{"id":61,"date":"2011-11-01T20:21:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T03:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jsnover.com\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2013-09-22T18:02:08","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T01:02:08","slug":"changing-datacenters-changing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsnover.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/01\/changing-datacenters-changing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Datacenters, Changing IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished giving a keynote talk at the Windows Connection conference here in Las Vegas (I&#8217;m writing this while waiting to board my plane back home).\u00a0\u00a0My topic is one that I&#8217;ve been doing a <strong>lot<\/strong> of thinking about &#8211; how datacenters going to change and what that means to IT Pros.\u00a0 I&#8217;m passionate about the success of IT Pros and want to give them the tools they need to succeed.\u00a0 In this case, the tool that they need to succeed is perspective.\u00a0 The Readers Digest of my talk is:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Datacenters are changing dramatically (largely due to virtualization and the cloud).<\/li>\n<li>Some will prosper.<\/li>\n<li>Others will not.<\/li>\n<li>Plan accordingly.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>A good chunk of this talk deals with the topic of Clouds:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are they?<\/li>\n<li>Are they real?<\/li>\n<li>Will they just go away if\u00a0 we\u00a0ignore them?<\/li>\n<li>Do they mean the death of IT and local datacenters?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know the answers to these questions a year ago when I started asking them but I&#8217;ve chewed on this a lot and come to some conclusions that I thought I would share.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve read a lot about clouds from the pundits but honestly I haven&#8217;t gotten much out of most of that.\u00a0 The one big exception to that is\u00a0<a title=\"Economics of the Cloud\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/presskits\/cloud\/docs\/The-Economics-of-the-Cloud.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Economics of the Cloud <\/a>by Rolf Harms and\u00a0Michael Yamartino which I consider a must-skim\/must-read.\u00a0 In general what you hear is a lot of absolutist ax-grinding from people with an agenda.\u00a0 Let me clear, I have an agenda as well.\u00a0 The difference is that my agenda is the success of IT Pros &#8211; that is what I care about.\u00a0\u00a0 Clearly I&#8217;m busting my butt trying to deliver the set of tools I think you need in order to succeed but I&#8217;ve always been super clear on this point: use my technology\/don&#8217;t use my technology, all I care about is that you are doing what you need to do in order to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>The short summary of my conclusions\u00a0is that I&#8217;m very optimistic about IT pros as long as they understand the challenge and engage in the steps necessary to prosper.\u00a0 But let&#8217;s be clear &#8211; change is required.\u00a0 I&#8217;m\u00a0less optimistic about people that are not interested or willing to invest in their careers and are unwilling to learn new skills.<\/p>\n<p>The PPT version of my slides are available <a title=\"Changing Datacenters, Changing IT (PPT)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jsnover.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ChangingDatacentersChangingIT.pptx\" target=\"_blank\">HERE.<\/a><br \/>\nA PDF version of my slides is available <a title=\"Changing Datacenters, Changing IT (PDF)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jsnover.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/ChangingDatacentersChangingIT.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to hear what you think of my analysis and conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished giving a keynote talk at the Windows Connection conference here in Las Vegas (I&#8217;m writing this while waiting to board my plane back home).\u00a0\u00a0My topic is one that I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of thinking about &#8211; 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