What does a post Broadcom VMware mean to you?
The Story So Far Broadcom announced it would buy VMware in May, 2022. What followed was a whistle stop tour of various regulators ending with the Chinese giving their ascent to the deal. Worth US$69bn, the deal closed in November, 2023. It follows Broadcom acquisitions of Symantec and CA previously. Many assurances were sought on […]
Azure Cost Control in Detail
There isn’t a magic button that can be pressed in Azure to reduce cost. The right level of spend in Azure is achieved as the sum of many frugal decisions. The right spending level is found by looking carefully in these three areas: Processes. The processes put in place for standing up resources in Azure. […]
Securing Born in the Cloud Businesses
Everyone’s had this recently. Organisations they partner with are becoming (justifiably) more stringent about their security. It creates some thorny problems though: Born in the Cloud When we’re talking about a Born in the Cloud Business (BITC) we’re talking about this sort of company: Larger organisations like working with businesses like these. They’re small, agile […]
How to Achieve Cloud Cost Savings by Avoiding These Cost Overruns
Any company that runs for long enough will inevitably run into cost overruns; the key, though, is to minimise the number of cost overruns and mitigate the damage from overruns that occur. However, one of the costliest overruns a company can face has to do with cloud migration. In this article, we will tackle the ten most important strategies for avoiding a devastating financial blowout.
The role of Datacenters
The State of Play Current Enterprise ICT Environments are a mix of various technology stacks. Critical and second-tier systems are from different eras. A mix of modern and legacy applications sit alongside each other. The common challenges are security, manageability and integration of disparate parts. There is some use of public cloud services, but most […]
A career with a flammable CV
Planned Obsolescence A baked in part of the design of technology products and an unavoidable side-effect of a career in IT In a discussion with a colleague recently we reflected on how our careers and our CVs race ahead while the invisible fuse line of obsolescence comes along from behind and renders cherished skillsets and […]
Enabler in Chief
Its time for a re-think of ICT’s role in the business. We should embrace our role as enablers of great works, not the centre of the world. I love what I do. Lately I’ve been playing with IOT. I know very little about electronics. I can read the squiggles on a circuit diagram and I […]