Interview with Dahlia Malkhi, founding member of VMware Research When people hear the term blockchain, they think of Bitcoin. However, that would be similar to thinking that the internet is the same as email. Cryptocurrency is a single use case for an underlying technology that has many use cases. The initial use case for cryptocurrency [...]
As a Solution Architect, I engage clients on many types of projects with many stakeholders. Too often, things are taken for granted. Assumptions are made but not spoken. The easiest way to set back, or derail a project is to not have enough communication and assume that everybody is on the same page and thinks [...]
In this long-form interview, I talk with Martin Zorn, the President and COO of the world's leading provider of risk management solutions, Kamakura Corporation. I reached out to Kamakura recently because of their unique position in relation to what could have been ground zero for a catastrophic event to the likes that we have not [...]
In the beginning of January 2018 VMware launched a 2 week pilot course for Architects that is meant to teach a set of methodologies of engagement called the IT Value Model and the Digital Workspace Journey. This methodologies are foundational for Architects to utilize as a means of deriving business outcomes from IT problems and business requirements. [...]
The first three-phase hydroelectric power plant in North America was built in 1893 in Redlands California. This was a landmark innovation that allowed power to be transmitted on power lines for over a hundred miles, vastly increasing the spread of power throughout the region. However, with innovation comes new uncharted territories and a lack of [...]
Recently, I had the had the honor of being a guest on the Nutanix Community Podcast with Angelo Luciani. We discussed the new book and the writing process. There are many methods that writers use to get their thoughts out on paper or pixels. I prefer to write things down as quickly as they come [...]
9:02AM - Pat Gelsinger / Michael Dell on stage - first topic on support - then a discussion on AI 9:14AM - Discussion on Dell/EMC and VMware relationship - Commitment to open $VMW ecosystem 9:17AM - Pivotal is now on stage to discuss evolution of Pivotal - Talk about challenges with Kubernetes - Pivotal Container Service office [...]
There are a number of anticipated announcements today. We should see some more details on: VMware Cloud on AWS VMware Cloud Services AppDefense and New Security Paradigms Data Center Modernization and SDDC I will be live blogging the announcements as they come in. 8:58AM Things are just getting started Here is a blog discussing some [...]
On the last day of Feb in 2017, there was a failure that occurred in the AWS platform. It was not an outage, per-se, but it’s effect was seen as such. The terminology was: AWS services and customer applications depending on S3 will continue to experience high error rates. S3 services in the US-east-1 region [...]
On January 15th 1990, the AT&T long distance network had a full on collapse due to a single line of code and an obscure set of circumstances. The part of the event that caused more pain, was the fact that the system was supposed to isolate problem switches, or ones deemed “crazy”. In this instance [...]
Designing Risk in IT Infrastructure 