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: Cloud & Virtualization
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 […]
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 […]
Tech podcasts to watch out for
Although I’ve produced a weekly podcast for around 5 years, I’ve actually never been an habitual podcast listener. Recently I’ve developed the habit. A number of things came together for me to cause this: I was interested in making my podcast better. I’ve been doing the same thing on the podcast for a long time. I […]