A new regulation from the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) aimed at reducing risks and increasing efficiency in the financial markets will require a move to a T+1 securities settlement cycle by May 28, 2024. T+1 means that trades must be settled within one business day of execution, instead of the current T+2 to T+5 settlement cycles, which allow settlements to occur two to five days after a customer purchases a security. That new speed requirement will have a significant impact on banks and financial institutions. The new regulation will reduce counterparty risk, as trades will be sett ..read more

A new regulation from the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) aimed at reducing risks and increasing efficiency in the financial markets will require a move to a T+1 securities settlement cycle by May 28, 2024. T+1 means that trades must be settled within one business day of execution, instead of the current T+2 to T+5 settlement cycles, which allow settlements to occur two to five days after a customer purchases a security. That new speed requirement will have a significant impact on banks and financial institutions. The new regulation will reduce counterparty risk, as trades will be sett ..read more

Legacy technology has often been seen as an inevitable barrier to DevOps, but in most enterprises, it will never disappear entirely, and in fact, mainframe technology is growing and remains projected to do so through the rest of this decade. A successful modern enterprise DevOps strategy needs a pragmatic approach to leveraging legacy technology and enhancing it with state-of-the-art ServiceOps technology. Many BMC customers are large, established enterprises and organizations that have been investing in technology for decades. Nearly all of them have embarked on a DevOps journey, but for man ..read more

Legacy technology has often been seen as an inevitable barrier to DevOps, but in most enterprises, it will never disappear entirely, and in fact, mainframe technology is growing and remains projected to do so through the rest of this decade. A successful modern enterprise DevOps strategy needs a pragmatic approach to leveraging legacy technology and enhancing it with state-of-the-art ServiceOps technology. Many BMC customers are large, established enterprises and organizations that have been investing in technology for decades. Nearly all of them have embarked on a DevOps journey, but for man ..read more

Moving established mainframe development processes to DevOps can seem like a daunting task. Automation helps free developers from performing manual tasks and gain faster delivery while improving quality, but how can this be adopted at scale? Often, Jenkins is used to build a pipeline from a base framework of webhooks and APIs, but alternatives such as GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps extensions have arrived. Fortunately, each of these options can make implementation much easier than expected. I think of them as templates you can use that provide the functionality of an API, but without the nee ..read more

In the most recent release of BMC Helix Dashboards, BMC introduced a new DevOps-focused dashboard, the BMC Helix ITSM DevOps Metrics Dashboard, which uses industry-standard DORA metrics to visualize how organizational software development performance impacts a service or application. In this blog post, we will introduce this new dashboard and discuss how these metrics are a powerful tool for performance optimization, not only for DevOps-driven software delivery, but also for a wider range of agile, incremental, and collaborative IT work. What are DORA metrics? DORA metrics were introduced by ..read more

To aid with our understanding of Observability vs Monitoring let’s look at the evolution of the Enterprise IT world. Enterprise IT, application and business service development are increasingly complex. The interdependencies within the underlying architecture has become more fragmented resulting in difficulty visualizing the full IT Stack. The internet delivers IT infrastructure services from hyperscale data centers at distant geographic locations. Companies are moving towards cloud-native delivery, resulting in modern distributed applications creating a perfect storm of complexity with const ..read more

If you’re going to do a webinar about DevOps, you go straight to the source, and BMC recently hosted a chat with DevOps superstar and Tripwire founder and former chief technology officer (CTO) Gene Kim to talk about all thing DevOps and more. Including the Mainframe in Your DevOps Journey Early in the webinar, BMC DevOps architect and evangelist Tony Anter and Gene discussed the perception by many people that DevOps is only for the startups, so traditional companies that have been around for 50 years or more won’t gain any value from it. Gene states, “In fact, my area [of] passion s ..read more

If you’re going to do a webinar about DevOps, you go straight to the source, and BMC recently hosted a chat with DevOps superstar and Tripwire founder and former chief technology officer (CTO) Gene Kim to talk about all thing DevOps and more. Gene is a researcher, speaker, and author of six books, including two Wall Street Journal bestselling novels set at Parts Unlimited, a car parts manufacturer and retailer setting out on an IT transformation initiative called The Phoenix Project. In the first book, “The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win,” IT man ..read more

I just finished reading the “The Unicorn Project: A Novel About Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data” by Gene Kim. If you are not familiar with the book, the story follows Maxine and Kurt, employees of a car parts retailer and manufacturer named Parts Unlimited. After a production issue, Maxine is reassigned to the Phoenix Project, a massive transformative project that spans almost every platform in the company. When Maxine tries to do a build on the Phoenix Project and is unable to get it working, she is introduced to Kurt and the Rebellion. The Rebellion is a grou ..read more