Mainframe Computing and the API Economy
The API economy has come a long way since the days when I worked at a very well-known automotive website back in 2007. Back then, APIs were the thing that application programmers used at a very low level. Programming using web-based APIs was a rarity. In those days, we downloaded libraries into our local codebase […]
IBM Looks Toward Cloud Unification
Now that IBM is achieving some critical mass in the cloud, the next major focus will be unifying the management of disparate cloud services. IBM recently reported revenue of $79.1 billion for its most recent fiscal year, a decline of 1 percent year over year. But within that revenue mix, Big Blue also reported that […]
IBM CTO Sees Bright Future for Java in 2018
Significant advances in microservices written in Java, as well as tighter coupling between Java applications and containers, are set to transform the way most organizations build and deploy Java applications by the end of the year. IBM Java CTO John Duimovich, as part of five Java predictions for 2018, noted that The Eclipse Foundation has […]
Application Discovery and the Value Proposition of IBM Z ADDI
Discovering how an application works can be a difficult, expensive undertaking. That’s why architectures based on REST are so popular. The architectural style provides an easy-to-implement interface that allows consumers to use an application productively without having to understand anything at all about its internals. All a developer needs to know to work an application […]
DevOps Chat: Rosalind Radcliffe, IBM, on DevOps and Mainframe Systems
In this DevOps Chat we sit down with a frequent guest on DevOps Chat, Rosalind Radcliffe, distinguished engineer and mainframe expert from IBM. Rosalind talks to us about the latest generation of Big Iron from IBM, the z14 systems. Also, we discuss some of the new API and functionality that allows you to do just […]
DevOps Chat: IBM’s Cloud Private with Mike Kaczmarski, CTO DevOps and Service Management
In this DevOps Chat we discuss IBM’s Cloud Private. Cloud Private is the new offering from IBM that encompasses much of the different cloud offerings the company has developed over the years. Our guest on this DevOps Chat is Michael Kaczmarksi, an IBM Fellow and CTO of DevOps and Service Management. In his distinguished career […]
IBM Brings Cloud-native Environment to Private Clouds
New IBM Cloud Private software – based on containers, microservices and APIs –bridges Public Cloud and traditional IT environments ARMONK, N.Y. – 01 Nov 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new IBM Cloud Private software platform to help companies unlock billions of dollars in technology investment in core data and applications and extend cloud-native […]
IBM Adds Cloud Foundry PaaS to Cloud Private
As IT organizations are being asked to provision and support an ever-growing number of platforms, they increasingly require an approach that abstracts away as much of that complexity as possible. With that goal in mind, IBM created IBM Cloud Private, an on-premises platform that automates the deployment of a private cloud based on Kubernetes container […]
DevOps Chat: Shift Ops Left, Shift Dev Right with Kristian Stewart, IBM
In this DevOps Chat we speak with Dr. Kristian Stewart of IBM’s Cloud Event Management team. Kristian has some keen insights into the role of dev and ops and how they interact. Kristian calls it Shift Ops left, shift dev right. An interesting way of looking at things. As usual the streaming audio is immediately […]
BMC to Infuse AI Across Software Portfolio
At its recent BMC Exchange event, BMC Software announced it will be infusing machine learning algorithms and other artificial intelligence (AI) technologies across its entire portfolio of IT operations software. The first instance of BMC software to make use of machine learning algorithms is the latest version of TrueSight AIOps platform, which ingests data from […]
DevOps Chat: Measuring DevOps Success with Steve Boone, UrbanCode
In this DevOps Chat we speak with Steve Boone, product owner and development manager for Urban Code Deploy. Now that DevOps is in practice at more organizations, measuring DevOps success is a question many are asking. Steve has helped hundreds of companies adopt, implement and scale their agile and DevOps practices as part of their digital […]
DevOps Chat: IBM z14, Built for DevOps from the Ground Up, with Hayden Lindsey
IBM recently GA’ed perhaps its biggest zSystems mainframe release in the last decade or longer. The z14 mainframe from IBM has also been designed from the ground up to be DevOps-empowered. From APIs and other integrations to language support, the z14 is IBM’s most advanced mainframe ever. I had a chance to speak with Hayden […]
IBM: DevOps Challenges Require Managed Services
The DevOps complexity associated with determining which classes of application workloads are best-suited to run on certain platform types will push an increasing number of IT organizations to embrace managed services. That’s the premise put forth by IBM, which provides such a service. Steve Robinson, general manager for IBM Cloud Platform Services, says it’s becoming […]
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 […]
DevOps Chat: Design Thinking w/ Sarah Plantenberg, IBM
We sit down with Sarah Plantenberg of IBM to talk design thinking. Sarah has been featured on several DevOpsTV videos around the Bluemix Garage. But she recently took on a new role at IBM around bringing design thinking to cloud customers. Sarah gives some great background on design thinking and why it can help you. […]
IBM: DevOps, AI to Drive Digital Business Transformation
Conventional wisdom holds that one of the biggest challenges organizations face today is a chronic shortage of application developers. But as artificial intelligence (AI) advances, the process of writing code will become more automated. But rather than there being not enough developers to write all the code necessary, the shortage will be in software engineers […]
DevOps Chat: ‘The DevOps Adoption Playbook’ by Sanjeev Sharma
Before the recent IBM InterConnect conference I had a chance to sit down and chat with Sanjeev Sharma, CTO of DevOps Adoption at IBM. I have spoken to Sanjeev many times and he is a contributor to DevOps.com, as well as the author of “DevOps for Dummies.” Sanjeev has a new book out called “The […]
Scaled Agile: Faster Feature Cycle Time, Improved Time to Value
Do you remember when the business imperative was improving feature cycle time? As if we just needed to deliver more stuff faster to win in the marketplace. I wouldn’t say that times have changed, but I would say we were just scratching the surface, and rightfully so. After all, we have to start somewhere. The […]
DevOps in Legacy Systems: A Mission Impossible?
The word “legacy” evokes mixed reactions from the IT and business crowds alike. For those who depend on legacy systems such as the zSeries and iSeries platforms, it is a way to deliver stable and reliable applications into production. Business stakeholders who may not know the intricacies of the technology often take a view of, “Why […]
DevOps Chat: CI/CD with Travelers and Urban Code
In this DevOps Chat we speak with Laurel Dixon-Bull of Urban Code and Frank Canihuante of Travelers about CI/CD. Frank explains to us how he improved the CI pipeline at Travelers and some of the challenges he faced with the scale of a large enterprise like Travelers. Good case study. As usual, immediately below is […]
IBM Building First Universal Quantum Computers for Business and Science
Yorktown Heights, N.Y. – 06 Mar 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today an industry-first initiative to build commercially available universal quantum computing systems. “IBM Q” quantum systems and services will be delivered via the IBM Cloud platform. While technologies that currently run on classical computers, such as Watson, can help find patterns and insights buried in vast amounts of […]
IBM InterConnect – CrowdChat, Preview and Panel Discussion
We are just about 2 weeks out from IBM InterConnect, which is shaping up to once again be heavy on DevOps and related technologies. Of course there are other things on the agenda besides DevOps (really?), like cognitive and Watson for instance. There will be plenty of cloud, IoT and more cutting edge technology subjects. […]
Dispelling the Myths Around Continuous Testing
You may have seen the term “continuous testing” and thought it was just the DevOps flavor of the month. Some might even think it isn’t part of DevOps or isn’t for cloud or hybrid cloud applications. Well, think again. As it turns out, there are a few more fallacies around the idea of continuous testing […]