CA Southern Africa has revealed how modern toolsets, agile and DevSecOps can increase an organisation’s innovation velocity and enable the delivery of new Mainframe services to customers.
According to Dolf Snyman, Account Director, CA Southern Africa, CA solutions support DevSecOps on the Mainframe empowering development teams to work across silos and use a common set of enterprise tools across the software delivery lifecycle, from plan, build and test to deploy, operate and secure. “This drives improved software quality, faster time to market and increased developer productivity,” he said.
Snyman explained that whilst Mainframes run a lot of businesses across the globe this is not without challenges of which vendors are well aware. “Characteristically most company teams take four to eight weeks to achieve small mainframe updates. Moreover, another issue is that 50% of those teams may be retiring within the next five years. The vendor community is immensely cognisant of these matters and in response has made agile and DevSecOps available in Mainframe contexts,” he said.
He added that the vision behind this is to make the Mainframe no different than any other platform, giving enterprises the speed to market they need, cost savings plus the opportunity to cross-train their teams.
“CA solutions provide familiar toolsets, mobile to mainframe, so that mainframe is managed like any another platform. This allows businesses to plan, build, test, deploy, operate and secure, applications and services across their hybrid IT environment,” he explained.
According to Snyman, customers adopting CA solutions to improve application quality and release frequency have achieved significant results. “For example, one global bank has built and automated a continuous integration and delivery pipeline to drive 2,000 deployments per month with less than a 2% incident rate. Furthermore, a telecommunications company achieved 150 deployments to production per month with zero back-outs.”
