Tag Archives: Change

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Science Experiments / Technology Evaluations

I’m a huge fan of science experiments – Testing both large and small changes to technology, people, and process as part of a strategy of continuous improvement.

Certainly there are formal methodologies that support this approach – Toyota’s Total Quality Management and others such as 6 Sigma. Formal methodologies are great, but science experiments don’t needed to be formal projects and they can certainly and should be performed daily by everyone both on a large and small scale…

Read More Aug 24,2014
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Crawl, Walk, Run…

My friend and colleague Michael Bailey has had the wonderful opportunity to work for VMware for more than 8 years. Michael witnessed first hand the rapid evolution of the vSphere Hypervisor and the spread of virtualization across enterprise data centers. Michael was there to see the amazement of customers when features like vMotion were first demonstrated.

When speaking about compute virtualization, Michael would often say that it is a process of “Crawl, Walk, Run”… There is no need or requirement to virtualize everything – start with small environments such as file and print, and expand your organizational experience from a small foundation. Crawl, Walk, Run provides infrastructure teams time to focus on reviewing the people and process aspects of infrastructure delivery associated with the changes in infrastructure technology.

Read More Aug 5,2014