February 17, 2020 bestdevops IT Monitoring, IT Training, IT trends Leave a comment

Still Increasing the Power of Hybrid IT Through Open Source

Source:-it.toolbox.com Broadcom (perhaps still better known as CA) used this year’s Arcati Mainframe Yearbook to highlight the mainframe development revolution and the growth in open source tools. They said that tools, like the green screens of ISPF and the Eclipse desktop IDE, enhanced with proprietary plugins have served mainframe application developers well over the years. However, there are changes in the larger world of development that are creating the conditions for a revolution in mainframe tooling. With experienced mainframers retiring,

May 13, 2017 bestdevops DevOps, DevOps Best Practices, IT trends Leave a comment

DevOps, Security, Hybrid IT: Priorities of successful IT pros

Source – enterprisersproject.com Consider how much the role of the IT professional has changed during the last 10 years. As traditional, siloed IT roles — such as network administrators, storage administrators, systems administrators, and database administrators — continue to include new responsibilities, IT professionals can no longer get by as specialists. These days, they’re are expected to be implementing new technologies and trends, inlcuding containers, serverless architecture, and IoT, while working with cloud service providers. They’re acting as liaisons to business leaders. On top of all that,

March 15, 2017 bestdevops Cloud Computing, DevOps, IT trends Leave a comment

5 tips for keeping up with IT change

Source:- gcn.com Hybrid IT — migrating some infrastructure to the cloud while continuing to maintain a significant number of applications and services onsite — is a shift in the technology landscape currently spreading across the federal government. Agencies are looking to realize the many benefits of the cloud (cost efficiency, agility) without the perceived drawbacks (security, compliance). Are agencies truly ready for this new type of environment? Or, a more targeted question: Are federal IT professionals ready for the shift?