Technology is Dead - Thoughts on Enterprise Infrastructure

The Advice and the Outcomes – On How to Enter a Foreign Market

John — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:01:27 +0000

Jumping into starting up a regional business (for a multi-national company), I anticipated there would be a steep learning curve and quite a bit of risk. So along the way, you pick up whatever advice you can get and some of it becomes incredibly valuable.

Architect or Chocolate Teapot?

John — Fri, 13 May 2011 12:31:02 +0000

You routinely will witness the ‘everyone wants to be the architect’ behaviours, especially in large multi-disciplinary initiatives such as data centre modernisation, cloud architecture, or virtual infrastructure deployments.

Best Quote of the Week: Consultants

John — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 04:29:55 +0000

EMO is Bad, Robots are Good.

New Zealand, Aotearoa

John — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:38:23 +0000

There aren't many people here. Major bonus. High season on the south island feels like low season in Europe. And secondly, there's not a lot of industry outside of agriculture and a king's shit load of rugged terrain, making it possible to be off the grid for days. No cell phone access if you point in the right direction.

VFORUM Sydney 2010

John — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:36:09 +0000

Now were racing against a similar pressure clock to cloud enable anything with a bit and a silicon soul. It’s quite exciting to see VMware, with a leading market position in enterprise virtualisation, rally practically every hardware/software vendor, consultancy, and techy into a common charge.

The Peak of Cloud Hype – When We are Uniformly Confused

John — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:00:00 +0000

We are officially at the height of the ‘hype cycle’ for cloud. What does this example actually mean? Like, go home and do the laundry, mop the floors, empty the nappy bin? Accelerate your domestic productivity across a cloud-enabled domestic services platform? Agile housework, performed by an elastic service, adjusting dynamically to any mess you and [...]

The International Internet Home Theatre

John — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:40:22 +0000

Since settling in Sydney, I’ve been dabbling in setting up internet home-theatre. At this point I have all home entertainment media (local and online streaming) available through a single connection and server. Why, well partly because the technology is easy to figure out without cracking a manual and partly due to the fact you don’t really need a dedicated phone line and cable/satellite TV contract anymore. Granted, back in the US I had a tendency to keep these services alive, and ignore the fact you’re dumping 1000’s a year on services that are 5% utilised.

The Great AIX vs. Solaris Debate

John — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:31:59 +0000

Global Relo Redux

John — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:11:44 +0000

Last fall I liked to say….a global move is technically just like a cross country move, only you fly to get there and it costs a lot more money. Here’s the skinny with 20-20 hindsight: Planning – you can plan to death, but it doesn’t change the workload Things – you can throw away things you [...]

Data Centre GreenTech – Sydney

John — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:27:14 +0000

It's good to be involved in a surprisingly fresh movement around data centre efficiency. The overall attitude is constructive and people are trying out new ideas. Reminds me of why I didn't take the job on a rig in the Gulf of Mexico back in 1996.