Apps
Innovate with Enterprise Design Thinking in the IBM Garage
We’ve all been there. You have an amazing idea that’s really exciting. Maybe it’s a home improvement project, or perhaps it’s a new business idea. You think about all the details required to make it real. But, once you get to the seventh action item, you’re not so excited anymore. Sometimes when we realize the […]
The path to modernizing mission-critical applications
In a world where business disruption is the rule and not the exception, enterprises need IT environments that are designed to yield real innovation by enabling continuous, iterative development. Flexible, agile platforms allow organizations to develop new business models and deliver product innovation and deployment, as well as enable employee productivity and customer engagement. Cloud […]
Why cloud native development matters
Can we all agree that market research statistics should be taken with enough grains of salt to make your cardiologist worry? Good. Having said that, I’m now going to quote some market research statistics. But I do this not to focus on the numbers, but the fact that these numbers came from surveys and interviews […]
Lessons learned: How IBM Global Financing tackles application modernization with Red Hat OpenShift
IBM is like many of its clients when it comes to application modernization. The company faces the same challenges of trying to balance preserving the business value of established investments while remaining agile enough to respond to changing market demands. Within IBM Global Financing, the financing arm that provides leases and loans to IBM clients […]
Improve business performance with better cloud container monitoring
Today’s hybrid multicloud reality can be a double-edged sword. While the transformation can increase speed, scale and flexibility, it can also limit your view of performance and security within containers. In fact, an IBM and McKinsey research report notes that 67 percent of those surveyed consider management consistency a priority concern. Imagine transferring materials to […]
ExxonMobil and IBM Cloud fuel customer satisfaction at the pump
As digital technology has dramatically transformed how people live, it has also reshaped how consumers experience brands, turning transactions into experiences, and experiences into relationships. But digital transformation is more than simply building an app and going digital. It’s also about changing the way people think. Many people can remember having to go to the […]
Accelerating the application containerization journey
Container strategy has become an essential part of any enterprise’s cloud transformation journey. The flexibility and cost optimizations that containers bring to the table has made many enterprises to adopt a “container-first” strategy. While this is a good guiding principle, many challenges come into play while executing this strategy. The primary challenge is to decide […]
A strategic approach to adopting cloud native application development
Approximately three out of four non-cloud applications will move to the cloud within the next three years, according to a recent IBM report titled “The enterprise outlook on cloud-native development”. In today’s modern enterprise, optimizing the application cycle is critical: it can help companies keep up with consumer expectations, keep business operations agile, and speed […]
4 steps to modernize and cloud-enable applications
Customers today are no longer satisfied by the traditional consumer-business relationship. Instead, they expect engaging and informative digital experiences. In order to match these expectations and stay ahead of the curve, organizations must lean into digital transformation. Businesses need to modernize both customer-facing and enterprise applications to support a customer-centric approach to business. Developing a […]
Simplify modernization and build cloud-native with open source technologies
Cloud-native technologies are the new normal for application development. Cloud-native creates immeasurable business value with increased velocity and reduced operational costs. Together, these support emerging business opportunities. Advancements in application development have focused on net new applications. We have seen that existing applications that cannot easily move to the cloud have been left on traditional […]
Cloud-native application deployment across hybrid multicloud infrastructure: 451 analyst interview
Modern enterprises are quickly adopting a cloud-native approach to speed up the application lifecycle and deliver features quickly and more efficiently to users. Jay Lyman, principal analyst with 451 Research, details the flexibility of cloud-native applications across a hybrid multicloud infrastructure. In the following video interviews he shares how Kubernetes is used to deploy varied […]
Three ways to drive customer value and remove infrastructure burdens
Building cloud-native applications can become a huge challenge with the vast and growing array of choices. As organizations wrestle with becoming more agile and adopting DevOps practices, how can they maintain their existing investment and start on a path towards a cloud-native future? Take a quick look at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation interactive map […]