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The era of big data has arrived. IT Managers everywhere are swimming in a sea of data and only now are they starting to get the tools, the IT manager skills, and the IT manager training that will allow them to make sense of what they have. It turns out that there is another problem … Read more
Hey IT Manager, just in case you’ve been living with your head underneath a rock, the world appears to have gone “big data” crazy lately. Your customers, your IT team, and probably the rest of the company have all started to talk about the problem of big data and just exactly what can be done … Read more
Every IT manager knows that analytics is all the rage in almost every company now and has almost become a part of the definition of information technology. Your management has been reading those magazine articles that say now that databases have grown large enough to hold virtually every piece of data that the company collects … Read more
If an IT Manager picks up the paper, it seems like hackers are everywhere and getting into everything. Dare I say these modern day cyber pirates seem almost unstoppable? If it turns out that there is no way to keep hackers from breaking into the systems that your IT dream team is creating, then should … Read more
Can we all agree that the era of cloud computing is almost upon us? That’s all great and such, but what is this going to mean for IT leaders? In the worst case your senior management is going to be flying somewhere and they’re going to read one of those trade magazines, discover that there’s … Read more
The world is a very dangerous place. Your company has lots and lots of data on its computers that bad people would like to get their hands on. Thank goodness your company has taken care to secure every way that there is for outsiders to get into your company’s network. Oh, wait a minute. Maybe … Read more
I love clouds, you love clouds, we all love clouds. It seems like everyone in IT is talking about cloud computing and how it’s the next big thing. Look, I think that there’s a lot of good things about cloud computing, but I’m not convinced that it’s the right solution for everyone. This brings up … Read more
So there I was the other day talking with one of my IT manager customers and I was going on and on about how her team needed to start adapting their design process to include cloud computing. She knows me very well so she felt comfortable in stopping me in mid-sentence. She said “Jim, I’ve … Read more
One of the biggest challenges that all IT managers face is the simple fact that often their teams expect them to know everything. In the era of massive data sets, this means that when your IT team runs into a problem that just can’t fit into a standard off-the-shelf database they’re going to show up … Read more
To read the IT trade journals or speak with IT managers you’d think that we’ve all found the magic silver bullet that IT’s been looking for during the past few years: server virtualization. The ability to mash together a bunch of different expensive individual servers and shrink the company’s IT footprint down by a factor … Read more