Another day, another great customer conversation. This week's extremely cool meeting was all about sketching out a storage architecture at considerable enterprise scale.  And we came up with a simple way of thinking about the problem that turned out to be very useful. The Problem This part...

Continuing previous blog post on how excessive focus on process is harmful to the enterprise... Processes should be enablers and multipliers for sound IT work, not replacements. Processes and their value proposition should also be apparent to all those infected by it. Sadly, ITIL is starting to beco...

2009 has started with earnest, and -- by now -- I've had enough of a chance to visit with customers and prospects to get a sense of what people are thinking about. Efficiency.  It's always been a popular topic in IT infrastructure.  Now it's entirely dominating the discussion...

I took time (for various reasons) when I returned from Lotusphere before writing my wrap-up post.  This year was by far the fastest moving, busiest, complex yet. Product wise Lotus Notes got a number of mentions and "announcement love" with xPages, Traveler (and iPhone support) and a ...

Join us for TechFuse 2009 on March 17! It’s back and even bigger than last year! With 36 sessions and two keynote presentations to choose from, TechFuse 2009 is the most cost-effective way for IT and Developer pros to get up-to-date, 200-300 level education on the topics that matter to your role. ...

A (very) early start has me in Belfast city airport at 5.15am, waiting for the red-eye to London Gatwick for the BA flight to Orlando.  Luckily, it seems I made the "geek plane" with people from Blackberry, Integra4Notes, on board along with Stuart McIntyre and Kerr.  This will b...

January 12 IIBA Professional Development Days Conference January 12 Twin Cities Developers Guild www.twincitiesdevelopersguild.com January 13 - 14 MACO Winter Conference (Government event) January 13 TechMasters www.techmasters-tc.com Jan 13 CTA Luncheon - High speed wireless Eagan Community Center ...

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This is the first in a series of posts looking into the fit between data federation and the Configuration Management Database (CMDB).  For those unfamiliar with CMDBs, here's a quick Wikipedia update: A configuration management database (CMDB) is a repository of information related to all the c...