Total cost of ownership29th March 2016Philip Howard TCO should be more important in decision making than either license fees or subscription costs.
Is it time for more Systems Thinking in IT - DevOps and IoT, in particular, seem to be all about feedback controlled systems24th March 2016David Norfolk As we move towards Industry 4.0, are radically new ways of thinking about automation needed?
A new IBM z13s “enterprise-class server” - for when even Cloud fashion victims might rather like a mainframe.....18th February 2016David Norfolk The new z13s server from IBM brings the security of data encryption on the cloud for midsize companies, without slowing down system performance.
The Mutable Mainframe - the Mainframe is still very much part of the CA Technologies roadmap27th January 2016David Norfolk The Mutable Business probably doesn't care much about what is behind its SLAs, as long as they're met. So, it might as well be a Mainframe.
IBM’s Recipes community30th July 2015David Norfolk Users of developerWorks Recipes can tap into IBM's platform-as-a-service, Bluemix, to share IoT knowledge.
Don’t forget Cloud Governance12th July 2015David Norfolk You can outsource execution but you can't outsource responsibility - even on the Cloud you need Cloud governance
Good governance makes you agile30th May 2015David Norfolk If you can measure risk, and determine scope of impact, you can take more risk - because you can manage risk
Internet of Things – the OMG PoV12th May 2015David Norfolk It is always a good idea to define one's terms
User experience as an input to development7th May 2015David Norfolk Addition of user experience feedback to the developer experience.