5 Ways to Connect with me at IBM InterConnect2015
Well, I am an IBMer and going to IBM InterConnect2015 is a part of my job. And the best part about this event is that I will get the opportunity to meet all my clients and colleagues at one location instead of going to three different conference events which we use to call PULSE, IMPACT […]
Google Hangout: InterConnect 2015 preview from IBM & Nationwide on #DevOps
Join us for a Google Hangout* with a distinguished panel of guests as we discuss: Adopting DevOps for Two-Speed IT. With IBM InterCnnect 2015 just a month away, three featured presenters will give us an Interconnect preview *Google Hangouts are FREE. To participate in a Google Hangouts LIVE, a Gmail or Google Profile is required. Date: […]
Does Automating Application Release Mean the Same that it Used to?
Over the last ten years, we have seen a shift towards automation in how applications have been released. Automation has been encouraged first by agile’s embrace of continuous integration and delivery, and now the broader move to DevOps. As deployment automation left the sphere of the individual development team, another trend has emerged. The understanding […]
DevOps: As critical for the Systems of Record as for the Systems of Engagement
There is a lot of talk about DevOps, and how it improves the process of delivering business value. Much of the discussion of DevOps has been focused on web based companies such as Facebook, or the mobile and distributed development teams. But DevOps principles apply just as well to the traditional Systems of Record, z/OS […]
Transforming applications with Cloud and DevOps – one hybrid solution for multiple challenges
Are you on cloud yet or clouded? The answer lies in how you have adopted the transformation. Today, the world is Hybrid. For large enterprises and organizations, it always has been. Almost no enterprise is monolithic when it comes to their environments. They may already have different distributed environments and/or mainframes in their ecosystem. The […]
IBM DevOps Webcast Nov 20 – Transforming Application Delivery for Continuous Innovation
What if you could deliver applications faster without compromising quality or accepting higher risk? Fast-moving adopters of technology are transforming software delivery to disrupt entire industries with rapid-fire, digital innovations that leverage cloud, mobile, big data and social. How do you deliver 10-times faster business innovation instead of 10 percent incremental improvement? New and established […]
IBM Webcast Nov 18 : Rapid and Continuous Delivery to Hybrid Clouds
Organizations need to innovate at speed. As software has become increasingly critical to business outcomes, delivering high quality changes quickly has become a competitive necessity. With rapidly changing applications has come a dynamic, programmable infrastructure that can meet changing business needs in the blink of an eye. In a word: Cloud. But how do development […]
IBM Webcast Nov 12: Use Discovery to accelerate testing and virtualization
Many of today’s business applications offer a multitude of services (APIs) across many different technologies. These same applications also reach out into a web of already-existing services in order to retrieve and update information necessary to successfully deliver the end to end business processes. In many cases, these applications are being built by multiple development […]
IBM and Rackspace join as premier sponsors of Camp DevOps Houston, tickets now only $5
We are very happy to report that IBM and Rackspace have signed on as a premier sponsors of Camp DevOps Houston on October 28, 2014. They join CA Technologies ITInvolve and JumpCloud as premier sponsors of this event. Additional sponsors of Camp DevOps Houston include BlueMeric, CloudBees, PagerDuty, VictorOps, Automic, Qwinix and Incapsula. We are […]
SoftLayer Bare Metal Servers: Does the Cloud have to be virtual?
SoftLayer announced new service level and features to their Bare Metal Servers today. Continuing their march towards delivering dedicated servers at virtual server pricing and service levels, SoftLayer announced that they will now offer setup in under 30 minutes and hourly billing options. The 30 minute set up is available on a variety of pre-configured […]
DevOps and PaaS: ‘Give me a platform. Let’s rock, let’s rock, today’
Give me a platform. Let’s rock, let’s rock, today. – Dewey Finn, School of Rock The term Platform as a Service (PaaS) has become overloaded to define any ‘platform’ that provides ‘services’ to its users. The term PaaS is formally defined by NIST as: “The capability provided to the consumer is to deploy onto the […]
Google Starts Cloud World War I, DevOps Wins
No matter the outcome, a cloud pricing war will leave DevOps the winner By now you probably saw the news and all of the buzz about how Google dropped its drawers eh, pricing on its cloud hosting. This is of course a direct shot at Amazon’s AWS. It’s about time someone with big enough stones (and […]
Chuck Norris doesn’t need DevOps, but have we beat “What is DevOps” to death yet?
Some interesting and lots of the usual around the DeOps blog beat last week and over the weekend. An interesting piece by Daniel Bryant on his Tai-Dev Blog on why “Chuck Norris doesn’t do DevOps”. It is actually a video of a presentation he gave at the recent London Java Community event and is the […]
IBM Invests $1B to Deliver Unique Platform-as-a-Service Capabilities to Connect Enterprise Data and Applications to the Cloud
Delivers Enterprise Software Capabilities – Integration, Security, Analytics, Commerce to Accelerate New Era of Hybrid Clouds ARMONK, N.Y. and LAS VEGAS, Feb. 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a unique new development environment and capabilities-as-a-service to help clients and developers speed the adoption of “hybrid” clouds, which have the potential to usher in a […]
IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development
ARMONK, N.Y. – 24 Feb 2014: IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Boston, MA-based Cloudant, Inc., a privately held database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider that enables developers to easily and quickly create next generation mobile and web apps. Cloudant will extend IBM’s Big Data and Analytics, Cloud Computing and Mobile offerings by further helping clients take advantage of these key growth […]