Another cruel lesson in the realities of multi-national cloud computing platforms. Did you hear that Microsoft’s Azure storage cloud fell down last week because of a school-boy error? Someone in Redmond Washington forgot to renew an SSL certificate and that took down the whole show. Every sub-region using the platform was reporting outages and degradation of service because of this issue. Mistakes happen. We are only human. But, shouldn’t you be able to trust the big guys to have the right infrastructure in place to prevent amateur mistakes like letting an SSL certifcate expire? Read more…
The holiday season is often a time for reflection and strategizing for the coming year. I worry about 2 things. First, people who wait until the holidays to start thinking about their goals for the coming year are already too late. Second, people who change their goals and strategies every year are never going to get anywhere. We see this way too often in IT … Lately there is no shortage of Chicken Little anxiety about the Cloud and how this is changing our industry. What do we do? Where do we go? What do we sell? Read more…
After more than 20 years in our industry, I’ve seen a lot of changes. What’s funny is how the technological advancements are reflected in the job market and the trajectory of IT careers. I’ve heard some folks worry that as the technologies become commoditized, so will the careers of IT professionals. People worry that the march of the Cloud will do to IT pros what Future Shop did to electronics stores; make them all obsolete. I disagree completely. I believe that IT professionals have more opportunity than ever before to contribute real business value and establish themselves as strategic assets. Read more…
The Onion is making fun of big tech companies who talk about “the cloud.” This is fascinating to me. You know a topic has completely saturated our culture when it becomes satirized in mainstream media like this. Read more…
I love Tim Hortons. IT Weapons was born in a Tim Hortons on Dixie Road in the Spring of 2000. That coffee shop was our base of operations and the source of our inspiration for the first few months. To this day, my time at Timmies, however fleeting, is always filled with nostalgia. This weekend, Tim Hortons felt like my office again. Here’s my story. Read more…
Another cruel lesson in the realities of multi-national cloud computing platforms. Did you hear that Microsoft’s Azure storage cloud fell down last week because of a school-boy error? Someone in Redmond Washington forgot to renew an SSL certificate and that took down the whole show. Every sub-region using the platform was reporting outages and degradation of service because of this issue. Mistakes happen. We are only human. But, shouldn’t you be able to trust the big guys to have the right infrastructure in place to prevent amateur mistakes like letting an SSL certifcate expire? Read more…
