You Debate. We’ll Innovate.

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Tim Harder

Ok..You Debate…We’ll Innovate…. In his Government Computing News column, Mike Daconta http://bit.ly/GTcsVD , impassionedly argues that the NIST definition for Cloud Computing, with its complexity, is cause for government IT managers  to stay the course with business as usual; intonating that you should buy hardware, software, people, property, plant and repeat every 36 months.  Your [...]

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You know what’s really cool? An Exabyte.

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Tim Harder

You know what’s really cool? An Exabyte. One of the more interesting (and challenging) parts of working in the cloud storage sector is the sheer volume of data that organizations are attempting to manage.  From the first RAMAC in the late 50’s to contemporary 4TB spindles there has been outrageous growth at both the individual [...]

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Persistent Reservations

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Tim Harder

Some standing reservations have immeasurable value. Date night with your spouse. Game day with your kids. If you travel frequently you may have a favorite airplane seat or favorite car rental type that you consistently try to reserve. Maybe even a standing lunch or dinner reservation. These types of reservations are beneficial for family, social [...]

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Current Top Ten List FAQ’s

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Tim Harder

` I’ve been traveling a bit recently and wanted to share with you the top 10 questions I’m most frequently asked about right now by IT leadership and executive professionals evaluating cloud investments in 2012. 1.      Should I build my own or rent one from someone else? Your teams are already doing it without your knowledge. [...]

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Who will supply your cloud?

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Tim Harder

1 pipe.  Many uses.   One of the questions that CIO’s, IT leadership and Accreditation Authorities are dealing with is how to blend the economic benefits of cloud infrastructures with both the real and perceived security challenges presented by this new Service Delivery method. When faced with inflection points like this I’ve often found that [...]

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The Cloud is Dead.

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Tim Harder

The Cloud is dead.  Well. Version 1 is. Long Live the Cloud! I was asked to give some remarks this week about innovation, ideation, to characterize the past 4 years spent working with cloud infrastructures and to share some thoughts on the next development cycle. Travel back in time for a minute with me; May [...]

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Posture

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Tim Harder

People who write software write bugs. Anyone who has been a producer or consumer of technology knows this maxim to be true. Its how you deal with these exceptions through redundancy, fault vectors, recovery scenarios and managed customer experience that are important.  Today, there are many organizations impacted by the outage of a contemporary public [...]

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Certificate of Attendance

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Tim Harder

Every previous generation intimates that its circumstances were more difficult than the present and for each there are storied and anecdotal ways of relating the harsher state of affairs: “when I was your age, I had to walk to school, both ways, up hill, in the snow, without any shoes” or “when I was your [...]

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2010 big year for the government cloud

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Tim Harder

I hope all my readers had an enjoyable holiday, and are gearing up for the New Year. 2010 has been a big year of progress towards the government cloud, so I thought a  retrospective post highlighting the progress was very much in order. When I launched this blog I warned readers my “head was in [...]

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IT solutions are not helicopters…

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Tim Harder

We all know the pace of innovation in technology. New technologies are coming out daily and making the technologies developed the day before obsolete. If you’re going to purchase IT systems or solutions, you have to do it quickly, or the solutions you’re purchasing may no longer be worth the investment by the time it’s [...]

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