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Category Archives: Future of IT
Tackling that unstructured data mess, practically
Yesterday I wrote a little about the resurgence of phone calls asking about ILM and played a bit of a highlight reel as to a workable strategy from the perspective of a Compliance expert. The challenge, as I stated, was … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Future of IT, The Nature of IT
Tagged archive, compliance, data management, files, growth, ILM, ITSM, migration, policy, purge, unstructured
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I’m not a product guy, but this needs a response…
Many of my colleagues are writing about the Megalaunch II announcements from EMC this week, which is nice because I’m not a product guy and my contribution would be overkill anyway. See how easily I justify my laziness? That story … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT, Private Cloud, Public Cloud, Somebody Else's Stuff
Tagged Atmos, EMC World, Megalaunch 2, Nirvanix, Steve Zivanic
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Can you believe “ILM” is still an open question?
I’m writing this post on a dare. I was challenged to write about some of the questions we thought were settled in 2005 but that in 2012 are again hot topics as we head into EMC World 2012. This one … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
Tagged compliance, data management, EMC World 2012, files, growth, hoarding, ILM, policy
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Inexact Processing? This channels my inner nerd.
Tip of the hat to Fark for this gem. Some processing tasks just don’t require absolute precision or accuracy in calculation, namely, human interface tasks. Enter “Inexact Processing”. Through some interesting cuts to the processor, fiddling with power and managing … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT, Science
Tagged efficiency, inexact processing, interface, low cost computing, processor
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I want to transform my approach to IT, but…
I get e-mail: Pete, I have a client that wants to explore IT transformation and maybe move to a cloud or “As a Service” model but the managers keep throwing up this objection- At this point the writer inserts one … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT, Private Cloud, The Nature of IT, Transformation
Tagged aaS, as a service, IaaS, ITaaS, objections, PaaS, process, provisioning, SaaS, SLA
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Getting to Chargeback in “As a Service” Models: Think Pizza
A recent industry conference featured session after session of presentations where people asked (appropriately or not, for the session) how they were supposed to do chargeback in the cloud. After listening to the sessions and queries I concluded the question … Continue reading
Posted in Driving Transparency, Future of IT, Growing the Business, Private Cloud, Public Cloud, The Nature of IT
Tagged accounting, allocation, as a service, chargeback, cost, finance, IaaS, memoback, PaaS, per unit, SaaS
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Nice Study, but Where’s the Rest?
Forbes covered the release of Symantec’s Smartphone Honey Stick Project. It was a nicely put together study that promised to tell us much about the risks associated with losing your phone. I read through it looking for the implications, particularly … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT, Public Cloud
Tagged Cloud, Marketplace, risk, security, smartphone, Sophos, study, Symantec, theft
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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
Posted in Future of IT
Tagged Automation, business, Change, Cloud, Demand Management, Future of IT, Private Cloud, service catalog, Transparency
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Why I Read News, NOT Tech “News”
I read The Economist, Financial Times (when I can find it) and maybe the local paper in the city I find myself each week. Online, I follow about 3 blogs and Fark. I don’t, as a rule, read any of … Continue reading