This week we’re publishing two shows: PodCTL #2 – Who has a Kubernetes Problem? PodCTL Basics – What is Kubernetes? The show will always be available on this blog (search: #PodCTL), as well as RSS Feeds, iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and all your favorite podcast players. The first show is focused on what types of businesses are using Kubernetes in […]
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There’s a wealth of strategic business assets that reside on mainframes—and many companies are finding ways to extract value from them. Companies can expose assets through many channels including easy-to-consume APIs. Want to learn how your business can extract these assets? Read on.
RESTful APIs (representational state transfer web services) can support existing and new cloud, mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) workloads. They fuel the lucrative API economy, driving new ways to use data as well as potential revenue from third parties, external developers, vendors and partners who can license and incorporate them into new solutions. Exposing and consuming services as useful and intuitive APIs should be simple and intuitive. If they can use APIs more easily, development teams can focus on creating new solutions that could drive new revenue.
A recent white paper from IDC, “The Business Value of the Connected Mainframe for Digital Transformation” highlight the benefits businesses can expect by investing in the mainframe as opposed to migrating from it. Companies can successfully drive digital transformation (DX) by optimizing their mainframe and achieve a compelling ROI.
IBM can help companies leverage their mainframes to maximize DX value from APIs and services. Companies looking to expose existing applications and data as RESTful APIs for development teams and third parties can use z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition and API Connect. In most cases, customers don’t even need to change existing code to provide RESTful API entry points to assets.
Companies will want to see success when they embrace DX and API strategies. That’s why IBM offers a holistic approach. The new IBM z14 and its supporting offerings provide unprecedented combinations of speed, reliability and security to succeed in the API economy. Benefits include:
Identifies key services to expose as RESTful APIs and develop with confidence by understanding existing assets with IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence
Provides consumable, industry-standard RESTful APIs to these assets with IBM z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition
Publishes and manages these exposed APIs by leveraging OpenAPI specification support within your enterprise API management solution with IBM API Connect
Helps you create exceptional customer experiences through complete monitoring on any new deployed solution, with IBM OMEGAMON for Application Performance Management
Together, z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition and API Connect can drive digital transformation efforts and unlock business value. I hope you’ll join us on our webcast on September 18 at 1:00 PM EDT (Eastern Daylight Time). We’ll share more about the connected mainframe and the benefits to your business.
Until then, you can learn more and experiment with IBM API Connect and IBM z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition.
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Cloud orchestration and automation across multiple technologies, platforms and service provider environments have become complex processes with a wide range of challenges.
According to IDC’s “FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2017 Predictions,” more than 60 percent of enterprise IT organizations building hybrid clouds will purchase new or updated workload-centric cloud management solutions by the end of this year.
The orchestration and automation market has evolved from mere task automation, which was performed via simple virtualization management, to process and workflow automation, which is the done through orchestrators. The creation of virtual machines (VMs) which are not application ready is creating another need: workload automation.
Beyond this, there are additional challenges. Even with an orchestrator in place, organizations have a need to integrate with service management tiers. There have been lot of piecemeal solutions, but now organizations need an end-to-end, holistic orchestration and automation solution which can:
Help automate delivery of infrastructure, application, and custom IT services
Support direct integration of service management capabilities
Deploy application workloads across on-premises and off-premises environments
Provide policy-based governance and logical application modeling to help ensure that multivendor, multi-cloud services are delivered at the right size and service level for each task performed
Include both build/deployment (day zero and day one) and delivery/support (day two) orchestration and automation services
Enables intelligent orchestration and smart automation with cognitive functions
With the launch of IBM Cloud Deployment Services (ICDS), a next-generation IBM Cloud orchestration and automation solution for building private and hybrid clouds, delivered as a service, that end-to-end option is finally available. It has inbuilt classic to cognitive patterns, which are IBM-designed, reusable and intelligent pieces of software providing a layered approach to cloud orchestration and automation.
ICDS helps customers in expediting their hybrid journey in a digital world.
Learn more about IBM Cloud Deployment Services.
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Ada Lee talks about OpenStack Security, Barbican, Novajoin, and TLS Everywhere in Ocata, at the OpenStack PTG in Atlanta, 2017.
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Deliver continuous security for containers using Red Hat’s Open Shift Container Platform and Kubernetes with instructions from this Tech N’ Talk with Red Hat’s Kirsten Newcomer.
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Take a deep dive into the Open Container Initiative-based implementation of Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface known as CRI-O in this OpenShift Commons Briefing with Red Hat’s Dan Walsh and Mrunal Patel.
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Encrypt data at rest with the new secrets feature in the upcoming OpenShift 3.6.1 release for improved security and eliminate the need for additional integration with 3rd-party secrets management tools.
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Access a database using an interactive shell and use port forwarding to temporarily expose a database outside of OpenShift, allowing you to access it from a database tool running on your own local machine.
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Steve Harvey is an entertainment legend. You might be one of the millions that tunes into the radio and TV shows he hosts. Maybe you’re a fan of his legendary stand-up comedy specials. Or maybe you’ve read one of his best-selling books, or heard about his growing business and philanthropic efforts.
So where can fans find Steve? Look to a new digital experience powered by a mobile app and a brand new website built on the IBM Cloud.
Steve Harvey World Group (SHWG), the business behind the world-famous entertainer, just announced they are building a new digital experience on IBM Cloud for Steve Harvey fans. The experience spans digital and mobile, delivering new ways to engage hundreds of millions of fans with exclusive video and more from Steve.
The new digital experience will be the central hub connecting all of Steve Harvey’s companies. And it’s serious business. The digital experience is leveraging IBM Cloud’s infrastructure as a service, content delivery network and microservices, including API Connect, Analytics and Mobile Foundation.
SHWG will use the experience to gather business intelligence through data-driven insights that will help identify new revenue opportunities and potential partnerships.
For more details on what SHWG is building on IBM Cloud, check out the announcement. Want to learn how IBM can deliver business intelligence to your company? Explore IBM Cloud.
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Get a better understanding of the value of OpenShift running on OpenStack and learn how they work together to provide a flexible, cloud-native solution for containers and virtual machines.
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