Virtualisation | Cloud | Strategy
Data is the new oil Data is the new oil, or so it is stated almost everywhere. What that means is open to interpretation, it could mean anything from unlocking data is the key to driving revenue or it could mean that data is buried beneath many layers and difficult to extract. I enjoy working […]
Pets, Cattle, Ants Pets vs cattle as an analogy to manage IT assets and cloud infrastructure is a decade old. Even before this observation became commonplace, this is something that I’d seen first-hand. When I came into the IT industry, I was often supporting assets named after Knights of the Round Table, Lord of the […]
Cloud Migration Value Creation I recently read an excellent post by Bill Hunt titled Cloudbusting. In this article Bill outlines and challenges some of the myths of cloud computing as he sees it from his federal role. Bill is a contributor to the 2019 Federal Cloud Computing Strategy, “Cloud Smart”, which introduced a subtle change […]
vSphere HA Advanced Settings to Consider Working in the field I come across a lot of VMware products configurations, in addition to working directly advising how to meet architectural and business goals. After conversations this week I’d like to draw attention to two small but often overlooked configuration settings for vSphere HA and one that […]
Mapping the Rationale for Hybrid and Cloud DCs It seems like where ever you look across the public cloud landscape you will find a partnership between VMware and Hyperscaler. Far from 2020 being the year of VDI, it seems to be the year to move your VMware workloads, as VMware workloads, into a Hyperscalers cloud. […]
Need a summer read? Look no further – here are my book recommendations summer 2020. I was recently asked for some book recommendations, good for a summer read. A short list turned into a long list, and given what they and I do for a living there was bound to a technology focus!
UiPath PDF File Word Analysis I have a lot of PDF documentation to read. I’ve been starting to work with UiPath and I wondered if I could put something together to perform a simple analysis of the frequency words are used in a document. My thinking here is that is might help to identify trends […]
New Adventures in RPA For the uninitiated RPA stands for Robotic Process Automation, or a way of making technology work in smarter ways. To paraphrase the tag line from UiPath “Make robots so people don’t have to be robots”. “Robotic Process Automation is the technology that allows anyone today to configure computer software, or a […]
Interrogating Public Police Data with open-source technology and serverless methods ##* Update, the dashboards are currently Offline (June 17th). This was built as an educational tools and to demonstrate the art of the possible. If you are interested in funding or rebuilding within your own cloud subscription please contact me*## I wrote previously about using […]
Interrogating data using modern applications I love working with data and with visualisations. I am often at my happiest when working with a large data set trying to find the answer to questions or trying to present data in a way that make it more accessible without losing its meaning. In the UK, government departments […]