Survey Finds Wide Gap Between DevOps Adoption and Success

February 15, 2019 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

A recent HBR survey shows there is work to be done to advance DevOps in organizations A survey of 654 subscribers to the Harvard Business Review found that while 86 percent of respondents said it is important for their organizations to be able to build and deploy software quickly, only 10 percent said they are […]

The Qualities of Leadership

February 15, 2019 by ROELBOB 0 Comments

IBM Extends Cloud Reach to Include Integration

February 14, 2019 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

At the IBM Think 2019 conference this week, IBM unfurled an IBM Cloud Integration Platform that pulls together a range of tools in a single development platform that the company promises will reduce the amount of time it takes to deploy applications by making it easier to reuse integration code. Hillery Hunter, vice president and […]

Open Mainframe Project: Zowe Ready for Prime Time

February 14, 2019 by Don Macvittie 0 Comments

There is a lot of interest in updating mainframe technology/interfaces across traditional enterprises. As development environments and toolsets have evolved outside the mainframe, there is a struggle to keep up—partially because backward compatibility requirements make wild changes difficult and partly because the very architecture of mainframes is different. There have been several fragmented efforts over […]

Python Benefiting From Increase in DevOps Use

February 14, 2019 by Scott Ferguson 0 Comments

DevOps and Python have developed a mutually beneficial relationship. In a recent survey released by the Python Software Foundation and software development company JetBrains, researchers found that more and more developers are using the program language for an array of versatile projects, including DevOps and machine learning. In fact, Python developers told the researchers that […]

Datadog Acquires App Dev Testing Platform Madumbo

February 13, 2019 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

Datadog announced it is extending its reach beyond IT monitoring to include application testing by acquiring Madumbo. Madumdo CEO Gabriel-James Safar said it’s become increasingly apparent that application testing needs to be more informed by the metrics gathered by IT monitoring tools. The combined Datadog/Madumbo will bring intelligence to automated testing processes using both application […]

Why 2019 Will Be the Year for Shift-Left Mainframe Testing

February 13, 2019 by Refael Botbol Weiss 0 Comments

While 2018 was the year for planning and implementing shift-left methodologies in testing, mainframe and server testers were, for the most part, left behind. These legacy infrastructure experts were tied down to old-school testing tools. Mainframes kept functioning, but tools and testing practices often became bottlenecks, preventing performance testing teams from testing more quickly mid-cycle […]

Break-Even Analysis: Understanding the Impact of Automation

February 13, 2019 by Thomas Theakanath 0 Comments

Determining whether automation is helpful beyond the CI/CD pipeline can be easier through a break-even analysis The pursuit of automating away all the operational tasks in your organization doesn’t stop after you finish building a solid CI/CD pipeline infrastructure using the myriad tools available and making it stable. There are many more one-off tasks not […]