Governance - What's Innovative?

At DevOps World | Jenkins World, Forrester told the assembled press and analysts that DevOps is winning and that use of waterfall methods is falling.

Talking to Curtis Preston about Druva’s data-management-as-a-service and its support for AWS Snowball Edge, speeding-up and de-risking cloud transitions.

Automation of software service delivery links your tools with software APIs – giving you a “software-defined infrastructure” and the Morpheus platform is a good basis for this.

Choosing KPIs is important, they can be financial or non-financial, or composite KPIs that you can’t measure directly may be better indicators than simple KPIs.

Validating “magic” systems such as those based on Amazon Alexa is important – and non-trivial. Most important is that remediation processes are designed and tested.

Blockchain governance will be key to its success in its role as a distributed ledger technology for mutable businesses.

In May 2018 the UK is still in the EU. GDPR will impact YOU, in ways that you may not appreciate – even if you are a small company or a charity.

Exploring the TRUST issues met by a CIO in an Agile environment that is dedicated to "Digital Transformation"

Exploring TRUST issues with Adam Carson, Head of Digital Strategy at the Birmingham Woman's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust.

A new version of BS 10012 supersedes the 2009 version, for European Directive (95/46/EC), which was implemented in the UK by the Data Protection Act 1998.

One of my takeaways from IBM Interconnect 2017 is that IBM is taking Blockchain, as a business technology, very seriously.

Poor licensing can be a business continuity issue all by itself.

The Mutable Enterprise is just one aspect of an inflection point we will have to journey through in the 21st century.

GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) isEC Regulation intended to strengthen and unify data protection for individuals within the EU

As we move towards Industry 4.0, are radically new ways of thinking about automation needed?

EU and US negotiators appear to have finalised an agreement on a new version of the safe harbor data transfer framework for personal data.

Configuration Management is fundamental to good governance, but it is a journey not a destination - Perforce Helix is part of that journey.

You can outsource execution but you can't outsource responsibility - even on the Cloud you need Cloud governance

An important merger for Dynatrace, one of the better APM tools.

If you can measure risk, and determine scope of impact, you can take more risk - because you can manage risk

As Freedom for business automation increases, we still need just enough governance.

With Model Driven Development (MDD), is it better to execute the model or generate code?

The chrome management console makes Chrome a viable end-user environment for the business.

Jim Maguire, Senior Product Manager at ASG, talks about the evolution of its ECM product some years after the acquisition of Mobius

New design tool for developers

SOA Software has extended its Lifecycle Manager to cover the mainframe

ServiceTrace has some interesting features

Newly privatised BMC seems to be telling an interesting story....

A new Perforce tool for extracting project metrics from software development repositories.

A new metadata management tool

The ISO 27000 standards are a good basis for an Information Security Management System - and an update is expected this year.

This is the premier UK event on Change, Release, Asset and Configuration Management for ITIL and Service Management.

A heads up on RTI's new Infrastructure Community (IC) licensing model.

An open standard for managing IaaS is necessary to deliver effective interoperability for cloud services.

A new standard for managing cloud infrastructures

Is an antivirus product which stops backups running simply a poor joke?

Kaspersky AV stops Windows 7 backup running. But according to Kaspersky tech support, this is a 'feature' not a 'bug'

Very possibly, building a PaaS for multi-tenancy will give us a trusted, virtualised computing platform that's better than the real thing.

At least one Informix user sees a need for a DIY TPC benchmark

An official introduction to the ITIL Service Lifecycle - that might suit managers as well as practitioners.

Sybase is now used to working as an "independent" part of SAP. It seems to be going well.

Part 4 of an analysis of where IBM is going, garnered from its recent PCTU (Tivoli) and Innovate (Rational) conferences

The Service Measurement Index (SMI) attempts to provide a rational way of measuring cloud computing implementations along a range of dimensions.

I have to admit that I think that configuration management is a universal good thing—unless you know what you have, where it is running, how it is configured and who is allowed to use it, you...

I was rather interested by a press release from the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) today, about its 'A Decade of Living Dangerously' report (published by the CMI and Cabinet Office). It...

I'm pretty keen on designing for user experience, user experience testing—and user experience monitoring in production. There's some background reading on WikiPedia, of course, and IBM has an...

It seems to us that one of the big problems with security is its siloisation; it's often thought of as something special, something you get the specialists to do after the fact. The problem is, of...

The Software Configuration Management (SCM) world is being shaken up by the viral adoption by programmers of Subversion and other Open Source tools, regardless of corporate policy. However, AccuRev offers a process-centric alternative.