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March 28 2012, 07:25 AM
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Andi Mann
Conducting an orchestra is easy; delivering a new CRM service is hard! A long time ago, someone asked me on Twitter what is the difference between automation and orchestration. It really got me thinking, and eventually I think I answered by using an actual musical orchestra as a metaphor. In this metaphor, having an autonomous musician play the entire violin part of a symphony is somewhat akin to typical automation - lots of activity and complex interactions all handled without external intervention, but all within a reasonably tight sphere of influence, in large part unconnected with the rest of the orchestra. In this case, as long as all your automation is well synchronized, then the symphony sounds at least listenable. However, whenever anything...
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By: Andi Mann
Andi Mann is vice president of Strategic Solutions at CA Technologies. With over 20 years’ experience across four continents, Andi has deep expertise of enterprise software on cloud, mainframe, midrange, server and desktop systems. Andi has worked within IT departments for governments and corporations...
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March 26 2012, 01:25 PM
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Christine Needles
Do you consider yourself a CA AppLogic® cloud platform "power user"? Wish you could prove your expertise and knowledge around effectively administering, managing and implementing CA AppLogic r3? Now you can! CA Education has recently released its latest role-based certification exams for CA AppLogic r3, giving our partners, customers and employees an opportunity to showcase their expertise with the platform. We announced the role-based certification program last summer , offering a rigorous third-party validated approach for measuring skill and expertise in managing, administering, installing, configuring and implementing select CA Technologies solutions on an individual level. Offered for two sets of roles, the CA AppLogic r3 certification...
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By: Christine Needles
Christine Needles ( @cmneedles ) is a senior director of Global Communications at CA Technologies, driving thought leadership initiatives across topic areas including cloud computing, service virtualization and more. With more than 12 years of experience, she is immersed in the world of B2B public relations...
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March 23 2012, 08:10 AM
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Christine Needles
This week we've had two bylines published by top technology sites that have generated quite a bit of commentary and traffic around various social networks. They're both worth a read - following is a quick recap with links to those pieces. Cloud's Teenage Angst - Tips to Ease the Transition First up, Andi Mann's piece " Cloud computing is entering its teen years " was published by GigaOm over the weekend. Andi argues that "The cloud has entered the ‘awkward teenage' phase" but "luckily it's not overrun with rowdy adolescents the way other technology paradigms have been (think early social media)." Andi goes on to provide five suggestions to help IT better manage the transition, because as...
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By: Christine Needles
Christine Needles ( @cmneedles ) is a senior director of Global Communications at CA Technologies, driving thought leadership initiatives across topic areas including cloud computing, service virtualization and more. With more than 12 years of experience, she is immersed in the world of B2B public relations...
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March 21 2012, 08:45 AM
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George Watt
What capacity planning taught us about the value of alignment with Business There has been quite a lot written about the benefits of IT-Business alignment, and even more written about the terrible things that can happen when the teams are not aligned. But, we hear little about happens when business and IT are aligned. As I wrote a response to Chris O'Malley's article , wherein he urges businesspeople to take an active role in creating that alignment, I was reminded of one of the earliest times that we experienced its benefits as private cloud providers. It was one of our breakthrough initiatives in the context of IT-Business alignment so I thought I would share it. "You want it when?!" To state something obvious, one of the...
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By: George Watt
George Watt is vice president of corporate strategy at CA Technologies. A transformative leader with more than 25 years of experience,George has spearheaded initiatives that have enabled organizations to simplify and automate their complex IT infrastructures, deliver new business benefits, and drive...
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March 16 2012, 08:00 AM
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Jeffrey Abbott
Back in high school, when parents went out of town, nothing was more compelling than a party. I had to be there. Parties were my proving ground for social dominance, and provided opportunities that I just couldn't get under parental supervision - enough said. Missing a party made me a social outcast for a week's worth of conversations around the school lunch table. Back then, there were relatively few parties so all of them were significant. But then college happened. Suddenly, there were parties every night. Like before, I tried to go to all of them. And I came close. I made a small impact on every frat party, dorm party, and house party I could find. And I assumed that socially successful people were doing the same. But what I didn't...
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By: Jeffrey Abbott
Jeffrey Abbott ( @JeffreyAbbott ) is a Senior Product Marketing Manager for Cloud Commons at CA Technologies. In this role, Jeff focuses on industry trends and IT management challenges to position the company’s cloud solutions to viable market segments. When he’s not thinking about clouds, Jeff is often...
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