by Gina Rosenthal | Jan 3, 2017 | Cloud, Gina Rosenthal
It’s finally 2017. There have been plenty of posts with predictions for the new calendar year, as well as posts with resolutions and goals. If you are going to spend energy on doing new things, that means you won’t have energy for some of the old things you’ve been...
by Gina Rosenthal | Dec 6, 2016 | Cloud, Gina Rosenthal
What are DevOps? What is the OPS part of devops? Some of you are purists, and maybe thinking that devops is a movement, one where dev and ops are joined in harmony and everyone can do everything to ensure operational excellence. To some early adopters of devops, the...
by Gina Rosenthal | Nov 1, 2016 | Gina Rosenthal, Strategy
Technologists love to talk tech. Many times we default to discussing the what: What does it do? How fast can it go? Sometimes we forget that technologies and technology skills do amazing things for people. As the mom of an autistic person, I’m grateful for tech that...
by Gina Rosenthal | Oct 4, 2016 | Cloud, Gina Rosenthal
Last week at Microsoft Ignite, the monumental shifts in our industry were pretty hard to ignore. Ignite is Microsoft’s spotlight conference for the technical users of their products, or in Microsoft terms “IT Pros”. It is fascinating to watch Microsoft, an...
by Gina Rosenthal | Sep 8, 2016 | Gina Rosenthal, Platforms
The tech industry is currently in the midst of some monumental shifts. First of all, hardware is changing. Flash and NVMe are changing how we write to disks, opening up all sorts of opportunities for hyper-converged architectures, not to mention the ability for...
by Gina Rosenthal | Aug 2, 2016 | Gina Rosenthal, Security
Next week I’m attending Def Con 24.Work isn’t sending me; I’m taking vacation to go with my friends. Because that is what nerds do. DefCon is something I’m doing for my own professional development (and enjoyment!). One of the hottest topics in cloud these days is...
