IT Paradigm Changed, Have you?
Last month of the year and today have a some talk over lunch with a colleague and decide to pen this down which I see lacking on the market. I have spoken to customers and also spoken to some colleagues and realize the IT paradigm as changed quite substantial. However many are still operating the wrong way which end up even with virtualization, cloud or Software Defined Data Center, etc. it is still not helping them achieve in a big scale. Recently I did a session on BC/DR: Implementing a Holistic Strategy with VMware Solutions session at APJ vForum in Singapore. I mentioned a few things that was abstracted from VCDX Design Defense Blueprint page 11. This diagram has helped me in a lot of discussion and I see many are still not aware. The five things: Availability, Recovery, Security, Manageability, Performance. Taking an example today, when a Application owner request a machine with certain specification in terms of CPU, Memory and space from an Infra p...