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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Questions about “big data”

I’ve been watching the “big data” discussion happen in a variety of circles, with a slightly cynical concern that this…

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Where RIM went wrong

(Quick note: I posted this on my personal blog – insufficient coffees thus far this morning, and decided to repost…

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If you wouldn’t drink it, don’t cook with it…

This blog article has been moved across to the sister site, Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery. Read it here. Related…

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Taming dragons

So, I was having a conversation with someone via Twitter yesterday that started with me getting on a high horse…

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Auditing should be done only by the experts

I’ve said it before – auditing should only be done by the experts. I first realised this when a security…

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Arrays, auto hot-spot migration and application performance tuning

I’m not a storage person, as I’ve been at pains to highlight in the past. My personal focus is at…

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