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Redundancy is one of those necessary evils. It's necessary in the modern world for not-so-uncommon scenarios of unplanned, and often unavoidable circumstances. For example, I've been waiting for my...

One of the main requirements of the cloud is that most—if not all—of the commodity IT activities in your data center need to be automated (i.e. translated into a workflow) and then those singular...

There’s been a lot of discussion on Cloud Commons and elsewhere about the challenges organizations face when it comes to employees selecting so called rogue IT services. We recently spoke George...

Quantifying business service performance can represent a bit of a challenge for IT organizations supporting sophisticated environments and relying on external service providers in part to deliver...

There’s been lots of talk about the risks of public clouds to enterprise data: is the cloud secure? Can we trust the people at the cloud provider with our data? How do we get visibility to who has...

Have you ever been part of a team or committee working on an initiative and found that the security or compliance person seemed to be holding up your project? They just seemed to find fault with...

Few of our clients understand the difference between operating a cloud infrastructure and operating a traditional datacenter, but it’s not that they’re dumb; it’s just that the whole idea of...

The word of the day is “Cloud.” Nearly every software and hardware vendor out there has a product and shiny marketing to help their customers go “to the cloud.” Every IT trade rag has seemingly...

We’ve discussed the potential benefits of private cloud a number of times. Organizations have talked about the ability to maintain full control and transparency over their systems that they...

A recent experience of mine highlights what many IT departments are doing wrong, and how I think they can turn it into an opportunity to actually get things right.   It started when...

This is one of those old woodworking adages that really applies when you are starting the process to build out your own private cloud. What does this mean and how does it apply today? Well, I can...

This week we've had two bylines published by top technology sites that have generated quite a bit of commentary and traffic around various social networks. They're both worth a read - following is...

  A particular sore spot since the beginning of the rise of cloud infrastructures, even the advent of utility computing is this: how do you forecast and pay for...

What capacity planning taught us about the value of alignment with Business   There has been quite a lot written about the benefits of IT-Business alignment, and even more written...

This short post was inspired by Dion Hinchcliffe ‘s recent post on the Consumerization of tech: The new enterprise disruptor . Dion notes:   One...

Back in high school, when parents went out of town, nothing was more compelling than a party. I had to be there. Parties were my proving ground for social dominance, and provided opportunities that...

I agree, Chris O’Malley, business should align with IT Recently I read a post by Chris O’Malley , Nimsoft CEO wherein he makes the point that, while IT must align with their business...

As you may remember from part 1 of this 2 part series, I talked about how IT organizations typically use people as the gap fillers between silos or domains within their systems (i.e. to approve...

I do not think anyone who is currently working in IT right now would disagree with me that a transformation is in progress. There would probably be a heated discussion on what that...

There’s never any shortage of talk when it comes to how cloud computing may impact jobs. And with the unemployment rate stubbornly staying north of 8%, it’s no wonder talk around IT jobs remains...