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Tag Archives: Transparency
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
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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
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Tagged Automation, business, Change, Cloud, Demand Management, Future of IT, Private Cloud, service catalog, Transparency
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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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Accelerating the Journey to Private Cloud
I argue, frequently and with just about anyone who will engage, that Cloud Computing is the model and there are several different types of instantiations. This certainly isn’t a new or controversial idea, and not a sea change in and … Continue reading
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Tagged convergence, Future of IT, Infrastructure, Transparency
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Utilization
One of my biggest pet peeves over the years has been utilization or capacity reporting.¬† I firmly believe that in order to figure out how to transform an environment into a more efficient one you have to first know what … Continue reading
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Tagged Change, Infrastructure, Reporting, Transparency
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