The open source world hits squarely in the digital transformation of businesses of all sizes.
From the hand of a technology consulting firm Accenture and a developer of open source and Red Hat the second installment of the event for partners Enterprise Open Source Conference [http organized in the halls of cinema Kinepolis Madrid: / /www.channelbiz.es/2016/04/13/open-source-empresarial-base-para-la-transformacion-digital/]. There was impatience, because they had not spent ten months since the first call, which already attended by over 800 professionals; for the present, there had been 1,700 420 different companies … and distinguished, at least a dozen represented in the Ibex 35, which gives an idea of how high fly free software.
And that OpenStack and OpenShift, to mention just more currently demanded the two products in the management of virtualized infrastructures in the cloud developed by Red Hat, along containers Docker or orchestration with Kubernetes offered by Google they are creating an ecosystem of world-class solutions with the advantage that it is not just a technology reserved for large corporations, but anyone can access them at a competitive rate of pay per use and scalable to your needs.
“The open source brings big savings, even double-digit, and that’s a reality. But it is also much more innovative and facilitates more scalable architectures. It is supported by a collaborative R & D, whose quality is guaranteed and backed by a large community of developers; then the cost is transferred to the company is only integration, making it extremely attractive and economical, especially in the absence of license fees by number of users. You have to take his mind that customers have to pay each year for the renewal of their software, “explains Santiago Madruga, country manager of Red Hat Iberia [ http://www.silicon.es/red-hat-el-codigo-abierto-empresarial-evoluciona-hacia-capas-mas-cercanas-al-negocio-2306019 ]. This type of software offers all kinds of security and tranquility, as it has been tested to be compatible throughout the ecosystem, also adding professional services, training and support, and even specific engineering for various types of industry, provided by an increasing number of integrators. Just look for the option that best meets market needs.
“Red Hat is 100% open source, what you means that even our competitors can copy !, says Madruga. “Among its advantages is that copyright has no strings attached, so it is impossible for the vendor to climb in the future on the grapevine creating a sort of corralito; It provides flexibility, allowing businesses to accelerate time-to-market shorter; It is improved and faster, as there are more people in the world pulling code, patching failures, offering different ideas and visions. Companies that are changing the world use open software. I’m not saying that Oracle software or IBM is bad, but it is obsolete the way they work with mainframes. People do not want legacy, he wants to innovate untethered. ”
“I said in the first edition in 2015 that the role of technology would change in three years, and only missing two: the IT world is moving and getting faster, hence the growing corporate interest in open source in their journey to digital, “says Adam Plaza, Accenture Technology Lead [ http://www.silicon.es/accenture-technology-el-papel-del-codigo-abierto-en-la-trasformacion-digital-es-diferencial-2306030 ]. “We still lack maturity in the process of digital transformation, but it is remarkable the role that is taking the open source, which makes little over a year seemed only an option to choose the code base or desktop, and today implies an evolution architecture and infrastructure “.
And is that “software is eating the world” according to the prediction of Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Netscape made earlier this century and was repeatedly quoted in several papers. How could it be otherwise, the conference revolved around the major macro trends of the platform third call: Cloud Computing, Big Data, Mobility, IoT and DataCenter software defined to show attendees how open business source, light architectures and agile methodologies (Lean, DevOps, Scrum, Kanban …) are encouraging innovation and business transformation.
Open source is increasingly implemented in Spanish companies, and indeed several organizations, such as Telefonica, Endesa, Mutua Madrileña or BBVA, were able to show how they have implemented open source solutions to transform their IT environments , foster innovation and business agility and achieve competitive advantage. The event was completed with plenary like Google, where the transfer of applications to the cloud and hybrid and open container deployment sessions addressed. In addition, there was a series of parallel sessions and workshops on topics such as Big Data, Cloud and DevOps.
multidisciplinary development teams
About thirty exhibitors offered firsthand their products and services. Among them, a Spanish company that competes with large IT services providers, Paradigma Digital, pure Internet that implements the benefits of standards-based code, alliances in the cloud, and modern methodologies. Nacho Herranz, head of Cloud Initiative [http://www.silicon.es/paradigma-hadoop-esta-muerto-2306147] explained how a ’boutique software’ could come to differentiate itself from the ‘charcuteras’ the sector serve bulk code: “the key is to differentiate with custom development, and that means using appropriate technologies based on open source, based on faster delivery and bring greater innovation to the company.”
The cloud is the perfect setting, with a chain of standardized and elastic services that can be coupled to the needs of each moment without requiring large capital bonds. To Herranz, the digital transformation applied, that is, land the cloud to specific cases with actual user experience is a combination of three ingredients: “Talent, that is, have the best professionals and have them work at ease; Technologies, especially open source, besides Agile, which are ultimately the basis of all this work; and most importantly, respond to demand cycles growing shorter “development.
Sven Loberg, Global Lead for Open Source Accenture, also repeated the mantra of how they are changing the way we do business, pitting hotel chains AIRBNB or taxi drivers Uber “channels customer engagement are already mostly digital, and digital experience has become permeable, affecting driving the car from the toaster breakfast. The software will be embedded in everything, and open source will default. ”
For this international analyst, the change in strategy that requires the adoption of the new digital era is like going from the old Napoleonic infantry special corps of intervention: “light architectures combined are needed practical Lean, modular, open, standards-based, micro-services and APIs, with the best-of-breed for each specific job, mobile-first, with responsive design, cloud native, virtualized … But above all, you can deliver each realease better days than months “. Companies uncoupled, cascade methods, with long development cycles and deliver a poor user experience are called to extinction. For this one fact: in front of the ratio of an engineer 5,000 average users who have traditional Fortune 500 company, Google has 87,000 users per engineer, Facebook and Amazon Web Services 615,000 715,000.
The key is already the software
The keynote of Intel, given by Augustine Gallego, director of Alliances, showed how the leading manufacturer of processors and buses for flash memory solid state had technically for 20 years also contributing to the development of open source both solutions and specific projects on Linux, Android or Chronium as with all types of personnel: thousands of engineers, software architects, technologists and even “maintainers”.
“Innovation is what differentiates one company from another and going towards smart driven world data,” he says, adding: “We are only at the beginning, if the Internet were a movie, still we would be in the opening credits. But this digital disruption in the business world will bring greater efficiency and agility, where data volumes are already handled with great confidence, and whose repercussions have effects ‘macro’. We find activators and inhibitors, but among the cornerstones of the first, is certainly software defined infrastructure (SDI) and open source. ”
Intel also showed a roadmap where there is no room for Moore’s Law and the software is more important. For example, it is working on three fronts: optimized silicon materials able to readapt according workloads either in memory or input / output data; specific batteries for data center resources (servers, networks and storage) to dynamically manage virtualization; or machine learning capabilities with intelligent orchestration of resources to monitor and distribute workloads so that they can choose the best node for a particular type of load based on historical data and real-time telemetry. “The data center will be the heart of the connected world. It is a mistake to think that things will stay the same “says Gallego.
Beyond the statistics
Another analyst Accenture present at the event was Max Furmatov (which was at least able to order a beer in Castilian of the Costa del Sol he confessed), he came to testify that the IoT was nothing new, since 30 years, they have been collecting data on manufacturing processes; the concept of how to make the devices is new. Thus we have the cost of the sensor system has fallen, connections can be established via Bluetooth for pennies, and the Internet is everywhere.
“What’s really important to apply IoT in any business is to first find the reason why it has to be all connected, what is the problem we are trying to solve and what differential opportunity offers. Statistics are mandatory, but it is not everything. IoT should mean operational efficiency, cost reduction basically (such as pay per use) and greater security (through automation). But we must also contribute imagination, build new services around existing ones, that add value and innovation. ”
Furmatov advocates a standard and unique system of IoT, an open ecosystem where the key will be in the orchestration and abstraction of connecting devices, as well as complex event processing. Data management must occur at the right time in the right place, but acknowledged that the current biggest challenge is to delivery processes.
New Business how to address
In the closing session, open Madruga reviewed how organizations become an engine of innovation and change gradually to include new methodologies in their processes. For example, he noticed how for a major project from Red Hat was carried to a large account, there had been up to 40 people in your organization involved throughout the project life, and how they had been coordinated and aligned goals, despite not coincide in space or in time. “The key was to divide the work and modularizarlo, but without creating silos; This allowed monitoring and automation processes, establish best practices and make it more fault tolerant. The industry’s traditional manufacturing had already made inroads into Lean models, change management, continuous supply, manufacturing on demand, management lifecycle, interdepartmental collaboration … These proven and mature methods are now taken to the world software development, DevOps teams, Kanban and Scrum techniques, which allows move with more speed, more assured quality, more flexibility and more freedom. ”
Source: silicon.es
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