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Featured

Making Theory Meet Practice

This won't surprise many people (at least I hope it doesn't)...there is a huge difference between "theory" and "practice". I'm an academic AND and

Apr 23, 2015 · 4 min read
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Featured

Maintaining the Delicate Balancing Act as CIO

I just ran across an article titled "The CIO balancing act: agility, innovation, cost savings" over on The Enterprisers Project. If you haven't stumbled

Apr 15, 2015 · 3 min read
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Foto Friday

Foto Friday – Tent Rocks Slot Canyon Wall

A capture of one of the walls of the Tent Rocks Slot Canyon. Captured with Canon 7D Mark II and Canon 17-40L handheld.

Apr 10, 2015 · 1 min read
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Featured

Beware the Strategy Trap(s)

A nice short post over on Farnam Street today highlights the various traps that people and companies can find themselves in when they begin looking at

Apr 9, 2015 · 3 min read
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Innovation

"Digital" Transformation

Without proper change management, any transformation you undertake is doomed to failure.

Apr 6, 2015 · 2 min read
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Foto Friday

Foto Friday – Titmouse Bathing

Captured this Titmouse taking a bath while touring Palo Duro Canyon in Texas.  Captured with Canon 7D Mark II and Canon 100-400 L Mark II handheld.

Mar 27, 2015 · 1 min read
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Information Technology

Complexity – The Killer of Agility?

I’ve said a few times that the data center of today isn’t the data center of yesterday nor is it the data center of tomorrow. In fact, in “The Data Center

Mar 24, 2015 · 3 min read
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Information Technology

Does IT Agility Equate to Business Survival?

I’ve been writing about agility within the data center and IT group recently. I truly believe the future of IT (and the business) requires that those of

Mar 23, 2015 · 3 min read
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Foto Friday

Foto Friday – Tent Rocks Slot Canyon

This is a capture from the Tent Rocks Slot Canyon trail in New Mexico. Captured with Canon 7D Mark II with Canon 17-40mm L handheld.

Mar 20, 2015 · 1 min read
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Information Technology

Everything As A Service

It seems like every article you read about technology today includes a service delivered in an ‘-As-A-Service’ approach. We have an abundance of

Mar 16, 2015 · 3 min read
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Information Technology

What is the Cloud...Really?

I read a lot of blogs and articles talking about the cloud. Many of these articles try to go really deep into the technology stack found within the cloud

Mar 11, 2015 · 3 min read
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Information Technology

A Primary Goal of an Agile Data Center – Portability

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

Mar 10, 2015 · 3 min read
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Information Technology

Disaster Recovery and the Agile Data Center

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

Mar 9, 2015 · 3 min read
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Data Center

The Data Center of Tomorrow

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

Mar 3, 2015 · 3 min read
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Featured

The IT Group as Cost Center – Or Innovation Center?

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

Feb 23, 2015 · 3 min read

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