Mainframes and the Myth of Bimodal in DevOps
Rewind 20 years ago when we lived in a business world where big companies with unlimited resources beat out smaller, more strapped companies. The digital era—also known as the “age of the customer”—is changing all that. Where big once beat small, fast now beats slow. The DevOps approaches of startups often make them more adept […]
Mainstreaming the Mainframe: DevOps, Automation, Unified Deployment
The mainframe is alive and well. That big metal beast in the data center is not going anywhere anytime soon—nor are its applications. “If mainframe applications disappeared tomorrow, planes couldn’t fly, people wouldn’t get paid, and the economy would come to a halt,” wrote Forrester analysts in a recent report, “Digital Transformation Needs Mainframe DevOps.” […]
Separate but Equal: Not Equal and Not the Right Way
The DevOps Enterprise Summit in London provided another opportunity to speak to many clients about their organizations’ DevOps transformations. The key message is, “It’s all about people and culture,” but how do you make those changes? In session after session it was clear the source code manager (SCM) is central to this transformation. All clients […]
Raising the Bar on DevOps for Enterprise Systems
What do you do when you are a leader in DevOps solutions for Enterprise Systems and you practice what you preach? You raise the bar to continually improve your offerings and share thought leadership about where the future lies for clients as they navigate the world of continuous delivery in a climate of digital disruption. […]
Making Over the Mainframe for DevOps
Introduction As a discipline, DevOps emphasizes mitigating any and all constraints in order to roll out high-quality, high-performance software, faster. Constraints can be man-made – such as lack of communication between developers and IT operations teams – or technical in nature, such as an overcommitted testing environment. DevOps teams are only as strong as their […]
DevOps Chat: Rosalind Radcliffe, Mobile to Mainframe DevOps for Dummies
I recently had a chance to sit down with IBM Distinguished Engineer Rosalind Radcliffe about her new book, Mobile to Mainframe DevOps for Dummies. The book is actually quite a bit deeper than your usual “for Dummies” book and an excellent read. Of course you would expect as much coming from Rosalind who has quite […]
Webinar: Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation breaks down IT silos and speeds up mainframe development
DevOps encourages adoption of lean and agile development practices irrespective of platforms. However in most organizations mainframe and mobile/web development teams are functioning in siloes, resulting in a plethora of technology platforms and tools, fragmented or manual processes, skills shortage causing unnecessary delays, rework and friction among teams, impacting organizations ability to respond to the […]
Reaching Millennials with new Mainframes and agile technology
“I’ve been with IBM for 25-years and been with the mainframe. We hear either that the mainframe is dead or that it will be retired in one or two years,” says Mike Fulton, IBM DevOps for Enterprise Systems CTO, and blogger at https://makingdeveloperslivesbetter.wordpress.com/. But IBM and Fulton have built bridges from the largely new and […]
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 […]