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 does amazing things for people. As the mom of an autistic person, I’m grateful for tech that allows me to communicate when my child is non-verbal. I’m amazed […]
Let’s get real about devops
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 old-school software behemoth, make the switch from licensed on-premises software that required lots of hardware […]
What happens when the entire IT industry shifts?
Our 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 applications to write much faster to disk. Cloud is also beginning to be […]
Breaking Things at Def Con to Harden Security Awareness
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. Def Con is something I’m doing for my own professional development (and enjoyment!). One of the hottest topics in cloud these days is cybersecurity. There’s good reason for that: ransomware is […]
How to Read Tech Articles with a Critical Eye
I was a library geek throughout my childhood. The library in our town was too far to get to on my own and we didn’t have buses. I loved the Bookmobile, until I read every book on it. One of the main reasons I loved school was because I could go to the library! I […]
The View of EMC World 2016 from the Show Floor
I attended EMCWorld this year to work in the EMC Core Technology Booth. Spanning Backup for Office 365 launched support for OneDrive for Business at the show. It’s been a lot of work to get it launched, so it was great to finally talk about it with customers, partners, and EMC sales folks about it. […]
Remember Tech’s Real Mission
There are all sorts of holy wars in tech: macs vs pcs, UNIX vs Windows, iPhone vs Android, AWS vs OpenStack vs Azure. And that’s just the technology; I won’t even get started on the vendor wars. Sometimes I think we forget the reason we work so hard to understand the best ways to architect, […]
Is SaaS Part of Your Cloud Strategy?
We’ve heard it so often that it’s cliché now: businesses are overtaxed. Everyone has too much to do but not enough time, resources, or people to get work done, let alone innovate. Everyone is finally accepting the reality: moving workloads to the cloud is one way to find some relief. Organizations are finding that moving […]