An organization’s digital transformation is ineffectual if it doesn’t bring out the best from its applications. This is a near-universal concern since most enterprises still have core applications that are architected primarily to work in legacy IT landscapes in an on-premises dedicated environment, slowing down IT and business performance, stymieing innovation and increasing vulnerability to […]
The Next Phase of Pandemic Tech Transformation
Last spring, we were inundated with headlines, tweets and Medium posts applauding the rapid digital transformation that businesses were going through—almost overnight—due to the pandemic and the shift to remote work. It made for an interesting feel-good narrative at the time, but it didn’t paint the full picture. Companies were thrown into the deep end; […]
3 Reasons Your Digital Transformation Stalled
The more a company modernizes, the more value it gets from the cloud, but not all digital transformation efforts are created—and executed—equally. According to Gartner, “87% of senior business leaders say digitalization is a company priority, yet only 40% of organizations have brought digital initiatives to scale … [and] without a shared vision across the […]
Modernizing Continuous Integration
In the duality of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), CI focuses on build automation. Leveraging CI practices for software delivery is normal for most organizations and can be seen as a solved problem. However, the demand for increasingly distributed applications has risen with the expansion of microservices, and development teams have the expectation that every commit […]
3 Common App Modernization Pitfalls to Avoid
Application modernization has been a consistent theme for organizations year after year. Businesses today still rely on their legacy applications for the majority of their revenue generation, from mainframes to Java EE. New digital transformation initiatives and mandates have pushed application modernization back to the forefront, as a new generation of automation platforms and best […]
Set DevOps Free With Modern Application Security
Development teams increasingly use technologies like cloud computing and microservices, in conjunction with DevOps principles, to innovate faster and remain competitive. But such progress comes at a cost. The fast pace of DevOps has left security teams scrambling to keep pace and install appropriate security guardrails. Traditional security practices used to occur in the final […]
Application Modernization Video with IBM’s Rosalind Radcliffe
Application modernization is the process of updating existing legacy applications and modernizing their infrastructure, architecture and features, by using modern technology stacks. Monolithic applications are difficult to update and expensive to scale. In response to today’s business requirements of growth and innovation, enterprises must deliver new applications in an agile fashion while minimizing risk. Many […]
Accelerate Your Digital Transformation with IBM
DevOps practices, processes and solutions help businesses accelerate their digital transformation by improving the speed and quality of software development. DevOps tools enable teams to do their job more efficiently by embracing automation, increasing agility and building speed, versatility and security into the framework. At the IBM DevOps Virtual Summit, attendees will learn how to […]
EP 4: DevOps and the Mainframe
In this fourth episode of our DevOps Unbound streaming broadcast on TechStrong TV and staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud’s sister site Digital Anarchist, Mitchell Ashley of ASG and Alan Shimel are joined by Gerta Sheganaku of Tricentis, Rosalind Radcliffe of IBM and Sam Knutson of Compuware to discuss app modernization, mainframes and DevOps. Find out what’s the right way to modernize your applications and how to do app modernization in a Z environment.
How to Modernize Mainframe Applications
It’s easy to understand the current disillusionment around the term “digital transformation,” as it has been thrown around vaguely as the ultimate answer to business innovation without much recognition of the nuances of technological change. When it comes to mainframe systems, the issue here most likely can be traced back to the word “transformation.” The […]