DevOps at IBM
Webinar: How Nationwide Insurance is Adopting DevOps for Variable Speed IT Systems
To drive towards faster innovation, and also ensure the stability of the core business, the need arises for what is being termed as “two-speed or variable speed IT.” While innovative Systems of ...
Shift Left: Can you be left out?
One of the most popular terms bandied about in DevOps is “shift left”. I was at a workshop last month at IBM InterConnect conducted by Sanjeev Sharma and Mustafa Kapadia. They put ...
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 ...
Reverse Executive Sponsorship: Gaining grassroots DevOps momentum
As IT practitioners investigate the possibilities around DevOps and Agile transformations, one of the things they're likely to hear over and over again is that these type of organizational tectonic shifts require ...
DevOps is Agile for the Rest of the Company
IBM held its InterConnect 2015 conference last week in Las Vegas. The event covered on a range of topics including hybrid cloud, mobile apps, and DevOps. One session I attended focused on ...
Avoiding Common Executive DevOps Mistakes
A seasoned DevOps practitioner with experience leading both HP and Macy's on continuous delivery transformations, Gary Gruver has learned the ins and outs of implementing Agile and DevOps at enterprise scale through ...
7 Great Thoughts on Real-world DevOps Transformations
Last week, IBM InterConnect brought together quite the gathering of IT pros engaged in DevOps, continuous delivery and digital transformations of their core businesses. Throughout the week, speakers from the Fortune 500 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...

