I once assisted an organisation write a policy for DR testing that had approximately 1,500 applications in its DR register. This is for an organisation that at the time only had approximately 7,000 servers. A large proportion of these where used to provide identity management and file share services, and… Continue reading
One of the recurring themes currently in Enterprise IT is the desire for the cost and agility seemingly promised by Cloud and DevOps approaches. Don’t get me wrong, I see the benefits that organisations using these gain. I am actually a great supporter of infrastructure as code, and even if… Continue reading
This post has been a long time coming as I have tried to write this several different way. I need to thank Justin Warren and John Martin for their input into this topic, and for introducing me to Promise Theory. Many products boast an API interface, typically REST based, yet… Continue reading
(C) Kent Lins – https://flic.kr/p/7yqRcy One of the common refrains in today’s business world is that “IT is a road block†or that “Internal IT isn’t responsive enoughâ€. I had a conversation today where a comment that developers are turning to cloud providers because it can take-up to three months for… Continue reading
Hyposcale Nothing that mentions “Cloud†can assume the reader is thinking along the same lines as the writer. “Cloud†is one of those things that means different things to different people, and all things to some people. In other words, a perfect recipe for confusion. In this sense I am… Continue reading
When I was much younger then I am now had a casual interest in photography. I read a few books, experimented with a black and white darkroom, and managed to save up enough to purchase my own Nikon SLR camera. My kit consisted of a couple of lenses, a polarized… Continue reading
IT has generally suceeded at automating (many) repeditive business tasks. Automation can speed up a process, but it also makes it harder to change the process once it is automated. This creates a paradox – the business demands responcivness and agility, yet the tools commonly used to deliver this, (automation… Continue reading
This is a surprisingly simply question, “who should be in charge of system X or doing task Y?”. You see this question recycled every so often on line in the form of Should the CIO report to the CEO or CFO Who should manage inter site links, Network or Storage?… Continue reading
Change control is one topic of IT management that I find most fascinating. Organisations that have never dreamed of trying to document how they do something like capacity management will try and implement a full ITIL compliant change control system. For some reason, change control is so hard to get… Continue reading
At the end of last year I had an interesting experience with a project I was working on. Different people looking at the same situation would have very different opinions on how successfully the project handled this particular “situationâ€. Without going into details, the objective of the project was to… Continue reading
I am an IT professional with over 17 years of experience designing, deploying and managing complex technology solutions. I have a passion for learning new technology of all types, and proven track record of using this to deliver IT based business outcomes in large enterprise organisations.
All opinions expressed are my own and are frequently in conflict with my employer's.