How is artificial intelligence development going in your environment? That question might make you pause for a moment as you ponder the idea and then find yourself scratching your head wondering what artificial intelligence (AI) I could possibly be referring to. Let me present this construct. Artificial intelligence, much like cloud computing, has a definition that varies depending on who you are talking to.
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Notes from the Field: The Difference between Architecture and Design
I’m going to diverge ever so briefly from my “Reversed Assumptions” posts to share some happenings in this current engagement I’m on and to tie in some of the previous posts on design and architecture. This post focuses on what architecture is and what it isn’t. As I have engaged with many different sizes of …
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Hybrid IaaS is about Transformation
On January 5, 2016, I was joined by Mike Foley, senior technical marketing architect for VMware vSphere Security, and Kapil Raina, HyTrust VP of product marketing, on the Virtualization and Cloud Security Podcast to discuss moving to a hybrid cloud IaaS model. As always, we strive to provide actionable advice. The key question we tried …
No Matter How Many Tools You Have, IT Is Practised by People
No matter how much technology we have, everything is about people. Even the best tools and automation can fail if the people operating them are not good at IT. Often we buy tools to fix problems, only to find that the tool is not the solution. The problem is not with the tool: more often, there is …
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Notes from the Field: Reversed Assumptions
The plain fact is that no matter how hard one entity is to deal with, it’s exponentially harder to deal with more than one. Everything is more complex when you go from one thing to more than one thing. The additional complexity may not be visible, or detectable, or appear to cause problems, but it’s …
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Will 2017 Be the Year of the Self-Healing Data Center?
Will 2017 be the year of the self-healing data center? One might consider this to be the holy grail of IT operations: having an infrastructure that can, to a certain level, maintain and resolve issues as they arrive.