As we all wrap up the year, I thought it'd be fun to go back to all the posts I wrote, and surface a few of the bigger themes and ideas that I ended up continually writing about during 2010.
If you're a regular reader, you know I write a lot. Perhaps too much, in the eyes of some.
Regardless, it was fun to go back over 2010, and pick out the big, resonant themes that I think will carry forward into 2010 and beyond.
Journey To The Private Cloud
Actually, I started writing about this one at the very beginning of 2009, but 2010 is where the discussion went from esoteric to mainstream.
Indeed, the private cloud model has emerged as the dominant cloud approach for so many enterprise IT organizations -- either as a destination, or as a necessary step to using more hybridized approaches of internal and external.
Relevant posts:
The Private Cloud / VCE Presentation
A Cloud Governance Model For Enterprise IT
Private Clouds And The Fixed Vs. Variable Discussion
From Cost-To-Serve To Time-To-Serve
Clouds Need To Be Better Than The Environments They Replace
Bringing Oracle To The Private Cloud
Private Cloud Adoption: The TOS Model
Verticalization vs. Virtualization
Redefining TCO and ROI For The Private Cloud
The Real Rock Stars of EMC World: EMC IT
Private Cloud: From "What?" To "Why?" ... and "How?"
Cloud Is In The Eye Of The Beholder
"Journey To The Private Cloud" Simulcast and Questions Answered (lots and lots of them!)
VCE, Private Clouds and the Agenda For Change
Speed Bumps Along The Way To The Private Cloud
Private Clouds and Dealing With Legacy
Whitepaper: Private Cloud Practitioner's Guide
Securing The Foundations Of The Private Cloud
The Cloud Rush Has Officially Begun In Earnest
Journey To The Private Cloud: Where Are You?
The People Side Of The Business
Industry transitions aren't just about technology, they're about the people who use them -- and, especially the IT organizations who at every level are charting the changes and trying out how adapt to rapid changes.
During 2010, I made an effort to step away from the technology, and speak directly to the people who tirelessly deliver IT services to their organizations day in and day out.
This Friday Is "Hug Your Security Professional Day"
I Should Have Majored In Psychology
Good Governance Equals Good IT?
Managing Your IT Career In Turbulent Times
Lighthouse Projects And Accelerating Change
An Update On "The State Of IT"
Does Your Organization Invest In IT?
Managing Your Skills Portfolio
Helping IT People Get That Business Mindset
A Bit Of Marketing In Your IT Group?
The Business Of Innovation At EMC
Will Challenging Times Demand New IT Leadership Skills?
An Extended Interview With Sanjay Mirchandani
Who Will Be The CFO Of Information?
Cloud Is About Doing What You Do Better
From Cost Center To Value Generator
Creating A New Generation Of Cloud Professionals
Storage, Backup And More ...
I work for EMC. EMC does storage. It wouldn't be an EMC-oriented blog without a healthy dose of storage speak, wouldn't it?
2010 saw a lot of innovation, a lot of change ... and a lot of M&A!
FAST And The Continuing Virtualization Of Storage (multi-part post)
Changing Definitions By Redrawing The Lines
There's More To This Than Just Dense Storage, Folks
Better Tools .. Or Better Models?
Building The Information Utility (multi-part post)
Hard Data On The Backup Paradigm Shift
What's The Best Data Protection Strategy For You?
Virtual Storage, Global Federation and Distributed Cache Coherency Follow-Up
Helping To Avoid A Really Bad Day
Backup Isn't Dead, It's Just Evolving
Building The Atmos Storage Ecosystem
VPLEX: The Birth Of A New Storage Platform
The Impact Of VMware Storage Integration
Mid-Tier Storage: Charting The Changes
I Want My pNFS! (with follow-on post here)
My Friday Rant: Storage As A Commodity
Interest In Object Storage Heats Up
What Does Your Storage RFP Say About You?
Big Data And The Ever-Expanding EMC Petabyte Club
More On The Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform
How Do People Get To High-End Enterprise Storage?
VCE And Converged IT Infrastructure
One of the most controversial topics during 2010 was Vblocks: pre-integrated private clouds in a box, ready to use and backed by a single sales and support organization.
The debate was very heated and still continues to this day -- but the idea isn't going away any time soon.
A New Chapter Begins In The IT Stack Wars
VCE: It's All About Accelerating Change
Another Take At Integrated Vs. Best-Of-Breed
Bigger Thoughts?
Like many of you, I tend to have a natural curiosity in just about everything around me. Sometimes that results in a blog post or two that's somewhat off the beaten path.
The Continuing Consumerization Of Enterprise IT
From Virtualization To Federation
Overcoming Distance and Exploiting Distance
DLP, Collaboration And The Cloud
The 10 Big Ideas That Are Shaping IT Infrastructure Today
Do You Have Corporate Secrets?
I'm Starting A New Blog (link to service provider blog!)
The Challenge Of Opening Your Company
The Coming Revolution In Business Analytics
Where Does The Enterprise Desktop Go From Here?
Of iPads, Productivity and Atmos
That's (Information) Logistics
Do You Know Where Your Money Is?
Advice For Dealing With Mean Girls
Of WikiLeaks and Information Ownership
Oh Yes, My Most Popular Post Of All Time ...
If I ever thought there was a career out there, writing posts that pandered to more mainstream interests, I got conclusive proof last May when I wrote this post on a whim. It resulted in hundreds of thousands of page hits from all over the globe.
I even got a nasty note from my blog service provider wondering what I was doing. To this day, it still gets far more hits than it ever deserved.
Great thoughts! Keep up the posts. Can't wait for the next one.
Posted by: Mary | December 28, 2010 at 04:06 PM