by Robin Harris | Friday, October 24, 2014 | Hike blogging, Off-Topic |
After the Slide Rock fire all the trails in Oak Creek Canyon were closed for about 4 months. They reopened the trails October 1, so I’ve been hiking some of them to see what the fuss was about. The Sterling Pass to Vultee Arch hike is about about 1200 steep feet...
by Robin Harris | Friday, October 24, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise |
What’s next for the shadow IT industry? It should be obvious: after blowing up the storage and server business models, what’s left? Networking Amazon has been working on their own networking software and hardware for several years. While networks...
by Robin Harris | Friday, October 17, 2014 | Hike blogging |
Finding that the recent fire and monsoon rains had altered the west fork of Oak Creek made me want to go back further up the creek. Without a paddle. So last Sunday I did. That’s Steve in the corner. Manou is in the crowd up ahead. Spectacular! In case you...
by Robin Harris | Friday, October 17, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech |
The first post on shadow IT looked at R&D spend. Now we look at CapEx spend – specifically PP&E – property, plant and equipment. That’s where new datacenters, servers, storage and networks go. Big Spend The FY13 PP&E spend in billions...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, October 14, 2014 | Cloud computing & storage, Enterprise, Future Tech |
The power of the big IaaS players – Amazon, Google, Facebook, Azure (AGFA) – constitutes a shadow IT industry. It is a shadow because its operations are outside the transparency we take for granted with legacy IT vendors like IBM, HP, Cisco and Oracle....
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