Tag: legacy

  • Link: Putting the transformation into digital

    “Too many people are claiming that there is digital transformation happening – when really it is just automating legacy processes. It’s improvement for sure. Less time for customers, less money for providers – but it’s not ‘transformation’, a word possibly even more abused than innovation.” Original source: Putting the transformation into digital

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  • Link: PKS: The answer for “everything else” in your data center

    “PKS will provide a comfortable environment to run freshly containerized legacy workloads and packaged software in an on-premise model to start, if desired, on top of VMWare vSphere.” Original source: PKS: The answer for “everything else” in your data center

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  • In the financial district, New York.

    The many meanings of “DevOps,” legacy software, & adulthood – Coté Memo #22

    I’m in New York today for a quick meeting, ostensibly on DevOps, but as ever on how organizations can do software better. “DevOps” has increasingly become the term people use when they mean “doing all that new stuff, in new ways.” Vendors, like Pivotal, have tried to use the phrase “cloud native” to describe it,…

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  • Coté Memo – Issue #3

    Coté Memo – Issue #3

    Things are thin this episode as I took some time off for family. “An ongoing battle” “Beer versus scientist represented a kind of schism between the banality of speech versus the originality of thought. An ongoing battle.” From Authority, delightfully “new weird.” Coté Content DevOps isn’t just about the new: It’s about cleaning up the…

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  • Link: IBM’s Steve Mills retires

    40 years at IBM, straight out of college. He built up the software group, then ended up managing hardware was well: the article says he was running $40bn of business for IBM. Also, he was an awesome interlocutor at analyst events: a fun character on the drama of the IT industry! Source: IBM’s Steve Mills…

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  • Link: 16 mobile theses

    “That doesn’t remotely mean that Microsoft is dead, but it has to work out how to use the cash and market position of the legacy monopolies to help it build new businesses.” Source: 16 mobile theses

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  • Coté Memo #075: Dealing with legacy code in a cloud native world

    Get your lurn on – this weekend! Do you want to bone up on your product management skills? Check out this two day workshop from Craftman PM. I used to work with Prabhakar and he’s anything but boring when it comes to opinions around product. Check out more details, and if you use the code…

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  • The cost of old corporate code

    [A]pplication development and maintenance eats up 34 percent of the total IT budget and that by getting rid of legacy applications, simplifying complex architectures, and ceasing outdated approaches to IT staffing, companies can cut those application development and maintenance costs in half. The cost of old corporate code

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