Posted in Architecture, Innovation, Technology on March 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Vinnie Mirchandani:
Virtualization. Data Center consolidation. IP connectivity. ITIL process standardization. Shared IT Services. Global Labor Pools. More opex, less capex. SLAs. All building blocks for a utility computing model.Been helping clients look at the delivery model for relatively mature IT areas. Message to vendors - so long as you meet our security, privacy and compliance […]
Posted in Delivery, Technology on March 16th, 2007 No Comments »
An older, but very worthwhile interview with Amazon CTO:
WV The first and foremost lesson is a meta-lesson: If applied, strict service orientation is an excellent technique to achieve isolation; you come to a level of ownership and control that was not seen before. A second lesson is probably that by prohibiting direct database access by […]
Posted in Architecture, Delivery on March 16th, 2007 No Comments »
My big project has finished, and I am thinking about lessons learnt. What is the difference between small and a really large scale system? Greg Papadopoulos has some views on that:
Q: If all you cared about was massive scale, what would you build and how would you operate it?A: With “Brutal Efficiency�:
Hardened metrics (utilization, power, […]