The Color Of Money....

It's profitable to be eco-hip.  My CW latest.

SNW Update

I won't be there.  For the first time in 87 years I shall not be attending SNW at all - not even one of those quick in and outs.  It seems a tad weird.  It turns out this year falls during our spring break, so I'll be taking my 87 kids to a quiet little out of the way hamlet called "Orlando" for some peace and tranquility.  While some of you might rightfully feel that hanging with the SNW crowd would be way less stress inducing than my plan, you aren't taking into account the tremendous cost savings I'll be experiencing, as divorce is really, really expensive.

So, I will miss you, sort of.  Fret not, there will still be 10 ESG smart folks all over the place so buy one a drink and share your tale.

I will miss this one particularly, however, as I've been focused a lot on how the very nature of data being different these days (digital content vs. transactional oriented) is directly causing many of our operational problems and is theoretically dooming our IT worlds.  You'll just have to read about it instead.

As a final parting shot to my good friends in San Diego, you couldn't really ever expect to win a big football game when your team colors are light baby blue, could you?  It is a lovely place, though.

IT is a Ford Pinto.....

I had a Pinto.  My aunt gave it to me my second sophomore year in college.  I was psyched, for about an hour.  It literally burned more oil than gas.  It was a free car that cost me a fortune to operate.  That was the intent behind this article, at least at some point.

It seems to me that until we apply some of the lessons we've learned in other technology areas to the baseline data infrastructure, we're screwed.  IT as a business?  Pahleeese.  As long as it takes Weeks or Days or even Hours to provision a storage infrastructure, how can we kid ourselves that we're in the service business?

Here it is.

I have finally figured it out......

In order to combat the mind numbing success of Gartner's Magic Quadrant, I am working on the ESG Circle Of Irrelevance.