Join us for another exciting Google Hangout* with a distinguished panel of guests as we deep dive into the multiplatform application development challenges related to: Integrating Systems of Record (Mainframe) with new Systems of Engagement (Mobile). Take this opportunity to find out how Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) leveraged a DevOps approach to deliver an […]
5 best things going on at InterConnect 2015
With IBM InterConnect 2015 less than a month away, here is a quick guide to the 5 Best Things Going on at InterConnect 2015 [seoslides embed_id=”70823b380482″ script_src=”https://staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud/embed-script/5-best-things-going-interconnect-2015/3998/” overview_src=”https://staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud/slides/5-best-things-going-interconnect-2015/” site_src=”https://staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud” site_title=”staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud” title=”5 Best things going on at Interconnect 2015″ /] You can stay up to date with the latest InterConnect news by following #ibminterconnect staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud will […]
Google Hangout: InterConnect 2015 preview from IBM & Nationwide on #DevOps
Join us for a Google Hangout* with a distinguished panel of guests as we discuss: Adopting DevOps for Two-Speed IT. With IBM InterCnnect 2015 just a month away, three featured presenters will give us an Interconnect preview *Google Hangouts are FREE. To participate in a Google Hangouts LIVE, a Gmail or Google Profile is required. Date: […]
DevOps Resolutions For The New Year
As we welcome in the New Year, it’s natural for us to set both personal and professional goals. While many are adding the obligatory eat healthier, spend more time with family, and exercise more to their personal list, some of our client are adding DevOps resolutions to their professional goals. During a recent customer roundtable […]
Does Automating Application Release Mean the Same that it Used to?
Over the last ten years, we have seen a shift towards automation in how applications have been released. Automation has been encouraged first by agile’s embrace of continuous integration and delivery, and now the broader move to DevOps. As deployment automation left the sphere of the individual development team, another trend has emerged. The understanding […]
DevOps: As critical for the Systems of Record as for the Systems of Engagement
There is a lot of talk about DevOps, and how it improves the process of delivering business value. Much of the discussion of DevOps has been focused on web based companies such as Facebook, or the mobile and distributed development teams. But DevOps principles apply just as well to the traditional Systems of Record, z/OS […]
Transforming applications with Cloud and DevOps – one hybrid solution for multiple challenges
Are you on cloud yet or clouded? The answer lies in how you have adopted the transformation. Today, the world is Hybrid. For large enterprises and organizations, it always has been. Almost no enterprise is monolithic when it comes to their environments. They may already have different distributed environments and/or mainframes in their ecosystem. The […]
Eight critical DevOps practices: innovate, deliver, repeat
DevOps has been garnering a lot of interest for some time. Discussions and debates on forums like staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud are improving our collective understanding of the right approach and now we are seeing concrete proof points of fast-movers applying DevOps practices to disrupt entire industries with rapid-fire, digital-innovation based on Cloud, Big Data and Mobile technologies. […]
Enterprise DevOps: organizational change a must
There has been a lot of discussion in the blogosphere, including here at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud, lately about the challenges of adopting DevOps in the Enterprise space. These challenges at the end boil down to the need for organization change. There are organizational structures that appear to hinder DevOps adoption in large enterprises, that are inherent to […]
DevOps and PaaS: ‘Give me a platform. Let’s rock, let’s rock, today’
Give me a platform. Let’s rock, let’s rock, today. – Dewey Finn, School of Rock The term Platform as a Service (PaaS) has become overloaded to define any ‘platform’ that provides ‘services’ to its users. The term PaaS is formally defined by NIST as: “The capability provided to the consumer is to deploy onto the […]