What's Innovative?
- DevOps, an IBM Perspective - it’s going to be a culture thing for the Mutable Business, not just a technology thing, and most of IBM’s ideas have general application
- Future starting here? - Looking at DevOps processes beyond simple software development
- Amazon’s Alexa magic - are we taking consumer-oriented magic too much for granted
- 3 IT infrastructure enablers for Industry 4.0
- NIS – another EU Directive to follow - it's an attempt to provide a more secure IT platform for everyone
What's Changed?
- 3 IT infrastructure enablers for Industry 4.0
- Worlds Apart - The nascent threat to the existing data centre market from the Open Compute Project
- Append-only databases and the GDPR conundrum
- Looker. The next generation of analytics. Are you ready for it?
- Informatica is in the (pale) pink – or maybe orange!
Where's The Value?
Expert Opinion
- Future starting here? - Looking at DevOps processes beyond simple software development
- Data visualisation for managing assets - an important part of the Mutable Business
- NIS – another EU Directive to follow - it's an attempt to provide a more secure IT platform for everyone
- Modernisation for Mutable - in large enterprises with effective Legacy
- More on non-European companies and GDPR - It’s more than the letter of the regulation
Latest Updates
Recently updated Trend, Technology and Issue pages:
Revolutions are by their nature disruptive. They create winners and losers. Businesses need to be implementing IoT projects now and be developing their 5g networks and edge computing strategies to win in the 4th Industrial Revolution.
Seize GDPR as an opportunity to build “Privacy by Design” into your processes, thus de-risking mutable change as it affects personal data. Leverage this for increased customer trust, customer loyalty and market-share.
Big Software delivers real competitive advantage through significantly lower IT infrastructure costs and the ability to deploy more new business applications faster.
If you care about analytics – and who doesn’t – then a data catalogue is a fundamental requirement for creating a data-driven business and supporting self-service.
Data Centres are the dedicated spaces used to locate and run servers, storage and networking equipment.
Graph databases store data in terms of entities and the relationships between entities.
Our infrastructure practice aims to articulate the infrastructure story to make it meaningful for the CIO
This is the use of tools to make a representative subset or copy of a whole database that lets you adequately test relevant applications.
Developers and data scientists may not be allowed to see detailed personal information but at the same time they may need that data, or its equivalent.
DevOps is about encouraging a culture of collaboration across development, operations and business silos (and, by implication, removing these silos).
NoSQL - not only SQL - non-relational databases.
Many enterprises still run on Mainframes but start-ups that value growth without early over-provisioning should also consider Mainframe platforms.
Further Information
Further resources to broaden your knowledge:
Instrumenting the Virtualised Datacentre… for Performance SLAs - Overcoming the “not my problem, try that lot over there” issue
To deliver services reliably in an increasingly virtualised world, companies need seamless access to performance metrics across their entire infrastructure
Configuration Management goes Blockchain - A better blockchain usecase than cryptocurrency?
Configuration management would seem ideally placed to take advantage of a secure distributed ledger, using Blockchain.
On consistency, silos and catalogues
And why a good solution may be better than a perfect one.
Data Governance is not Data Quality
And it's not Data Stewardship, either
How much is my new technology saving me? - it's all about common sense, scope, and politics
Estimating technology savings is all about common sense and scope; although politics can also be a factor.
Addressing the GDPR issue - Patterns and Antipatterns for success
Addressing GDPR for business benefit rather than as a cost
Configuration Management, is it all about TRUST - Thoughts prompted by the BCS Configuration Management Specialist Group Conference, 9/5/17
Can we trust the automated systems in the mutable business to do the right thing? We need "just enough" governance and configuration management
EFT Summit to look at Industry 4.0 effect on SCM
EFT Hi-Tech Summit is to look at Industry 4.0 and its effect on the supply chain.
How graph databases solve previously unsolvable business and technology challenges
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Your Journey to the Cloud; Assured - Good governance for digital transformation is the first stage for many mutable businesses
Digital transformation is the process of migrating your organisation to new ways of doing business. To succeed, Organisations must embrace digital thinking.
A focus on Business Continuity - Business Continuity should be a tested part of holistic system design, not a bolt-on afterthought
Some thoughts on Business Continuity, prompted by a new iland survey
Automating spreadsheet processes
FreeSight is marketed as a data prep tool. At heart it is a product for capturing and managing repeatable Excel processes.