Arthur Cole

Enterprises transitioning toward a DevOps model of application development and support are quickly finding that the most crucial asset at their disposal is not tools or technology, but people. Unfortunately, you cannot just buy people and the skills they need to succeed. They must be nurtured, cultivated even, toward what will be a radically new […]

DevOps is about much more than technology, but the fact remains that to implement an effective DevOps environment, you’ll need the right tools. As more enterprises jump on the DevOps bandwagon, new solutions are hitting the channel at a rapid clip ­– so quickly, in fact, that we are already starting to see broader frameworks […]

DevOps is not merely a new technology, it’s a new way of working. With both software development and IT operations melded into a single workflow, specialists in both disciplines will need to redefine their roles and their overall contributions to the finished product. And that means acquiring new skillsets. In many cases, this will involve […]

Of all the roles that will be affected by the transition from traditional IT to a DevOps model, perhaps the most consequential is that of the CIO. The CIO must not only manage the changes to infrastructure and processes that guide this new form of knowledge work, but must also reevaluate the basic functions that […]

Enterprises looking to make the transition to the more agile DevOps model of IT management quickly confront one of its basic tenets: This is not just a transition to a new technology but a new way of working. It’s been said many times that DevOps requires new thinking in terms of workflows, processes, job responsibilities […]

Virtually everybody is interested in doing DevOps these days, but more than that, there is tremendous pressure to do DevOps right. After all, the IT landscape is littered with technologies and initiatives that seemed to promise great things but, for one reason or another, failed to deliver. When it comes to DevOps, the concept is […]

DevOps is one of those things that is easy to define but difficult to explain. And it’s even more difficult to implement and, ultimately, optimize. On a fundamental level, DevOps is the union of software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) under a continuous operational model. This is in stark contrast to the traditional “waterfall” […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) is clearly at the top of the enterprise’s priority list for the coming year, but as we mentioned last week, it may be a little while before the revolutionary promises of this particular technology bear real fruit. Part of the reason for that is the fact that traditional data infrastructure is simply […]

To say that the Internet of Things (IoT) will be a big deal in 2018 is like saying the sun will come up tomorrow. But it remains to be seen whether the universe of connected devices will reach the point where it is considered mainstream, or whether the enterprise is still looking at another year, […]

It seems that each year brings momentous change to the data center, and every December there are countless predictions as to what the coming year will bring. But rather than simply add to the pile of all the obvious changes that are coming our way, I thought I would break the mold this year and […]

Technology will always play a central role in the enterprise data environment, but going forward the true challenge will not be finding and implementing the most cutting-edge systems but architecting available technologies in ways that support a successful business model. This focus on architecture is in stark contrast to just a few years ago when […]

For IT executives already feeling the pressure to implement digital transformation across the enterprise, here is some bad news: Expect things to get even worse in the years to come. According to IDC, worldwide spending on “DX” is expected to top $1.3 trillion next year, a nearly 17 percent jump over 2017. That curve is […]