{"id":12363,"date":"2012-04-17T18:16:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T17:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12363"},"modified":"2012-04-17T18:16:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T17:16:43","slug":"why-we-failor-how-an-architect-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12363","title":{"rendered":"Why We Fail\u2013Or How An Architect Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Juch, Architect, NetApp<\/p>\n<p>Everyone wants cloud. No one knows what cloud is.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gartner: 78% of IT shops will deploy a private cloud computing strategy by 2014.<\/li>\n<li>CIO.COM: \u201c62% of all IT projects fail\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You will fail if you approach this project as a technology project.&#160; The architect needs to sell this as a business solution.&#160; Architecture is the intersection between technology and business.<\/p>\n<p>Reduce your risk:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Business risk: people and process, managed portfolios, IT\/business alignment.<\/li>\n<li>Technical risk: use reference architecture, platform bundles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The customer must want to do this, you cannot coax\/tease them into it.&#160; Too much change in mindset and established process.<\/p>\n<p>Abandon hope all ye who enter here.&#160; I gave up listening, VPNed into the lab, and continued building a lab for work, happily finding that my COnfigMgr clients were pushed out, updates were downloading, Endpoint was deployed and updated, and I build a few collections and deployed some AV policy.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:1c65ead3-d79c-421c-a47e-d423bdf61016\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Event+Notes\" rel=\"tag\">Event Notes<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Events\" rel=\"tag\">Events<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Private+Cloud\" rel=\"tag\">Private Cloud<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Juch, Architect, NetApp Everyone wants cloud. No one knows what cloud is. Gartner: 78% of IT shops will deploy a private cloud computing strategy by 2014. CIO.COM: \u201c62% of all IT projects fail\u201d You will fail if you approach this project as a technology project.&#160; The architect needs to sell this as a business &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12363\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why We Fail\u2013Or How An Architect Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Cloud&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[176,177,88],"class_list":["post-12363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-eventnotes","tag-events","tag-private-cloud"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}