Andi Mann, VP of strategic solutions for CA Technologies, stressed the importance of DevOps — the confluence of software development and IT operations — at CA World 2014 in Las Vegas, and laid out software solutions that power the growing mobile app economy.
Mann told RCR Wireless News that DevOps can drive innovation by helping a business test a product and bring it to market quickly, among other advantages.
“We’re doing things to speed up tests; to speed up (quality assurance), to bring security and operations further into the development and planning cycles. To help you run better, run faster, deliver smaller releases faster, get to market faster.”
“You’re speeding up that interaction and you’re smoothing the flow between development and operations,” Mann said.
CA Technologies, headquartered in Islandia, N.Y., creates software products that allow customers to design, build and test application programming interface (API)-based mobile applications, among many enterprise goals.
Mann discussed some key areas that CA addresses with software solutions including “helping our customers to run IT as a business using management cloud.”
“This is a range SaaS (software as a service) delivered solutions for managing the business of IT — assets, portfolio, return on investment, the operational insight — so that IT leadership can really get a handle on where they’re making money for the company, how they’re running that IT, being more efficient and more effective.”
Mann wrote Visible Ops—Private Cloud: From Virtualization to Private Cloud in 4 Practical Steps.
He compared the use of private cloud computing infrastructure, as in a cloud owned and used by one company, and use of public cloud, which is used over a network that’s generally accessible.
“There are occasions where you want to do the business of IT internally. Private cloud comes into play there.” Public cloud providers “don’t know your business from my business. I think there are reasons for both and most organizations should look at public cloud.”