I am hearing a lot about the rise of a concept called ‘devops’ – a mashup of ‘development’ and ‘operations’. I am not at all an expert in this area, but from what I can tell, devops is aimed at streamlining rapidly iterative application delivery to allow for greater development and business agility. Devops...
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Today Microsoft Corporation (NASD:MSFT) announced a definitive agreement to acquire Opalis Inc., the leading independent vendor of IT Process Automation (ITPA) software.
IT Process Automation (ITPA) is a Data Center Automation (DCA) discipline that EMA defines as “the ability to automate and integrate the workflow of complex, multi-discipline IT management processes.” This automation can replace...
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I had an interesting discussion last night on Twitter with Tajeshwar Singh (@tsingh4IT), a thoughtful and experienced IT pro working with a leading IT outsourcing provider, about the differences and overlaps between strategic and tactical CIO planning. It was triggered by the disdain I have for a new “Top Technologies for 2010” prediction I...
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I was recently discussing EMA’s basic architecture for cloud computing. Essentially, this chart from a recent presentation, given to a workload automation audience, is starting to form the basis for a maturity model for cloud computing:
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