IBM Offers Watson Services on Twilio Marketplace
More than one million registered developers will have access to new cognitive capabilities SAN FRANCISCO – 24 May 2016: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it is collaborating with Twilio, the cloud communications platform for developers, to introduce two new offerings, IBM Watson Message Sentiment and IBM Watson Message Insights, which will be available as Add-Ons […]
Five Harsh Truths About DevOps
DevOps can provide tremendous productivity improvements, but it’s not a panacea. As much as we’d want it to be the solution for all of our software development problems, here are five truths you should consider. 1. DevOps may lead to juggling job roles and coming out of your comfort zone With DevOps, the development team […]
DevOps is a Risky Business
I spend a considerable amount of time with clients discussing DevOps and the potential value it can bring to them, but there is one theme that always resonates: the ability of a DevOps approach to eliminate risk. While many of us understand the benefits in terms of being faster (improved productivity), cheaper (reduced cost) and […]
3 Ways to Become a More Agile IT Organization
In 1960, the average life expectancy of a Fortune 500 company was 75 years. Today, the average lifespan is just 15 years and declining further. So what gives? We only have to look as far as the “Uber-effect” to understand why so many companies fail. Uber very simply and quickly disrupted a centuries-old industry with […]
Putting the ‘Biz’ in DevOps
I was having a conversation with a client recently and we both came to the conclusion that DevOps, as used in some conversations, is misnamed. DevOps, by virtue of its name, implies that the focus of improvement is aimed at development and operations. While this is true, I believe that DevOps, at a higher level, […]
The New Age of “Operations” in a DevOps Enterprise
My encounters with commercial clients in the DevOps space have been exciting, curious, political, and challenging. What most don’t realize is that DevOps is not just about infusing tool automation into a delivery pipeline, but it also has to do with re-mobilizing and challenging the status quo when it comes to “who does what”. As […]
DevOps Journeys of Large Enterprises Highlights
I read a recent comment to an article made by my friend Rob England (the IT Skeptic). Rob took exception with the authors point of view about that DevOps was so widely adopted. Rob asked the author of the article, “How many of the Fortune 500 are DevOps shops?”. My reaction to this was “Rob, not […]
IBM InterConnect 2016: Sounding Off
This years IBM InterConnect in Las Vegas was spectacular. Our DevOps.com team covered as many of the 300+ DevOps tracks and sessions that we could. We have been editing video and getting ready to report on the show since then. Finally, we have enough ready and the time to give our full report. The last […]
5 Things DevOps is Not
For those who have been embracing and championing DevOps for years, the growing popularity of DevOps is as exciting as landing your first job out of college! Okay, maybe not that exciting, but still really cool. More and more companies of all sizes are embracing DevOps by including the adoption of DevOps practices directly into […]
InterConnect 2016: Culture Matters
The recent IBM InterConnect 2016 focused on plenty of tools and technologies, from cloud/SaaS solutions to containers and automation, but there was another popular topic of conversation heard in the halls—the culture of organizations. The basic premise of these conversations was that unless you get the culture right, all the technology in the world won’t […]
DevOps and Agility for Multi-Speed IT
Let’s step back for a moment and look at the IT world a bit differently from the traditional technology-centric lens through which most of us IT peeps tend to look at things. Line of business (LOBs) need us, the IT organizations, to deliver capabilities to their customers and users that deliver business value. They also […]
Embracing DevOps in the IoT Era
To those of us struggling to cope with the challenges of delivering software over the Internet of Things (IoT), DevOps can be the savior. Delivering software over the Internet is no easy task, and delivering it over the Internet of Things is even more formidable. How do you deliver software to so many “things,” many […]
IBM BlueMix OpenWhisk Takes Infrastructure Out of the Equation
Thousands of people descended upon Las Vegas last week for the annual IBM InterConnect conference, where IBM shares its vision with customers and developers and makes big announcements. One of the biggest things Big Blue unveiled was BlueMix OpenWhisk, an event-driven programming service designed for a serverless computing environment. OpenWhisk uses an event-driven model, automatically […]
Can’t Miss Events at InterConnect Next Week
DevOps.com will be live from IBM’s InterConnect conference in Las Vegas all next week. You can expect a pretty steady stream of updates in all forms of media. We will be posting articles, live blogging, tweeting, podcasting and even broadcasting video throughout the week. So if you can’t make it out to Vegas, you can […]
Application Analytics for DevOps will be Presented by Nastel Technologies at IBM InterConnect 2016 in Las Vegas
Join us and learn about analyzing shared metrics and tracking transactions in order to reduce support costs and deliver continuously. Visit Nastel in booth #660 Melville, NY (PRWEB) February 18, 2016 Nastel Technologies, a global provider of software for Application Performance Monitoring (APM), delivering real-time application analytics, transaction tracking and forensics will present “Application Analytics […]
Preview of IBM InterConnect Speakers
Next week DevOps.com will be in Las Vegas to cover IBM’s InterConnect Conference. With over 200 DevOps related sessions, there is something for just about everyone on the schedule. We thought it would be useful to give you a peek at some of these presenters. Below are interviews of some InterConnect speakers from their recent […]
Google Hangout: DevOps for Multi-Speed IT
Whether you call it two-speed IT, bi-modal IT or variable-speed IT, it is a reality as teams, projects and divisions within organizations deliver business capabilities. These business capabilities are composed of services and applications that, when orchestrated, deliver business value to users. Lines of business that need these capabilities do not care how these individual […]
IBM AND CATALOGIC SOFTWARE TO ANNOUNCE JOINT SOLUTIONS FOR HYBRID CLOUD AND DEVOPS IN LIVE ONLINE EVENT FEBRUARY 2ND
Live Online Event Will Present Details of New Set of Solutions That Combine Catalogic Software’s ECX Data Management Platform With Various IBM Storage Offerings and IBM SoftLayer Cloud /EINPresswire.com/ — WOODCLIFF LAKE, NJ — (Marketwired) — 01/27/16 — IBM® and Catalogic Software today announced that they will hold a live online event next week to […]
DevOps Chat: Rosalind Radcliffe and Bimodal IT
I had the pleasure of sitting down with IBM distinguished engineer Rosalind Radcliffe the other day to talk about bimodal IT, systems of engagement, variable speed DevOps and IBM’s upcoming InterConnect 2016 event. I have interviewed Rosalind many times over the last few years and it is always informative and interesting. I hope you find […]
Google Hangout: What will DevOps look like in three to five years?
DevOps seems to be everywhere today. But what does the future hold for today’s tech darling? Will the principles and patterns of DevOps still be recognizable in three to five years? Or will the next new wave come along wipe out what seems to be a major change to the way software is developed and […]
DevOps Chat: Mustafa Kapadia, IBM DevOps Transformation Workshop
I always enjoy listening and speaking with Mustafa Kapadia of IBM. Mustafa is one of the leaders of the IBM DevOps services team. As such he gets to work with dozens of different organizations in helping them on their DevOps journey. As a result Mustafa has amassed a ton of experience and knowledge on the […]
Lean for DevOps: Measuring the meaningful
At a recent Lean project report out to stakeholders, a piece of analysis was presented which showed the quantity of metrics being captured, in various areas, at different organizational levels. IBM’s Watson had been used to generate the chart, and it told an interesting story. But that story needed some translating. ‘Look at all those […]