Organizations under the gun to meet unprecedented demands for faster application releases are increasingly breaking down the walls between development and operations – and finding success.

Unfortunately, new research on the practice known as “DevOps” also finds that the German philosopher…

This is the first of two parts discussing the problem of software release management and how automation can be properly used to alleviate these problems.

ITIL has Release Management. There are also Six Sigma and CMM. These are all process-oriented "libraries" that deal with the development…

I recently got an email from a customer who uses several automation packages to run against enterprise applications, looking for errors in several different environments. This customer has thousands of cases that run continuously, so in the event of an error there is immediate notification. 

As it…

Welcome to our inaugural column “What We're Reading.” In it, we'll be highlighting pertinent articles, blog posts and even whitepapers in the Service Virtualization and related industries. Also, we want this column to be a group effort with our readers: So… if you see something newsworthy for the space,…

We’ve heard for years about the need to tear down the high walls around IT departments. Converged infrastructures and cloud computing were supposed to render traditional organizational models invalid, right? Responsibilities for app development, networking, storage, servers, etc., were going to be…

You’d think the daily drumbeat about identity theft, public …

The recent CA World conference was packed with news about Service Virtualization, DevOps and the infrastructure for enabling continuous application delivery. It was covered by a wide variety of publications, reflecting the increasing interest in better, faster and less-expensive app…

Service Virtualization is still a relatively new technology, but already it’s being used in some mission-critical situations at very large companies. Among them: TTNET, a subsidiary of the Türk Telekom Group and the largest internet service provider in Turkey.

According to its Wiki page,…

What if you could reliably model a new business process idea before tasking a development team to invest hundreds of hours in it? Some companies are exploring just that by using business simulation tools to complement Service Virtualization. Business simulation tools virtualize the enterprise in the same…

If you were about to invest $150 million or $200 million in a potential Hollywood blockbuster, wouldn’t you try to eliminate every possible risk of failure? Sure you would.

There was a fascinating story in Sunday’s…

This week’s roundup features failure that affected creatures on two legs and four – tigers in India and students nationwide who were left without access to study material on the night before school exams. And then there’s Java 7, about which we needn’t say more.

As we say here at…

Jack Ganssle is one of the best-known experts on embedded software development. According to the website for his consulting company, he “designed the first embedded system east of the Mississippi, using the very first 8-bit microprocessor.” So Ganssle knows…

I dialed 911 recently.  It was an accident. I was trying to dial a long-distance number – 9 to get out of the corporate exchange and then 1 for long distance. I double-tapped the 1. Oops! I stayed on the line since I was already captured on caller ID and they would have called back, anyway.

I…

The methods for deploying Service Virtualization tools in an organization are as varied as organizations themselves. In a nutshell, the best deployment model for your company is: It depends.

We asked our old pal Burt Klein, SV expert and former senior vice president of performance and resiliency…

The latest installment of This Week in Failure sounds like the start of a sad country song. We’ve got an airline system in the ditch and a trading market software glitch. Ain’t that a …

Moving right along, we also have two cases of testing delays slowing down companies’ efforts to gain…

This little TechCrunch story caught my eye the other day. It’s about a new company in India, Little Eye Labs, that does app simulation and crash testing on as many devices as you need – just before you launch.

Basically, you plug…

Service Virtualization and the evolution of DevOps were key themes at the CA World ’13 Conference in Las Vegas this week. CA Technologies chief executive Michael Gregoire told attendees that the concept of DevOps “is becoming the most important thing to application development.”

“This is…

CA Technologies used its CA World ’13 conference in Las Vegas this week for a couple of major announcements, including a big expansion of its Service Virtualization suite, LISA, and the acquisition of application automation company Nolio.

Nolio, an Israeli startup, promises up to a 90-percent reduction in…

We earlier spoke with Siva Ganesan, VP and Global Head, Assurance Services at TCS in preparation to CA World '13. Siva outlined some of the new offerings TCS will bring to market and today officially  announced its …

CA World ’13 is next week in Las Vegas. There are a whole bunch of great sessions planned, including Richard Branson’s keynote on Monday. (We plan to bring you coverage of the highlights during the week.) You can catch streaming video from many of the main sessions…