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Author Archives: Peter
The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth
No, seriously, we will. If there is any doubt, I’m here with a set of PowerPoint slides a customer actually dared me to create to show them I could make a useful analogy about anything under my purview. So they … Continue reading
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Tagged analogies, broker, catalog, Cloud, ITaaS, Jar Jar Fuckstick, security, Star Wars
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Fusion 2015 Full Presentation Text
Enriching the Customer Experience “Staying Relevant in the Face of Changing Expectations” Several apologies are due. The first regards my tardiness. I had intended to publish this immediately following my Fusion 2015 breakout session. Good intentions, road to hell and … Continue reading
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Tagged business relevance, Cloud, Fusion, Fusion 2015, ITSM, self-service, services oriented, transformation, WTN
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Fusion 2015 Interview
http://wtnnews.com/articles/11534/ A few weeks back I spoke at Fusion 2015 in Madison, Wisconsin. I had hoped to get the full text of that talk up before the interview came out. Work got in the way. Many thanks to Mark Myers … Continue reading
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Turn-Key Cloud: One Step Closer
This is a nice, unsolicited review of something Kent Christensen and I (mostly Kent) have been working on for a few months now. I won’t say I’m unbiased but I will say I appreciate the hint of skepticism at the … Continue reading
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Nick Corcodilos – Another thread that delivers
It’s got InfoSec, bad behavior from HR, privacy rights, references to this blog and some of my snarky responses to lazy employers. Heck, even the comments are pretty good. What’s not to like? Go go go… Ask The Headhunter® | … Continue reading
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On the other hand, some articles actually make sense
Like this one. My buddy Brian Helm forwarded me this link a few weeks ago, so thanks for the tip. I don’t know who Ivan Pepelnjak is from Adam but I’m going to start recording his show. Some of my … Continue reading
ClickBait: Colocation providers solve problems the cloud can’t
This one landed in my inbox today: Colocation providers solve problems the cloud can’t Except for the part where there is not one single problem articulated that a co-lo solves where a cloud service provider flops, this is a great, … Continue reading
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San Diego County fires
https://mapsengine.google.com/map/u/0/edit?mid=z1o687Oo8oPo.kAFvT0rr8bww For all you folks wanting to know how we’re faring over here, use the map. The news is utterly worthless.
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Disney Tickets
Like Pokémon; gotta catch em all. The kids asked me the trivia question of the year so far: which characters are on the back of all of the Disneyland park tickets? I didn’t know, so we pulled out all the … Continue reading
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Star Wars: I’m Good Now
I don’t see any Jar Jar Binks in this lot, so I’m happy. My son, possibly the only Jar Jar fan in the galaxy, might disagree but it’s all good.
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