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IBM Pulse 2011: Building Assets for Today’s Cross-Domain Application Support...
IBM Pulse 2011 was a low key affair, announcement-wise, compared to past events. Attended by nearly 7,000 people– a record for this event– tracks and sessions were plentiful, while major announcements...
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Taking DevOps up a level: the PMO meets ITSM
The DevOps movement is in full swing. I consider it one of the most important developments in full lifecycle IT management in recent years. (By full lifecycle IT management, I mean the set of concerns...
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Service aggregation, integration, and transformation
IT management is undergoing a tectonic shift. The increasing pace of business, the emergence of cloud computing, the spread of social media, and the general public’s exposure to commercial application...
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DevOps: Notes from IBM Innovate
This has been an extremely busy spring for me, and I have been remiss in terms of blog entries. However I did want to briefly discuss some key takeaways from IBM’s recent Innovate conference, the...
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Taking the Pulse of IBM and Maximo
I spent a few days at IBM Pulse last week, the IBM conference associated with infrastructure management and the Tivoli product line. It was an enormous event at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas – 8,000...
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Semantics matter: the troubled world of IT terminology
On March 27, 1977, two Boeing 747 passenger aircraft collided on the Spanish island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, in the deadliest accident in aviation history. 583 people perished. Like the...
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From “plan / build / run” to “demand / supply / execute”
I want to outline briefly some ideas I’ve had recently about our fundamental models for understanding IT management. In 1968, Melvin Conway proposed an insightful law, basically stating that our...
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Can Puppet Solve the Network Configuration Dilemma?
In recent months both Cisco and Juniper have been talking about Puppet. In February, Juniper announced an early adopter release of Puppet for Junos OS. At the Network Field Day event, Cisco...
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Cisco ONE: Cisco’s Answer to SDN – Their Way
Fresh off a week at the C-scape, the Cisco analyst event that takes place alongside their user conference Cisco Live! in Orlando, I thought I would attempt to summarize my takeaways regarding Cisco and...
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The State of the Software Defined Data Center
Of course, I always encourage practitioners to carefully study the full EMA research report on the “Obstacles and Priorities on the Journey to the Software-Defined Data Center” or at least read the...
View ArticleAutomating Change: The Key to Proactive IT Management
Reflecting on my earlier career in IT management, I have to confess to a level of astonishment at how naïve IT administrative practices were just a decade or two ago. Failure events were common, and...
View ArticleMachine Learning and Artificial Intelligence: The Promised Land for Lowering...
What should machine and artificial intelligence (ML/AI) do for IT operations, DevOps and container management? The following table represents my quick outline of the key challenges and specific problem...
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