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Colocation centers offer their customers’ data center facilities in the form of space, power, cooling, and internal and external network connectivity in a safe, secure and managed environment. In turn customers using colocation facilities to house their IT equipment, namely servers, storage, network and telecommunication facilities buy into the colocation…
I’ve been asked this question many times recently and thought I’d add a note here to clarify. A baseline from a Tideway perspective is two things: a concept and a tangible result.
What does this mean?
In terms of a concept a baseline is a snapshot of the configuration which…
Talking to a configuration manager earlier this week with a looming data center move ahead them, it was interesting to hear about the company’s ‘fact gap’. This company has approximately half a dozen configuration management tools deployed, each implemented with varying degrees of success across the IT estate. As each…
I went to Vegas and didn’t gamble a dime!
It’s true, and probably says a lot about the missing links between the parts of my brain which control fun, and the parts that deal with risk. To rectify this I probably need to go through an intensive set of applied…
Following a recent engagement, one of our PMs produced the lessons learnt details provided below. Often lessons seem obvious and we sometimes wonder why some basic stuff manages to trip us up. More importantly, not all lessons represent negative behavior or outcomes – there are positive lessons we can repeat.…
The desire to be different in strategy is what creates sustainable competitive advantage.
Borrowing Michael Porter’s thinking from ‘What is Strategy’, (1996), successful IT departments will be those that can capture a unique competitive position. Porter goes on to say that “A period of imitation may be inevitable in emerging…
“Good company situation analysis, like good industry and competitive analysis, is a valuable precondition for good strategy making” (Thompson A. A, Strickland A. J, Gamble J. E. (2007). Crafting and Executing Strategy, McGraw-Hill Irwin., p.127), but like all things in life – ‘rubbish in, rubbish out’. Possibly the first thing…
In the world of IT management, strategy is important. Constantly changing circumstances requires iterative thinking to address the vision, objectives, capabilities and culture of the organisation. An emphasis on process and feedback mechanism, often dictates that the ‘doing’ of IT strategy is a mechanical process, procedural and quite possibly driven…
The ‘Chicken and Egg’ of IT asset auto-discovery…
In the world of IT asset auto-discovery we face a giant hurdle. That is the growing realisation that not knowing what we have is the first barrier to providing better IT. As any business leader can confirm though, barriers cost money and…
With my project manager hat on I write many project plans (gantt charts, to be precise). There is always a danger when writing these plans that they represent nothing more than wishful thinking on my part on how an engagement will evolve. There is a simple reason for this. Project…
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