One of my challenges on nearly every project is the almost inevitable conversation about resilience. You see, the duet between high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) is like modern jazz: complex, elusive and hard to define. All customers understand the importance of their...
I confess: I’m a poacher turned gamekeeper. For those of you not familiar with this rather English idiom, it means that I was once the perp, but now I’m the cop. In my formative years, when I was keen to impress any way I could, solutions to problems would just spring from...
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Today's IT professional is much different from even five years ago. In addition to our IT savvy, we need business savvy. We have to be able to communicate with a wide variety of people. Even when we’re in an enterprise IT department, everyone is considered a customer. Today's IT...
There was a time when personal reinvention was something you did only in the face of a major life event, like losing your job or a divorce. But as the Internet has grown larger, the world has grown smaller, and competition has grown fiercer, we should explore the possibility of reinventing...
During the 20 years I’ve been involved with CA Technologies as an employee or customer, I’ve watched the company continually adapt to changes in the software industry. That’s one reason I’m intrigued by CA CTO Otto Berkes’ book, Digitally Remastered, which...