Mainframes: The Cloud Before the Cloud
Here’s something to think about: Despite the fact that IBM stopped manufacturing personal computers in 2005, deciding instead to focus on higher margin business services, the company continues to produce mainframes and by all estimates will continue manufacturing them well into the future. The question is, why? The answer: because there is still significant demand […]
IBM Adds Automated Testing Tool for Mainframe to DevOps Portfolio
IBM has added an automated testing tool to the portfolio of DevOps tools it has developed for mainframes. Sanjay Chandru, director of Z DevOps for IBM, said IBM Z Open Unit Test adds a continuous testing capability to the continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) platform based on an instance of an open source Git repository developed […]
In AI Initiatives and Hybrid Clouds We Trust
The 2019 State of the Union Address, delivered Feb. 5, was light on anything tech-related. But just a week later, Feb. 11, technology was the focus of an executive order that launched The American Artificial Intelligence (AI) Initiative. Why do we need a national AI initiative, and what does it have to do with DevOps? […]
Actifio Looks to Meld DataOps with DevOps
Actifio and IBM have formed an alliance under which IBM will make available data management software developed by Actifio under its own name as part of an effort to close the gap between DevOps and DataOps. At the same time, Actifio will make available a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering for the first time, dubbed Actifio Go, […]
Skytap Announces Upcoming General Availability of First Self-Service, Public Cloud Capabilities for IBM i
Skytap Cloud support for IBM i and integration with IBM PowerHA will deliver a comprehensive public cloud solution for AIX, IBM i, and Linux applications running on IBM Power Systems SEATTLE – February 11, 2019 – Ahead of IBM Think, Skytap, a global, purpose-built public cloud provider, today announced that its support for the IBM i operating systemwill be […]
IBM Earns Record 9,100 Patents in 2018, Tops U.S. Patent List
IBM’s inventions include use of AI to help people converse, protect the earth’s lakes and combat voice phishing ARMONK, N.Y. – 8 Jan 2019: IBM (NYSE: IBM) inventors received a record 9,100 patents in 2018, marking the company’s 26th consecutive year of U.S. patent leadership. IBM led the industry in the number of artificial intelligence […]
IBM Allies with ServiceNow to Bridge DevOps Divide with ITIL
IBM and ServiceNow today announced an alliance under which IBM Global Technology Services (GTS) will collaborate with ServiceNow to make DevOps processes and events managed via the IBM Cloud Migration Factory visible to a cloud-based IT service management platform from ServiceNow based on the ITIL framework. Jim Comfort, general manager for cloud services at IBM […]
VMware Extends Scope of Alliance with IBM
On the heels of IBM announcing its intent to acquire Red Hat, VMware announced at the VMworld Europe 2018 conference this week an extension of its longstanding cloud alliance with IBM. Red Hat competes directly with VMware; yet, there are also more than 1,600 customers running VMware on the IBM cloud. Ajay Patel, senior vice […]
DevOps Chat: Microclimate and IBM Cloud Private with Toby Corbin
IBM Cloud Private has cemented itself in the DevOps space as a personal cloud environment, which is great for developers who need the agility and computing power of the cloud but don’t want to step into a public cloud setting. Tony Corbin, technical lead for the Microclimate Project, describes IBM Cloud Private as “a cloud […]
How IBM’s $34B Bid for Red Hat Will Spur DevOps Adoption
IBM’s proposed acquisition of Red Hat for $34 billion will have an immediate impact in raising awareness for a programmatic approach to managing hybrid clouds based on best DevOps practices. A recent survey published by International Data Corp. (IDC) finds most organizations (64 percent) have already embraced multiple clouds to varying degrees. Only 7 percent […]
IBM and Red Hat: Now, That’s an Interesting Combination
Like everyone else, Sunday night I got a surprise with the pre-announcement of IBM’s intent to acquire Red Hat (I might have seen it a little earlier than the rest of you, as a friend from IBM shared it as soon as it was public). I’ve been mulling this over and checking out the information […]
IBM Acquires Red Hat to Create DevOps Behemoth
In a move that has massive implications for DevOps teams across the enterprise, IBM today announced it is acquiring Red Hat in a deal valued at $34 billion. Red Hat will join IBM’s Hybrid Cloud group as a distinct independent unit. Red Hat will continue to be led by Jim Whitehurst and Red Hat’s current […]
IBM Survey: Rise of Multi-Cloud Computing to Force DevOps Issue
A survey of 1,106 business and technology executives published this week by the IBM Institute for Business Value finds 85 percent of companies are already operating in multi-cloud environments, with 98 percent forecasting they will be using multiple hybrid clouds within three years. But the survey finds that only 39 percent of the respondents have […]
Dependency Based Build Promotes the Freedom to Program
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
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 […]
Open Mainframe Project Launches Zowe to Advance DevOps
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 […]
IBM Boosts On-Premises Clouds with Cloud-Native Development Capabilities
IBM Cloud Managed Application Services synchs with IBM Cloud Private for Next-Gen Application Development ARMONK, NY – 21 June 2018: IBM (NYSE: IBM) has announced that for the first time, its industry-leading IBM Cloud Private application platform, will be made available to run on the company’s enterprise Cloud Managed Application Services (CMAS). Hundreds of world-leading […]
Machine Learning: Essential in Cloud Service Management
As businesses today compete more and more on digital experience, you need to ensure that what’s delivered performs optimally and provides an outstanding customer experience. With increasing complexities, growth and change in your IT infrastructure, you need complete visibility into the performance and availability of IT infrastructure, and also the applications that ride on it. […]
DevOps Chat: Trends in Cloud Service Management – ML/AI, ITSM, DevOps, ITIL & SRE w/ Sinead Glynn
In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Sinead Glynn of IBM about some coming trends in Cloud Service Management, ML/AI, ITSM, DevOps, ITIL and SRE. A lot of buzzwords in there, but there is also some good information here. Sinead is a great interview. As usual, the streaming audio of our conversation is directly below, […]
CA, IBM Partner to Drive DevOps on the Mainframe
CA Technologies and IBM announced today at the Built to Change Summit they are combining their tools and platforms to bring DevOps process to mainframe environments. The two companies are extending their existing relationship to include a partnership to jointly develop and sell new services for IBM’s Cloud Managed Services on z Systems (zCloud). Included […]
DevOps Chat: Modern Apps in DevOps w/ Andrea Martinez Crawford, IBM
Andrea Martinez, now Andrea Crawford, is the CTO for DevOps for IBM Hybrid Cloud. In this DevOps Chat we had a great discussion on what is “modern apps in DevOps,” how to upgrade your legacy apps, what to do if your legacy apps are not upgradeable and what this all means for DevOps. Great discussion […]
ADDI Addresses the Problem of Dependency Management
Want to know what a bad day looks like? Imagine you’re a developer working your way up the career ladder. One day your manager comes by your cube to tell you that you’ve been assigned to implement a critical, new feature in the company’s premiere application. You’re elated. At last you get to show off […]
IBM Unfurls Cloud Platform for Building Microservices
IBM has unveiled a new development environment in the cloud designed to make it easier to build microservices. John Duimovich, IBM CTO for Java, said Microclimate provides a complete framework building applications based on microservices written in Java, Node.js or Swift. Microclimate runs on an instance of IBM Cloud Private, a private cloud based on […]