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Category Archives: Future of IT
A Systems Programming Interface
I have the pleasure of working with a lot of very smart people who challenge me and help me grow every day. Recently we have been talking a lot about moving to a model where we have an API for … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT
Tagged as a service, Future of IT, Infrastructure, ITaaS, ITSM, PaaS, service catalog
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Viva la Shadow IT
The Register almost gets it. I don’t blame them, really. You can’t change the world overnight and articles about IT engaging the business mostly reflect the IT world as it is. It’s no surprise they fall short when it comes … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT, Public Cloud
Tagged Cloud, infrastructure as code, requirements, SDDC, shadow IT
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4 Steps to Curing IT’s Woes
Occasionally, I write something that’s not published here first. This is one of those times… http://www.itbriefcase.net/4-steps-to-curing-its-woes I have to admit, the first time I copped to putting someone from Marketing in an IT role it drew gasps from the CIOs … Continue reading
The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth
No, seriously, we will. If there is any doubt, I’m here with a set of PowerPoint slides a customer actually dared me to create to show them I could make a useful analogy about anything under my purview. So they … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT, Private Cloud, Public Cloud, Silly
Tagged analogies, broker, catalog, Cloud, ITaaS, Jar Jar Fuckstick, security, Star Wars
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Fusion 2015 Full Presentation Text
Enriching the Customer Experience “Staying Relevant in the Face of Changing Expectations” Several apologies are due. The first regards my tardiness. I had intended to publish this immediately following my Fusion 2015 breakout session. Good intentions, road to hell and … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT, The Nature of IT, Transformation
Tagged business relevance, Cloud, Fusion, Fusion 2015, ITSM, self-service, services oriented, transformation, WTN
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Bespoke IT vs. Fit for Purpose
I’ve been focused on blogging over at EMC’s InFocus blog for the last year, but I want to get back to the Practical Polymath and start blogging more frequently about a wider variety of topics. First up is some thoughts … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT
Tagged as a service, Change, Cloud, EMC, Future of IT, Infrastructure, ITaaS, ITSM, Private Cloud
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RFPs: More free advice nobody will take
When I received a memo from one of my sales guys a while back regarding a small government RFP I immediately checked the article index for a quick link I could send to illustrate why we on the pointy end … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT, This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Tagged bidding, RFI, RFP, transformation
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Ask the Headhunter: Fearless
I’ve spoken about Asketheheadhunter.com and Nick Corcodilos only once or twice before. We have been pen pals since the dotcom bust put zillions of us on the street and I found his website (pre blog days), then read the weekly … Continue reading
TB-FTE Ratios Explained, or, why storage management isn’t like Starbucks (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this post I dismissed the TB:FTE metric based on the fact that it does not measure what you think it is measuring. That, coupled with an analysis of some reasons for asking the question “what’s the … Continue reading
Posted in Driving Transparency, Future of IT, The Nature of IT
Tagged efficiency, FTE, NAS, productivity, SAN, staffing, Storage, TB, TB:FTE
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In which Jack Welch and I share nothing more than a haircut
Well, not really. Jack still has more hair than me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAlmq0_0EwI I’m something of an IT subversive. I like to consider myself a “blue collar IT guy” because so much of what I’ve done in IT reminds me of plumbing … Continue reading