IBM touts “10x times faster software driven innovation” through DevOps in the cloud
June 23, 2014
Grazed from BusinessCloudNews. Author: David Bannister.
Combining development and operational deployment of software into a more integrated cycle can greatly improve time to market and improve efficiencies, delegates at the annual SifmaTech trading systems conference and exhibition in New York were told. Kristof Kloeckner, general manager of IBM Rational Software told the conference that a new approach to software development, dubbed DevOps, “goes way beyond just using the technology – it’s about reshaping the business so that it almost becomes ‘business as a service’”.
Kloeckner said that the flexibility of cloud computing is enabling the next generation of Service Oriented Architecture to allow the creation of “composable businesses that create an end-to-end services from the assembly of multiple processes”. The approach involves blending the test and deployment phases of software development and applying both Agile and LEAN development techniques to “create a continuous feedback loop that is critical for business success”…
But Kloeckner says that it is about more than picking a bunch of tools. “It goes to the heart of business relationships across the enterprise, and is about enterprises tuning development for faster delivery – and also better tuning it for more effective outcomes,” he said…
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