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A couple of months ago I became the proud owner of an Apple Macbook Air. The little geezer immediately transformed my relationship with a laptop in a whole slew of ways. One way that it particularly seduced me was the delightful combination of my Macbook Air with TV Shows downloaded…
As I gear up to attend and blog from this year’s SIFMA Technology Management Conference , I thought I’d take a moment between trips to the shops to find something comfortable to wear in this 100 degree heat to blog about some of the trends and top-of-mind issues I…
Virtualisation in the data center clearly requires management…and in particular it heightens the importance of clear and precise technology or business service context – see for example Does B-hive Acquisition Make VMware a Cloud Vendor? in which James Staten, principal analyst with Forrester Research, “lauds another feature of B-hive’s…
It’s often hard for people outside of the slightly specialised world of distributed computing and data centres to get their heads around quite how critical and complex they have become. So it was a bittersweet moment to find this article in The Economist last week – Buy our stuff, save the planet.
Artificial intelligence (or AI) has had a bad rap for since the rise and fall of companies in the 1980’s such as Thinking Machines. Google’s mission to answer all questions posed by anyone at anytime around the world such as: “Where shall I go on holiday this Easter?” or “What…
Back in the early 90’s only 10% of the operational expenditure involved in running a data centre was people , by 2001 it was 30% and today this has risen to around 50% driven both by escalating numbers and scarcity and hence cost of skilled staff.
That’s a significantly increased number of expensive, skilled folk filling war-rooms whiteboards with application topologies and system behavior diagrams in an effort to fix outages faster, plan for safer changes and remove configuration time bombs from their environment.
And what happens to all that work?
It is best practice to test any change in a development/ safe environment prior to implementation. The development environment should simulate the production environment so that the impact of the change can be accurately assessed. But how many IT organisations have a second development IT Organisation? They may have a…
I mentioned in my first Tideway blog ( Thoughts on Climate Change) that I’d measured 2.5% of server assets were still running, although as far as IT reporting was concerned, they’d already been decommissioned. At first sight this might not seem significant compared to the cost of finding them.…
Back in the early 90’s I was a consultant in a large systems integrator. Moore’s law and de facto and de jure standardisations were breaking proprietary systems’ stranglehold on customers, driving the ambitions of organsations to increase the scope of their IT across the value chain and to get economies of scale of technology ownership, while increasing the end-to-end automation of their enterprises to reduce business operational costs.
Originally I was going to comment on Allan’s excellent summary of our new provenance features, but it turned into a post in its own right. Whilst I think that the features provided by provenance will clearly be of use during pattern development I think they have wider scope than…
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