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Dec 15

JaxEnter – Finance IT: The future of microservices, DevOps and the cloud in banking systems

JAXenter: What sort of changes are you witnessing in finance IT right now – and do you see buzzwords like cloud, microservices and DevOps playing a large role in this area in future?

Peter Lawrey: The buzz in fintech is still around performance and efficiency. In particular, IT developers are interested in cool new technologies but are looking to find way to justify their use to their managers. Many would like to migrate from Java 6 or 7 to Java 8 and see this as a big enough challenge.

While I don’t see financial institutions using external clouds like AWS as much as other industries, I believe they should be making more use of private clouds. Deploying services to new systems and even downsizing legacy systems is staggeringly harder than it should be. Clouds would be really helpful. A Bank can run their own cloud and still control the machines in use.

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Get Better / IT Strategy — Comments Off on IT World – OpenStack still has an enterprise problem
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Feb 14

IT World – OpenStack still has an enterprise problem

After trotting out some impressive enterprise users at its conference in Portland, Oregon, early last year, OpenStack hasn’t been able to showcase many additional big names. Supporters tried to address “the debate about the opportunity for OpenStack in the enterprise” at a half-day conference yesterday that was held at the Computer History Museum and webcast.

The speakers ended up highlighting a few of the challenges holding back OpenStack deployments.

Many businesses are looking for the kind of enterprise technology product that they’re used to seeing, and that’s not what OpenStack looks like yet, said Ken Pepple, CTO and founder of Solinea, a consulting company that helps businesses implement OpenStack clouds. On one end of the spectrum are vendors that are packaging parts of OpenStack and adding support. On the other are tightly packed solutions that go as far as designating what hardware to use. “People want something in between. They want pretty installers and great looking GUIs. They want some management tools around it, things you normally see perhaps in an ERP system,” he said.

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