IT is changing. Cloud services, whether public, private, or hybrid, introduce a new focus for operations teams. We are no longer fixated on building and maintaining infrastructure—we need to concentrate on automating management, delivering services, and developing future iterations of our systems to make the enterprise more capable, more agile, and more profitable. Even the …
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At the time of this writing (in early April), one of the biggest days in the UK horseracing calendar, Aintree’s Grand National Day, was upcoming. This seemed to me prophetic, as people often state that AWS is the leader in a one-horse race. Historically, yes, it has often appeared to be in a one-horse race, smashing …
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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 …
Citrix Synergy 2017 kicked off on Tuesday morning with the main keynote from President and CEO Kirill Tatarinov. As expected, the main keynote was focused on high-level discussions about the future of virtualization. While the key focus of Citrix is clearly Cloud, he relayed a stronger understanding that on-premises deployments of Citrix technologies are alive and …
We are currently midway through an information and digitization revolution that could be possibly compared to the mechanical impact of the Industrial Revolution. Despite the many great advances it brought, the Industrial Revolution had harmful impacts on the environment and working conditions, among other areas. It took 150 years or more for the issues from the …
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As I read the “we solve ransomware” emails in my inbox and saw comments on Twitter and Slack, I started to think about how to solve ransomware once and for all. It sounds like a difficult task, but I think it is all about an architecture: an architecture that uses modern ideas. A solution needs to combine …
