Blockchain: A Threat to DevOps—and How Engineers Can Respond
Blockchain is one of the hottest topics in the IT world today—and that creates a challenge for DevOps professionals. Here’s why, and what DevOps engineers can do to remain relevant. Blockchain, Fat Protocols and a New Generation of Applications To understand why blockchain threatens to decrease the role played by DevOps engineers in software platforms, […]
How Blockchain Tech Can Make DevOps Better
DevOps and blockchain are among the hottest topics in today’s technology world. However, you rarely hear the two discussed in tandem. Going forward, that may change. Here’s why. On the surface, the two may not seem to have much to offer each other. DevOps is a set of cultural principles and practices designed to improve […]
Strap in, CIOs: Analysts Predict Wild Ride for 2018-2020
Digital transformation is the underlying theme of many of the 2018 and beyond IT predictions made recently by analyst firms Forrester, Gartner and IDC. Technologies such as cloud, AI, data analytics, big data, blockchain, IoT, conversational interfaces, DevOps and cybersecurity will also force CIOs to perform a juggling act. The rapid evolution of these technologies […]
DevOps Chat: DevOps, Cognitive, IoT & Blockchain
In this DevOps Chat we sit down with Cliff Utstein, director of Offering Management, IBM Cloud DevOps and CJ Paul, distinguished engineer and chief architect, IBM Cloud DevOps. Cliff and CJ give us some insight into how some of the biggest trends in technology today—DevOps, cognitive, IoT and blockchain—are connected. It is a great discussion […]
Will Blockchain Move Past Hype to Reality?
Blockchain has hit peak “hype,” according to Gartner’s recently published “Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies.” The financial world has been very optimistic about blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT)—the underlying technology behind bitcoin—and the impending disruption it can bring to the way the financial system works. Although the initial buzz around bitcoin has gradually died […]
First-Time Quality for Software on a Blockchain Network
There is probably more trust in the world today than at any other point in history—not necessarily by choice, but because of our use of software to carry out almost every type of transaction. The use of blockchain networks brings visibility to those networks of transactions: Information about an asset that was once held by […]
Top 10 Emerging Technologies Enterprises Should Know
The momentum behind the adoption of new technologies underway is no less than astounding. Those enterprises that not only adopt, but learn to master, emerging technologies will be the clear winners in the years ahead as they learn their customers’ needs better, rapidly develop new and successful products and services, optimize their use of business […]