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The IT-as-a-Service Evolution: What Does it Mean for Your Job?

Most of us recall Ross Perot’s quirky prediction of “a giant sucking sound,” which he said would report the migration of American jobs to...

The Great IT Reset: From Months to Minutes

It used to be the case that IT leaders could get away with incremental performance improvement year over year. Last year’s metrics were this...

CTO Q&A: Self-Service Private/Hybrid Cloud Coalition

newScale, rPath and Eucalyptus Systems have announced a self-service private/ hybrid cloud offering delivered by MomentumSI. This coalition brings together three foundations as a...

What to Expect at VMworld 2010

OK, I admit it: I’m looking forward to VMworld like a kid looks forward to camp. But for exactly the opposite reason: VMworld marks...

I’ve Seen the Future

The rise of public cloud services such as Amazon EC2 and Rackspace have paved the way for a fundamental transformation in enterprise IT. This...

I’ve Seen the Future

The rise of public cloud services such as Amazon EC2 and Rackspace have paved the way for a fundamental transformation in enterprise IT. This...

Summer Reading for the Well-Rounded IT Professional

Ah, the long, lazy days of summer. Wallowing away endless hours on the beach or in a hammock—complete with hat, boat drink and striking...

Are Images the Solution–or Part of the Problem?

Ed Scannell’s recent SearchCIO.com piece on server provisioning is an insightful discussion on the failure of provisioning methods to keep pace in the age...

System Imaging: Don’t Beg the Question

Last week I dug into two key rPath concepts: the blueprint and the manifest. Manifests drive many automated tasks in rPath, starting with...

Model-Driven Automation

On top of raw system artifacts (such as packages and configuration files), rPath layers several unique system modeling concepts. Here’s how two of the...

Eight Truths of Enterprise IT

Truth is a funny word. It smacks of empirical fact and righteousness. But truth is not that. It’s subjective—a cocktail of knowledge, experience, context and...

The Second Law of IT Automation

In the early days of team software development, everyone worked on a common directory of source code—and struggled to avoid conflicting changes and premature...

Is DevOps Subversive?

If you follow DevOps, you're probably familiar with the sentiment that this burgeoning movement could have mildly subversive motives. As a solution to the dev/ops...

Refactoring IT

In successful, long-lived software projects, developers continually refactor their code. That means that in addition to adding features and fixing bugs, they clean...

Declarations and Self-evident Truths for Enterprise IT

Like many holidays, the meaning of Independence Day is often overshadowed by its commercially derived incarnation: Cookouts, unsubtle retail sales and widespread detonation of...

Envisioning A Software Distribution Hub

Modern manufacturing is a direct consequence of a forced transformation—a transformation resulting from changing economics and massive product and supply chain complexity. The same...

The Invisible Thread of Innovation

IBM Rational’s user conference, “Innovate 2010,” kicks off today with a bold and inspiring message about the importance of software development: “Software is the...

The Changing Role of the IT Hero

Every IT organization relies on a handful of seriously talented technical artisans to take on the trickiest tasks in the data center. These folks...

For IT, “Getting Lean” Means Just-in-Time System Images

You're probably familiar with the concept of VM sprawl—the no-longer-hidden cost of virtualization and cloud computing—where the proliferation of system images threatens to wash...

Automation, Economics and the Birth of Market-Driven IT

Recently, I had a conversation with a well-known industry analyst—a very creative guy drawn to big ideas. He got me thinking about a big...

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