Google Hangout: DevOps for multi-speed IT Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016, 4 PM EST Join us for a panel discussion on Wednesday, February 3 rd , 4 PM EST to hear more about DevOps for multi-speed IT. Whether you call it two-speed IT, bi-modal IT or variable-speed IT, it is a reality as teams, projects and divisions within organizations deliver business capabilities. These business capabilities are composed of services and applications that, when orchestrated, deliver business value to users. Lines of business that need these capabilities... [More]

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  I’m very excited for InterConnect 2016! It’s been a year since we delivered beta templates for SAFe® (Scaled Agile Framework®) Program support in Rational Team Concert and we’ve been doing a lot since then to expand that support, enhance it for the unique requirements of our Enterprise customers and explore how we can provide differentiating capabilities in tooling that is a critical part of the IBM DevOps solution framework. If you’re new to SAFe and just need to learn what all the hype is about, or... [More]

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Are you joining us at IBM InterConnect?   IBM InterConnect 2016 is the premier Cloud & Mobile Conference taking place February 21-25, 2016 at MGM Grand & Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV. Through more than 2,000 targeted sessions led by industry leaders and IBM experts, InterConnect will help you reach your goals. From technical and business content to deep-dive technical sessions, the InterConnect curriculum is designed to help you quickly and easily realize the full value of your investment. Join us for insightful breakout sessions,... [More]

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On a long journey from Bangalore to Las Vegas, I had quite a few things on my mind as to what I will do in Vegas. But well, I had to constantly remind myself that it was not a holiday but a business trip! I was travelling to Vegas to attend the IBM premier Cloud and Mobile conference- InterConnect 2015 .  It’s IBM’s largest conference with over 20,000 attendees from across the globe covering a wide variety of topics ranging from Hybrid Cloud, Mobile, IoT and Security etc. It was while exploring the InterConnect event’s... [More]

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We’re pleased to announce that Aqua is now available for you to experience!  Try it for yourself here .  As we discussed in my earlier blog , Aqua is IBM’s strategic integration platform to bring you a wealth of Dev & Ops capabilities on the Eclipse Luna platform while you are working with your z/OS systems. Aqua brings a significant improvement in supporting the day-to-day activities of system programmers and application developers, as well as simplifying the deployment and maintenance of our... [More]

We’re all looking for ways to infuse our applications with performance and speed without rewriting.  As the bridge between user applications and modern hardware architecture, compiler technology is playing an integral part in delivering application performance by generating highly optimized code for execution on z Systems servers. Today we are announcing the XL C/C++ for Linux on z Systems V1.2 compiler (XL C/C++ V1.2), which is designed to improve the performance of applications as well as provide easy migration of applications to... [More]

How do you prototype, develop and test a solution in just three weeks? Well, when you give the right people the right technology and tools, amazing things can happen. In this case, it was the innovative team at Capgemini combined with the IBM Bluemix platform which enabled the speedy delivery of a strategic solution for a logistics company in the Nordics. When you’re a logistics company, a lot of things can keep you up at night. This particular company handles about a million packages a day for large corporations and individuals, however... [More]

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What is a release train?  Think of it as an integration platform for delivering Dev and Ops capability.  And, the good news - Explorer for z/OS V3.0 Aqua is part of the z/OS operating system entitlement. So you can benefit from the capability available on this platform at no additional charge! So, what is Aqua?  z/OS Explorer Aqua release brings the base Eclipse platform to Luna platform (Eclipse V4.4).  If you are using Eclipse-based tools while you are interacting with z/OS, you may wonder what this announcement may bring... [More]

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Now there is no longer a need to experiment and guess the best combination of compile options to tune the performance of your business critical COBOL applications.  We are pleased to announce IBM Automatic Binary Optimizer for z/OS V1.1 (ABO), a standalone optimizer for COBOL applications.  This new product is based on advanced optimization technology shipped with Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V5 (COBOL V5).  ABO performs high-fidelity optimization and generates code that fully exploits zEC12 and z13 architectures without the need... [More]

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