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Tag Archives: ITSM
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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DevOps for Ops
We spend a lot of time focused on DevOps for Devs in the industry. A lot has been written about how we can make life better for developers through automation, Lean, Agile, Kanban, etc. etc. but it seems like there … Continue reading
Posted in Private Cloud
Tagged as a service, Automation, Change, Cloud, Future of IT, IaaS, Infrastructure, ITaaS, ITSM, Private Cloud, process
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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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Tackling that unstructured data mess, practically
Yesterday I wrote a little about the resurgence of phone calls asking about ILM and played a bit of a highlight reel as to a workable strategy from the perspective of a Compliance expert. The challenge, as I stated, was … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Future of IT, The Nature of IT
Tagged archive, compliance, data management, files, growth, ILM, ITSM, migration, policy, purge, unstructured
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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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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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Trusted Cloud
More and more I’m hearing that it is no longer a matter of ‘if’ clients will use cloud computing in some way but a matter of ‘how’ and ‘when’. Security is often listed as the number one concern regarding cloud … Continue reading
Posted in Private Cloud
Tagged GRC, ITSM, Private Cloud, service catalog, Transparency
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Clouds on the horizon
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about clouds and the future of IT across the blogosphere: Chuck is always good for a post or two; IBM spoke up the other day; and there are even reports that “Hey, this … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT
Tagged convergence, Future of IT, Infrastructure, ITSM, service catalog
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Product Management
Awhile back I got a call on a Friday night that is familiar to many consultants, “Can you be in City X on Monday morning?”¬† The program manager on the other end of the phone remembered hearing that I had … Continue reading
Posted in The Nature of IT
Tagged Change, convergence, Infrastructure, ITSM, service catalog
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