In this week’s #TheLongView: Translating legacy COBOL code to a slightly more modern language, and Arm will go public (again) next month.
HashiCorp Tools Bridge DevOps, Legacy IT Environments
At its HashiConf EU 2019 conference this week, HashiCorp extended the reach of its Terraform Enterprise tools for automating the management of IT infrastructure beyond the realm of DevOps into legacy IT environments. Via integration with the Service Catalog from ServiceNow, IT administrators working with a traditional ITIL-based framework now can invoke Terraform Enterprise to […]
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 […]
AppOps: The Next Big Thing or Just the Next Buzzword?
I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but the pace of the world seems to continue accelerating. Organizations—and the developers and IT teams that work in them—need to be able to adapt and respond quickly to changing demands. DevOps addresses this challenge for app development and IT infrastructure. However, a new application lifecycle equivalent is emerging, […]
Legacy IT Challenges Continuous Delivery
Legacy information technology infrastructure has a strong effect on the potential success of DevOps. In environments where different teams have always used the same servers, change can be difficult due to inter-team coordination and limited server transparency and application inventories, says David Blank-Edelman, a 30-year systems administration/DevOps/SRE veteran and currently Technical Evangelist at Apcera. “Unraveling […]