Management consultants and pundits love to bandy about the phrases business agility and business velocity as though they meant the same thing. In reality, however,…
Had Mark Twain lived today, we might hear him utter the oath lies, damn lies, and analytics. Statistics to be sure may still be used…
There are two kinds of enterprises in today’s world: the ones that know they’ve been hacked, and the ones that don’t know they’ve been hacked.…
Agile Operations for Enterprise DevOps Efforts If you believe Gartner, IT is now bimodal. Slow, traditional IT continues its slog, following policies and procedures from…
Rounding Out Platform with Synthetic Monitoring A decade ago, the Application Performance Management (APM) market was a dusty corner of enterprise IT, focusing on keeping…
The Architecture Buzzword du Jour Move aside, big data. Sorry, devops. Cloud computing? You’re yesterday’s news. Today, the buzziest buzzword du jour is microservices. Given…
Listen in on a conversation among techies today, and you’ll likely hear several recently minted buzzwords, casually dropped into conversation: Cloud. Big data. DevOps. Containers.…
You’re a large enterprise with a complex internal software development effort. You’ve had some success with Agile over the years, but quality could be better…
The mainframe may not be the cool kid on the block, but it’s here to stay. Regardless of their cool factor, IBM z Systems mainframes…
The Shifting Notion of a Cloud Service Brokerage Depending upon whom you ask, the notion of a Cloud Service Brokerage (CSB) has many overlapping but…
