Frontpage 2 - Define The Cloud

The Truth-Machine of Gilly-Goo

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on February 1, 2026

The Count of the Wobbleygooks I help you, you help me, and then we both see, That a world that is fixed is the best place to be. Life is a team sport, we’re all on the field, and the truth is the power that makes the best yield. It isn't just nice, and it […]

The Lorax: A History of Silicon Valley

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on February 6, 2021

This is adapted from â€˜The Loraxâ€™ 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 to others at the end. […]

Micro-segmentation: What, Why, How?

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on July 3, 2019

Thereâ€™s a lot of buzz around the term micro-segmentation (uSeg) and I thought Iâ€™d take some time to demystify it, starting with some history. If youâ€™re more of a visual learner skip to the end and check out the video. uSeg has roots in â€˜zero-trust modelâ€™ type of thinking and architectures. At the most basic […]

Driving Digital Transformation

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on June 21, 2019

Driving Digital Transformation â€œDigital, 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.â€ That was my opening line at a large data center and cloud conference in Rome. It wasn't the one I'd planned, but I had just spent […]

IT Needs its Gates and Jobs

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on November 15, 2018

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. It often feels like we […]

What Product Management, Sales, and Job Candidates Have in Common

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on November 10, 2018

Pop quiz hot-shot. What do the following three people all have in common? A product managerÂ responsible for defining a product, driving engineering, and takingÂ 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 job Answer: They must all […]

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