{"id":240,"date":"2012-03-16T10:56:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T15:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/?p=240"},"modified":"2012-03-16T10:56:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T15:56:39","slug":"ibm-pulse-2012-tivoli-gets-the-bleeding-edge-of-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/dberkholz\/2012\/03\/16\/ibm-pulse-2012-tivoli-gets-the-bleeding-edge-of-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM Pulse 2012: Tivoli gets the bleeding edge of tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to IBM’s Pulse<\/a> conference in Las Vegas last week, which centers around its Tivoli organization.\u00a0Tivoli is focused on the systems\/operations side of things: think cloud and DevOps all the way up to high-level business- and government-directed initiatives like Smarter Cities and Smarter Planet.\u00a0Check out James’s excellent post on the\u00a0history<\/a>\u00a0behind IBM and Tivoli for some broader context.<\/p>\n

My biggest take-home was this: IBM’s people really get it. They understand trends that are happening at the frontlines of tech today in startups and in open-source development. IBM is way<\/strong> out in front on enabling DevOps in big enterprises, and the teams working on DevOps inside Tivoli as well as Rational (which builds tools for developers) are outstanding. A lot of my experience with enterprises is that they’re slow-moving and often lagging trends by years, to the point where it’s nearly laughable, but in this case IBM is definitely a front-runner.<\/p>\n

How many enterprise software conferences have you seen where DevOps isn’t just mentioned in passing but has a whole track<\/strong> of its own? Not just that, but many of the talks were immensely popular \u2014 I’m told that was a major change since last year, and presumably this was a combination of the broader perception of DevOps’s importance as well as some internal shifts in who’s<\/strong> building what<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

On the cloud front, they’re starting to consolidate everything under a Smart Cloud umbrella. This is a great move from my point of view as a newcomer, as I’ve found it immensely confusing to get a grip on what they’re doing. Tivoli still has farther to go on this front, but it’s definitely moving in the right direction. The mere existence of the 10s (100s?) of IBM products needed to set up a “Smart Cloud” is problematic; if anything, the most complex it should be is a hierarchy of different levels, not filling a shopping basket with a myriad of products.<\/p>\n

I was also quite impressed by some work out of IBM Research on managing mobile devices in the enterprise. My colleague Tom’s touched on this<\/a> in the context of extending battery life. But it just so happens that I independently found it interesting enough to spend a good hour talking to John Ponzo and a couple of his coworkers. The idea of app-level security rather than device-level seems like a great fit with overarching IT trends like Bring Your Own Device<\/a>,\u00a0so your company only needs to lock down and inspect the apps it cares about, not all your personal ones too.<\/p>\n

Other than that, the most interesting mobile news came out of the Worklight<\/a> acquisition. Worklight is an enterprise suite for building mobile apps, based on the now-famous PhoneGap<\/a>. It adds things like Eclipse plugins, a server for push notifications, analytics, etc. IBM just announced its acquisition<\/a> at the end of January, and everyone at Pulse couldn’t wait to start building their mobile apps with it. That’s just another sign of Tivoli being on the leading edge.<\/p>\n

I’m hoping to dive into more depth later on some of these topics, but those are my initial thoughts coming out of my first Pulse.<\/p>\n

Disclosure<\/strong>: IBM is a client and covered my hotel stay at Pulse.<\/span><\/p>\n

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