Category: Enterprise Architecture

Thoughts on Infrastructure Lifecycle Management

Over the years I had the fortunate opportunity to design, implement, enhance or operate a multitude of IT infrastructures, ranging from “bare-metal” physical datacenter to highly abstracted “pseudo” infrastructures offered by Public Cloud.

What I began to realize is that, while the inner workings of physical and cloud infrastructures are vastly different, the methodologies used for managing infrastructure lifecycle are absolutely the same. Continue reading “Thoughts on Infrastructure Lifecycle Management”

Get IT Operations Out of the “Engine Room”!

For years IT Operations has been put in the situation to remediate service outages with only basic knowledge and basic support from the Dev teams. Additionally, the broad variety of technologies deployed in a typical IT infrastructure has become a barrier  to embracing standards. In order to still be able to maintain decent quality of service, IT Operations has been forced to build and operate IT infrastructures using fairly basic tooling. Continue reading “Get IT Operations Out of the “Engine Room”!”