Cloud orchestration – will a solution come from SCM?

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Clive Longbottom.

Serena Software is a software change and configuration management vendor, right? It has recently released its Dimensions CM 14 product, with additional functionality driving Serena more into the DevOps space, as well as making life easier for distributed development groups to be able to work collaboratively through synchronised libraries with peer review capabilities.

Various other improvements, such as change and branch visualisation and the use of health indicators to show how "clean" code is and where any change is in a development/operations process, as well as integrations into the likes of Git and Subversion means that Dimensions CM 14 should help many a development team as it moves from an old-style separate development, test and operations system to a more agile, process driven, automated DevOps environment…

However, it seems to me that Serena is actually sitting on something far more important. Cloud computing is an increasing component of many an organisation’s IT platform, and there will be a move away from the monolithic application towards a more composite one. By this, I mean that depending on the business’ needs, an application will be built up from a set of functions on the fly to facilitate that process. Through this means, an organisation can be far more flexible and can ensure that it adapts rapidly to changing market needs…

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