Joe is an IT professional with several decades of experience in the design, development, implementation, sales and marketing of enterprise solutions to Global 2000 organizations. Joe has been active in helping BMC products leverage new technology to deliver market-leading solutions with a focus on Workload Automation, Big Data, Cloud and DevOps.
My previous installment in this series discussed the challenges of managing batch for modern technology with the added complexity of meeting the needs of digital transformation. My hypothesis for how to address these challenges seems exceedingly simple; manage your application “instrumentation” the same way you manage your application! Simple, … [Read more...]
My previous installment in this series ranted about what is batch and how it still remains an essential discipline in computing. This time, I want to focus on the value of a batch approach for “modern” technologies like cloud, containers, microservices and serverless computing. It may be ironic that the management approaches and best practices … [Read more...]
Batch is Dead, Long Live Batch To borrow a line from the salute to new kings, as an “old” batch application may die, “modern” batch applications spring up to replace them. That is because a batch approach makes a whole lot of sense for many scenarios. Below are a few examples. Transactions Let’s consider an interactive application like online … [Read more...]
What is Batch? Applications operate in only a few modes. One is interactive or real-time. In this mode, the application is communicating with another application or a human. Real-time means the response or process must produce a result immediately (or quickly enough to seem immediate) to satisfy the waiting second party. This is also the … [Read more...]
It wasn’t that many years ago that you needed multiple devices to complete different tasks. You’d have an alarm by the bed, separate cameras based on whether you wanted to take still photos or videos, and a computer to send emails. Completing these different tasks involved buying and maintaining many devices. Now you can do all of this and much … [Read more...]
The role of automation in digital transformation has become more important today than ever before. As businesses turn to digital technologies to drive competitive differentiation, this innovation responsibility is more and more directly in the control of business owners and end users. And the number of applications and platforms used to deliver … [Read more...]
-by Joe Goldberg, Control-M Solutions Marketing, BMC Software Inc. So here are some points to ponder: Google Play has already hit one million apps and the iOS App store is not far behind. According to mobile web platform provider Kinvey, the average app takes about 18 weeks to develop and that is considered by many to be a long time. … [Read more...]
-by Joe Goldberg, Solutions Marketing Consultant, BMC Software Inc. Recently, I was discussing with a colleague why many mainframers are so attached to their 3270 “green screen” terminals. Some pundits in the IT world lob derogatory names at these mainframe users and call them “mainframe bigots” or … [Read more...]