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…
Category: General Technology
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…
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,…
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…
Enable me
I’m directing this at all IT vendors – your job is enable me. Enable me to work, enable me to sell,…
The hard questions
There are three hard questions that every company must be prepared to ask when it comes to data: Why do…
The IT organism
Is an IT department like an organism? If you were to work with that analogy, you might compare the network…
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…
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…
Clouds and bandaids
I’m going to stir the pot a bit here and suggest that a reasonable percentage of businesses considering cloud deployments…