Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner, covering cloud computing (IaaS PaaS, transformation). Violinist and gamer. Opinions are my own. RTs do not imply agreement.
Joined September 2008
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27 Jun 2024
My team at Gartner is hiring! If you have an SRE, cloud operations, or DevOps-oriented automation-first modern ops background, and are tired of being on call, this is a great opportunity! linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
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21 May 2024
I'm looking forward to a formal Google Cloud postmortem. (I did get a private explanation, though. Customers -- and regulators -- quite interested in this incident.)
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23 Feb 2024
I've been doing light updates to a bunch of my older research, but I have a totally new assessment of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: gartner.com/document/5207663 (Gartner paywall). Use cases evaluated are public, private, multicloud, sovereign, and hybrid cloud -- and edge.
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23 Feb 2024
I am delighted to say that my 2nd grader ran @gshowitt's Honey Heist at his school tabletop games club today and it was apparently awesome. HoneyCon was a faerie convention. First foray GMing something other than D&D. I had to black out the profanity on his game printout though.
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10 Jan 2024
This is simultaneously the funniest and saddest thing I've read today: Men hit on scheduling email bot. askamanager.org/2024/01/men-…
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1 Aug 2023
Oh, right, the URL would probably help. github.com/DuckbillGroup/aws…
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1 Aug 2023
I agree with @QuinnyPig's analysis. (But the inquiries from enterprises doing "something psychotic with thousands of IPs" started yesterday...)
28 Jul 2023
BREAKING:
Today is my birthday, so @awscloud got me a present: a full day of answering questions about what their price increase is going to mean for people.
Your AWS bill is about to go up when they start charging for every IPv4 public address in Feb.
lastweekinaws.com/blog/break…
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20 Jun 2023
Very interesting thread, although I suspect some of the disconnect here is what constitutes an outage acknowledged on a status page vs what is "just" a higher than typical error rate that hasn't yet violated an internal SLO.
20 Jun 2023
It's never a good sign for any engineering team when customers detect an outage before they do. If this is hours before: that is embarrassing.
Render (a customer of Google Cloud) detected the outage ~3.5 hours before Google Cloud acknowledged it.
Does not instill confidence.
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12 Jun 2023
Crazy new world we live in. Good reminder that having anything important remotely controlled is a bad idea. (Sources are in thread and here: medium.com/@bjax_/a-tale-of-…)
Amazon is the same firm that remotely deleted books off of Kindles. Weekly reminder not to depend on the cloud!
A delivery driver for Amazon misheard a automated doorbell for “racism” and reported it.
Nobody was home.
Amazon turned off all the lights, shut the entire smart home down before it even started it’s investigation.
Law enforcement via corporation with no due process.
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23 May 2023
said this a bunch recently, but we need a word that means this is equal parts unbelievable and totally believable
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26 Apr 2023
Is wreckage displayed on @googlecloud service health page real? If so, how has "water flooded our Paris DC" turned into "many services in South Carolina are impacted"? (Follow-on effects on the rest of Europe more readily imaginable if still surprising.)
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19 Apr 2023
New research from me (Gartner paywall): "Quick Answer: How Should Executive Leaders Plan for Cloud Outages?" - gtnr.it/41EvTRW
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14 Apr 2023
New research from me (yes, yet another note): "Cloud Governance Best Practices: Managing Vendor Lock-In Risks in Public Cloud IaaS and PaaS". Gartner for Technical Professionals paywall -gtnr.it/3GEtMW4
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11 Apr 2023
New research from me: "Introducing the 'You Build It, You Run It' Modern Operations Pattern" (Gartner paywall: gtnr.it/3KO5Fqu)
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31 Mar 2023
New blog post addressing the reasons that many organizations don't need "FinOps" per se. cloudpundit.com/2023/03/31/f…
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30 Mar 2023
New research from me (with banking analyst Vittorio D'Orazio): "Top Practices for Bank CIOs: Managing Cloud Concentration Risk" (Gartner paywall - gartner.com/document/4219499)
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13 Mar 2023
There's a direct parallel between the way customers want to use cost info and sustainability metrics. cloudpundit.com/2023/03/13/g…
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