Delivering True DevOps on the Mainframe
Mainframe-inclusive DevOps enables organizations to accelerate application development and delivery so they can stay ahead of market disruptors. Efficient and effective DevOps practices in your mainframe environment allows developers to build, analyze, code, test and manage applications with improved agility and precision. In this interview, Mark Schettenhelm, senior product manager for Compuware, a BMC company, […]
How Shift-Left Testing Improves DevOps Efficiency and Software Quality
Shift-left testing is the key to deliver quality software at speed. Developers shift testing left to shorten long test cycles, prevent defects and mitigate risk earlier in the development cycle, rather than in later stages, to avoid rework and delays. In this interview, IBM Z DevOps Testing Lead Nathan Cassata talks about shift-left testing, the […]
Q&A: Embracing the Power of the Mainframe with Deloitte
Mainframes are still in high demand and continue to be critical to modern IT strategies because of their power, security and reliability. The 2020 Mainframe Market Pulse Survey, conducted by Forrester and commissioned by Deloitte Consulting, dives into the role of the mainframe as a strategic component to hybrid cloud environments. Forrester interviewed 261 business […]
Accelerating AIOps with the Mainframe
AIOps uses artificial intelligence by combining big data, analytics and machine learning to enhance IT operations. To successfully adopt and scale AIOps, it is critical for enterprises to add the mainframe to the equation. Adopting AIOps requires a holistic approach focused on business processes and workflows. The resiliency of a workflow depends on the health […]
Open Mainframe Virtual Summit: Adding Value to the Mainframe
While many predicted mainframes would eventually become obsolete, they continue to be prevalent in the corporate world. Mainframes are still in high demand, and the mainframe market is likely to grow over the next few years as business and IT leaders validate its enduring role in their hybrid strategies. Mainframes are rapidly evolving to meet […]
What Does the Future Hold for DevOps and CI/CD?
After such a challenging year, we have finally made it to 2021. Although a new year has started, we are still trying to figure out what the “new normal” will look like once the COVID-19 pandemic is finally over. While the pandemic has affected many businesses and our daily lives in general, it also had […]
Predict 2021: What Does the Future Hold?
While 2020 was a challenging year, it was also a year of resilience, innovation and rapid acceleration of digital transformation. So, what does 2021 have in store for us? At Predict 2021 Virtual Summit, taking place Jan. 21-22 at 10 a.m. ET, top industry leaders will share their speculations on what the future holds in […]
KubeCon Coverage: Incentivizing the DevSecOps Culture
Just as DevOps set to de-silo development and operations teams, the DevSecOps movement is bringing security to the same table. A shift-left security mindset is permeating much discussion of late. Cyberattacks are on the rise in the era of COVID-19 and cybersecurity has become paramount to arm business-critical applications. Furthermore, new regulations have emerged to […]
How to Build a Highly Qualified Cloud-Native Team
If you’re reading this, you more than likely are aware of the struggles involved in recruiting and building a team of technical professionals skilled in cloud-native computing technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus and service mesh. The Linux Foundation and edX’s “2020 Open Source Jobs Report” found 93% of hiring managers are having difficulties filling […]
The Foundational Era of Open Source
Contrary to popular belief, software is not eating the world. Open source software is eating the world. This was very apparent at the Linux Foundation’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event recently in San Diego. Driving this phenomenon is what I call the Foundational era of Open Source. This Foundational era of Open Source has replaced what […]
DevOps Experience 2019: Peace, Love and DevOps
DevOps Experience 2019 is coming, and it’s gonna be groovy, man. This year’s virtual event is all about peace, love and DevOps understanding, with a heavy emphasis on understanding. As with last year’s event, DevOps Experience 2019, sponsored by DevOps.com parent company MediaOps, is chock full of information and education for those in the DevOps […]
DevOps Chat: State of DevOps Report 2017, Nigel Kersten, Puppet
The results and analysis of the State of DevOps Report 2017 report are due out in early June. just in time for the DevOps Enterprise Summit London June 5-6. In this DevOps Chat we speak with Puppet exec and one of our favorite interviews, Nigel Kersten. Of course, Nigel and the folks over at Puppet […]
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 Engagement demand speed, agility and experimentation, legacy Systems of Record need governance and predictability. Two-speed IT enables adoption of DevOps capabilities by adapting […]