DevOps - What's Innovative?

The focus of ASG is to supporting enterprises across all platforms via hybrid cloud and eliminating legacy silos through modernising existing platforms.

The Digital.ai Value Stream Management platform integrates existing tools such as Collabnet VersionOne, XebiaLabs and Arxan.

At DevOps World | Jenkins World, Forrester told the assembled press and analysts that DevOps is winning and that use of waterfall methods is falling.

Talking to Curtis Preston about Druva’s data-management-as-a-service and its support for AWS Snowball Edge, speeding-up and de-risking cloud transitions.

NextStep 2018 was OutSystems’ conference promoting its capabilities in processing Large Application Portfolios and its affection for BizDevOps.

Automation of software service delivery links your tools with software APIs – giving you a “software-defined infrastructure” and the Morpheus platform is a good basis for this.

I’ve just had an interesting conversation with a couple of DevOps people from IBM, Eric Minick, OM lead for DevOps and James Hunter strategy lead for DevOps. IBM defines DevOps as an “essential enterprise capability for the continuous delivery of…

The recent TSB migration debacle was more than an Ops project and had Dev, testing and customer impacts. In these days of Ops/Dev collaboration, should it have been run as a DevOps-style process – or was it run “DevOps in name only”?

Without Agile configuration management (automated with tools such as Puppet), it is hard to be Mutable without breaking things.

Ignitho specialises in building prototypes to test out innovative ideas

Gluster, Ansible and a cloud-based app...

Compuware is aiming to make mainframe development accessible to those of us more used to Docker and Selenium

QASymphony is one - perhaps the leader - of the new breed of competitors challenging HPE ALM

Mendix v7 has some useful innovations.

Despite appearances mainframes can be agile and can participate in DevOps and continuous delivery.

Synergies amongst new CA announcements.

Bit of a buzz at CA World, as there often is, but how disruptive might disruptive technology innovation really be? New technology can't be put back in the box.

To keep up with the competition, companies need to get new applications and upgrades to market faster. Testing cannot be a roadblock on this path.

You need to understand how changes might impact on other parts of the system, because the former can break the latter.

In order to automate change you need the data, expected results and test scripts to automatically update, by virtue of their traceability back to requirements.

By building up a library of reusable test assets functionality can be tested more rapidly by selecting components from this library

So called "test automation frameworks" have to be able to respond to constant user demands. This process should be automated.

Jenkins Operations Centre and Jenkins Enterprise become one manageable continuous delivery platform

Addition of user experience feedback to the developer experience.

Report from IBM's Developer Connect 2014 conference in London.

Workload automation and job scheduling as a way of producing business outcomes

Electric Cloud is a privately-held DevOps vendor

Watson technology solutions are being deployed using mainstream DevOps processes

You need agile data for agile development. Test data management, service virtualisation and agile schema development.

A new Perforce tool for extracting project metrics from software development repositories.

Xebialabs talks about continuous deployment at CMSG 2013.

Applogic has now been ported to z mainframes

Tivoli Pulse in Las Vegas now has a much wider focus than just Tivoli Operations tools - I met a lot of friends from Rational there. Some interesting news and announcements this year.

Part 1 of an analysis of where IBM is going, garnered from its recent PCTU (Tivoli) and Innovate (Rational) conferences