What, exactly, have you eliminated when you outsource to the cloud? Some of the folks that build servers, a few (but not all) your application development staff and perhaps a few DBAs. You will still need your network engineers, your client support helpdesk (unless you have already outsourced that), your business analysts, your application admins and a good part of your development staff. If you think you can really outsource "a large chunk" of your IT staff, then I suspect you've never seen a company try to do it. The companies that do it will slash their staff, bring in the outsource firms, and think they cut a fat hog. Then the outsource fees will start to rise as the company figures out that the folks they had on the IT staff really were doing a lot more than the management thought - and now they actually have to pay to get people to work weekends and nights. The company will also find out that asking for something that is out of scope of the SLA or project requirements isn't just a matter of telling everyone to work harder - they will actually have to pay money when that happens. Of course, the outsource firm will also be trying to load the support roster with every fresh-off-the-plane, junior tech they can - and eventually the company will figure out that they are paying the same or more for far inferior service.
The cloud has many advantages - but none of them involve dramatically lowering the size of the IT staff or reducing IT's role as a strategic partner to the company.
Anyone who thinks using the cloud gets you away from using your own IT dept is smoking crack. Want to have single sign-on with your corporate active directory? You need IT. Want to integrate your Salesforce.com CRM instance with your in-house ERP system to get customers and orders? You need your IT dept. Want to use a cloud BI tool to make cool dashboards for your CEO? You need your IT dept to feed you data.
It's really simple - stop seeing your IT dept as a drive-thru fast food joint. Instead of coming to them with a half-baked solution that you need yesterday, try actually including them at the *beginning* of your thought process - and partner with them to meet corporate objectives. Stop thinking that *your* bonus objectives are the center of the universe - and start working together with the rest of the company's senior leadership to develop a prioritized portfolio of projects that your IT dept can help you execute. Take ownership of the business problem, the business process, the business data and the business value of the proposed solution - and let IT take ownership of the technical design, the system vendor management, the system implementation and the system maintenance.
The one part of the dot-com days that I really miss is that IT was actually considered a strategic partner & leader in the company. Now that the accountants and salesmen are back in-charge, it's 1985 all over again...
The Newton was failing to do what the iPhone and iPad later accomplished. If Apple had been sold, would they have continued to invest in a concept that had already disappointed Apple? I think McNealy is right - Sun was focused on Java and building the best platforms to run Oracle databases. Slashdot always thinks it's only about the PCs & consumer devices - but that was not where Sun ever focused their energy. Apple's market would have been very strange territory for Sun.
Same here. I have used AVG for several years. My son's XP box got hosed a few weeks ago when he upgraded to 2011 and we discovered AVG no longer plays well with Malwarebytes (or many others), and now my Win7/64 box gets hit with this crap. I'm done with AVG - bye-bye.
They already randomly send sheriff's K9 units through commuter trains in Los Angeles, and they also randomly set-up bag check points at the train stations. It's not the TSA with body scanners, but I could definitely see us getting there relatively soon - probably just as soon as someone proposes that a civilian force can do it for less money than LEOs.
Jack Bauer without the ability for Cloe to send the codes to shutdown the entire country's nuclear launch capability to Jack's PDA while driving through the Holland Tunnel? I don't think so! Jack would show up at LaHood's house and shove that jammer up his ass.
You are thinking like a 20-something techie. Start thinking like a 40-something with kids. Learn how to be a leader, how to manage projects & customers and how the business operates. Look around your office and find the 45 year old developer grinding away in the corner - then ask yourself: "Do I want to be that guy in 20 years?"
You were awarded $19,462 Did that cover the costs of this litigation? Yes, I know you were pro se, but I'll also bet you could have been taking a lot of photos during the time you were researching and writing briefs...
You are missing several huge pieces of the Oracle strategy. ERP (eBusiness Suite, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Agile, Fusion), CRM (Siebel), middleware (BEA, Hyperion and too many little guys to list), etc, etc. Yes, most of those have databases and Oracle wants them all to be an Oracle DBMS - but they also want to own ALL the corporate enterprise applications being used today. Sure, it's databases - but it's also much, much more.
Teach them how to deal with bean-counting CFOs who second guess every critical system upgrade, every technology project and every additional head you need to add to support the new systems *they* asked for. Teach them how to say NO to the bonehead Sales executive who thinks everything can be delivered faster if you just make enough phone calls. Teach them how to tell the business users that you can NOT successfully automate an undocumented ad hoc process.
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space."
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What, exactly, have you eliminated when you outsource to the cloud? Some of the folks that build servers, a few (but not all) your application development staff and perhaps a few DBAs. You will still need your network engineers, your client support helpdesk (unless you have already outsourced that), your business analysts, your application admins and a good part of your development staff. If you think you can really outsource "a large chunk" of your IT staff, then I suspect you've never seen a company try to do it. The companies that do it will slash their staff, bring in the outsource firms, and think they cut a fat hog. Then the outsource fees will start to rise as the company figures out that the folks they had on the IT staff really were doing a lot more than the management thought - and now they actually have to pay to get people to work weekends and nights. The company will also find out that asking for something that is out of scope of the SLA or project requirements isn't just a matter of telling everyone to work harder - they will actually have to pay money when that happens. Of course, the outsource firm will also be trying to load the support roster with every fresh-off-the-plane, junior tech they can - and eventually the company will figure out that they are paying the same or more for far inferior service.
The cloud has many advantages - but none of them involve dramatically lowering the size of the IT staff or reducing IT's role as a strategic partner to the company.
Anyone who thinks using the cloud gets you away from using your own IT dept is smoking crack. Want to have single sign-on with your corporate active directory? You need IT. Want to integrate your Salesforce.com CRM instance with your in-house ERP system to get customers and orders? You need your IT dept. Want to use a cloud BI tool to make cool dashboards for your CEO? You need your IT dept to feed you data.
It's really simple - stop seeing your IT dept as a drive-thru fast food joint. Instead of coming to them with a half-baked solution that you need yesterday, try actually including them at the *beginning* of your thought process - and partner with them to meet corporate objectives. Stop thinking that *your* bonus objectives are the center of the universe - and start working together with the rest of the company's senior leadership to develop a prioritized portfolio of projects that your IT dept can help you execute. Take ownership of the business problem, the business process, the business data and the business value of the proposed solution - and let IT take ownership of the technical design, the system vendor management, the system implementation and the system maintenance.
The one part of the dot-com days that I really miss is that IT was actually considered a strategic partner & leader in the company. Now that the accountants and salesmen are back in-charge, it's 1985 all over again...
What do the workers in the HUMANCENTiPAD factory have to sign?
... Brawndo's got electrolytes!
... I really wish you hadn't sent those launch codes to the guys in the silos...
I agree it's a troll - must have been a slow news day for Taco.
However, given the state of the infrastructure in place at many hospitals, they are probably still running cc:Mail on or Groupwise on Netware.
...if the actors & the producers could resolve their contract disputes before the end of the season.
If you are going to come to this planet, at least learn how to drive!!
The Tesla is a "statement car" - it is intended to show that electric power is not just for smug twits who enjoy the smell of their own farts.
Apparently, the people at Tesla have spent too much time with their noses firmly planted between their own butt cheeks.
void blood_sucking_jackals (Customer foolish_human)
{
do {
foolish_human.current_year_premium = foolish_human.previous_year_premium * 1.1;
for (i=0; i < foolish_human.number_outstanding_medical_claims; i++)
foolish_human.medical_claim[i] = DENIED;
foolish_human.SendMessage.("F-U");
} while (foolish_human.breathing != DEAD);
foolish_human.life_claim = DENIED;
foolish_human.SendMessage("F-U");
}
The Newton was failing to do what the iPhone and iPad later accomplished. If Apple had been sold, would they have continued to invest in a concept that had already disappointed Apple? I think McNealy is right - Sun was focused on Java and building the best platforms to run Oracle databases. Slashdot always thinks it's only about the PCs & consumer devices - but that was not where Sun ever focused their energy. Apple's market would have been very strange territory for Sun.
Same here. I have used AVG for several years. My son's XP box got hosed a few weeks ago when he upgraded to 2011 and we discovered AVG no longer plays well with Malwarebytes (or many others), and now my Win7/64 box gets hit with this crap. I'm done with AVG - bye-bye.
They already randomly send sheriff's K9 units through commuter trains in Los Angeles, and they also randomly set-up bag check points at the train stations. It's not the TSA with body scanners, but I could definitely see us getting there relatively soon - probably just as soon as someone proposes that a civilian force can do it for less money than LEOs.
Fiction is becoming reality.
Jack Bauer without the ability for Cloe to send the codes to shutdown the entire country's nuclear launch capability to Jack's PDA while driving through the Holland Tunnel? I don't think so! Jack would show up at LaHood's house and shove that jammer up his ass.
They really shouldn't let Borg drones become teachers.
You are thinking like a 20-something techie. Start thinking like a 40-something with kids. Learn how to be a leader, how to manage projects & customers and how the business operates. Look around your office and find the 45 year old developer grinding away in the corner - then ask yourself: "Do I want to be that guy in 20 years?"
You were awarded $19,462 Did that cover the costs of this litigation? Yes, I know you were pro se, but I'll also bet you could have been taking a lot of photos during the time you were researching and writing briefs...
"Two or three years ago it was just another snake cult, now... they're everywhere." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082198/
You are missing several huge pieces of the Oracle strategy. ERP (eBusiness Suite, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Agile, Fusion), CRM (Siebel), middleware (BEA, Hyperion and too many little guys to list), etc, etc. Yes, most of those have databases and Oracle wants them all to be an Oracle DBMS - but they also want to own ALL the corporate enterprise applications being used today. Sure, it's databases - but it's also much, much more.
87? That's 66 years late for her date with the Sandman...
Sounds like "the ugliest shirt in the world" from William Gibson's Zero History.
Teach them how to deal with bean-counting CFOs who second guess every critical system upgrade, every technology project and every additional head you need to add to support the new systems *they* asked for. Teach them how to say NO to the bonehead Sales executive who thinks everything can be delivered faster if you just make enough phone calls. Teach them how to tell the business users that you can NOT successfully automate an undocumented ad hoc process.
Maybe the ETs were just much quicker about switching from broadcast TV to digital cable...
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space."