Honest thinking about technology decisions. — Page 23

If you ask one hundred people (or companies) what it means to have an agile data center, you’ll most likely get a large number of diverse answers. While

If there was one time that a data center and an IT group absolutely need to be agile, it would be the time immediately after a disaster strikes. Disaster

The data center of tomorrow will look much differently than the data center of today. That particular sentence should not be that surprising to anyone

Mark Thiele published a post recently titled "Why we Value IT Incorrectly - Innovation vs Cost Center."  You should go read it. If you don't follow Mark's

While this isn't a a great 'technical' photo (out of focus, etc) I do like the overall 'feel' of it so I'm sharing it. Captured with Canon 7D Mark II and

If you’ve spent any time within IT over the last few years, you’ve probably heard the term ‘cloud’ more than you really wanted to. The cloud has become

In what might be the best titled article I've read in a while, Vince Kellen writes about the dangers of confirmation bias (or 'finding what we want to

I captured this Great White in South Carolina. While I like the setup and photo in of itself, I was intrigued to see the water reflections on the Egret.

In a recent Harvard Business Review article titled “Don’t Ask for New Ideas If You’re Not Ready to Act on Them”, Ron Ashkenas provides an example of a

An agile business requires an IT group that is just as agile as the business. Agility hasn’t always been the forte of CIO’s and IT groups in the past but the future of the IT group depends on the ability to transform into an efficient, nimble part of the business.

I’ve written a bit about the agile data center lately. I’ve previously defined the agile data center as something that “allows organizations to

I captured this Great White in South Carolina. Captured with Canon 7D Mark II with Canon 400 mm 5.6 L handheld.

In order to compete in the future, CIO’s and IT professionals need to remain agile. They’ll need to continue building the agile data center but they’ll need to also focus on building an agile team to get the most use from the agile data center.

In years past, companies have relied on multiple data center locations to act as their main disaster recovery (DR) systems and data in case of disaster.

There's no 'easy' button or 'secret' to success in big data. It takes hard work and listening to the data to let it tell its own story.