• Advice for IT Workers Threatened by the Cloud

    April 18, 2011

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    On my travels around the place I’m often met with resistance to cloud adoption by IT staffers. While some of this resistance is related to valid security or other issues, much is simply IT workers feeling threatened. I talked…

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  • IT, The Cloud, and Control

    July 7, 2010

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    Recently I gave a presentation on cloud computing to a group of what I would call traditional IT practitioners. You know the sort – those who cut their teeth on COBOL (or punch cards for that matter), who spend their days in messy server rooms and whose life revolves around walking along corridors carrying install disks of software. If I was being uncharitable I’d say the dinosaurs of the industry.

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