All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

In the past week both Vivek Kundra, the U.S. CIO, and Casey Coleman, the CIO of the GSA, have made very strong statements in supporting the use of cloud computing to power Federal programs. A good example is today's announcement about apps.gov. In conversations with Vivek and Casey, I am struck every time by how much their observations that Federal CIOs are focused too much on infrastructure issues are similar to the observations within Amazon a number of years ago that motivated us to develop t

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

In previous installments of this series on restructuring IT , we looked at how IT has adopted industrial practices as it has gone in pursuit of scale. As a result, IT bears striking resemblance to Detroit automakers. Let's look at some common characteristics. Sub-Optimal Quality Detroit suffers its periodic crises of quality. There was a joke that made the rounds during the 1970s that you know you have an American car when you get the factory recall notice in the mail.

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