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Cloud Conflation
We are a few years into this whole Cloud thing now and I’m surprised by how people still talk about it as a Cure All, some sort of silver bullet, conflating Cloud as a Service Delivery model with all sorts … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT
Tagged Change, Cloud, Future of IT, ITSM, Private Cloud, Transparency
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Go BIG or Go Home!
Go Big or Go Home, seems trite, but it is applicable to IT transformation. Companies that are successfully adopting cloud technologies are taking a transformation approach, not a technical project approach. The larger the scale of the program the more … Continue reading
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Tagged Automation, business, Change, Cloud, Demand Management, Future of IT, Private Cloud, service catalog, Transparency
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It’s all about the content or “What’s in the Case?”
Steve Herrod’s super session was one of the things I enjoyed most about this year’s VMworld. Not only were the technologies and ideas that were introduced inspiring and where I was hoping to see VMware head but there was real … Continue reading
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Tagged Cloud, convergence, Future of IT, Infrastructure, Private Cloud, service catalog
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Solved problems
I took time out a few weeks back to attend Edward Tufte’s One-Day Course on “Presenting Data and Information” and learned several new things and had several ideas reinforced by the methods and examples that Edward used. One of my … Continue reading
Posted in The Nature of IT
Tagged Cloud, convergence, Future of IT, Infrastructure, service catalog
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What is Virtualization?
I’ve been interviewing several people to lead up the Virtualization group of my organization lately and one of the candidates asked me an excellent question, “Well, what do you mean by Virtualization?”. Very good question, am I talking about VMware, … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT
Tagged Cloud, convergence, Future of IT, Infrastructure, Virtualization
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Cloud Heresy
I’m about to commit a bit of cloud heresy as a technology guy writing about cloud and claiming that it’s really not all about hypervisors, automation and orchestration. Sure, you need a measure of these components in order to be … Continue reading
Posted in Private Cloud
Tagged Automation, Cloud, Demand Management, Hybrid Cloud, ITSM, Orchestration, service catalog
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Why Information is like Cognac
With apologies to Chuck Hollis at EMC and James Governor at RedMonk I decided to take a crack at this whole “Why Applications are like fish and Data is like Wine” meme by extending it to posit that Information is … Continue reading
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Tagged Automation, Big Information, Cloud, EMC, Future of IT, GRC
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The ever expanding Digital Universe
IDC Released their 2011 Digital Universe Study and the results are pretty amazing: data is doubling every two years! This is the fifth year that the IDC has released this study and each year I continue to be surprised by … Continue reading
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Tagged Automation, Cloud, Demand Management, EMC, Future of IT, Orchestration
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Security needs Automation
Recently there’s been some chatter about the role of automation in Security and whether it is appropriate or not as a business strategy much less a security strategy. Jeffrey Carr states that EMC’s wrong that automation is an efficiency and security … Continue reading
13 Assassins and Honor
I’ve not really been able to indulge my movie addiction much since the birth of my daughters. Being a parent certainly changes your priorities, and living many hours away from your closest relative limits your babysitting opportunities. The price of … Continue reading
