I’m back from Dell World, and immediately plunged into work again after half a day to recover from jetlag. I’ve got a massive backlog of writing to get through, and had other paid commitments to attend to first. The blogs are coming, I promise. See also a statement made by… Read More
I’m apparently a project manager this week, coordinating the installation of some gear that I can’t talk about. I have plenty to say on the topic of project management, but this isn’t that kind of post. This post is about statistics and contingent probability. In fact, it’s about cumulative probability… Read More
A happy coincidence occurred today: I finished my Implementation of Strategy classes yesterday, and checked out the Dell World 2012 website for updates. I see on the speakers list we now have Gary Hamel (and a bunch of other people who are also probably very interesting, but I’m not going… Read More
Dell have chosen United Airlines for my flights to Dell World 2012. I’d heard of United Breaks Guitars, but who hasn’t? I figured they weren’t a great airline, but all North American airlines are awful and have been for years. How bad could it be? As some of you might… Read More
I have a theory about IT people, related to Not Invented Here syndrome. It’s Thrill Of Discovery syndrome, or TODS. TODS is a product of ignorance. Unlike Not Invented Here, where solutions from elsewhere are actively rejected simply by virtue of being Not Invented Here, TODS occurs because people remain… Read More
After our last set of exams, a bunch of us collected at the pub to celebrate the end of a bit of a grind of a term. Midway through a glass of fairly ordinary red, a classmate (let’s call him Dave) was talking to me about some of the marketing… Read More
The SNIA BlogFest 2 event has brought some important issues for IT infrastructure into sharp relief. Internal IT, at least as we have come to know it, is doomed. What will emerge from the wreckage will be an entirely different beast. There will be a great deal of collateral damage,… Read More
On June 21, the US FBI seized several racks of computing equipment at a hosting provider. The hosting provider was leasing blades to a company, DigitalOne, who are based in Switzerland. According to the New York Times, one of DigitalOne’s customers (information about which one has not been released) were… Read More
I recently heard through the grapevine that a large bank (I won’t tell you which one) is cancelling 25% of its IT projects. These projects all went through some sort of cost/benefit analysis. Business cases were written, and approved. The funding was granted. They’re being cancelled, often before they even… Read More
Picture this: you moved all your data into the cloud. You’ve gone with Platform as a Service, so you pay by the month for, let’s say, a database. You avoided a bunch of up-front costs, and now you’ve got a predictable expense each month. Awesome, right? Dead Services Well, not… Read More
