On Friday, Microsoft announced its intention to acquire Cloudyn, an Israeli company that focuses on the business aspects of cloud-based operations. How does this impact cloud strategy overall, and what are the downstream benefits to virtualization partner Citrix?
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AWS Is the Ultimate Department of No
I find it very interesting that in-house IT is seen as “the department of ‘no’” and that AWS is considered the easy place to build things. I suspect that this points to a mismatch between what an IT department thinks is important and what its internal customers think is important. I think that AWS is …
In the Hybrid Cloud, Your Role Matters, but…
The title of this article is “In the Hybrid Cloud, Your Role Matters, but…,” and there is a big “but” there. How you use your role is what really matters. Whether you are a cloud, virtualization, or container administrator, evangelist, or architect, how you use your role makes or breaks the secure hybrid cloud. We …
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The Smeared Edge
Toward the end of last year, I did a lot of reading around strategy, specifically strategy as the military uses the term, but applied to internal IT. By coincidence, I read both The Phoenix Project and Stephen Wardley’s emerging book on mapping within a few weeks of each other. Apart from meshing very well, the …
AWS’s Rate of Innovation Is Unmatched
I just returned from a week in Las Vegas at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services’ annual conference. I have either attended or watched the live stream every year for the past several years, and I am continually amazed at the number of new services and features that AWS cranks out annually. During the course of …
A New Fiscal Year and a Hybrid Future
It is that time of the year where the conference season has ended and a good number of companies are entering into a new fiscal year and as such it might be a good time to look back over the year and get some insight into what the year 2017 might have in store for the Information Technology industry and the engineers that support it.