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HP Enterprise Discover 2016 London

https://www.hpe.com/events/discover Discover 2016 is in London next week. There is full coverage at www.hpe.com/discover which I will be sure to be checking out, and pending my schedule I may well try and turn up on the day.

Infrastructure transformation thoughts

I was speaking with a colleague asking about how I mean about infrastructure transformation and how I approach change/transformation. Infrastructure transformation means different things to different target audiences, if we take the infrastructure or IT stance. I’m talking about change which is significant enough to deliver enhancement and enablement to the end user community typically with some outages or service disruption. My approach has always been the baby step approach, fix the fundamentals and everything else follows: Analyse the infrastructure and businesses in scope Identify ideal platforms that can be test cases for transformation Command and control the transformation or change Understand our successes and what could be done better which should feed back into analyse the infrastructure in scope Command and control is something that is very much to my heart and is stated in terms of communication and methodology: A unified line of communication throughout the transformation process; outages, failures are all controlled, declared and resolved transparently. Involve the stakeholders and clarify roles and responsibilities – do it right, do it once Clarity in how we ‘undo’ the change/transformation Red/yellow/green so we have a dashboard reference point of what is or is not complete In summary: Create ocumented and repeatable steps which are easily replicated, that are transparent and includes no assumptions. Avoid ackronyms and complexity where possible to embed civility  and partnering in...

Red Hat Summit is coming soon!

Red Hat Summit is June 23rd to 26th and is set to be a great event, you can register for the event here: I will be watching the coverage online, what I’ll be looking out for is announcements on the journey towards innovation in OpenStack, DevOps and empowering both business and IT to bring together the right combination of technology and technology services to deliver an end to end solution for transformation and enhancement. Do check out the agenda here and the available training or certifications that are on offer and consider that attending these events is not only an investment in technical aspect of your career, it’s the people you meet, the connections you make and the ability I always find to ask questions which I might not feel comfortable asking directly of my colleagues/service provider.  The ability to grab someone and say, I’m having this problem have you seen it before? The official coverage lives here: Red Hat Summit blog: http://summitblog.redhat.com/ Red Hat Blog: http://www.redhat.com/en/about/blog I’ll be watching both online and re-tweeting content so follow me on twitter:...

HP Discover Las Vegas summary

HP Discover was last week and judging by the coverage it went very well and I’ve heard some great feedback through colleagues. I’ve just started a new role as a Software Architect for a large enterprise and was therefore unable to attend.  The official blog lives here and covered it end to end, I did watch when I could (I’ve been between client sites last week). The high level bullet points for you: HP Helps Customers Accelerate the Move to All-Flash Data Centers – further enhancements of their HP 3PAR StoreServ offering, which brings new levels of scale and performanace at a lower operational cost. HP Unveils Developer Focused Testing Solution to Help Businesses Accelerate Application Delivery – this is about creating testing solutions to meet customer requirements end to end, very cool. DreamWorks Animation Selects HP to Automate Its IT Infrastructure – leveraging HP experience and best practice to further automate and enhance DreamWorks IT infrastructure for a more agile and scalable, this will be transformational in terms of the ability to adjust the IT landscape around not only your business but projects and programmes. Updates to HP Helion Portfolio Help Customers Unlock Value of a Hybrid Infrastructure – illustrating their further commitment to bringing and enhancing Cloud and Hybrid business solutions to their customers. There were also further announcements to enhancements to HP OneView 2.0 which will be a welcome to their customers, I’ve heard great things from colleagues about it, so it will be interesting to speak to them about these enhancements. HP Discover is in London this year in December – www.hp.com/go/discover to keep updated and...

Apple Music creates opportunities for all...

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/06/08Introducing-Apple-Music-All-The-Ways-You-Love-Music-All-in-One-Place-.html Introducing Apple Music — All The Ways You Love Music. All in One Place. June 8, 2015 Apple today unveiled Apple Music, a single, intuitive app that combines the best ways to enjoy music — all in one place. Apple Music is a streaming music service, a worldwide live radio station broadcasting 24 hours a day, and a new way for music fans to connect with their favorite artists. Apple Music combines the largest and most diverse collection of music with the expertise of world-class experts who have programmed playlists for your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, PC, Apple TV, and Android phones. Apple Music will be available starting June 30 in over 100 countries. “We love music, and the new Apple Music service puts an incredible experience at every fan’s fingertips,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “All the ways people love enjoying music come together in one app — a revolutionary streaming service, live worldwide radio, and an exciting way for fans to connect with artists.” Read more: apple.com/pr I love the concept and handled effectively this could be brilliant for both Apple and the artist, creating a community and broadcast platform from which I can communicate with my marketplace as a muscian is a powerful and compelling offering. I love the offering which extends to new artists that brings diversity to the marketplace in terms of music choice and revenue opportunities for Apple and it’s partners. The subscription model which extends to family members is very cool, as is the Beats 1 radio, I can’t wait to hear it. Apple’s move into Music end to end, combining a digital platform for artists, a delivery mechanism (Beats 1) and subscription model extends the scope for revenue and engagement with music fans and critically creates opportunities not only for Apple but the marketplace as new services come online.  What I’m waiting for is the agregator code/service model which lets have a unified but varied content distribution mechanism for these new platforms, how do I broadcast content to Apple and Spotify?  How can I have the content the same but...

Apple Pay coming to the UK

http://finextra.com/news/fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=27445 Apple Pay will launch in the UK in July, with eight of the country’s biggest banks, a host of merchants, and Transport for London all on-board. The UK will be the second country to get Apple Pay, which launched in the US last October, enabling users to make online and instore payments with their iPhones and Apple watches. HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Bank and Santander are among the banks backing the service, while Boots, Nando’s and Waitrose lead a host of merchants that will accept iPhone-based payments. In addition, users of public transport in London will be able to pay for journeys with a tap of their handsets. It’s interesting to see Apple launching their payments offering and I love the support of Waitrose and Transport for London, it’s very smart, as is being able to pay for your journey on the...

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