The Importance of Being Earnestly Automated

It was not long after I started in IT that I got the most important advice of my career. It came from a…

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2015 – that’s a wrap!

As we approach the end of 2015 I wanted to spend a bit of time reflecting on some of the data protection…

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Stop, Collaborate and Listen (Shareware)

Starting today, I’m offering Stop, Collaborate and Listen in shareware format as a micromanual. You’re encouraged to register, download and read the micromanual,…

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Stop, Collaborate and Listen

I’ve been an IT consultant for close to two decades. During that time I’ve worked with a large number of…

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Enable me

I’m directing this at all IT vendors – your job is enable me. Enable me to work, enable me to sell,…

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The hard questions

There are three hard questions that every company must be prepared to ask when it comes to data: Why do…

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The IT organism

Is an IT department like an organism? If you were to work with that analogy, you might compare the network…

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Aside – Indeterminate measurements and false hope

I’d like to suggest that we should specify that “percentage complete” estimates – be they progress bars or sliders or…

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Data Awareness Distribution in the Enterprise

Continuing on my post relating to dark data last week, I want to spend a little more about data awareness classification…

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Clouds and bandaids

I’m going to stir the pot a bit here and suggest that a reasonable percentage of businesses considering cloud deployments…

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