The message we get from the industry is that we must change, we must transform, or we will be left behind. What does this imply from an economic standpoint? Will your business go under? Will you lose employees? Will employees lose their jobs? Or is there something else going on here? These are questions from …
Edward L. Haletky, aka Texiwill, is an analyst, author, architect, technologist, and out-of-the-box thinker. As an analyst, Edward looks at all things IoT, big data, cloud, security, and DevOps. As an author, he has written about virtualization and security. As an architect, Edward creates peer-reviewed reference architectures for hybrid cloud, cloud-native applications, and many other aspects of the modern business. As a technologist, Edward creates code prototypes for parts of those architectures. Edward is solving today’s problems in an implementable fashion.
The Need for Cost Analytics
Vendors need to be cognizant of the economics around using their tools. This is not the typical total cost of ownership discussion. Instead, it is a discussion around the external costs of using products designed to interact with any of a number of clouds. Using a cloud such as Amazon or Azure can be cost …
Data and Software the New Durable Goods?
In talking with a neighbor, we spoke on several interesting concepts. More and more, we are moving away from manufacturing jobs and into automation and control jobs. However, fewer people are needed in automation and control, managing the robots that build things, than were needed in manufacturing. The available jobs in manufacturing, automation, and control …
Virtualized HPC a Reality
Recent changes from NVIDIA now make virtualized HPC (vHPC) a reality. With just two NVIDIA M10 cards, it is possible to have more compute power than ever imagined before. NVIDIA’s vGPU is changing how we implement VDI. It is also changing compute. Here is how.
Disaster Recovery Is Not Survival Mode
When Hurricane Harvey was announced, I starting thinking about disaster recovery, business continuity, and survival. The latter is not where you want to be with your business when it comes to natural disasters. Past disasters have shown that we are in need of better planning, not just for our businesses, but also for our employees, …
Update Your Policies!
It is time to update your security, data protection, disaster recovery, and all IT policies and guidance. So much has changed in the last year. Now we need to incorporate it into our IT guidance and policies. Security has changed, data protection has changed, and everything else has changed. The only constant is change. Many …