Over the last several months I have been working on a guide for the OpenGroup, titled “Service Brokering with the IT4IT™ Standard”. You can find the guide on their website here. What I am planning to do over the next podcasts is to walk you through how IT4IT can help you in building your service brokering […]

Lately I have been working with construction workers and realized their difficulty to use the digital world. This lead me to asking myself whether we, digital savies; take the digital divide enough into account when we design new processes, systems or user interfaces. How can we address the needs of both the digital savies and […]

In my last podcast, I talked about the importance to gain the buy-in of the organization to change the culture and the way of working required for Hybrid IT. I fully stand by what I said, but recognize that change brings with it anxiety, as people feel they may loose their jobs; In particular, automation […]

In my last podcast, I spoke about the importance of developing a thorough Hybrid IT Strategy. I also mentioned it requires the transformation of the organization. But to transform the organization, yoiu need the buy-in of the teams comprising it. And that is where a potential problem can occur. In many larger enterprises these days, […]

In the previous podcast, I talked about people going to public cloud to avoid lock-in. I want to come back to some of those points and highlight the importance of thinking through your overall environment. When you decide for SaaS services, for PaaS or IaaS services, have you thought about how those will integrate with […]

Does going to public cloud really helps you avoid lock-in as one of my clients told me? Interesting question, as in my mind, public cloud locks you in as much as any other proprietary environment. But maybe something else is meant. As you no longer own hardware, you may have the feeling there is no […]

Every time we access the internet we leave traces and data of what we did. I even know people daily sharing their activities online. What happens to that data? How much is it shared and for what purpose. The Cambridge Analytica scandal has demonstrated how perfectly genuine data may be used for quite specific purposes. […]

The time where all assets were located in a small number of data centers under IT’s control are over. The use of SaaS and cloud services has driven companies to exploit a hybrid environment, and many may not have a full understanding of what this means and why it is drastically changing the way IT […]

Very often the infrastructure teams decide to move to cloud for cost reasons or because they need to close their data center. But they forget that applications need to be migrated or the new environment has no purpose. Application teams are not measured along the same criteria as infrastructure and they do not want to […]

Many companies start using public cloud by experimenting with a compartment in AWS, Azure or somebody else. Over time that compartment runs production workloads and that is where problems appear. Often many assumptions were made on how things would work and who would do what without really thinking through the implications. In my last podcast […]