Musings from David Norfolk, Practice Leader for Development & Governance.
Meg Selfe is moving on from Rational to start up a Smarter Physical Infrastructure Group while Bret Greenstein is now Vice President, Rational Complex & Embedded Systems at IBM Rational, replacing Ms Selfe.
This is the premier UK event on Change, Release, Asset and Configuration Management for ITIL and Service Management.
Third party testing consultancies may well have something useful to offer, but there are issues to consider.
Configuration management isn't just for software!
Very possibly, this brings a scalability problem beyond that which most organisation-level IT has had to cope with in the past.
There's a new C++ compiler from Embarcadero
What is DevOps? Perhaps it's all about agile "just enough" governance of automation delivery.
Cloud is coming but it can make people nervous. A development and testing appliance may be a good way to get it started.
Configuration Management may be important, but who said configuration managers couldn't be fun?