This is adapted from ‘The Lorax’ by the Great Dr. Seuss. If you have not read his work, please do. His stories teach beautiful lessons through the use of whimsy and wonder. I love Dr. Seuss, so this is a thing I do. If you like it, there are links…
Cloud
Micro-segmentation: What, Why, How?
There’s a lot of buzz around the term micro-segmentation (uSeg) and I thought I’d take some time to demystify it, starting with some history. If you’re more of a visual learner skip to the end and check out the video. uSeg has roots in ‘zero-trust model’ type of thinking and…
Cloud
Driving Digital Transformation
Driving Digital Transformation “Digital, Digitization, Digital, Digital, Digital Transformation. There, I’ve hit my mandatory quota of 5 digital mentions for my presentation, now we can get to something interesting.†That was my opening line at a large data center and cloud conference in Rome. It wasn’t the one I’d planned,…
Concepts
IT Needs its Gates and Jobs
Scour the data sheets and marketing of the best business technology hardware and software and you will see complexity. You will see references to ports, protocols, abstractions, management models, object-oriented and non-object-oriented practices, etc. Hand that data sheet to a highly-intelligent, well-educated lay-person and you will get a blank stare….
Career Growth
What Product Management, Sales, and Job Candidates Have in Common
Pop quiz hot-shot. What do the following three people all have in common? A product manager responsible for defining a product, driving engineering, and taking that product to market. Anyone working a sales job for any product, in any place. A candidate applying for any job, or requesting a promotion/raise at any…
Career Growth
Negotiating Your Career
In this 35 minute video I provide some advice for building your career, putting a price on your value, and negotiating for salary/promotion. I’m having some issues with the frames display so the direct link may be better for you: https://youtu.be/ER5msIAx7do Related posts: My Career | My Rules The Art…
Cloud
Cloudy with a 100% Chance of Cloud
I recently remembered that my site, and blog is Called Define the Cloud. That realization led me to understand that I should probably write a cloudy blog from time to time. The time is now. It’s 2018 and most, if not all of the early cloud predictions have proven to…
Concepts
Intent all of the things: The Power of end-to-end Intent
The tech world is buzzing with talk of intent. Intent based this, intent driven that. Let’s take a look at intent, and where we as an industry want to go with it. First, and briefly, what’s intent? Intent is fairly simple if you let it be, it’s what you want from the…
Concepts
Reassesing ‘Vendor Lock-In’
Lock in is an oft discussed consideration when making technology decisions. I tend to see it used more by vendors seeding Fear Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD), but I also see it in the native decision making processes of many of my customers. Let’s take a look at it, starting with…
Concepts
We Live in a Multi-Cloud World: Here’s Why
It’s almost 2019 and there’s still a lot of chatter, specifically from hardware vendors, that ‘We’re moving to a multi-cloud world. This is highly erroneous. When you hear someone say things like that, what they mean is ‘we’re catching up to the rest of the world and trying to sell…