This is the second post on IT consolidation, a topic that is broad and important to the vitality of organizations and their IT departments. In this post, I explore the diversity of IT consolidation projects as they relate to various undertakings from server to data center consolidation.
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Posted: February 05, 2018 |
This is the first of several planned posts on IT consolidation. You might find the phrase “IT consolidation” to be cold or even unimaginative, so how can it be both an art and a science? This is what I will explore over the next couple of weeks, as the topic is so broad and important to the overall vitality of organizations and their IT departments.
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Posted: January 29, 2018 |
This is the second of two recollections looking back at posts from IT Trendz published in 2017. In this post, I explore three more of the 12 themes and variations that I explored and discussed last year. My focus in this post is areas of innovation (the chicken or the egg question), team structures (like you, I have experienced and observed a variety of organizational constructs) and ways to develop applications (including a discussion of architectural styles).
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Posted: January 22, 2018 |
This is the first of two recollections looking back at posts from IT Trendz published in 2017. If you read IT Trendz, you have probably noticed that the posts that appear week-to-week are usually part of a theme or linked to a main idea. An individual post explores some aspect of the subject. Usually, I have three or four posts on the idea. In this post, I want to explore three of the 12 themes (and some of the 49 variations) that I explored and discussed last year.
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Posted: January 15, 2018 |
In this post, I begin a brief look back at some of the topics I explored in 2017. Since you’re reading this post, you’re aware of IT Trendz (and hopefully a regular reader), but here are some articles that you may have missed that appeared in IBM Systems Magazine and in Destination z.
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Posted: January 08, 2018 |
In this post, I finish up my focus on the management theme from the previous four weeks of posts, with a concentration on the management of emerging technologies like robots and artificial intelligence (AI). There’s been much written about jobs being lost to new technologies like computerized algorithms (at this time) and autonomous vehicles (in the future). Now that these technologies are maturing rapidly, what management challenges are inherent with them?
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Posted: December 18, 2017 |
In this post, I keep my focus on the management theme from the previous three weeks of posts with concentration on cloud. What is different with cloud as compared to system, network and application management? Don’t cloud services require system and network management? Don’t cloud services run an application so isn’t application management useful?
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Posted: December 11, 2017 |
In this post, I explore the discipline of application management, which is an IT management process with tools focused on the availability, performance and manageability of applications. Applications that have files, databases and other resources distributed over multiple OS images can be a challenge to manage. When suddenly some part of the application isn’t working, what’s wrong?
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Posted: December 04, 2017 |
In this post, I explore the current state of network management, a powerfully mature discipline that emerged after going through many changes as networking evolved to its present state. Network management is still growing and evolving. That’s because network environments are still developing in sophistication, built-in support and changing device implementations like virtualized firewalls, switches and routers.
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Posted: November 27, 2017 |
In this post, I explore systems management as a comprehensive discipline: What is it, how has it changed and what are the latest innovations to emerge. Systems management has developed into a mature and vibrant network of activities that are key to keeping systems available and useful. Let’s consider it as a model with categories and activities.
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Posted: November 20, 2017 |