DevOps is an approach to software delivery that is used in the context of agile/lean software development approaches, primarily for constructing systems of engagement such as online and mobile banking applications. DevOps technologies include application deployment automation and release coordination, and is frequently associated with cloud computing and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). DevOps is a required technology… Read More »
Stream processing, or the real-time processing of big data in motion, is an IBM technology growing, as far as I know, out of big data processing systems developed for the US intelligence agencies years ago. The IBM product providing this capability is BigInsights.
Content analytics scans unstructured data such as text in social media, call center databases and emails, performs natural language processing to understand the meaning of the data, and reports the results. IBM Enterprise Content Manager (ECM) contains content analytics functionality.
NoSQL is a non-relational database specialized for non-tabular data. MongoDB is a document-oriented NoSQL database.
Apache Hadoop is open source software which allows storage, retrieval and computations on at-rest big data using commodity hardware and infrastructure. Hadoop includes the distributed file system (HDFS) and MapReduce programming model. Hadoop addressed the strategic technology capability to process at-rest big data. IBM provides InfoSphere BigInsights that is based upon Hadoop. BigInsights also… Read More »
Strategic technologies are technologies which are called out in the IT strategy as being key enablers to the business strategy. During the environment scan trends and forces are studied, and threats and opportunities are identified. The strategy is crafted to respond to threats and opportunities by adding or removing strategic business capabilities. Some new business… Read More »
Sometimes something happens inside IBM that I really enjoy, treasure and want to refer back to. I blog about these things so that I don’t lose track of them and to make them available to others, even it is only my IBM colleagues. Here is the link where Ginni Rometty speaks with Alejandro Valenzuela, CEO… Read More »
I just read a reprint of the Harvard Business Review article “The New Patterns of Innovation” Jan-Feb 2014 (Sorry, I don’t have a link). They make note of the difficulties existing businesses face in generating new business models with the traditional methods: Competency based – entering new markets with core competencies or assets Customer focused… Read More »
In the interview with Jim McCarthy (Global Head of Strategic Partnership and Innovation at Visa) and Ginni Rometty (IBM Chairman, President and CEO) they discuss Visa in particular and payment processing companies in general. The Visa brand is shown on about 2 billion cards. Visa’s clients include about 14 thousand banks, who issue cards. Visa’s… Read More »
Cloud Standards are open standards that allow interoperability for cloud computing. Standards give cloud computing consumers the ability to compose services across clouds and more choice about which cloud they deploy their applications to and not to be locked in. The latter ideas about choice and freedom make standards of strategic concern. This improves the… Read More »