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Tag Archives: Cloud
Is Chargeback really a “third rail”?
You might think so after reading Chargeback exposes IT shops as slow, expensive suppliers. “IT is a high cost operation and there will under-recoveries as business units slash consumption,” Rowsell-Jones says. “That’s a terribly interesting position to find yourself in … Continue reading
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Tagged as a service, chargeback, Cloud, Register, service provider, VMware
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Nice Study, but Where’s the Rest?
Forbes covered the release of Symantec’s Smartphone Honey Stick Project. It was a nicely put together study that promised to tell us much about the risks associated with losing your phone. I read through it looking for the implications, particularly … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT, Public Cloud
Tagged Cloud, Marketplace, risk, security, smartphone, Sophos, study, Symantec, theft
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Cloud Conflation
We are a few years into this whole Cloud thing now and I’m surprised by how people still talk about it as a Cure All, some sort of silver bullet, conflating Cloud as a Service Delivery model with all sorts … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT
Tagged Change, Cloud, Future of IT, ITSM, Private Cloud, Transparency
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Go BIG or Go Home!
Go Big or Go Home, seems trite, but it is applicable to IT transformation. Companies that are successfully adopting cloud technologies are taking a transformation approach, not a technical project approach. The larger the scale of the program the more … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT
Tagged Automation, business, Change, Cloud, Demand Management, Future of IT, Private Cloud, service catalog, Transparency
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It’s all about the content or “What’s in the Case?”
Steve Herrod’s super session was one of the things I enjoyed most about this year’s VMworld. Not only were the technologies and ideas that were introduced inspiring and where I was hoping to see VMware head but there was real … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT
Tagged Cloud, convergence, Future of IT, Infrastructure, Private Cloud, service catalog
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Solved problems
I took time out a few weeks back to attend Edward Tufte’s One-Day Course on “Presenting Data and Information” and learned several new things and had several ideas reinforced by the methods and examples that Edward used. One of my … Continue reading
Posted in The Nature of IT
Tagged Cloud, convergence, Future of IT, Infrastructure, service catalog
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What is Virtualization?
I’ve been interviewing several people to lead up the Virtualization group of my organization lately and one of the candidates asked me an excellent question, “Well, what do you mean by Virtualization?”. Very good question, am I talking about VMware, … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT
Tagged Cloud, convergence, Future of IT, Infrastructure, Virtualization
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Cloud Heresy
I’m about to commit a bit of cloud heresy as a technology guy writing about cloud and claiming that it’s really not all about hypervisors, automation and orchestration. Sure, you need a measure of these components in order to be … Continue reading
Posted in Private Cloud
Tagged Automation, Cloud, Demand Management, Hybrid Cloud, ITSM, Orchestration, service catalog
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NASA’s 4TB Per Day
I imagine these folks know something about a cloud. That NASA collects 4TB of data per day was actually a little surprising to me; I thought the number would be higher. Still, it’s a staggering quantity on the order of … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT, Public Cloud, Science, The Nature of IT
Tagged Cloud, DBaaS, IaaS, NASA, open government, opensource
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Why Information is like Cognac
With apologies to Chuck Hollis at EMC and James Governor at RedMonk I decided to take a crack at this whole “Why Applications are like fish and Data is like Wine” meme by extending it to posit that Information is … Continue reading