As software engineering leaders adjust to a future defined by remote and hybrid work models, they are shifting priorities in the organization of work to compensate for the lack of in-person collaboration. According to a recent study conducted by Jellyfish, the top priority for engineering leaders is ensuring that each member of their team is […]
Rethinking Business Models for Digital Transformation
To keep pace with the swiftly changing digital ecosystem, organizations can’t afford to stand still. It’s vital for organizations to continually assess their business models as part of their digital transformation. Organizations must walk a difficult line between maintaining their core competencies while successfully anticipating what is ahead. The oft-cited Silicon Valley startup mantra of […]
DevOps: Driving Innovation With Old Habits
DevOps can help drive cost-efficiency, greater productivity and innovation When software development and IT operations merge and work in a state of harmony, they create a flow that we call continuous product delivery. Ideal for project managers, this flow is the elixir to innovation and enables the agility needed to respond to changing market requirements. […]
Harnessing the Power of Developers
In our fast-moving digital economy, organizations across just about every industry are faced with a stark reality: to remain competitive and deliver the best possible customer experience, they must evolve continuously. The fintech industry is a great example of this–the sector’s growth and focus on excellent customer experience has been driven by external developers rather […]
Digital Transformation: Thrive, Not Just Survive
My conversations about innovation and the enterprise have afforded me an intimate understanding of the technological challenges companies are facing. Chief among these concerns, regardless of industry or sector, is digital transformation. Just the other day, a C-level financial executive came to me seeking guidance on this topic. He said his company was on a […]
IT Leadership Still Struggles to Satisfy the Business, Deliver Innovation
If a recently published report by Salesforce is to be believed, the rest of IT leadership is starting to catch up with what IT leaders have long known: Business technology needs to be customer experience-driven. This year’s report, Salesforce’s second annual broad look at the state of enterprise IT found that the line continues to […]
Lessons Learned: We’re Still Killing Ourselves with Innovation
Since the widespread acceptance of virtual machines (VMs), we’ve been on a racetrack with changing technology, with little opportunity to stop and digest lessons learned. That’s not to say organizations haven’t done a good job of learning from experience and mistakes both; rather, the lessons learned are too frequently obsoleted by The Next Big Thing. […]
DevOps: Commoditizing Infrastructure
Hardware vendors face a quandary. How do you distinguish yourself as superior from your competitors if you are unable to continue to grow a distinct architecture as your competitive advantage? But this dilemma does not begin and end with only hardware vendors; operating system vendors and virtual machine vendors are on the same horizon. In […]
Preserving Bottom-Up Innovation in DevOps
Balancing top-down control and oversight with bottom-up innovation and autonomy The driving force behind DevOps adoption in the enterprise is the idea that it will enable faster and more frequent delivery of better quality software. If all goes well, DevOps should result in higher customer satisfaction and lower costs, but the journey to get there […]
CloudPassage Named “Most Innovative Cybersecurity Company”
SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwired – May 05, 2016) – CloudPassage today announced it has been recognized as the “Most Innovative Cybersecurity Company” in the 2016 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, which are voted on by the more than 300,000 security professionals who participate in the LinkedIn Information Security Community. From nearly 200 cybersecurity vendors that were nominated, CloudPassage […]