While 2012 was a year full of IT hype, 2013 has started off a bit flat.  Of course, how could we top a year where we saw the rise of OpenStack, CloudStack, and Eucalyptus?  A year where we saw SDN and Big Data dominate the industry magazines, blogs, and general tech news. A year where .. Read More »

The Death of ITIL Pencils down everyone, it’s time to finally admit that ITIL is a costly, time consuming, and never ending project that does not work in the cloud/software defined data center era.  Leave the 5 volumes on the shelf; take a hard look at DevOps and welcome to the era of being agile. .. Read More »

I was awoken this morning with a flood of emails regarding the following statement written by Alan Shimel and published in Computerworld Australia. With recent negative reports from Gartner and Zenoss, it seems “dump on open source Cloud” season is open.  For those quick to point the finger at some of these technologies that may .. Read More »

OpenStack is one of the most exciting open source projects in existence today and its original founders, NASA and Rackspace, should be commended for their commitment to open source and innovation.  From its humble beginnings to today’s massive hype and financial backing, OpenStack has both promise and challenges in its future. Rather than write yet .. Read More »

Let’s face it, a “challenging” career within IT has never been a relaxing walk in the park.  Whether it is the pressure of maintaining legacy systems on a shoestring budget, the challenge of learning new technology, the stress of constant outsourcing pressure, the rewards of carrying a pager (yes, a pager), the pleasure of working .. Read More »

There is no doubt that OpenStack continues to be a hot topic within the open source community.  However, with VMware’s acquisition of Nicira and their new Gold Member Sponsorship of OpenStack, have we reached a troubling inflection point? OpenStack bills itself as producing a ‘ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds’.  .. Read More »

These days, it seems that the whole world is gunning for Amazon.  Who can argue with the success of their on-line retail ventures, Kindle franchise, and of course AWS?  The secret to Amazon’s success is their ability to tune out the noise and focus on innovating, disrupting and creating new markets.  Here’s 5 reasons how .. Read More »