IBM Boosts Security and Productivity with Red Hat OpenShift 4.3 on IBM Cloud
As more businesses journey to the cloud, they need ways to easily deploy and manage their critical workloads securely across public clouds, private clouds, and on-premises environments. This is particularly crucial when faced with the ongoing demands to support remote workforces. The IBM public cloud has been rebuilt on a foundation of open source innovation, […]
IBM and CGI U partner on the 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge University Edition to take on COVID-19 and climate change
Encouraging students to help tackle the world’s reaction to COVID-19 and climate change. By Dennis Bly Published April 9, 2020 Since Call for Code was announced two years ago by Founding Partner IBM, Creator David Clark Cause, and Charitable Partner United Nations Human Rights, we learned two important points in the process of tackling some […]
The 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge takes on COVID-19
By Willie Tejada, Chief Developer Advocate, IBM Nearly one month ago, together with Creator David Clark Cause and in partnership with United Nations Human Rights and the Linux Foundation, we announced climate change as the theme for the 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge. In that brief period, much has changed. COVID-19 (Coronavirus) has spread across […]
IBM Advances Watson’s Ability to Understand the Language of Business
– Announces first commercial availability of key technologies from Project Debater; – Integrated into IBM Watson, the new capabilities help enable businesses to begin mining & analyzing some of the most challenging aspects of human language NEW YORK, March 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM), the leader in artificial intelligence for business1, is announcing several new IBM Watson […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: Mainframe Fallout from BMC’s Compuware Buy
The acquisition of Compuware this week by rival BMC Software signals that the rate at which mainframe environments are being modernized might not be occurring fast enough to support a vibrant third-party tools provider ecosystem. Both BMC and Compuware were sold to private equity firms in 2018 and 2014, respectively. Thoma Bravo, which acquired Compuware, […]
2020 Call for Code Global Challenge Led by IBM Takes On Climate Change on 75thAnniversary of United Nations
77% of developers and first responders surveyed globally say climate change is the single most pressing issue facing their generation Geneva,February 26, 2020 –Headquarters of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights–Today, Call for Code Founding Partner IBM and Creator David Clark Cause, in partnership with United Nations Human Rights and […]
IBM Power Systems Certified for SAP HANA® Enterprise Cloud as a provider for large SAP HANA systems
ARMONK, N.Y., February 19, 2020 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that IBM Power Systems has been certified for the SAP HANA® Enterprise Cloud as a critical infrastructure platform provider for large SAP HANA systems, aiming to simplify the IT infrastructure for the managed, private cloud environment. The service will run on IBM POWER9-based IBM Power Systems E980 […]
Integrating IBM Z and LinuxONE into the Red Hat OpenShift developer ecosystem
By Willie Tejada, GM & Chief Developer Advocate, IBM Cognitive Applications https://developer.ibm.com/blogs/willie-tejada-redhat-openshift-ibmz/ My role at IBM is to make sure that we’re equipping developers with the tools and resources you need, along with the selection and guard rails you prefer, to help you focus your efforts entirely on innovation. Security is key to unlocking the […]
Into the hybrid cloud future: Red Hat OpenShift is now available for IBM Z and LinuxONE
By Ross Mauri, General Manager, IBM Z https://www.ibm.com/blogs/systems/red-hat-openshift-now-available-ibm-z-linuxone/ Today we are pleased to announce that Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is generally available for IBM Z® and IBM LinuxONE™. Red Hat is a leader in hybrid cloud and enterprise Kubernetes, with more than 1,000 customers already using Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. With the availability […]
IBM Doubles Down on Cloud, But Is Krishna an Interim CEO?
Big news from Big Blue yesterday: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is stepping down after eight years at the helm. In her stead, IBM is doubling down on the cloud by appointing Arvind Krishna as CEO and member of the board. The real move to watch, though, is the appointment of Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat CEO, […]
IBM Open Sources SysFlow Monitoring Platform
IBM has announced that its SysFlow monitoring platform is now available as an open source project. Fred Araujo, a research scientist in the Cognitive Cybersecurity Intelligence Group at IBM Research, said IBM developed lightweight SysFlow agent software and monitoring tools as a way to provide more context around the telemetry data being collected while simultaneously […]
IBM Advances DevOps on the Mainframe
IBM has expanded its efforts to bring DevOps best practices to the mainframe by adding automated unit testing capabilities for CICS COBOL programs using Db2 to IBM Developer for z/OS (IDz) V14.2.1. The company is also making an instance of z/OS available within a Docker container that can be deployed on an x86 platform. Sanjay […]
IBM Zones in on DevOps for AI
IBM this week revealed it has added a drift detection capability to the Watson OpenScale platform to govern artificial intelligence (AI) models that will become a foundational piece of IBM’s approach to defining best DevOps practices for building AI-infused applications. Rohan Vaidyanathan, program director for IBM Watson OpenScale, said one of the biggest AI issues […]
DevOps Chat: Red Hat Developer Experience in the IBM Era
Red Hat Linux is a staple of most enterprise IT organizations’ software diets. Developers and IT leaders all over the world took notice when IBM acquired Red Hat. Will IBM Red Hat change? Will Red Hat continue to operate as it does today or will it be subsumed and disappear into some IBM business unit? […]
To Build a Healthy DevOps Culture, Look to Your Ecosystem
How do you do DevOps? Here’s a hint: Don’t fixate on finding the right tools or implementing the right processes. Instead, think about the broader ecosystem in which you operate, the culture that prevails in that ecosystem and which parts of the culture you can borrow to help enable your DevOps transformation. This is true […]
Why and How to Collect KPIs for Z DevOps
It can sometimes feel frustrating to try to figure out how to do DevOps. That’s because DevOps is not about tools—there are lots of different tools that can help you succeed at DevOps. Nor is it about any really specific set of practices; although DevOps prioritizes things like automation and communication, it does not prescribe […]
Shift-Left Testing, Continuous Integration and the Mainframe
“Mainframe” is one of the oldest terms in tech. “Shift-left” is much newer. You may not think, then, that mainframes and shift-left testing have much in common. But you’d be wrong. Shifting testing to the left can deliver tremendous benefits, even in the context of mainframe applications. Let us explain. What Is Shift-Left Testing? Shift-left […]
Discovering Business Logic in z/OS Applications
Change is constant, and it is the responsibility of those who manage information to adapt. As the economy grows and changes, and as our society implements new regulations and phases out older regulations, our applications need to change with them. We present two capabilities available from IBM that can enhance your ability to manage changes […]
Achieving Open and Integrated Development with IBM Z
“DevOps” and “mainframe” are not words you often hear in the same sentence. Yet, the reality is that even in our current age of DevOps, mainframes remain the mainstays of many companies’ IT infrastructure. That’s why it’s critical for organizations to find ways to bring mainframe software delivery up to speed with modern DevOps practices, […]
The Linux Foundation Announces New Open Hardware Technologies and Collaboration
OpenPOWER to become Linux Foundation project to advance development of data-driven architectures required for hybrid cloud environments and increasingly intensive workloads. San Diego, CA – August 21, 2019 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the OpenPOWER Foundation will become a project hosted at The Linux Foundation, […]
ASF Moves OpenWhisk Serverless Computing Forward
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced today that the OpenWhisk serverless computing framework has now become a high-level open source project. Matt Rutkowski, CTO for serverless technologies and advocacy for IBM, said with this announcement, organizations looking to implement an open source serverless computing framework on-premises or in a public cloud now can have confidence […]
IBM Closes $34B Red Hat Acquisition
Following the official closing of IBM’s $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat today, leaders from both companies reiterated Red Hat will continue to operate independently of IBM but will leverage IBM resources to advance the hybrid cloud computing ambitions of the newly combined entity. Arvind Krishna, senior vice president for cloud and cognitive software at […]
IBM and DBmaestro announce on a global partnership on DevOps and Cloud Solutions
IBM and DBmaestro Team Up to Deliver Database Automation Capabilities to Enterprise Customers Worldwide IBM selects DBmaestro’s DevOps platform as a Complementary Offering to IBM UrbanCode Velocity Customers Boston, MA– July 7, 2019: DBmaestro, a global DevOps leader in database automation, today announced a worldwide partnership with IBM, offering database release automation capabilities designed to […]