IBM z14 and Cognitive DevOps – Designed for Trusted Digital Experiences Most IT hardware announcements focus mainly on new features, capacity, and performance offered by the new offering.  Impressive “speeds and feeds” are important, and the z14 certainly has those, but the focus needs to be on the business value being delivered.  This announcement delivers just that.  With pervasive encryption, where data is encrypted at all times without application changes, machine learning that provides valuable and timely... [More]

Node.js is no longer a platform for start-ups. It has been steadily finding its place in Enterprise Software and powering digital transformation. Enterprises around the world are successfully using Node.js to transform their businesses.  It enables them to use a common language (i.e. JavaScript) to develop applications on both client and server. Using a common language throughout the application stack significantly increases efficiency, simplifies build process, and quickens time to market.  Clients can also access a vast pool of... [More]

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A New Way to Get Performance   In the past, we used to see processor clock speed increasing significantly from one model to another. This meant big increases in application performance simply by moving the application binaries to the new, faster machine.  However, in the last few years, we have observed that the microprocessor industry is reaching a physical limitation that is hindering the increases in clock speed that we have enjoyed in the past. I n this new era of performance, hardware generational performance gains are more and... [More]

Advanced optimization and z hardware exploitation are key to improving application performance and reducing CPU utilization and operating costs. Gone are the days when COBOL applications will run faster simply by moving them to new z hardware.  Performance increases delivered by modern z/architecture are more workload-targeted and require exploitation of new hardware features. Therefore, to maximize ROI, it’s important to stay current with compiler technology and selectively optimize CPU-intensive parts of the applications.  ... [More]

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Over the last few months, we have been very successful in using the IBM Digital Transformation Model for IBM Z to help our customers to better understand what changes they should consider to get more value of their assets on IBM Z as these assets are becoming increasingly central for their Digital Transformation.   Based on lessons learned, we are launching a series of updates to the model in conjunction with the launch of z14 and the re-branding from IBM zSystems to IBM Z (which I love!). We updated the numbering... [More]

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Adopting DevOps practices have become key for your enterprise IT teams to succeed. That is why we are bringing a great group of leaders to share their experiences about Cognitive DevOps and how to accelerate your digital transformation in a virtual conference. During July 25-27, industry leaders from IBM, HCL, Infosys, SonarSource, MOST Technologies and Xact will present in an interactive, online environment. During these half day sessions you will learn about DevOps best practices and discover how using the right tools in the right ways... [More]

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        Have you ever thought about expanding the successes of agile teams in your organization? Or have you considered an agile approach but are not sure if it would work for you?  You are not alone.  Many organizations are adopting and scaling agile and seeing amazing results.    As the largest provider of financial crime, risk and compliance solutions for regional and global financial institutions and government regulators, NICE Actimize had to improve the quality of their software and accelerate cycle... [More]

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This summer there are quite a few developer focused events lined up and one such event happening next week is O’Reilly Velocity conference at San Jose, CA on June 19 – 22. This event offers a great platform to network with your peers who are doing amazing things on engineering, performance, operations and DevOps. DevOps is one of the major focus areas in this conference and there are various tutorials, sessions and keynotes that cover the topic in detail.   With so much happening at the event this year, here is what you... [More]

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DevOps Transformation workshops are interactive, hands-on, sessions designed for business leaders and the app dev and IT ops teams they depend on to create, deliver and manage the applications their customers and employees use. These workshops give a chance to the participants to explore the transformation their organizations could achieve through a DevOps approach, helping them create and nurture a DevOps culture within their organization. Regardless to the level of maturity on the lean – agile – DevOps adoption, there is something... [More]

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Did you miss the IBM Interconnect 2017 conference this year? If you did, you missed some great presentations from real practitioners about how they are transforming their organizations by adopting lean and agile practices at scale so they can be better, stronger, faster. But don’t worry, Alan Shimel from DevOps.com sat down with a couple of these “experts” and you can watch their interviews on DevOpsTV.   First, Igal Levi from NICE Actimize. In his interview , he explained his organization’s need for change that... [More]

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Along with consumerization of IT, increased customer demands and growing business competition have resulted in intense pressure for organizations to get applications into production as fast as they can, as early as they can. However, only a few short years ago, similar releases could have taken up to 18 to 24 months’ time to go into production.   How do you keep your applications secure, in an environment of tighter release time-frames and constrained staffing levels? By incorporating application security into your DevOps process.... [More]

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While waiting to board a flight I met an enthusiastic student, a millennial at that who was leaving the shores to pursue his master’s degree overseas. The conversation started off with the millennial asking me about my destination, hobbies, job etc. and then comes an interesting question “Does IBM make any cool stuff like streaming video, gadgets to stream videos, ….?” My response was “yes we build cool technology that enables all that cool stuff you just mentioned and a lot more than that”.   By this... [More]

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In previous blogs I introduced the IBM Digital Transformation Model for IBM Z , described how to optimize your software for the latest hardware, how to drive more effective maintenance of your software  and effective practices for API-enabling your mainframe software. In this blog, I will discuss how to further accelerate the speed of innovation of your mainframe software. In the Survey we are doing for the Digital Transformation Model, the most common concern raised by Lines of Business people is lack of speed and long... [More]

The IBM Digital Transformation Model for IBM Z   provides you with a framework for how to get the most out of your mainframe applications in context of a Digital Transformation. More than 80% of the world’s structured enterprise data resides on the mainframe[1], over 220 Billion lines of COBOL code captures core business processes and more than 55% of all enterprise application transactions run on the mainframe[2]. A key part of your digital transformation hence needs to focus on opening up the mainframe to applications outside the... [More]