The first article reviewed the self-assessment in an organization-wide viewpoint and evaluate the key components in the company IT is part of. The approach on this one is going to be more of an internal retrospective about the IT understanding, affecting our biggest assets and partners: Users. While during the first assessment, we could take an opinion of what we […]
As a continuation for my “Bob Dylan and What’s Wrong with IT Today” (Part I available here), I’m going to jump into the “busy being born” aspects, the qualities I believe will help IT on evolving. I’ve covered in the first article the “busy dying” portions that, of course, represent the habits, misconceptions and some of the existing problems IT […]
I decided to come back to my writing process with a musical approach and related to a topic we all see quite often, even if we are not paying attention or just deciding to look away. Let’s get right into it. What’s the Bob Dylan Reference? I’m not a Bob Dylan expert, but you don’t have to be quite […]
Continuing the articles related about understanding the Azure Stack components and features (previous article: “Consumption Model vs Capacity Model”), in this post the idea is to cover the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) components available. As we already know, Azure Stack is intended to be the Azure instance in your datacenter, but even though they are using the same code, […]
So, the long-awaited Azure Stack finally has been released to the Integrated Systems, meaning the shipments will start in September. And what to do now? Do I know if Azure Stack will be a good investment? What are the things I can and I cannot do with Azure Stack? Should I connect my platform with Azure or maintain a disconnected […]
And Azure Stack General Availability (GA) is finally released: Dell EMC, HPE and Lenovo are officially taking orders starting July 10 and the initial Azure Stack shipments will begin in September 2017. But, for those anxious IT experts that cannot wait until September there’s a solution: Microsoft also released the Azure Stack Development Kit (single-node and proof-of-concept mode) for download […]
Seems that Azure Stack GA might just hit a public release anytime now (I recently mentioned in a previous post that August 2017 was a realistic date) since Microsoft just published a new paper confirming the final pricing for Azure Stack and answering some rumors like a disconnected a fixed fee mode. Update: Azure Stack has been released in GA […]
Azure Stack confirmed release date has not yet been confirmed, the mid-2017 has arrived but there are strong rumors indicating that the definitive release date for Azure Stack will be August 2017. While we get closer to the GA deadline, Microsoft confirmed two new hardware OEM Vendors: Avanade and Huawei. Update: Azure Stack has been released in GA (General […]
For those thinking that there was nothing else coming up for Azure Stack TP3 and we only needed to wait for GA, Microsoft released an update for the preview which enables Azure PaaS services. These new services enabled are: Azure App Service and Azure Functions. Update: Azure Stack has been released in GA (General Availability) with updated features, Azure […]
Azure Stack GA is right around the corner, scheduled for mid-2017 this Azure appliance is promising to change the way organizations think about hybrid cloud deployments or, even more, how datacenters are conceived. I wanted to recap some of the most important topics and features we should expect when the Azure Stack GA version is released. After TP3 release, […]
Technology and user experience enthusiast, book author, customer-focused in the Dell Technologies family. Sharing a few thoughts around evaluating, designing, implementing and managing IT solutions
Augusto Alvarez 