Ladies and Gentlemen, Knowledge Has Left The Building
by richard@tideway.com | 06 Mar 2008 | Permalink | CMDB, IT Management, Teamwork
Back in the early 90’s only 10% of the operational expenditure involved in running a data centre was people , by 2001 it was 30% and today this has risen to around 50% driven both by escalating numbers and scarcity and hence cost of skilled staff.
That’s a significantly increased number of expensive, skilled folk filling war-rooms whiteboards with application topologies and system behavior diagrams in an effort to fix outages faster, plan for safer changes and remove configuration time bombs from their environment.
And what happens to all that work?
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Enterprise Architecture
by Tim Coote | 28 Aug 2007 | Permalink | Everything Else, Featured, IT Management, Project Management, Software, Software Business Models, Software Engineering, Teamwork, Web 2.0
Back in the early 90’s I was a consultant in a large systems integrator. Moore’s law and de facto and de jure standardisations were breaking proprietary systems’ stranglehold on customers, driving the ambitions of organsations to increase the scope of their IT across the value chain and to get economies of scale of technology ownership, while increasing the end-to-end automation of their enterprises to reduce business operational costs.
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The First Day at School
by Charles Oldham | 14 Aug 2007 | Permalink | Featured, Software, Software Engineering, Teamwork
This weekend I was again enjoying the company of my nearly four year old nephew (the nearly being important at this age) when it struck me how in many ways the journey to our new release of Tideway Foundation has parallels to him growing up.
Whilst I…
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Dispatches from the field
by Phil Mayes | 20 Apr 2007 | Permalink | Everything Else, Teamwork, User Experience
Hi and welcome to my blog. My name is Phillip Mayes (though I prefer Phil) and I’m a Technical Consultant for Tideway Systems. I’m writing what I hope will be the first of many entries sharing my experiences about what I do for Tideway, the challenges I face and the…
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