DevOps Is the Future of Service Integration & Management (SIAM)
Enterprises with internally sourced IT operations typically struggle with typical tensions associated with siloed application and infrastructure organizations. They are…
Cloud Native: The Next Major Developer Paradigm Shift
Every decade for the past forty years we’ve seen a major paradigm shift in software development. The next major paradigm…
Making Financial Sense of PaaS, Part Deux
In my blog, “Making Financial Sense of PaaS,” I provided an analysis of delivering a newly-developed mobile application using a…
Software Testing is Too Critical to Overlook
Today’s software testing practices are abysmal. You’re a major provider of health insurance services to general consumers. Your website is…
If Cloud Is Not Your Thing, Perhaps You Prefer Cloudy Concepts
As I continue to engage customers around cloud and DevOps, I am amazed at the percentage of customers where there…
Excuse Me Ms. Shannon-Solomon, But DevOps Is Great For Enterprises
On May 13th, Rachel Shannon-Solomon wrote an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal’s CIO Journal section entitled “DevOps Is…
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Transformation Is More Important Than Cloud
On the surface it looks to be a chicken and egg problem. Is cloud driving IT transformation or is IT…
If It’s Not Working As Expected, It May Be The Installer
For the 1st time in my life after owning three homes I am in the position of having to replace…
What does GRC and Las Vegas Have To Do With IT?
In the spirit of leaving Las Vegas from EMC World I started thinking about the transformation of Las Vegas from…
IT-as-a-Service and the Facebook Effect
I’ve recently been theorizing around a new model for IT transformation. There’s anecdotal evidence that, in general, business problems tend…