Bob Aiello

Bob Aiello is a consultant, a technical editor for CM Crossroads, and the author of Configuration Management Best Practices: Practical Methods that Work in the Real World. Bob has served as the vice chair of the IEEE 828 Standards working group and is a member of the IEEE Software and Systems Engineering Standards Committee (S2ESC) management board.

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Romney Defeat Due in Part to Poor Software Quality

Mitt Romney's Election Day defeat is being attributed to a number of important factors including the failure of Project Orca, a key software application that was intended to help turn out the vote, monitor election results, and report on suspected election fraud.

The Tricky Business of Merging Financial Technology Systems

Merging two complex financial technology systems can be a tricky business. Consider BMO Harris Bank, a Chicago-based bank that experienced application deployment problems while trying to integrate the technology of Milwaukee-based Marshall & Ilsley (M&I) Corporation.

The Financial System and Biological Suicide

The US financial system has been severally impacted by many outages in recent months. These banking technology glitches have been described as a form of "biological suicide," which highlights the dangers of banks continuing to rely on outdated legacy systems.

DevOps and the US Presidential Election

Incidents involving voter machine software glitches are raising concerns that some voting machines may be rigged during the upcoming US presidential election. In once such incident, a voting machine company could have learned a lesson on the DevOps approach to improved communications.

SEC Investigations Continue as Firms Retain Experts

The US Securities and Exchange Commission launched a broad investigation involving the technology issues at several major brokerage firms. Bob Aiello explains the investigations as well as what the SEC wants to accomplish.

The Tokyo Stock Exchange Goes Broke

On August 7, 2012, the Tokyo Stock Exchange experienced a serious system glitch that resulted in the stock exchange going broke with the suspension of some transactions. Bob Aiello explains the situation and the next steps to identify the nature of the incident and the course of action.

Will IBM Be Knight Capital's White Knight?

After the software glitch that resulted in a $440 million trading loss, Knight Capital Group tapped IBM for help in assessing the financial firm’s existing software and systems development practices. Will IBM be Knight Capital's white knight and help prevent these problems from occurring again?

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