Cloud Theory to Cloud Reality: The Importance of Partner Management
Throughout my career at GreenPages I’ve been lucky enough to work with some top-shelf IT leaders. These folks possess many qualities that make them successful – technical smarts, excellent...
View ArticleWhere Is the Cloud Going? Try Thinking “Minority Report”
I read a news release (here) recently where NVidia is proposing to partition processing between on-device and cloud-located graphics hardware…here’s an excerpt: “Kepler cloud GPU technologies shifts...
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Translating a Vision for IT Amid a “Severe Storm Watch”
IT departments adopt technology from two perspectives: from a directive by the CIO to a “rogue IT” suggestion or project from an individual user. The former represents a top-down condition, while the...
View ArticleCloud Infrastructure: People & Process — It’s Not Just the Technology
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqUZPym-pak It’s not just the technology! In this video, I discuss the importance of the people & processes involved in moving to a cloud infrastructure. This is...
View ArticleThe Private Cloud Strikes Back
Having read JP Rangaswami’s argument against private clouds (and the obvious promoting of his version of cloud) I have only to say that he’s looking for oranges in an apple tree. His entire premise is...
View ArticleThe Cloud is Dead! Long Live the Cloud! Twitter Chat Recap
Last week, Cloud Commons hosted a Twitter Chat on the end of Cloud Computing. If you’re not familiar with a tweetchat, they are discussions hosted on Twitter where people can join at a specific time by...
View ArticleOptimize Your Infrastructure; From Hand-built to Mass-production
If you’ve been reading this blog, you’ll know that I write a lot about cloud and cloud technologies, specifically around optimizing IT infrastructures and transitioning them from traditional management...
View ArticleFun with Neologism in the Cloud Era
Having spent the last several blog posts on more serious considerations about cloud computing and the new IT era, I decided to lighten things up a bit. The term “cloud” has bothered me from the first...
View ArticleAutomation & Orchestration Part 1: What’s In A Name? That Which We Call a...
The phrases “service,” “abstraction,” & “automation & orchestration” are used a lot these days. Over the course of the next few blogs, I am going to describe what I think each phrase means and...
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Big Daddy Don Garlits & the Cloud: Capable Vs. Functional
I know what you’re thinking, yet another car analogy, but bear with me, I think you’ll like it…eventually When I was a kid, like around 11 or 12, during the summers I would ride my bike into town to go...
View ArticleStay Safe in the Cloud With Two-Factor Authentication
The use of two-factor authentication has been around for years, but the recent addition of this security feature in cloud services from Google and Dropbox has drawn widespread attention. The Dropbox...
View ArticleThe Evolution from a Provider of Technology Components to a Broker of...
A 3 Part Series from Trevor Williamson Part 1: Understanding the Dilemma Part 2: Planning the Solution Part 3: Executing the Solution, again and again… Part 1: Understanding the Dilemma IT teams are...
View ArticleCloud Corner Series- Is Automation & Orchestration Like Taking a Shower?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_U_S8qyhGM I sat down yesterday to talk about automating and orchestrating business processes and how it is critical in a cloud environment. I hope you enjoy it! If...
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Evolving to a Broker of Technology Services: Planning the Solution
By Trevor Williamson, Director, Solutions Architecture A 3-Part Series: Part 1: Understanding the Dilemma Part 2: Planning the Solution Part 3: Executing the Solution, again and again… Part 2: Planning...
View ArticleKids on Work Devices, Bubble Wrap, and Why Every IT Organization Should...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPgT4UxuGRo Francis Czekalski, GreenPages Enterprise Consultant talks about the challenges that IT professionals face today when dealing with BYOD—from supporting...
View ArticleIT Multi-Tasking: I Was Told There’d Be No Math
By Ben Sawyer, Solutions Engineer The term “multi-tasking” basically means doing more than one thing at once. I am writing this blog while playing Legos w/ my son & helping my daughter find New...
View ArticleGetting Out of the IT Business
Randy Weis, Director of Solutions Architecture Strange title for a blog from an IT solutions architect? Not really. Some of our clients—say three different sized customers in three very different...
View ArticleIs Cloud Computing Ready for Prime Time?
By John Dixon, Senior Solutions Architect A few weeks ago, I took part in another engaging tweetchat on Cloud Computing. The topic: is cloud computing ready for enterprise adoption? You can find the...
View ArticleGuest Post: A Wrinkle in the IT Universe
By Kai Gray, VP of Operations at Carbonite I feel like tectonic plates are shifting beneath the IT world. I’ve been struggling to put my finger on what it is that is making me feel this way, but slowly...
View ArticleBe Nimble, Be Quick: A CRN Interview with GreenPages’ CEO
CRN Senior Editor and industry veteran Steve Burke sat down with GreenPages’ CEO Ron Dupler to discuss shifts in ideology in the industry as well as GreenPages new Cloud Management as a Service (CMaaS)...
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