Last week in Las Vegas at the IBM IMPACT 2012 conference Stuart Smith and I delivered a session titled “WAS vs. WebLogic, JBoss  and Tomcat: An IBM Perspective“. In this session we discussed key factors to consider when making a decision on which application server to use, such as cost of licenses and support, performance, [...]

When working on a product like Deployit, the development team has many ideas for new features and improvements in the product or the development process. Some of them can be implemented straight away, others are too big or require some investigation. Periodically, we set aside a day to work on the most interesting and promising of these ideas. The end result of this day of creative hacking is working code that demonstrates how a particular idea could be implemented.

Zur optimalen Wertschöpfung hybrider IT-Betriebsmodelle ist die Interoperabilität von Cloud-Services wichtig - portable Cloud-Architekturen sind der Heilige Gral der Cloud-IT - in denen Cloud-Services frei zwischen verschiedenen Cloud-Providern übertragen werden können. Eine der größten Herausforderungen liegt in dem Management dieser hybriden Ansätze und der Schaffung der dazu notwendigen Voraussetzungen für Standardisierung, Interoperabilität und Industrialisierung.

Our approach to software development has changed in the last few years. IT professionals and software developers are working more closely together than ever before. The DevOps trend also extends to an acknowledgement that automation is a key factor in reducing costs and increasing release speeds.