Bladewatch.com

What’s Bladewatch about?

My blog covers news, existing best practices and procedures, real world challenges and new technologies to translate how this affected business drivers and how we manage technology within our business. Interviewing different level people to understand how new technology or a change in process or procedures could affect roles and responsibilities, costs and delivery at all levels. Understanding what the barriers to success are and establishing pathways to work around them and deliver on budget, on time, to meet and exceed expectations.

The site is unique in that it is not trying to sell anything. It simply links the dots together, covering what is in the news, what you should know, and covering some simple how to topics with an end user viewpoint in mind. The idea, making the technology easy to understand, and at the same time examine what to think about when deploying or installing technology which the vendors might not talk about, as a result of interviews and conversations I have had with real world enterprise and small business users.

The views published are independent from my employer.

How can you get involved?

Contact us and see what impact we can have by informing our audience about your product and service, or your news and updates. I try to avoid direct marketing, I always welcome new entrants or vendors/services that I haven’t written about. The blog is always written with an inclusive and open stance, if you want to get involved, email my iPhone directly – martin237 at gmail dot com

Some background about me

I’m 31 and have been working in and around the city of London as a server infrastructure analyst since 2002. Technologies that I have worked with range from AIX and Linux/UNIX through to Windows, server equipment including Sun or now Oracle, Compaq/DEC through to HP/IBM and Dell PowerEdge, middleware including MQ Series, DataSynapse and Apache/IHS/IIS and WebSphere.

I am interested in history, architecture, cars and music, read a range of newspapers and magazines, and enjoy traveling.

I’m a Subject Matter Expert and Production Specialist with experience with these fields:

• High Performance Compute solution design, deployment, and support including ‘low latency or high frequency trading solutions’ covering both inhouse and externally sourced compute on demand platforms
• Data center consolidations, decommissions and migrations including the ‘lift and shift process’ covering x86/UNIX servers and proprietary devices such as Decru, Google, Citrix Netscaler and IBM XI50 appliances
• Disaster recovery, business continuity exercises and experience
• Platform stabilization, innovation and ongoing support with standards, consistency and optimization being key objectives
• Process improvement, resource co-ordination, inventory management and reporting, platform standards innovation
• Global team working including follow the sun support
• Application deployment, upgrades and support
• Security patch analysis, deployment and reporting
• Virtualization, server consolidation and decommissioning

 

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