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  • Step One Of DevOps Ignores Technology

    March 11, 2014

    Blogs, Business, Business of DevOps, continuous delivery, Organizational Change
    automation, Bechtel, consulting, DevOps, management, Netflix, Organization
     

    I’ve spent a bunch of time talking with Adrian Cockcroft, former cloud tzar at Neflix, and listening to his various talks and presentations. I’ve also spent a bunch of time looking around the various rooms within which he presents and seen the dazed look of attendees who have rightly assumed that just seen a picture of the way organizations should be. Netflix is unquestionably an exemplar for IT reinvented – where innovation, agility and developer enablement are natural parts of what they do. But then I’ve seen these new disciples of the “Netflix way” write a list of the technologies that Cockcroft detailed and attempt to shoehorn those same approaches into their own organization. All to often the result is disappointment, failed projects and a swing back to the traditional rigid ways of doing things. These thoughts struck me then I hear about this new masthead and its aim of creating a hub for DevLops thought leaders – surely giving IT practitioners a good place to find the latest tools…

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  • SDR Interview Post VMworld – On VMware and Its Future

    October 2, 2013

    Business
    Bechtel, emc, Emulators, Intel x86 Architecture, Pat Gelsinger, San Francisco, VMware, VMworld
     

    A few weeks ago I wrote a post reflecting on VMworld and the new reality that VMware finds itself in given the rise of AWS specifically and cloud more generally. After the post Andy McCaskey from SDRNews contacted me…

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  • CloudSigma and the Perils of Choice

    September 28, 2012

    Business
    Application programming interface, Bechtel, Central processing unit, Chief technology officer, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, CloudSigma, Random-access memory
     

    As we move to broader scale cloud adoption, one would be excused for assuming that we’d reached a point where the definition of what constitutes infrastructure as a service is set in stone – true different vendors package up…

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  • Software Is Eating The World, And APIs Are The Fuel For That

    September 24, 2012

    Business
    Apigee, Application programming interface, Bechtel, Business, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, enterprise 2.0, Steven Willmott
     

    CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what you can…

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  • Quality of Service for Cloud–And Playing Good Cop

    February 21, 2011

    Business
    Bechtel, cloud computing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Network performance, Technology Review
     

    After the recent public release of SpotCloud, I wrote a fairly bullish article commenting on what I saw was a necessary part of the move of computing to a utility. As I said in the article; Part of the…

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Ben Kepes is a business leader, a technology evangelist, an entrepreneur, and a commentator. Ben covers the convergence of business and technology.

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