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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" > <channel> <title> Comments for Gestalt IT </title> <atom:link href="https://gestaltit.com/comments/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://gestaltit.com/</link> <description>The Latest News in Enterprise IT, part of The Futurum Group</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:24:31 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2</generator> <item> <title> Comment on Automation Sustainability with Nokia Event-Driven Automation by Pete Welcher </title> <link>https://gestaltit.com/tech-field-day/tom/automation-sustainability-with-nokia-event-driven-automation/#comment-102499</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Pete Welcher]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:24:31 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://gestaltit.com/?p=87170#comment-102499</guid> <description><![CDATA[The background re automation at the beginning strikes me as bang on!]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[The background re automation at the beginning strikes me as bang on! ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> Comment on Quantum Myriad鈥檚 Innovative Cloud-Based Architecture聽 by Steve b </title> <link>https://gestaltit.com/sponsored/quantum/andrea-mauro/quantum-myriads-innovative-cloud-based-architecture/#comment-96134</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Steve b]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:01:34 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://gestaltit.com/?p=85280#comment-96134</guid> <description><![CDATA[How does myriad compare to hammerspace?]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[How does myriad compare to hammerspace? ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> Comment on Hardware Can’t Keep Up With Software by Andrew Close </title> <link>https://gestaltit.com/podcast/stephen/hardware-cant-keep-up-with-software/#comment-95414</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Close]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2024 17:58:04 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://gestaltit.com/?p=84796#comment-95414</guid> <description><![CDATA[In this episode you talk about the intermediary between hardware and software. That already exists. It's called firmware. (I believe someone blurted it out briefly.) The ability to update firmware on a hardware component has allowed developers to change the functionality while maintaining the high speed of processing in hardware. Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are great examples of this. The specialized hardware ("accelerators") that you're talking about also has been around for a long time and it's called an ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit). There is always a pendulum-like swing between using generic CPUs and ASICs. ASIC are very fast but only work on specific tasks, are costly, and take a while to develop. General CPUs are produced in huge volumes which lowers the price, handle many tasks, but are slower due to this generalization. There will always be opportunities to use ASICs to speed up processing. Broadcom chips are widely used especially in networking but the application that Broadcom is talking about is specially designed to offload work (a great application is security) from the main CPU. This concept has also been around for a long time. One of the earlier examples of the offload is with the Cisco CIP. This allowed the overhead associated with processing TCP/IP traffic to be offloaded from the IBM mainframe host.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[In this episode you talk about the intermediary between hardware and software. That already exists. It’s called firmware. (I believe someone blurted it out briefly.) The ability to update firmware on a hardware component has allowed developers to change the functionality while maintaining the high speed of processing in hardware. Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are great examples of this. The specialized hardware (“accelerators”) that you’re talking about also has been around for a long time and it’s called an ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit). There is always a pendulum-like swing between using generic CPUs and ASICs. ASIC are very fast but only work on specific tasks, are costly, and take a while to develop. General CPUs are produced in huge volumes which lowers the price, handle many tasks, but are slower due to this generalization. There will always be opportunities to use ASICs to speed up processing. Broadcom chips are widely used especially in networking but the application that Broadcom is talking about is specially designed to offload work (a great application is security) from the main CPU. This concept has also been around for a long time. One of the earlier examples of the offload is with the Cisco CIP. This allowed the overhead associated with processing TCP/IP traffic to be offloaded from the IBM mainframe host. ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> Comment on Meet Jon Hildebrand, Senior Product Architect at 11:11 Systems by Stu Miniman </title> <link>https://gestaltit.com/exclusive/stephen/meet-jon-hildebrand-senior-product-architect-at-1111-systems/#comment-94487</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stu Miniman]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2024 19:41:46 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://gestaltit.com/?p=84476#comment-94487</guid> <description><![CDATA[Love the special edition Pied Piper shirt (was a great VMworld event where we got them)]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[Love the special edition Pied Piper shirt (was a great VMworld event where we got them) ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> Comment on Portworx Data Services Makes MongoDB Simpler by Adam Swidler </title> <link>https://gestaltit.com/sponsored/pure-storage/jdanton/portworx-data-services-makes-mongodb-simpler/#comment-91508</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Swidler]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2023 18:18:45 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://gestaltit.com/?p=82132#comment-91508</guid> <description><![CDATA[Great article and video about how PDS makes MongoDB more efficient and effective to use. MongoDB customers (many of them) will appreciate the increased value and DevOps acceleration, thank you!]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[Great article and video about how PDS makes MongoDB more efficient and effective to use. MongoDB customers (many of them) will appreciate the increased value and DevOps acceleration, thank you! ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> Comment on Full Stack Engineering is a Joke by Pascal Heger </title> <link>https://gestaltit.com/podcast/tom/full-stack-engineering-is-a-joke/#comment-85251</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Pascal Heger]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2022 13:55:33 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://gestaltit.com/?p=75695#comment-85251</guid> <description><![CDATA[We really need to get our heads out of the sand here and face some harsh realities. Our corporate IT department manages some 5000 servers in our main data center. We'd like to think that we provide services that matter to all parts of the business right? The reality is that cloud plays a larger role in many organisations than we're willing to recognize and doesn't require our skillset (even though we keep convincing ourselves they do). In fact, corporate IT is generally considered an impediment to what cloud can do for those that consume it. The facts: 2017: 15.000 Cloud instances 2018: 165.000 Cloud instances 2019: 256.000 Cloud instances 2022: Your guess is as good as mine. Do you think these business teams rely on traditional IT to setup a VPC/VNET or connect their instances to cloud storage? Our corporation consumes over 60 managed services in the cloud. How many of these are managed and provisioned by corporate IT? less than 1% !! This is what full stack engineers do. They are software developers that provision the required infrastructure in minutes so the business can focus on developing to what contributes to the business's bottom line. These consultants get hired by the business and R&D teams to work on a product line with only one objective in mind. Getting to a MVP that they can bring to market in the fastest way possible. Trust me when I say that quality and security are table stakes here. We can't even bring ourselves to provision a new cable in less than a week. Do we really think they're going to sit around and wait for us while struggling to cut through all the red tape we invented to make ourselves feel compliant and process driven? Many would call them rogue, but the reality is that these teams are driven by secure software development frameworks, are SOC2 compliant, have checks and balances that drive quality in their CI/CD pipelines. They've got this stuff figured out and we could actually learn a bunch from them. So do we matter? Absolutely.. but realize that we're an institution that focusses on: Operational Excellence, Cost optimization and security/compliance. While these are important because every dollar of revenue flows through the systems we manage and every order that gets picked relies on them, we don't sufficiently recognize and adapt to what other parts of the business needs. The business's focus is innovation, speed / agility and value / results. How many of those business's objectives can you honestly say that your corporate IT department supports? Can you stand up a data lake in < 1 week? Can you provision HPC workloads or scale Kubernetes clusters globally when requested? Wether we like it or not, we operate at the bottom of the value chain and therefor don't get the same executive visibility (and arguably support) as the teams that develop the new capability that our next customers will buy. Those teams will continue to get funding for staffing to meet their objectives/timelines for as long we don't adapt. So what did we do? We pushed ourselves into the cloud as well. Build our corporate connectivity into the cloud worldwide, moved VPN for employees and business partners there, our corporate internet access can break out in the cloud fully secured, those workloads I mentioned above are now mostly behind our corporate managed agile security infrastructures. We closed 2 data centers and are working on closing the third. Our impact when we went from a 20% to a 100% remote workforce = ZERO. Why? Because we could scale our VPN capabilities horizontally which was already cloud-based. Now Amazon has invited everyone to use/abuse their backbone as a corporate backbone through their latest cloud wan offering and they're essentially trickling into the service provider space. Let's wake up to reality.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[We really need to get our heads out of the sand here and face some harsh realities. Our corporate IT department manages some 5000 servers in our main data center. We’d like to think that we provide services that matter to all parts of the business right? The reality is that cloud plays a larger role in many organisations than we’re willing to recognize and doesn’t require our skillset (even though we keep convincing ourselves they do). In fact, corporate IT is generally considered an impediment to what cloud can do for those that consume it. The facts: 2017: 15.000 Cloud instances 2018: 165.000 Cloud instances 2019: 256.000 Cloud instances 2022: Your guess is as good as mine. Do you think these business teams rely on traditional IT to setup a VPC/VNET or connect their instances to cloud storage? Our corporation consumes over 60 managed services in the cloud. How many of these are managed and provisioned by corporate IT? less than 1% !! This is what full stack engineers do. They are software developers that provision the required infrastructure in minutes so the business can focus on developing to what contributes to the business’s bottom line. These consultants get hired by the business and R&D teams to work on a product line with only one objective in mind. Getting to a MVP that they can bring to market in the fastest way possible. Trust me when I say that quality and security are table stakes here. We can’t even bring ourselves to provision a new cable in less than a week. Do we really think they’re going to sit around and wait for us while struggling to cut through all the red tape we invented to make ourselves feel compliant and process driven? Many would call them rogue, but the reality is that these teams are driven by secure software development frameworks, are SOC2 compliant, have checks and balances that drive quality in their CI/CD pipelines. They’ve got this stuff figured out and we could actually learn a bunch from them. So do we matter? Absolutely.. but realize that we’re an institution that focusses on: Operational Excellence, Cost optimization and security/compliance. While these are important because every dollar of revenue flows through the systems we manage and every order that gets picked relies on them, we don’t sufficiently recognize and adapt to what other parts of the business needs. The business’s focus is innovation, speed / agility and value / results. How many of those business’s objectives can you honestly say that your corporate IT department supports? Can you stand up a data lake in < 1 week? Can you provision HPC workloads or scale Kubernetes clusters globally when requested? Wether we like it or not, we operate at the bottom of the value chain and therefor don’t get the same executive visibility (and arguably support) as the teams that develop the new capability that our next customers will buy. Those teams will continue to get funding for staffing to meet their objectives/timelines for as long we don’t adapt. So what did we do? We pushed ourselves into the cloud as well. Build our corporate connectivity into the cloud worldwide, moved VPN for employees and business partners there, our corporate internet access can break out in the cloud fully secured, those workloads I mentioned above are now mostly behind our corporate managed agile security infrastructures. We closed 2 data centers and are working on closing the third. Our impact when we went from a 20% to a 100% remote workforce = ZERO. Why? Because we could scale our VPN capabilities horizontally which was already cloud-based. Now Amazon has invited everyone to use/abuse their backbone as a corporate backbone through their latest cloud wan offering and they’re essentially trickling into the service provider space. Let’s wake up to reality. ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> Comment on Pure Storage Develops Next-Gen AI-Ready Infrastructure – AIRI//S by Pascal Heger </title> <link>https://gestaltit.com/sponsored/pure-storage/pure-storage-2021/karenlopez/pure-storage-develops-next-gen-ai-ready-infrastructure-airi-s/#comment-85111</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Pascal Heger]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2022 11:57:25 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://gestaltit.com/?p=75819#comment-85111</guid> <description><![CDATA[I wonder if the rack design was inspired by Steve Wynn.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[I wonder if the rack design was inspired by Steve Wynn. ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> Comment on Solving the Problem of Indoor Cellular Coverage by Alex Hammer </title> <link>https://gestaltit.com/sponsored/celona/avril-salter/solving-the-problem-of-indoor-cellular-coverage/#comment-84795</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Alex Hammer]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2022 17:10:53 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://gestaltit.com/?p=75427#comment-84795</guid> <description><![CDATA[Great article! I've been using repeaters and directional antennas, this give me some new options and thoughts as I plan new deployments. Thank you!]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[Great article! I’ve been using repeaters and directional antennas, this give me some new options and thoughts as I plan new deployments. Thank you! ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> Comment on Too Much Security is Just as Bad as No Security by Pascal </title> <link>https://gestaltit.com/podcast/tom/too-much-security-is-just-as-bad-as-no-security/#comment-83270</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Pascal]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2022 15:57:31 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://gestaltit.com/?p=74486#comment-83270</guid> <description><![CDATA[True ZTNA = Zero Throughput, No Access]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[True ZTNA = Zero Throughput, No Access ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title> Comment on Don鈥檛 Get High On Your Own Supply by Chris Grundemann </title> <link>https://gestaltit.com/favorites/tom/dont-get-high-on-your-own-supply/#comment-79246</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Grundemann]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2021 19:26:35 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://gestaltit.com/?p=71687#comment-79246</guid> <description><![CDATA[Glad you liked the essay, Tom! Thanks for the pointer.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[Glad you liked the essay, Tom! Thanks for the pointer. ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>