Hybrid as a Cloud choice, Webinar on Oct 31, 2013

I am on a webinar on Oct 31, 2013 10a PT on Hybrid Clouds.  Hope you can join in the discussion that David, Ted, and I will have with Paul Miller as moderator.

Balancing performance and cost in hybrid clouds

October 31, 2013
10:00am — 11:00am PDT

SPONSORED BY

FEATURED PANELISTS

David S. Linthicum SVP, Cloud Technology Partners

Dave Ohara Founder, GreenM3

Ted Chamberlin Vice President Market Development, Coresite

MODERATED BY

Paul Miller

A hybrid cloud strategy is not a destination. It is an ongoing balancing act in which enterprises weigh a shifting landscape of cost, security, and performance against business needs.

Decision criteria have never been murkier. What used to be “showstopping” issues such as regulatory requirements for private connectivity or a need for real-time data access can now be overcome through secure, low-latency secure interconnections–for a price. The challenge for IT is pairing applications, services, and data sets with the right balance of public and private cloud services, at the right price.

Single Point of Failure brings down Obamacare, Data Services Hub is down

CNN reports on the latest Obamacare outage.  A single point of failure in the Data Services Hub on Sunday caused the site to not be able to finish transactions.

I think the US Government is learning single points of failure are bad.  They need redundancy.  Verizon has the contract for the data hub, seems like AT&T should have been in there as well.  Anyone who has run a 24x7 service would never single source their network connectivity.

A malfunction in key technology behind the Obamacare websiteleft users unable to apply for health coverage Sunday.

Joanne Peters, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, a vendor networking issue at Verizon subsidiary Terremark was to blame. Peters said the vendor had "experienced a failure in a networking component," and the attempted fix crashed the system.

Google Floating data center, may be a store

Now there is more news out there that the reported Google Floating Data Center is a Google Glasses Store.

San Francisco's bay barge mystery: Floating data center or Google Glass store?

After CNET reported Google may be building a floating data center in San Francisco Bay, a report suggested it's actually a floating Google Glass store. Either way, it's almost certainly Google.

One of the Good Things About Obamacare's IT disaster is the possibility of the end of Waterfall Development in Government IT

This whole Obamacare IT stuff is going to keep going for a while.  The rest of the Tech industry can sit on the sidelines and let the US government and its vendors take the hit for outages, security breaches, bad customer service.

One of the possible outcomes is the end of Waterfall development.  The WSJ journal reports on a call for openness and transparency in development.  Words that sound like Agile Development.

The administration "must be fully transparent in their efforts to get the website working. Anything less than complete disclosure and accountability is not acceptable," she said.

Here is one amongst many comparisons of Agile vs. Waterfall.

Agile Vs Waterfall Model

It is worth mentioning here that the Waterfall model is the primitive model type and has been implemented in the development phase time after time. Hence in the due course if time developers found many drawbacks in this model which were later rectified to form various other development models.The common element to all of them being the basic phases of the waterfall approach. We can hence conclude that Agile is also another of its successors which has all the advantages of the primitive waterfall model and has also rectified the disadvantages in this evolved model.

Are you Neat or Messy workspace person? One of you is more creative

Harvard Business Review blog has a post that will polarize some of you.  Are you one who must have your desk clean and organized before you work?  Or are you one juggles a dozen different things with pieces of paper all over, books stacked randomly, and bunches of browser screens open?  One of you has a higher chance of being creative. According the HBR the messy are the more creative.

Don’t Tidy Up Before You Do Your Creative Thinking

by Andrew O’Connell  |   8:30 AM October 23, 2013

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Research participants in a room where papers were scattered on a table and the floor came up with5 times more highly creative ideas for new uses of ping-pong balls than those in a room where papers and markers were neatly arranged, says a team led by Kathleen D. Vohs of the University of Minnesota. A disorderly environment seems to aid creativity by helping people break from tradition, order, and convention, the researchers say.

Data Centers are not the place for creativity so a messy one is not a good one.  But, the desk of those of who work in the data center is another story.