A no nonsense discussion of 21st century IT
This week I'm at the OpenGroup event in London. The first two days were focused mainly around TOGAF and the introduction of TOGAF 9.2, but some good side sessions focused on IT4IT. In a world that is increasingly becoming complex, where companies source services from an ever larger amount of external partners, having a clear …
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In my last podcast I briefly mentioned the aspects of performance when moving to the public cloud. I said I was going to come back to it, and here I am. I’m doing it as a blog post as sometimes a picture is worth a 1000 words. What platform do I choose? When a company …
A couple weeks ago Irma ravaged the Caribbean and Florida. My heart goes to all who suffered loss and damage. An article in the New York Times caught my eyes. Tesla boosts car battery power during Irma, raising questions of control. It’s a smart move and I do hope it helped many Tesla owners to …
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Many IT people see the cloud as the ultimate goal. It will solve all the problems IT departments have. I’m also seeing some boards having the same issue and mandating a move to the cloud. But the cloud shouldn’t be the end goal. It adds value in some situations, but should not be the ultimate …
How often have I now heard clients and colleagues saying that migrating to a hybrid environment encompassing public cloud is easy? You just transfer the workload and you know, public cloud is really safe. Well, not sure I buy that argument. Let me explain you why.Public cloud is safe.I will not dispute that AWS and …
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In my last blog post I discussed how to manage service providers while running IT as a service broker. I mentioned that most companies go for a hybrid service integration model maintaining integration leadership and skills. I also pointed out this is a journey and not an easy one.Starting the cultural changeThe culture and working …
In my last blog entry I focused on how IT is increasingly becoming a broker of services and what this implies for the IT department. In the previous one I mentioned how external services can be integrated within the enterprise service offering through a cloud broker platform. To respond to the needs of the business …
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Lately I started discussing Brokering in a group conversation and took the NIST definition expecting all attendees would immediately relate to what brokering actually meant. Halfway through the conversation however somebody intervened and asked me why I was not just using a web page with links for all the services that needed to be accessed. …
Public cloud is more secure than private cloud, many specialists will tell you, and they are probably right. But that’s not the point as most companies going for hybrid environments. Let’s take a look at the predictions from Industry analysts:IDC predicts that more than 80% of Enterprise IT Organizations Will Commit to Hybrid Cloud Architectures …
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A couple years ago, when talking to a client about the speed at which servers could be provisioned, he explained me very seriously his company could do it in 6 weeks if a spare server was available in the warehouse. He went into details and explained the average time for each of the steps in …
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Uber disrupted the taxi industry, AirBNB the hotel market and tesla the automotive industry. What is happening in your sector and what approach are you planning in response? How does that influences your IT department? And are they ready to take on the challenge? After having asked ourselves whether we’re going to cloud for the …
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In my previous blog entry, I asked the question: “Are you going to cloud for the right reason”. I highlighted cost as one of the main reasons companies look at cloud. But is cost really diminishing? That remains to be seen. To benefit you need to manage the utilization of virtual servers rather closely, making …
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