Some material from my keynote at the Silicon Valley VMUG User Conference on April 14, 2015: You, as a technologist, have unprecedented power at the moment. The book at the right is The New Kingmakers by Stephen Grady. It’s not long. You should read it. Even if you’re not a developer per se, you should read […]
Category Archives: IT Professionals
A TechReckoning update for September
All my good stuff is now going on over at TechReckoning. Check it out. (I will be at SpiceWorld in Austin, TX Sept 23-24 and VMworld Europe in Barcelona Oct 14-16. Please say hi if you’re there!) 1. Subscribe to the Weekly Newsletter.[This has since moved from Tinyletter to here.] This is where most of […]
On Leaving VMware and Creating a New IT Community
I’m leaving VMware in a few weeks. I’m starting a new community, TechReckoning, where the broader IT community can come together and figure out where things are going with technology, the IT industry, and even their own careers. My time at VMware — almost 9 years — has been the best professional experience of my life, […]
Influencers and Innovation
[Update! The event was cancelled and will be rescheduled!] I’m appearing in a Fireside Chat with Brian Solis at the next Social Media Club of San Francisco meeting on Wednesday, February 26 at 6pm. The event is split into three separate parts, but the overarching theme will be innovation. For my segment, we’ll be talking […]
Don’t predict; create the 2014 you want to see
I don’t like year-end predictions, but we get so many of them in tech and IT. They’re slightly entertaining, but, like Christmas cookies, they’re empty calories. If you eat too many, you probably regret it. What if instead of predicting the way that others are going to change the world next year, we instead envision […]
Three IT podcasts and blogs that need to exist
Here are three IT-oriented podcasts and/or blogs that I think need to exist. I don’t really have the time or obsession to start these, but I think there’s an audience for all of them. Your version may not quite look like mine, but if you’ve been thinking in any of these directions, I encourage you […]
The Consumerization of IT Evals
There is a huge amount of emotion currently surging around software evaluation subscription programs for IT like TechNet and VMTN. IT pros are self-organizing to send a message to Microsoft to not cancel the $349 TechNet Subscription and to VMware to bring back VMTN Subscription, cancelled in 2007 but still reported to have a “very high” […]
Rabbi Hillel’s Three Questions And Your IT Department
What does a set of two-thousand-year-old moral questions have to do with how your IT department should operate? Hillel the Elder, one of the most important leaders in Jewish history, posed what has become known as his Three Questions about how to live your life. If I am not for myself, who will be for […]