My friend and colleague, Alastair Cooke, recently published a post entitled Advanced Simplification: You Want It. In this post Alastair lays out his case that simplification is something that would tend to be something that “deep geeks tend to scoff at” while yet at the same time embracing the wizards and silent install scripts that become available to help deploy and or manage an application and/or platform into our environments.
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Moving to the Future: Strategies for Handling Data Scale
We are all moving to the future. The election has, hopefully, forced us to rethink basic fundamentals of society. Individuals are usually easy to deal with, but larger and larger groups are much harder. Data scale changes everything. Even Isaac Asimov had this in mind when he wrote the Foundation trilogy. In his case, scale …
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Shock and Dismay: Cloud Cost Strategy
For half of the nation, it has been a day of shock and dismay. It may be that way for a while now. In the meantime, as you journey to the hybrid cloud, you need to get a handle on costs—and not just the costs of migrating to the cloud, but also those associated with training, documentation, …
Going Forward: Hybrid Cloud Strategy
Yesterday was election day in the US, which prompted me to think about going forward. It is a time of change, no matter which side of the debate you are on. It is also a time of change within businesses. Businesses need to continue going forward. They need to make some tough choices based on the …
Advanced Simplification: You Want It
There has definitely been a trend for simplification in IT infrastructure startups for a while. We have seen a whole lot of simplification in how IT infrastructure is managed. We have also seen a trend for infrastructure products that are easy to deploy. Is easy to deploy a good thing? Does easy deployment lead to …
IT Governance: Notes from the Field
A critical factor in achieving speed of execution is being clear about who gets to make which decisions. Governance is about establishing a framework to ensure that all decisions are made by the right person or persons, according to the importance of the decision and the expertise and organizational responsibilities of the parties to the …