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posted by Tracy Corbo   | April 12, 2013 | 0 Comments

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In recent months both Cisco and Juniper have been talking about Puppet. In February, Juniper announced an early adopter release of Puppet for Junos OS. At the Network Field Day event, Cisco demonstrated onePK + Puppet. When I hear Puppet, I think sys admin not network operator. Why then the growing buzz around Puppet and...

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posted by    | June 4, 2012 | 0 Comments

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I want to outline briefly some ideas I’ve had recently about our fundamental models for understanding IT management. In 1968, Melvin Conway proposed an insightful law, basically stating that our systems are copies of our communication structure (how we interact as human beings). And while this law is often applied in discussions of computer program structure,...

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posted by    | May 11, 2012 | 0 Comments

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On March 27, 1977, two Boeing 747 passenger aircraft collided on the Spanish island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, in the deadliest accident in aviation history. 583 people perished. Like the Titanic, a multitude of causes converged into the disaster. A terrorist bomb at a another airport, an overstretched small regional facility, a...

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posted by    | March 13, 2012 | 0 Comments

IBM-Pulse-2012

I spent a few days at IBM Pulse last week, the IBM conference associated with infrastructure management and the Tivoli product line. It was an enormous event at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas – 8,000 people as announced at the conference. IBM is of course in a class by itself in terms of its...

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posted by Julie Craig   | June 24, 2011 | 0 Comments

This has been an extremely busy spring for me, and I have been remiss in terms of blog entries. However I did want to briefly discuss some key takeaways from IBM’s recent Innovate conference, the annual get-together for Rational partners, customers, and sundry press and analysts. As always, it was an energetic, dynamic event, but...

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posted by    | June 14, 2011 | 0 Comments

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IT management is undergoing a tectonic shift. The increasing pace of business, the emergence of cloud computing, the spread of social media, and the general public’s exposure to commercial application stores (Android and Apple) are all converging to a crisis point. Less obvious but perhaps more fundamental forces include the increasing influence of Lean theory...

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posted by    | May 27, 2011 | 0 Comments

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The DevOps movement is in full swing. I consider it one of the most important developments in full lifecycle IT management in recent years. (By full lifecycle IT management, I mean the set of concerns faced by enterprises that  build IT systems in order to run them for their own purposes.) A great ferment of...

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posted by Julie Craig   | March 9, 2011 | 0 Comments

IBM Pulse 2011 was a low key affair, announcement-wise, compared to past events. Attended by nearly 7,000 people– a record for this event– tracks and sessions were plentiful, while major announcements were somewhat sparse. Instead of glitz, however, it was clear that IBM Software has spent the past year building a foundation for new ways...

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