The ever-increasing pace of technological innovation is disrupting the IT industry today. But, it also brings many opportunities for advances in the IT department. Every day, we see new and innovative solutions emerge in the marketplace. And while these solutions enable customers to be more productive and efficient, there may also be hidden costs associated –unintended results and undesired consequences.

For example, when onboarding new applications and solutions, customers realize that they need to re-tool their environment.  Some times this means retiring an existing tool that the business is familiar with, and is still serving them well. These are added costs and a resistance to change that IT can do without.

Continue reading to learn how HP Continuous Delivery Automation protects your organization from such fail points when onboarding new applications. 

Enterprises are in the midst of transformation because of changes with people, process and technology. These changes result in gaps and mismatches between business and development. Bridge these gaps with Agile development, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Testing (CT).

Agile development has shifted the development process from one complete release to a series of releases. Agile allows development teams to create new applications and updates with an increasing release frequency.  Continue reading to reveal how this has helped organizations prepare for the DevOps journey.

According to a recent Gartner survey*, IT organizations are recognizing the acute need of application development teams and operations teams to work better together. In an effort to overcome this disconnect and develop closer collaboration, the “DevOps” trend has been born. 

In this article, we will explore the innovative use of HP’s Flexible Application Modeling, with HP’s Continuous Delivery Automation. HP plays an integral part toward resolving existing dissonance and fostering better collaboration across DevOps today.

* “Catalysts Signal the Growth of DevOps”, Gartner survey Feb 2012.

HP Continuous Delivery Automation is part of a portfolio of HP solutions that help organizations adopt DevOps practices to increase agility across the application life cycle and collaborate effectively to deliver better applications, faster.

HP Continuous Delivery Automation is an integral component to HP CloudSystem. It helps automate application development and testing for the Cloud. Find out more on what was released  at HP Discover 2012 event in Frankfurt.

Calling all cloud practitioners ! Start exercising your given business right for Choice today. Raise the bar on innovative services delivery with Confidence. Have peace of mind, by knowing that your systems are operating with clockwork Consistency.

This is a three-part blog series that examines the importance of these pivots: IT Choice, IT Confidence and IT Consistency, as seen across the Cloud and Traditional IT space.

We conclude with IT Consistency, and what that means to you in the Cloud and Traditional IT space.