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Category Archives: This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
The Message and the Medium
edit: updated video link edit: H/T to my brother, Paul Kraatz, for pointing to the one episode of The Office I had not seen for the video below. I’ve been meaning to write this post for years now but it … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Tagged communication, school, spam, Woof
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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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Cell Phone Towers: Are We STILL Having This Conversation?
Christina Wise is a friend of mine who lives in Boulder Creek, CA. She recently recounted in an editorial “A Story of Cell Phone Towers and Bad Chi”. It’s sad, really, because it shows just how powerful, mean and destructive … Continue reading
Advice for our New Hires
We just wrapped up a multi-week bootcamp this month for some recent college graduate hires we call the GSAP program in EMC Consulting (now EMC Global Services). It’s the most successful talent acquisition program we run and I am a … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, I Get E-Mail, This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Tagged communication, e-mail, living hell, meetings, messaging
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Tech news I can actually bear to read
ReadWrite – Let’s All Shed Tears For The Crappy Startups That Can’t Raise Any More Money. I finally found some tech news I can stomach, unlike the rest of it. Maybe that’s because it isn’t news at all, but actual … Continue reading
Capacity Management Twice a Year? No. Just, no.
One of my colleagues heard a cry for help from a client struggling to manage their infrastructure capacity. One month they’re flush with resources, the next they’re dying for disk, CPU and, in some cases, network bandwidth. This memo was … Continue reading
Demand Management does not mean what you think it means
So can we stop mangling the term in the same way people have destroyed the word “theory” over the last 50 years? A theory is not some cockamamie idea you thought up 5 minutes ago but a rational, supported, tested … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT, The Nature of IT, This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Tagged Capacity, Capacity Management, Demand, Demand Management, Disney, Hypothesis, IT, ITIL, Management, Orwell, process, Storage, Theory
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How investors can make money off the ‘cloud’ – write empty articles
How investors can make money off the ‘cloud’ – USATODAY.com. Just get paid to write more articles like this about “the cloud”. If you never have to speak clearly, define any terms or even use them correctly and still get … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT, Private Cloud, Public Cloud, This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Tagged Cloud, EMC, jackass, moron
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This is why “Shadow IT” happens
One of my friends, let’s call him Rich, works for one of the largest school districts in the U.S. as a technology coordinator. Rich is the business end between the classroom and the prodigious IT resources a top-10 school district … Continue reading
Cisco’s VNI Forecast Projects…whatever the hell it wants
Cisco’s VNI Forecast Projects the Internet Will Be Four Times as Large in Four Years – The Network: Cisco’s Technology News Site. I really want to love a study that uses the term zettabyte without a trace of sarcasm but … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT, Science, This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
Tagged bad science, Cisco, internet, methodology, study, zettabyte
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