Nearly all enterprise digital transformation projects include moving software to DevOps processes and platforms. The effort, cost and time it takes to be successful with these transformations depend on a lot of factors, but one thing stands out: as indicated in my white paper Unified Enterprise DevOps Platform Why? How? And What?, “An enterprise with many […]
How Open Source Software Powers Digital Innovation
Open source has permanently altered how we work and conduct business. Linux, and thousands of other open source projects and open standards, now dominate the software landscape, supporting emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and edge computing. Without open source, the DevOps tooling ecosystem would lack Docker, Kubernetes, service mesh, popular databases, and many CI/CD tools […]
Oracle Includes GraalVM Support in Java SE Subscription
Oracle announced today it is adding a GraalVM Enterprise virtual machine for building Java applications to Java SE Subscription at no additional cost. Donald Smith, senior director of product management from the Java Platform Group at Oracle, said GraalVM Enterprise provides developers with a high-performance application runtime, built on Oracle Java SE, that includes a […]
7 Pillars of DevOps: Essential Foundations for Enterprise Success
As indicated by the “2016 State-of-DevOps Report,” multiple compelling enterprise business performance improvements provided by well-built DevOps solutions are driving IT transformations for development and operations across many industries. While some enterprises have implemented DevOps to gain near-term efficiency benefits, DevOps is becoming a competitive essential for all enterprises to implement DevOps. Enterprises that fall […]
Interoperability’s Impact on Transparency
We fix what we see is broken. Providing “transparency” into the DevOps-enabled software development life cycle (SDLC) has tangential goals of quickly illuminating what is broken, running slower than it should or working flawlessly. Automated testing systems, for instance, are generally good at highlighting pass/fail results from integrated testing in the development process. Once they […]
DevOps and the Near-Decapitation of Variability
Not all automation scales. One of the chief impediments of delivering an enterprise-class DevOps service is the decentralization of tooling choices—or worse, the methodologies within the tool for delivering CI/CD. If the methods used to deliver automation are as varied as the last engineer who created them, the spaghetti that ensues will not scale much […]
At the Intersection of Git and DevOps
Everyone knows Git. It’s a favorite developer tool and for good reason. Developers love its flexibility, speed and ability to branch locally and in place. It also appeals to the attraction to community development. But as developers adopt Git within enterprises, IT managers face the challenge of reconciling the needs of developers with the needs […]
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. […]
“Show Me The Money!” – Delivering DevOps Value
HM Heath Solutions delivers new business applications in the healthcare industry to 35 million customers. In order to embark on their DevOps journey to improve software delivery, Valerie Scott, their Manager of Shared Services Division, had to show senior management an ROI on a successful project, before they would invest fully. On June 2, Val Scott […]