s Jim Reavis on securing the IoT
Earlier this month at the RSA Conference 2015 the Cloud Security Alliance released security guidance for the Internet of Things (IoT). The guidance came out of the CSA’s Mobile Working Group — IoT Initiative. Many security researchers I’ve interviewed in recent years have repeatedly cited frustrations around what they see as lax security design and implementations […]
Security and DevOps: the horses are finally here
It doesn’t seem like it was so long ago when it was actually difficult to find enterprises and experts who could speak – from experience – about having successfully managed security in a DevOps environment. Sure, they existed, but they were primarily the so-called “unicorns:” web-based enterprises that had little of the legacy infrastructure in […]
Containers: Secure or Not, Here They Are
Containers are here. And it doesn’t mater whether or not containers are a transitional technology (they are, as our JP Morgenthal covered in Containers are designed for an antiquate application architecture) until all applications are designed for cloud and web-scale, containers will be part of the cloud and virtualization scene. Right now, containers are white […]
Jeff Sussna on Design Thinking and DevOps
What is Design Thinking, and just as importantly to you – why does it matter to DevOps? For answers to that, we recently turned to Jeff Sussna, founder at Ingineering.IT. Sussna combines engineering expertise with a knack to bridge business, creative, and technical perspectives. Sussna’s focus is on the intersection of development, operations, design, and […]
IBM’s DevOps Journey
Companies that want to better address market demand and more efficiently deliver value through speed, quality, and agility are embracing DevOps. This includes retailers, insurers, defense contractors, and most certainly software makers. Consider the DevOps journey within the IBM Software Group, which is unarguably larger than most enterprise software groups: currently 519 major software product […]
Q and A with Carmen DeArdo: DevOps at Nationwide
Just before the IBM Interconnect show in Las Vegas last week, we had a chance to speak with Nationwide’s Carmen DeArdo and talk about some of the challenges he has faced at Nationwide as DeArdo and his team work to bring DevOps and Agile principles to their delivery value stream. DeArdo is no stranger here […]
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 are all vying for the market and developer’s attention. They hope, to become the standard in IoT in the months and years ahead. […]