This last Tuesday, I had the pleasure of presenting at the Capital Markets Cloud Symposium in Manhattan, New York.  In attendance there were hundreds of CIO’s, CTO’s and executives from some of the world’s largest financial services firms like JP Morgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas, Bank of America and Credit Suisse. The presentations and [Read More →]

The last mile of the software development process, deployment, is especially prone to being slow, brittle, and manual. Without automation, it is nearly impossible to take advantage of virtualized and cloud compute infrastructure. CM Crossroads asked me to write a piece on what we are seeing in our customer base and what to look for [Read More →]

In the last year I have increasingly run into a new character in application development shops – IT. IT is not taking over coding tasks, but they are certainly taking a much more active role regarding where application development tasks get run.   This is no surprise, as software development has an insatiable appetite for compute [Read More →]

I just came across a piece that Bernard Golden wrote in his CIO blog entitled Dev/Test in the Cloud: Rules for Getting it Right.   He makes a lot of good points including what we see the most successful enterprise development shops doing with the cloud; “Treat the cloud as an extension, not a separation.” Unfortunately, [Read More →]