The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2019

As long as credit rating agencies play ball, lenders will continue to lend at investment-grade interest rates and borrowers will have time to shore up cash flows through disposals, cuts, and efficiency drives. That lending can go on for a very long time.

Strategy 40

Strategy FinTech Efficiency Technology 40

Dynatrace

JULY 5, 2022

In fact, according to a Forrester Consulting report , implementing an AIOps approach that provides proactive visibility helped companies improve operational efficiency and reduce false-positive alerts by 95%. A comprehensive AIOps solution can help companies confidently adopt new digital technologies. The ability to preempt outages.

Artificial Intelligence 285

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Innovation Strategy 285

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

Centralized purchasing found efficiencies by standardizing roles and position specifications and granting preferred partner status to contract labor firms. In theory, standardized buying lifted the burden of negotiation from individual department managers and found cost efficiencies for the company.

Innovation 40

Innovation Energy Serverless Hardware 40

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2020

The exercise of assessing, modeling and dispositioning the landscape does offer valuable new ways of looking at legacy assets. My colleague Ranbir Chawla pointed out to me a couple of years ago that a company we were working with was steadfast in espousing technology paradigms abandoned a long time ago by the vendors who sold them.

Architecture 52

Architecture Code Strategy Programming 52

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Platforms are conceptually popular with investors: in theory, a platform makes the mundane portions of a business efficient, scalable and adaptable, allowing a company to release the creative talents of its people to pursue growth and innovation. Employees will see replatforming as an exercise in re-creating software.

Innovation 40

Innovation Infrastructure Engineering Software 40

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

Sometimes it is divestiture or separation: sprawling firms that serve different buyers or markets don't achieve much in the way of operating efficiency, and a "conglomerate discount" priced into their equity means there is value that can be released by dividing a firm into multiple businesses. IT is at the center of deal synergy.

Airlines 40

Airlines Efficiency Systems Processing 40

Dynatrace

APRIL 21, 2022

As organizations adopt microservices architecture with cloud-native technologies such as Microsoft Azure , many quickly notice an increase in operational complexity. Performance efficiency. Performance Efficiency. Design efficient use of your computing resources as demand changes and technologies evolves.

Azure 188

Azure Monitoring Virtualization Metrics 188

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

He trash-talks other technologies, companies, and people behind their backs, always finding something negative to say. He also attacks technologies that either don't leverage his own prior work, or don't conform to his own beliefs. Other engineers avoid new technologies, for fear of damaging ridicule from Bob. . -

Engineering 111

Engineering Energy Technology Technology 111

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This abstraction allows the compute team to influence the reliability, efficiency, and operability of the fleet via the scheduler. We do this for reliability, scalability, and efficiency reasons. This, in turn, allows processes to exercise certain privileges without having any privileges in the init user namespace.

Media 286

Media Metrics Systems Processing 286

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

But outdated security practices pose a significant barrier even to the most efficient DevOps initiatives. PoCs are incredibly powerful as an exercise we do WITH our customers, rather than TO them. Modern DevOps permits high velocity development cycles resulting in weekly, daily, or even hourly software releases.

Government 226

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 226

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

An economic model that assesses the extent to which a firm has market power would be substantially an academic exercise. Many company's market offerings or cost competitiveness are rooted in applied technology. In the aggregate, power is abstract in this definition.

Government 40

Government Energy Innovation Strategy 40

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

All these terms refer to related technology and practices. APM has rapidly expanded to encompass a broad range of technologies and use cases. This may result in unnecessary troubleshooting exercises and finger-pointing, not to mention wasted time and money. Why businesses need APM. What does APM do? APM core features.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

Tasktop

JUNE 25, 2020

I recall a question I posed to Nicole Bryan (now Tasktop’s Chief Product Officer) in those early days: If Tasktop provides the information highway for data to flow faster between collaborators, why don’t we also provide metrics and analytics on the speed and efficiency of their work? Her answer: It’s coming. . And it has.

Metrics 52

Metrics Education Innovation Software 52

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 19, 2021

What does a modern technology stack for streamlined ML processes look like? but to reference concrete tooling used today in order to ground what could otherwise be a somewhat abstract exercise. Can’t we just fold it into existing DevOps best practices? How can you start applying the stack in practice today?

DevOps 138

DevOps Software Engineering Infrastructure Open Source 138

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Now that our ability to generate higher and higher clock rates has stalled and CPU architectural improvements have shifted focus towards multiple cores, we see that it is becoming harder to efficiently use these computer systems. This instance limit is a default usage limit, not a technology limit.Â

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The closer one looks, the less a definition of "appiness" can be pinned down to specific technologies. Industry commentators often write as though the transition to mobile rigidly aligned OSes with specific technology platforms. Only one vendor prevents developers from meeting user needs with open technology.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2010

Despite all of the risks that commonly befall an IT project, we still deal with IT planning as an exercise in deterministic forecasting: if these people do these things in this sequence we will produce this software by this date. As a result, management concerns itself with cost minimization and efficiency of expenditure.

Government 40

Government Efficiency Technology Technology 40

The Agile Manager

JUNE 26, 2010

Because a company really doesn't need to spend money on technology. The business benefits produced by software doesn't come down to the efficiency of the effort. If the stock rises to $70, we exercise the call, and we'll have made a profit of $10m less whatever we paid for the 1m calls. Effort does not equal results.

Software 40

Software Software Technology Technology 40

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

We are constantly innovating on video encoding technology at Netflix, and we have a lot of content to encode. large portions of the entire Netflix catalog are re-encoded whenever we’ve made significant advancements in encoding technology. MezzFS collects metrics on data throughput, download efficiency, resource usage, etc.

Media 214

Media Storage Processing Cache 214

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 26, 2011

As technology continues to evolve, the number of those opportunities will only increase. It's worth pointing out that hedging financial risks is a big change from pursuing operational predictability, efficiency, or optimization. Investment Flow There are countless IT investment opportunities for a business.

Government 40

Government Strategy Technology Technology 40