Re: What I’ve Learned From Vendor Blogging

jayfry3 — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:47:38 -0000

Good post. I'll reiterate what I said on Twitter about this: I agree that we're all selling something, but the best vendor bloggers I've read are the ones that are bloggers first and vendors second. It's not that hard (and actually quite effective) to take a step back from the hype. The best ones also acknowledge/address their vested interests directly. There are times when it's appropriate to explain something you sell in some detail, and times to actually be much more hands off about it. In my blog, I focus on the topics that I'm running across and have knowledge about in my day job, but am also trying to be pretty representative of what's going on with cloud computing and the like even if I don't agree with it.

Re: Moore’s Law and the Cloud Inflection in IT Staffing

jayfry3 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:27:10 -0000

I like the "real men don't manage servers (anymore)" bit. It's likely to be true for a couple reasons, I think. First, some of the management of servers will be consolidated to fewer places (like to the service providers delivering cloud computing capabilities). But second, the expansion of automation will help enable this. It's been an uncomfortable topic for IT operations folks for quite a while, but is key to be able to use clouds -- public or private. (I did a recent post on the automation topic here if anyone's interested: http://bit.ly/OhxgS )

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