Texas CEO Magazine January|February 2014 | Page 11

ups (e.g.: DevOps, continuous integration
and delivery, agile development) in order to
handle the need to support ever-changing
digital fields such as mobile application development, web analytics and social media.
Open Source Projects Become Even
In this transformation, system administraMore Prevalent and Popular
tors will need to brush up on their coding
As the world begins adjusting to new realior get left behind with the legacy applicaties around online privacy, developers will
tions. Database admins will need to make
gravitate more and more to open source
the jump to Big Data and NoSQL. The
projects where source code is immediately
available for anyone who wishes to check on enterprise CIO who realizes how to make
DevOps and agile development work in
anything suspicious by inspecting the code
their organization will lead the way. This
directly. The NSA spying scandal and the
will take root in 2014 and continue to grow
lack of trust of foreign and some domestic
over the next 5 to 10 years as appli