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Digital Transformation Spreads Cybersecurity Responsibilities Beyond Security Teams, Survey Finds
A report published today from Forbes Insights with BMC Software, Inc. found that new digital business initiatives and the further embracing of new technologies are challenging enterprise cybersecurity teams. The good news ...
Forecasting Culture: Sunny with Accumulating Collaboration
Bryson Koehler believes the most important enabling factor for DevOps success is culture. Koehler is CTO of IBM’s newly formed Watson and Cloud Platform group. Prior to this role, he served as ...
DevOps Leaders Share 2017 Reflections, Predictions
contributor | | 2017 predictions, continuous delivery, culture, dev, devops, electric cloud, fail fast, ops, silosAs the New Year kicks off, it is a time for reflection and a chance to look ahead and plan for what is to come. While many are making personal resolutions pertaining ...
The Big Digital Transformation Trends Through 2017
George V. Hulme | | analytics, bimodal IT, business alignment, c-suite, citizen developers, digital transformation, IoT, IT budget, line of business executives, trendsFor a number of years now, the enterprise has been well underway in their digital transformation efforts, as they use data analytics, mobile, cloud services, IoT and other technologies to transform their ...
Citizen Developer Movement Gains Steam
George V. Hulme | | app development, applications, citizen developer, low-code development, no-code development, QuickBaseIt’s been about a year since we covered how the rise of the consumerization of IT had extended beyond cloud services and devices to application development and the advent of the Citizen ...
Foster Creative Workers, not Assembly Lines
contributor | | assembly lines, creative workers, creativity, developers, employee value, Industrial Revolution, ProductivityWhy do we keep building assembly lines of creative people? Why do tech companies still structure their developer workforces around ideas invented during the industrial revolution over a century ago? It’s ignorant, lazy and, ...
4 Essential Practices to Succeed at ChatOps
We know enterprises are embracing messaging apps and incorporating so-called “ChatOps” into their workflow. ChatOps is, potentially, a powerful way to facilitate more swift decision-making and problem-solving and to receive quick, expert ...
How to Bridge the Developer Gap
It’s time to bring cloud application development back into the organization and bridge the developer gap by training your own people. For years, companies have outsourced many IT functions, treating computing as ...
‘Best’ is Relative, but Starts at the Top
Your aging mom needs a new car. You are picking it out for her because she quit paying attention to cars long ago. All you ever buy is Fords. You also always ...
Sanjay Mirchandani Builds Out Puppet While Keeping Culture Intact
I attended my first PupetConf last week in San Diego. While there I had a chance to sit down one on one with Sanjay Mirchandani who recently took over as CEO/President of ...
Mainstreaming the Mainframe: DevOps, Automation, Unified Deployment
contributor | | applications, development, devops, infrastructure, mainframe, software delivery, software platform, unificationThe mainframe is alive and well. That big metal beast in the data center is not going anywhere anytime soon—nor are its applications. “If mainframe applications disappeared tomorrow, planes couldn’t fly, people ...
5 Leadership Keys to Enterprise Agility
Much like living creatures, organizations that can best adapt to their surroundings are the organizations that are most likely to thrive. For enterprises, that means being able to adapt swiftly to business ...
