Last week Mike Davis from Ocarina Networks published a blog post "Compression and Dedupe like Oil & Water?" It was a good piece and from what I understand, and I don't know Mike, but he will be taking over blogging as Sunshine has moved on to greener pastures and I wish her the best. The reason for this piece is… Read more »
Anything that upsets IT process is a big deal. It is important, as IT investigates new technologies for the data center, that to truly add value and provide a true ROI, the new technology must not impact all of the existing processes that are currently in place.
I have said it before and I am sure I will say it again, "The hardest thing to change in IT is not technology, it is process."
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The great thing about blogging and independence is that we can post things that add value that we want to share as long as we give the proper recognition. One of my colleagues, Mike Dutch from the CTO office of SSG and long time SNIA member had some thoughts as it pertained to storage tiering that were insightful so together we decided to share this post. I hope you enjoy it.
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The hardest thing to change inside IT is not technology, it is process! I say this because all too often there are technologies available that provide a far superior solution to a complex IT problem, however, this new technology may not fit into your existing business process. Need proof? Let's take data protection as an example. Did you know that VTLs (virtual tape libraries) and data deduplication technologies came out at the exact same point… Read more »
Last week I took a course offered by EMC entitled ‘Lean Six Sigma' - Yellow Belt. This is a training course that is used to help ‘solve problems' in a given process, typically work related. When I think about where the biggest problem is in IT its in the Backup arena so I thought, what a better place to test it.
There are two components to Lean Six Sigma. Lean or Leaning a process is… Read more »