Lin Hype Brings Knicks’ Web Site to Its Knees
You would have to be living under a rock to avoid the hype around new NBA phenom Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks. For those of you who don’t follow basketball, you probably can’t escape hearing about him from other channels whether it’s social media or celebrity news. And on Sunday during a nationally televised game, all that hype came home to roost for the New York Knicks when the team’s web site went down. According to Yottaa, a web site optimizing company, the web site went down on Sunday when it was flooded with traffic. As the blog post pointed out, the...
read moreIT May Need More Business Thinkers
IT has always been about technology, and it seems, at least on its face, that’s as it should be. But IT is a service arm of a business and to truly understand how the technology fits within the goals of that business, IT might need some more business savvy. Perhaps that’s why a post in today’s Computerworld suggested that it might be better to hire someone who has a deep understanding of business and some technical knowledge, rather than the other way around. Earlier in my career I was a technical writer (software manuals, online help, etc). My mentor who got me started once...
read moreTime to Run IT Like a Business
On Friday, I wrote a post called Why Private Clouds Makes Sense for IT. The idea is that by creating an online service catalogue you can operate IT like a cost center, but that means you have to run your department like a real business complete with service agreements. Christopher O’Malley writing on Computerworld earlier this month made the argument that most IT departments weren’t service oriented enough to even call what you provide services: “Unfortunately, despite all this talk, corporate IT is still not very service-oriented at all. In fact, in some ways, it is the...
read moreWhy Private Clouds Make Sense for IT
My colleague George V. Hulme has a post today over on Cloud Commons with the amusing title, Private Cloud Haters – The Game is on Like Donkey Kong. While the title may be fun, the subject matter is very serious and private clouds actually make a lot of sense — just as much as public ones do — and for similar reasons. In his post, Hulme waxed about why there are so many cloud haters, then described the way game maker Zynga mixes the private and public cloud. “Zynga’s goal, as stated in GigaOM was to launch new games into the public cloud, where workloads may be spiky...
read moreIT Could Be at the Center of Future Cyber Wars
As conflicts and wars rage around the world, it’s clear that war has grown increasingly high-tech, but some experts believe that Cyber Warfare could be the next big battle ground and Reuter’s reports that computer specialists have suddenly become in huge demand in militaries around the world. As we’ve seen recently groups like Anonymous have been able to attack public facing web sites of law enforcement, military, business and government around the world in high profile blitzes. The Reuters article says the Pentagon’s computers are under a virtual constant assault and...
read moreTransforming IT
I read a couple of things today that got me thinking about the changing role of IT. Traditionally, IT has been a top-down department where you controlled and dictated every technology decision in the company. Today, IT is changing from that centralized operation to a more service-oriented one. Chuck Hollis, who is VP and Global Marketing CTO at EMC Corporation has been writing about this frequently in his blog, Chuck’s Blog. Just last week, in fact, he wrote a post called New IT, New Roles, New Tools in which he discusses this trend and links to some other pieces he’s written...
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