Innovation is a hallmark of the technology industry. Change can be perceived as disruptive and costly, but it is nonetheless necessary if organisations are to remain competitive and avoid obsolescence in an ever-changing world. Organisations need to embrace change in a way that balances the needs of existing, business-critical infrastructure and services while empowering and ...

Agile integration — combining integration technologies, Agile delivery techniques, and cloud-native platforms to improve speed and security of software delivery — is a critical foundation for successful digital transformation. For this study, we assessed the differences between successful and less successful Agile integration and app delivery strategies, why some firms can change their business faster, ...

The path to cloud-native applications varies by organization. Simply creating microservices does not lead to the service quality and delivery frequency required by digital business. And just adopting tools that support agile development or IT automation will not lead to the increased velocity of cloud-native approaches. Rather, success is achieved from a combination of practices, ...

This IDC InfoBrief summarizes the findings of a global study to assess how enterprise IT infrastructure architecture strategies are evolving due ot the impact of cloud computing, DevOps and digital transformation initiatives. Download the IDC InfoBrief to learn why open source ranks #1 in IT modernization solutions.

In this Harvard Business Review whitepaper, 16 CIOs in market-leading organizations reveal how they’ve transformed in the face of disruption to become the beneficiaries of change—and not the victims of it.

Developing software using microservice design is the hot new approach. Microservices promise implementation flexibility, graceful scaling, faster delivery, and higher resiliency. But comprehensive microservice architectures are too complex for most enterprise AD&D teams, so developers are finding pragmatic and incremental ways to gain the benefits of microservice design via new programming models and platform frameworks. ...

Red Hat OpenShift is an application container platform that helps development and IT operations teams modernize existing enterprise applications and deliver new applications by accelerating development and delivery processes . Red Hat OpenShift offers development and operations teams a common platform and set of tools as a foundation for building, deploying, and managing containerized applications ...

A business survives when it can extend its core competencies in new ways. Increasingly, one of the paths to innovation lies with application programming interfaces (APIs). APIs allow a business to take traditional revenue (and traditional customer and partner interactions) and carry them into a different technological foundation — like cloud, mobile, big data analytics, ...

As applications and services become more central to business strategy, and as distributed methodologies like agile and DevOps change the way teams operate, it is critical for IT leaders to find a way to integrate their backend systems, legacy systems, and teams in an agile, adaptable way. This e-book details agile integration architecture, consisting of ...

In August 2017, Red Hat commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the current state and challenges of container usage and to assess what has changed since 2015. Our 2015 study revealed that firms were just figuring out how to adopt containers and understand their impact on operations. Over the last three years, container adoption has increased ...