Tag: IT
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Link: Barely a third of outsourcing deals are now safe: Window-dressing legacy engagements is over – Enterprise Irregulars
People want to change the nature of outsourcing: As this year’s State of Operations and Outsourcing study of 381 enterprise operations leaders across the Global 2000 reveals, only 30% of these relationships will continue to operate in the old model, while a similar number will stick with their service provider if they can have a…
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Link: Quest Software Enhances Kace Systems Management Appliance
The all in one, mid-market systems management appliance. Original source: Quest Software Enhances Kace Systems Management Appliance
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Link: “Gartner also found that there was a greater reliance on third-party developers in governments than other sectors, with more than half saying they used them. This is in contrast to 41 per cent over all the six industries surveyed, which compris
Just over half of government IT work relies on outsourcing, 10% higher than private sector average: “Gartner also found that there was a greater reliance on third-party developers in governments than other sectors, with more than half saying they used them…. This is in contrast to 41 per cent over all the six industries surveyed,…
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Link: Data center staff are aging faster than the equipment
“New skills, such as overseeing and managing SLAs for off-premises workloads, are needed, but people don’t have them. Just 35 percent of survey respondents reported that they did not have any of the hiring or staffing issues identified by Uptime.” Original source: Data center staff are aging faster than the equipment
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Link: No, Operations Isn’t Going Anywhere, But it’s Going to Look Different
Ops, still a thing. Original source: No, Operations Isn’t Going Anywhere, But it’s Going to Look Different
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Link: Government CIOs Must Resist Transformation Hype and Focus on Digital Optimization
Some points: focus on using existing data more, in new ways. usually, it’s jus optimization good chart of types of projects. Original source: Government CIOs Must Resist Transformation Hype and Focus on Digital Optimization
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Link: The New CIO: Leading IT the Mark Schwartz Way
“As the company decides on its objectives and turns them into a definition of business value, the CIO takes this vision and works with the teams to implement these objectives thereby connecting the team to the goal and giving constant feedback on progress. The CIO is the enterprise architect and arbitrates the quality of the…
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Link: Toxic Technology: the growing legacy threat
“The UK Government Digital Service recently wrote about how they understand legacy and suggested a number of factors that contribute to technology being considered legacy: being poorly supported, hard to update, poorly documented, non-compliant or inefficient. The range of breadth of these negative characteristics runs counter to an often passive view of legacy: stable historic…
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Link: Management Support in Agile Adoption
“In the global survey 82% of respondents reported that getting more support and commitment from all levels of management is a high or medium-term priority. In addition to this research, conversations we have with senior IT professionals all report that as IT has become ingrained in most, if not quite all, business processes it is…
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Link: NASA faces ‘significant’ IT management weaknesses, GAO says
‘GAO seems to concur with the IG’s assessment. “Until NASA addresses these [IT governance] weaknesses, it will face increased risk of investing in duplicative investments or may miss opportunities to ensure investments perform as intended,” the report states.’ Must be tough for the CIO types over there with that report. Original source: NASA faces ‘significant’…
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Link: Can IT finally deliver innovation without busting its own budget? Docker’s CEO says yes.
“What we’re seeing at companies like MetLife or Northern Trust is they’re taking their app and infrastructure management cost, and cutting it in half. Let’s say that you can cut 15 million dollars out of your app and infrastructure management cost, which by the way, some of our customers are at. That’s 50 million dollars…
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Link: Has Kubernetes Already Become Too Unnecessarily Complex for Enterprise IT?
Original source: Has Kubernetes Already Become Too Unnecessarily Complex for Enterprise IT?
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Link: Google and the new punk era of IT
2006! Original source: Google and the new punk era of IT
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Link: Security basics
“If you’re in the field of cybersecurity, a lot of what we’re preaching will sound extraordinarily basic to you. It is extraordinarily basic. We as a nation are not at a point where we have done the extraordinarily basic things.” Original source: Security basics
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Link: The End of Enterprise IT, ING org. structure
“They chose to adopt an organizational structure in which small teams – ING calls them squads – accept end-to-end responsibility for a consumer-focused mission. Squads are expected to make their own decisions based on a shared purpose, the insight of their members, and rapid feedback from their work. Squads are grouped into tribes of perhaps…
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Link: Why Your IT Project May Be Riskier Than You Think
“Fully one in six of the projects we studied was a black swan, with a cost overrun of 200%, on average, and a schedule overrun of almost 70%.” Original source: Why Your IT Project May Be Riskier Than You Think
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Link: My Interoperable Opinions of Cloud Foundry Summit 2018
“[I]n my previous life working in IT, I’ll admit I wasn’t in the opinionated camp. I didn’t even understand it as a concept. I generally went for selecting software with the ultimate flexibility. What I didn’t realize was how often this led to analysis paralysis and decreased productivity.” I remember one of the last projects…
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Link: The Sorry State of Digital Transformation in 2018
Organizations talk a lot about transformation, but their actions don’t always back it up: “To find out the state of digital transformation, we surveyed 1,600 business and IT decision-makers in North American and European enterprises. The answer? Sorry, I’m afraid. As you can see from the picture below, 21% of firms think their transformation is…
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Link: U.S. CIO Suzette Kent: Don’t change IT modernization plan; ‘turbo boost’ it
When it comes to digital transformation, the goal of businesses is to drive profit, or more broadly, get more money. Finding government’s goal is a tad more tricky. Here’s a good, brief explanation: ‘The end goal of all this, Kent reminded the crowd, is to improve agencies’ ability to achieve their various missions, deliver “excellent”…
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Link: Survey Shows Cloud and DevOps Complexity and Culture Concerns
“The findings, based on more than 1,300 responses from DevOps and IT professionals, showed the top barriers to DevOps adoption involve stagnant organizational cultures (according to 22 percent of respondents); managing the jumble of legacy processes, IT infrastructure and newly created cloud environments (21 percent); and growing software complexity that impacts application modernization initiatives (20…
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