Archive for March, 2010

Myopic View of DevOps Misses the Mark

March 26, 2010
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Myopic View of DevOps Misses the Mark

I am hearing a lot about the rise of a concept called ‘devops’ – a mashup of ‘development’ and ‘operations’. I am not at all an expert in this area, but from what I can tell, devops is aimed at streamlining rapidly iterative application delivery to...
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In Cloud, ITIL, and SOE – Heterogeneity is the New Standard

March 15, 2010
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In Cloud, ITIL, and SOE – Heterogeneity is the New Standard

I read recently a good blog post from Thomas Bittman (@tombitt) of Gartner Group, about how sometimes close enough is good enough. Talking specifically about private cloud, he talked about how an ‘imperfect’ cloud deployment – one that does not...
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Your Favourite Technology Will Not Kill Anything

March 5, 2010
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Your Favourite Technology Will Not Kill Anything

I have a request. I hope it is not too onerous, because something is really starting to grind my gears.

Can we in IT please all stop claiming that any technology is going to kill another?

The latest I am reading, for...
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