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Agile software development services delivered from the cloud
In an international bestselling book The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century [1], Thomas L. Friedman analyzes globalization, primarily in the early 21st century. The book talks...
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DevOps and the cloud
One of the hot topics around these days in IT is DevOps. But what is it exactly, why would I want it, and if so, how do I get it? This blog posting discusses these three questions; it’s up to you to...
View ArticleDevOps: The song remains the same
How Cloud is bringing better integration of Application Development and IT Operations “California sunlight, sweet Calcutta rain Honolulu starbright – the song remains the same.” The story goes that Led...
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Improving developer productivity with the cloud
Let’s take a common scenario: you are using an Agile development model and your developers move between projects. To support this, most developers have hefty development environments to support...
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How to innovate faster than the fastest
The world is moving fast these days, but to truly innovate you need to move even faster than the fastest competitors. So how can cloud computing give you the speed you need to stay ahead of your...
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Benefits of a self-service environment in the cloud
One of my team’s critical missions is the collection and management of business requirements from IBM Services Business Units in the growth markets. My team has used spreadsheets and a lot of...
View ArticleA shout out to all my fellow ‘stackers and Happy Third Birthday OpenStack!
Exciting news on the open cloud architecture front. IBM and Pivotal have joined forces to further develop Cloud Foundry and to open up the community. Since the announcement, folks have been asking me...
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Why should I switch to Software as a Service, anyway?
Software as a service (SaaS) has an image problem. I hear it all the time: SaaS is great, but we’ve been doing that since the 80s. It’s just client-server. We already run our other stuff behind the...
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Why you need application testing in the cloud
Twenty years ago, when I was a programmer, the majority of applications were running on client/server architecture. The data was tightly coupled with applications in a client/server model. When I...
View ArticleWhat is DevOps, anyway?
In today’s quickly changing technology, many buzz words creep up on us. DevOps didn’t stand out to me at first. In fact I didn’t even pay much attention to it, because it sounded like something very...
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Getting the most out of DevOps through cloud computing
Clients do not procure and purchase software products today the way they did in the past. Clients focus more on buying capabilities and solutions that help them move their business forward. In the...
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Responding to disasters: Government and the cloud
We’ve all heard and seen the stories in the media on natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy, flooding in the Midwest, fires in California and Oregon, Hurricane Katrina and more. Recovery efforts from...
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The seismic impact of social and mobile on IT
This blog post is the fourth in a series of articles on reimagining enterprise IT in the age of social and mobile with open cloud. My aim is to explore the open cloud inspired approaches such as...
View ArticleWhy you need to adopt an agile mindset
Demand for mission-critical IT projects is increasing as the economy improves, but the supply of resources available to handle those demands isn’t keeping pace, according to the recent annual Project...
View ArticleFive cloud coding tips from an Agile development team
When it comes to developing code for cloud applications, I have learned that having basic ground rules helps to ensure efficient and secure code development. Following these ground rules can yield...
View ArticleThink you’re agile? You’re probably wrong
Businesses worldwide overestimate their agility and need to educate themselves on the benefits of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings, according to the Oracle Cloud Agility study released today by...
View Article6 steps for digital transformation
In terms of digital transformation initiatives, there’s a lot of talk right now in terms of strategy and less emphasis on practical execution. Everyone wants to advise the CEO and the board, but these...
View ArticleEvolving to an agile enterprise with hybrid IT
Business agility, critical for success these days, starts with having access to the ideas with the highest potential and rapidly validating these ideas in marketplace. Enterprises that want evolve to...
View Article10 hottest tech skills for 2016
The IT team at HRHCare has seen its workload rise in recent years, as the Beacon, N.Y.-based nonprofit has added facilities and expanded its services. Eric Brosius, the organization’s vice president of...
View ArticleIs your hybrid cloud storage strategy agile enough to handle data growth?
More than 80% of enterprises embarked on a hybrid cloud strategy in 2015, according to Rightscale’s 2015 State of the Cloud Survey. Driven by new workloads and the convergence of cloud, mobile,...
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