This one’s a Keeper – with KeeperHR, FTEs can have personalities too
KeeperHR aims at elucidating employee personalities and keeping a record of them in a Personality Profile. This one’s a Keeper!
Musings from David Norfolk, Practice Leader for Development & Governance.
BMC acquires Compuware
BMC has just acquired Compuware, which complements BMC’s mainframe management capabilities with Compuware’s mainframe DevOps capabilities.
The Chaos Factory by Adam Wasserman
David Norfolk reviews “The Chaos Factory” by Adam Wasserman, an excellent historical guide to how IT got the way it is today.
IBM Think 2020 – Online
IBM is actively encouraging the movement of mission critical workloads onto suitable public clouds using what it calls Intelligent Workflows.
Costing Cloud Data migrations
A cautionary tale about cloud data migrations as NASA moves its Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) storage onto an AWS Cloud.
Shift Left - Don’t wait until delivery to test things like Performance and Security
A cautionary tale about the importance of testing against user expectations, from Bloor analyst David Norfolk.
BMC – still evolving - A new management team and a new acquisition
BMC still seems to be in the process of re-inventing itself and its new acquisition of Compuware brings major new Mainframe capabilities.
Is Zoho an exemplar for a new breed of 21st century technology company?
Attending an analyst relations event for Zoho recently was thought-provoking for Bloor's David Norfolk, and not just because of its technology.
DevOps growing up in Lisbon - A report from DevOps World | Jenkins World
At DevOps World | Jenkins World, Forrester told the assembled press and analysts that DevOps is winning and that use of waterfall methods is falling.
Zoho analytics - another David fighting Goliath out there
Zoho has a rich set of business apps but isn’t well known. It’s been around for 20 years, is profitable, has lots of customers, and deserves to be better known.