First Three Months and the Cloud

This is the post where people start accusing me of working for EMC. Guess what? I do.

Now that Geek Week and onboarding are finished and I got my really cool shirt I wanted to spend a few minutes reflecting on the things I learned in the last few months. This post will introduce a few topics and be an overall summary of my first 3 months as a vSpecialist.

What is great is I didn’t have to be convinced to like or do something I didn’t already think or believe. I am definitely able to articulate my thoughts in a somewhat coherent manner.

I believe the way we DO technology will need to transform in order compete in the future. If you are doing well now and still spending most of your time and money keeping the lights on the margin for error is shrinking. Your IT needs to be empowered to focus on applications that will give you a competitive edge. I have seen that EMC is going all in to make this vision of the cloud reality.

Automate – Manage – Self-Service

We all have a vision of how the “cloud” will help us. For us technical guys our list may look like this:

  1. I want my kids to recognize me.
  2. I want tools that work.
  3. I like sleep.
  4. My Call of Duty Black Ops game needs some work.

Will we all be able to play golf every afternoon because of cloud? Most likely not. Let me know if it happens for you. It will enable us to provide more meaningful impact on the bottom line of our business. If that means I can spend less time pouring over logs to find errors and fixing them and more time improving the delivery and impact of our applications, I am sold. What I seek is less time fighting fires and more time creating value. I see that EMC is aiming (and currently delivers) to provide tools to make this happen. This will be done with tools to help automate, manage and supply self-service IT.

It has been a good few months learning. Soon I will have a few more posts about the last few months.

Coming Soon:

Everyone has a Shiny Thing

EMC Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) is really cool.

You Care about Business Impact

A Team Makes a Difference

3 thoughts on “First Three Months and the Cloud”

  1. Aww man! Working at EMC has taken your California edge off. Now you sound all professional and intellectual. Seriously though, good thoughts. Congratulations on the vSpecialist gig.

  2. Whether he works for EMC or not, Jon is correct… Without systems to help automate, manage and supply self-service IT, administrators WILL find themselves bogged down in administrivia, leading their kids wondering who that haggard individual is at the breakfast table… The benefits of an effective management system for virtual environments can be enormous, and the pain of installing such a system doesn’t have to an issue. Check out the following case study and see how the Computacenter corporate IT team was able to free up resources, reduce ongoing support costs and improve their administrative effectiveness … all within 24hrs… http://www.embotics.com/knowledge-center/case-studies

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