Cloud Computing Does Not Spell the End for Common Sense I.T. Management

Sometimes I think I might be the only one who retains commons sense. Really. At least in the area of I.T. Management. Though we had our share of growing pains at b5media, the knowledge gained from working in an enterprise environment at Northrop Grumman was only accentuated by my tenure as the Director of Technology at b5media.

Unfortunately, some common best-use practices in developing infrastructure is often put aside by those with shiny object syndrome surrounding “cloud computing“.

Let me explain.

Early Adopters Are Useless

We like to tell people we are filters. We like to think we are influencers and powerful. We like to think we have an inside angle on what works and what doesn’t work, but we are just small insignificant people in the grand scheme of things, and largely irrelevant.

The Politics of Search

If you went to Amazon and searched for the term “abortion”, would you be offended by the result - Did You Mean Adoption?
Amazon, when it can’t find results based on a search will attempt to “guess” at what the searcher was looking for. In this case, the result offended the Religious Coalition for Reproductive [...]