tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-194199582012-01-17T18:38:13.657ZKEEP TRACK OF NEWS AND VIEWS IN THE AREA OF IT PRODUCTION. <br> MANAGING, MAINTAINING AND SUPPORTING THE LIVE IT SYSTEMS WHICH WE ALL RELY ON ... 24 * 7 !Dennis Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00960588900322743793noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19419958.post-87411307469421531102012-01-17T18:38:00.000Z2012-01-17T18:38:13.676Z

I like the idea of “cloud computing”; in our own consultancy business we use shared services for most of our key business processes. But I don’t think the cloud will solve some of the problems people had hoped for. Of course, I may be just over-cautious. Having worked in IT for a number of years, I have to fight the temptation to resist the “next big thing” which promises to solve all our IT

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What happened to the concept of Quality?In the old days of IT (or Computer Science, as I believe it was once called), the main practitioners were from an engineering background or civil service background. The idea of procedures and processes were pre-eminent. Such was the importance of computing power that detailed design, walkthrough and analysis was used before people were let loose to cut

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We recently started a poll on LinkedIn to ask people what makes them mad about the current state of the IT industry. The results so far are insightful, but perhaps not surprising. Many people sited short-termism and lack of a coherent strategy as a key factors. Others spoke about how Management (and in particular Management Processes) were preventing innovation and stopping IT from delivering

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I was recently involved with a UK client who have just cancelled their Infrastructure deployment project, which was originally going to be implemented as a "Big Bang" deployment. Part of the reason for this was the underlying risk of such a disruptive deployment. To put this in context, when I was first brought in to review the project, I realised that the new technology was so disruptive that it

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"Infrastructure and Operations" appears to be a recognised market segment these days. It is a useful descriptive term, since it covers the main aspects of the IT Production role: Infrastructure - looking after the equipment, hardware, software, networking and other technical stuff which modern IT needs to have in order to run day-to-day Operations - the processes and behaviours required to look

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For some time, we have advocated using the four "MOPS" as a means of identifying how to improve the management of IT Production. However, although these "MOPS" are necessary in order to improve the management of IT Production, they are not sufficient. IT Production Management is also significantly a people skill. Technical Managers can often benefit from a scientific approach to understanding

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How bad is it really? We have all heard a lot of feedback over the last few months about how dire the IT consulting market is. I have to say that, at the moment, things don't appear to be as bad as some people are saying. Of course, there is always the effort in trying to get new prospects to part with their money, but that's part of business ! We certainly haven't been inundated with requests

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Can the Software Giant make sense of Hardware?Java and Solaris are the prize.The announcement that Oracle will be taking over Sun Microsystems has generated a huge amount of reaction in the blogs and within the IT industry generally. There have been questions about what Oracle's strategy is, what the future will be for Solaris on Sparc, where the free MySQL database lives etc. etc. There have

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Where's my command line manual? Slick move or desperation? The news that Windows 2008 Server will be available in a "cut-down" version appears to be good news from many different aspects, especially for people who will want to run IIS or SQL Servers. Firstly, the ability to de-install complex logic which is not required for the core work (such as the GUI) will reduce the "attack surface" -

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The Microsoft - Novell saga continues Maybe Microsoft will stop selling Operating Systems??? I don't know if you found it a shock announcement, but it certainly confused me. Released on 2nd November is the announcement that Novell and Microsoft have agreed a set of broad business and technical collaboration agreements that will help their customers realize unprecedented choice and

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Is this the end of the SAP Consultant's gravy train?. Want a job as a SAP Consultant? SAP Consultants have always had an interesting life. The challenge centres around the fact that you cannot ever have a generic solution to a specific set of customer requirements. It is all very well persuading people in the Infrastructure world that a generic solution like Tivoli or Unicenter or Patrol

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Will corporate users finally lose patience?. One more delay too much? The news has broken (not unexpectedly), that the latest copy of Windows - now to be called "Vista" has been delayed, at least until the start of 2007. Will this be a delay that would finally encourage people to move to Linux or other desktop technologies? If such a revolution was going to happen, now is probably one of

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It will be software packages and interoperability that carry the corporation. Apple Inside? The decision by Steve Jobs to ditch Power chips for Intel might have made sense if he had taken it a year ago, but somehow I think he may have missed the boat. Intel, on the other hand, have found another outlet for their entry- and medium- level chips and given a sharp jolt to the anti-Intel camp (

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Will NAP have the same all-pervading presence that NAS gained? It's not often that a new piece of technology comes along where people are tempted to say "why didn't they think of that before?" Yet I think I have found just such a technology. And if I am right, you will be hearing a lot more about it in 2006. The concept is called Network Attached Processing, and the company in question is Azul

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Yet another twist in the Ingres saga, as CA float it off independently. But have CA forgotten what they use Ingres for? It seems only yesterday when I was commenting on the decision by CA to Open Source the Ingres relational database (see Ingres Open Source = Graveyard or Second Life ), in July 2004. At the time, I considered that there was significant business logic in the decision. A

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The Prodigal Returns News that HP have agreed to purchase Peregrine must put some smiles on the faces of the existing 3,500 ServiceCenter customers. At last they can feel that the software house has a valid home, where it will hopefully get the investment and marketing effort it deserves. Peregrine has had an interesting story getting here. It was quite an acquisition-maker itself in the

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If you can't make it, buy it. The recent announcement that Oracle will be buying Siebel had been fairly widely predicted in some areas of the press. Oracle are paying $5.8 billion for 4,000 customers. I guess this is relatively small money, compared with the $10 billion they paid for PeopleSoft. However, this leaves Oracle with a massive workload to integrate and get value from all their many

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