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Private Cloud: It’s Not About ROI

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on September 14, 2011

Most private cloud discussions revolve around the return on investment of the architecture. Many discussions begin and quickly end with ROI. The reason is that ROI is very difficult to show in real numbers for any IT investment, but more so when the majority of the costs are soft costs. ROI is an important factor […]

The Business Suit: Spinach and Kryptonite

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on September 8, 2011

For VMworld this year I decided to pack heavy.Â I spent the week in suits rather than my typical IT polos and jeans, slacks and shirts type attire.Â No particular reasoning for the change although the factors were along the lines of: change of pace, stepping it up, and â€˜Itâ€™s Vegas Baby!.â€™Â To say the […]

How to Boost Cloud Reliability

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on September 8, 2011

Clouds fail. Thatâ€™s a fact. But if your company uses business apps that are tied to the availability of public cloud services, you canâ€”and mustâ€”take steps to mitigate these failures by getting schooled on a few key factors: service-level agreements (SLAs), redundancy options, application design, and the type of service being used. Weâ€™ll outline how […]

Thoughts From a Global Technology Leadership Forum

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on August 12, 2011

I recently had the privilege to attend and participate in a global technology leadership forum. The forum consisted of technology investors, vendors and thought leaders and was an excellent event. The tracks I focused on were VDI, Big Data, Data Center Infrastructure, Data Center Networks, Cloud and Collaboration. The following are my notes from the […]

Passwords Are Doomed: You NEED Two-Factor Authentication

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on August 9, 2011

How many people use eight-character or less passwords with the first letter being capital and last entries being numbers? People are predictable and so are their passwords. To make things worse, people are lazy and tend to use the same passwords for just about everything that requires one. A study from the DEFCON hacker conference […]

Why FCoE Standards Matter

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on July 31, 2011

Mike Fratto at Network Computing recently wrote an article titled â€˜FCoE: Standards Donâ€™t Matter; Vendor Choice Doesâ€™ (http://www.networkcomputing.com/storage-networking-management/231002706.) I definitely differ from Mikeâ€™s opinion on the subject. While Iâ€™m no fan of the process of making standards (puts sausage making to shame), or the idea of slowing progress to wait on standards, I do feel […]

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