What is CMMI? A model for optimizing development processes

What is CMMI? The Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a process and behavioral model that helps organizations streamline process improvement and encourage productive, efficient behaviors that decrease risks in software, product and service development. The CMMI was developed by the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University as a process improvement tool for projects,…

IDG Contributor Network: Firefighting: How do we know when IT and cloud organisations have gone over the tipping point?

The rate of technology change and voracious competition for market share are producing cloud organisations that are seriously overburdened, and it’s going to get worse if Kevin Casey’s “5 cloud computing trends for 2018” materialize. Trends such as multiple hybrid cloud models require multivendor management, in addition to the integration of the technologies. This all…

IDG Contributor Network: Build vs buy for your next-gen data center network infrastructure?

As you implement digital transformation strategies, you need to plan for an explosion in traffic growth. Consequently, you need to build data centers using the same state-of-the-art principles the hyperscales have adopted: A leaf spine Clos design, which accommodates large amounts of east-west traffic, is essential to support today’s web applications A multi-hardware vendor strategy,…