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What’s mid-sized?
As I talk to clients, it strikes me that companies with fairly similar IT infrastructures can use very different words to describe how they feel about it. One client might say, “Oh, we’re just a small...
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The convenience of not coping
There’s a lot to be said for the ability to get a server for less than the price of a stick of chewing gum. But convenience has a price, and it’s sufficient that shared hosters, blog hosters, and other...
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Lightweight Provisioning != Lightweight Process
Congratulations, you’ve virtualized (or gone to public cloud IaaS) and have the ability to instantly and easily provision capacity. Now, stop and shoot yourself in the foot by not implementing a...
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The cloud is not magic
Just because it’s in the cloud doesn’t make it magic. And it can be very, very dangerous to assume that it is. I recently talked to an enterprise client who has a group of developers who decided to go...
View ArticleTo become like a cloud provider, fire everyone here
A recent client inquiry of mine involved a very large enterprise, who informed me that their executives had decided that IT should become more like a cloud provider — like Google or Facebook or Amazon....
View ArticleDo you really want to be in the cloud?
People often ask me what it’s like to be an analyst at Gartner, and for me, the answer is, “It’s a life of constant client conversations.” Over the course of a typical year, I’ll do something on the...
View ArticleWhy developers make superior operators
Developers who deeply understand the arcana of infrastructure, and operators who can code and understand the interaction of applications and infrastructure, are better than developers and operators who...
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The challenge of hiring development teams
A recent blog post on Forbes by Venkatesh Rao, The Rise of Developernomics, has ignited a lot of controversy around the concept that some developers are as much as 10x more productive than others. It’s...
View ArticleServers are cheap, talent is expensive
Of late, I’ve been talking to Amazon customers who are saying, you know, AWS gives us a ton of benefits, it makes a lot of things easy and fast that used to be hard, but in the end, we could do this...
View ArticleDon’t be surprised when “move fast and break things” results in broken stuff
Of late, I’ve been talking to a lot of organizations that have learned cloud lessons the hard way — and even more organizations who are newer cloud adopters who seem absolutely determined to make the...
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