Ops be Nimble, Ops be Quick…

New innovative products and business models, IT Consumerization, and re-emergent influx of venture capital are accelerating industry and business velocity. [warning: this is a Public Service Announcement: The following paragraph is a huge run-on sentence to incorporate every major IT trend in recent times] In response to business pressures to move more quickly, we are…

Automate (Wisely) or Die

It surprises me how not enough Operations organizations emphasize and measure automation progress and achievements. It is a target rich environment of repetitive manual tasks across a vast quantity of servers, service requests, tickets, alarms, test cases, etc. A growing company adds more “stuff” annually and should be reluctant to add staff or operational costs.…