by Bradley Clerkin | Aug 4, 2020 | Cloud
Introduction Everyone who is shifting to build new technical solutions in the cloud comes upon the same fork in the road. Do we take how we operate today and shift it to work in the cloud, which will provide some incremental benefit? Or do we completely reimagine how...
by Bradley Clerkin | Jun 23, 2020 | Agile, Cloud
Cloud, cross-functional teams, product development, and agile are changing what organizations need from their architects. Enterprise IT leaders realize they need to help architects evolve, and this starts by evaluating the major functions of architecture groups....
by Bradley Clerkin | Jan 28, 2020 | Automation, DevOps
IT leaders who have successfully driven digital transformation understand that the very idea of DevOps vs ITIL is invalid. These leaders realize it’s a distraction tactic used by vendors and advisors who benefit from IT staying the same or radically changing. The...
by Bradley Clerkin | Aug 28, 2018 | DevOps
At least once a week, I find myself in an exchange with an IT manager about if DevOps is an organic, bottom-up culture thing. Their thinking is this: start hosting a few hackathons, start a DevOps learning center, and get server engineers to understand how servers...
by Bradley Clerkin | Apr 10, 2018 | Automation
Not all infrastructure automation projects are created equal. The spectrum ranges from simple AWS and Azure software-defined data center automations to the extremely complex automation of on-premises applications, which were not even designed to be automated. There is...
