DevOps Places Software Testing as a Challenge

DevOps Places Software Testing as a Challenge

The speed of digital transformation is already impressive and will only increase. To put this in very concrete terms, consider the following: Suddenly, a large number of people jumped from a very provincial lifestyle directly into digital times - creating a massive...

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CIO Challenge: Dodging the Bimodal IT Bullet

CIO Challenge: Dodging the Bimodal IT Bullet

There’s a bullet aimed at the heart of your business. That bullet is the lie of Bimodal IT, which asserts that you can let your mainframe languish in Waterfall mode while you focus all your agility efforts elsewhere. It’s tempting to believe the Bimodal IT lie —...

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Bringing DevOps to your mainframe

Bringing DevOps to your mainframe

The days of waterfall software development on a mainframe are coming to an end. It’s no longer tolerable for end users to have to wait two years for a new application to be written and delivered to a spec that, by then, is two years out of date. The inflexibility of...

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Agile COBOL and the x86-less Datacenter

Agile COBOL and the x86-less Datacenter

For years, pundits have predicted that a generational shift in IT would spell doom for the mainframe. But just the opposite is true. The current generational shift in IT is driving a major mainframe renaissance—along with, ironically, abandonment of x86 datacenter...

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