Modernize and Simplify IT Operations Management for DevOps Success

September 26, 2018 by Deborah Schalm 0 Comments

Whether your organization is already leveraging tools that are cloud based tools or you are part of an organization undergoing transformation, you may have the challenge of a hybrid set of workload deployments, both cloud based and on-premises. Join us for this webinar to explore the common operational challenges many DevOps teams are facing today, […]

Compliance and Audit Readiness: The DevOps Killer?

July 24, 2018 by Deborah Schalm 0 Comments

Compliance and audit readiness are more important than ever, as our customers demand more control over their personal data, while sophisticated attackers try to break into our IT systems. Many standard practices related to regulatory compliance assume a waterfall delivery model and a clear separation between development and operations. DevOps practices, such as continuous delivery […]

Dependency Based Build Promotes the Freedom to Program

September 21, 2018 by Bob Reselman 1 Comments

Whenever I want to be amazed, all I need to do is reflect on the fact that the continuing development of the Linux operating system is done essentially by a community of volunteers. That’s right! One of the most popular and important operating systems is updated and maintained through donated labor. Any programmer anywhere in […]

DevOps Chat: ‘Day 2 DevOps’ with IBM’s Eric Minick

September 18, 2018 by Alan Shimel 1 Comments

Now that the concept of DevOps has been around for a few years and more organizations have embraced it, the natural question for many is, “What now?”—especially considering DevOps success is measured by different yardsticks. IBM’s Eric Minick is has been grappling with the concept of “Day 2 DevOps”—enterprisewide rollouts, multiple toolchains, etc.—and the best […]

DevOps – Succeed by Planning for Failures

August 13, 2018 by Deborah Schalm 0 Comments

New techniques and technologies, such as microservices, containers, and Kubernetes are enabling developers to deliver and change code faster. However, there is no silver bullet – failures still happen, and they can happen at any stage of the application lifecycle. Planning for these failures is a key aspect to ensuring you keep your applications (and […]

Open Mainframe Project Launches Zowe to Advance DevOps

September 5, 2018 by Mike Vizard 1 Comments

The Open Mainframe Project has launched Zowe, an effort to make mainframes running z/OS both more accessible and programmable using REST application programming interfaces (APIs). Announced at the Open Source Summit, the Zowe project is being led by IBM, CA Technologies and Rocket Software. Matt Hogstrom, chief architect for z/OS Systems at IBM, said the […]

Don’t Fumble the Data! Integrate Database Automation into your DevOps Toolchain

June 25, 2018 by Deborah Schalm 0 Comments

Today, we have proven techniques for many DevOps practices. For provisioning a new environment, we apply file based environment definitions to dynamic infrastructure: Helm for Kubernetes, Heat for OpenStack or Terraform for other clouds. For automating an application deployment, we can turn to basic pipelines like Jenkins provides or release automation tools like IBM UrbanCode […]

Modern Delivery for Modern Apps

June 11, 2018 by Deborah Schalm 0 Comments

Is your DevOps team struggling to optimize or “modernize” and manage hundreds or thousands of applications built on different technologies at different times? Even though modernizing existing apps will make them easier and faster to update as well as more available and scalable, the path to get there may not be easy to see. In […]