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Negotiating Your Career

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on November 4, 2018

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: A Salute to Greatness Cloudy with a 100% Chance of Cloud IT […]

Cloudy with a 100% Chance of Cloud

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on October 13, 2018

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 be wrong. The battle of […]

Intent all of the things: The Power of end-to-end Intent

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on October 12, 2018

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?Â Intent isÂ fairly simple if you let it be, it's what you want from the app or service you're deploying. […]

Reassesing 'Vendor Lock-In'

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on October 3, 2018

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 what it really is. I've […]

We Live in a Multi-Cloud World: Here's Why

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on September 29, 2018

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 a product in the space.' […]

Your Technology Sunk Cost is KILLING you

By Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick) on September 12, 2018

I recently bought a Nest Hello to replace my perfectly good, near new, Ring Video Doorbell. The experience got me thinking about sunk cost in IT and how significantly it strangles the business and costs companies ridiculous amounts of money. When I first saw the Nest Hello, I had no interest. I had recently purchased […]

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