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06 February, 2012: BCS CMSG Conference 2012
Configuration Management - How to Ease the Pain of Change
17 January, 2012: Business process automation - the business fights back?
Although business process automation concentrates on business agility, traditional IT disciplines such as testing can still be important
09 January, 2012: IBM Rational to acquire virtualised testing environment.
IBM has announced its intention to acquire Green Hat, for its virtualised integration testing expertise and technology.
21 December, 2011: Newest but not bestest?
With "people centric process" highlighting the iPhone as a process interface, it's sometimes hard to remember it's still "people" before "technology".
05 December, 2011: SAM Revisted
Software is an asset that must be managed as much as any other - but the barriers to doing this are are both cultural and technical. New standards may help.
04 November, 2011: Configuration Management or Versioning?
Configuration management is important to good governance - but does everybody understand what it is, is it named well and what exactly does it cover?
12 September, 2011: The Open Group on Cloud Computing
The Open Group has published a useful book on Cloud Computing that provides a good basis for discussion of business implementations
10 August, 2011: Data centre schizophrenia
The Dynamic Data Centre is the end of a journey from where we are now to where we'd like to be and business service levels mustn't be impacted on the way.
03 August, 2011: Bribery, no longer an option
The Bribery Act 2010 came into force in July. The IT group mightn't have responsibility for compliance, but its activities aren't exempt.
21 July, 2011: Stop press: mainframe finally dead...
With the introduction of the integral blade servers in zEnterprise, the mainframe really is just another server
04 July, 2011: Versioning, versioning everywhere
Many developers see the need for software version control, but good version management is important everywhere, not just for software.
01 July, 2011: Innovate2011 - Fytte the 3rd, Keeping legacy going
People want to adopt innovation at their own pace - which means that there's a market for capability add-ins for legacy tools
10 June, 2011: Sybase - an SAP company
Sybase is now used to working as an "independent" part of SAP. It seems to be going well.
08 June, 2011: Innovate2011 - Fytte the 2nd, Software Economics and Collaboration
Steve Mills as energetic as ever - and the Jazz/OSLC platform is maturing
07 June, 2011: Innovate2011 - Fytte the 1st, Complexity to Clarity
Initial impressions of IBM Innovate 2011 - the theme is the strategic importance of EA and of measing business outcomes.
31 May, 2011: Governance and Cloud at IBM's PCTY, Part 1
Every year, Pulse Comes to You, an offshoot of IBM's Tivoli user conference in Las Vegas, goes around the world. I attended in London.
31 May, 2011: Governance and Cloud at IBM's PCTY, Part 2
Every year, Pulse Comes to You, an offshoot of IBM's Tivoli user conference in Las Vegas, goes around the world. I attended in London.
09 May, 2011: Configuration Management Event
The Configuration Management System is a fundamental enabler for good IT governance.
09 May, 2011: Many independent cores
When you have thousands of cores in your processor, perhaps you need to think of radically new ways to use them all
18 April, 2011: The Data-Centric World
As "the world of things" evolves, we need a new way of looking at "systems of systems" that can cope