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
This is part of a series on SNIA BlogFest 2. Symantec were the last vendor of the day, and we arrived more or less on time at their offices in North Sydney, which is quite a feat given the distances between vendors all day. We were met by Michael Porfirio,… Read More
This is part of a series on SNIA BlogFest 2. Update 2011-07-29: Download the slides from the Dell presentation here. Update 2011-08-10: I’ve received an email from Dell with some clarifications and corrections, which are updated inline, with some extra information near the end. Dell was our third vendor for… Read More
This is part of a series on SNIA BlogFest2 The second session was hotly anticipated in the bus on the way over. After such a strong showing by DiData, I was hoping for a day full of focus on customers and their issues, and how the vendors were addressing them… Read More
This is part of a series on SNIA BlogFest 2. First vendor of the day were Dimension Data at their offices in The Rocks, Sydney. SNIA very kindly bought us breakfast downstairs, and we all had a quick catchup before the session. Rodney was excluded from the first session on… Read More
This is part of a series on SNIA BlogFest 2. BlogFest 2 was a raging success, and now I have to find the time to write about it all. So much to say! Ben Di Qual has beaten me to the punch, with the first post up on his blog… Read More
It’s on again! Last November, the Australian arm of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), organised the very first BlogFest in Sydney, Australia. Based loosely on the TechFieldDay format started by Steve Foskett (@sfoskett) in the US, it’s a day where a bunch of technology bloggers jump on a bus… 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
We’ve all seen the press releases. A vendor announces to the world that one of their customers achieved some kind of significant saving or productivity enhancement by using their products. It got me thinking. What if the improvement was due to random chance? What if the improvements were just some… Read More
