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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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  • If IaaS is Going to be Heterogeneous, PaaS Will be Even More So

    September 25, 2012

    Business
    appsecute, Business, cloudcomputing, Future, Infrastructure, management, Organization, PaaS, platform services, Solution
     

    The other day I came across this awesome post from Peter Sonsini from NEA. I’m actually loathe to critique it – Peter has gone to lengths to present a coherent thought leadership piece on the future of PaaS and…

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  • Cloud Computing is Changing YOUR Job!

    February 1, 2012

    Business
    Business, CA Technologies, Chief information officer, cloud computing, EMC Corporation, Forbes, management, Strategic management
     

    Excuse the slightly cataclysmic title of this post, but the first post for 2012 in the CloudU notebook series is one which hopefully will get you thinking about your career and the changes it is going to undergo over…

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  • With Impeccable Timing, BMC Introduces Updated Cloud Operations Solutions

    August 9, 2011

    Business
    amazon, Amazon.com, BMC, cloudcomputing, management, Microsoft, Monitoring, Netflix
     

    So yesterday wasn’t the best of days in the cloud. Initially a couple of outages for Amazon and Microsoft in Europe were the discussion point, but since no one really cares about Europe, it didn’t garner huge amount of…

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  • QuoteRoller Eases the Quote to Contract Process

    August 5, 2011

    Business
    accounting, Basecamp, Business, freshbooks, Highrise, management, project management, QuoteRoller
     

    Every now and then I discover a little application that really reminds me just how enabling technology can be, specially for small and medium businesses. This enablement is powered by varying degrees of some different themes – the cloud,…

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  • IT, The Cloud, and Control

    July 7, 2010

    Business
    cloud, it, management, traditional
     

    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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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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