As technology advances by leaps and bounds, companies have to maintain processes that keep up with the times. For younger companies, it’s easy to adjust and make fast changes to infrastructure, but those same changes are much harder for companies of tenure. IBM’s DevOps team helps companies update their infrastructures and keep their processes effective, according to Hayden Lindsey, VP and distinguished engineer, DevOps for Enterprise Systems, at IBM.

Lindsey talked with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Stu Miniman (@stu), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during IBM Edge 2016 about how IBM approaches DevOps.

Old habits, new attitudes

For companies that have been around longer than 30 years, it can be difficult to incorporate or change infrastructure processes, according to Lindsey. That means that a company’s very habits have to change.

To achieve that change, IBM focuses on “mind, then culture and then process change,” said Lindsey.

Part of moving businesses forward requires finding what part of their process needs to be reviewed. Companies must first “find the pain” before they can ever address the issue, according to Lindsey. To help ease that pain IBM provides systems that “automate your process,” said Lindsey.

With a more automated process, system administrators have time to address and solve other problems. Those same people can also act as change agents within the company, according to Lindsey.

Synchronization

IBM leverages the back-end transactions and data access layers “to create more efficient systems,” said Lindsey. They seamlessly integrate back- and front-end functions to provide an infrastructure that works well together.

This idea of synchronization also applies to IBM’s employees. They’re constantly looking to improve their on-boarding process and provide “modern tools,” said Lindsey. IBM uses its DevOps team to change how companies approach how they do business and are only in the “third inning” of their success.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of IBM Edge 2016.

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