Public Speaking - Like.. Y’know
<RANT /ON> I was rubbed the wrong way today - listening to a podcast. This is a podcast that I hold in high regard, the hosts are people I have had multiple conversations with over the years and …
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Subscribe via RSS →Buying a Car or Understanding the aaS Concept
This past week - I have been working a lot with an account team to provide an RFP for a potential customer, and it is quite clear that sometimes the sales teams do not understand what an As-A-Service …
What is Hyperconverged Infrastructure? Three Cloud Experts Answer
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) appears to have been confusing people ever since 2012, when the term was first coined by Steve Chambers and Forrester Research. While computing experts agree on the …
Giving - Just for the Sake of Giving
There comes a time in one’s life where you ask yourself, “Is this it? Is this all I am doing? Is this all I want to do?” There are people who love their job, I do. I get to deal with technology all …
My Goals for 2017 - Q1
I was thinking of putting up a post about what I want to achieve in 2017 – but I think that I would really be kidding myself – trying to set expectations for the next 12 months. Making plans for the …
Saying Thank You!
So if I am already on a roll with saying thank you, I wanted to share wiith you all a post I wrote on LinkedIn a month ago (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/saying-thank-you-maish-saidel-keesing) …
A Small Note to Thank two New Sponsors
Writing a blog is mostly fun, but it comes with a cost not only of time and effort but also some cold hard cash (or actually everything is paid today with a credit and it all just numbers on a …
I Don’t Want to Talk to my Cloud Provider
A short while back I participated in an internal event. A number of priority customers of our internal cloud service were invited for a feedback session, to voice their thoughts, listen to roadmap …
Losing the Will to Share
I assume that it has been apparent that I have not been active on my blog. Not for a while at least. The last time I actually wrote something here was just under 6 months ago. I do enjoy information, …
We Are All OpenStack! Are We Really????
Background OpenStack has a vast community, globally distributed, spanning multiple time zones and all sorts and kinds. The community has a culture - a charter, a way of doing things. It is something …