This is a raw and unedited stream of notes from the TechEd 2007 (via Virtual TechEd) keynote by Bob Muglia. This year's theme was Back to the Future. There were a couple of funny moments ... I am watching this remotely via the web ...
- Optimization Models
- Basic, standard, rationalized and dynamic
- Very tangible
- Compare your organization vs. standardized models
- tremendous ROI
- Core Infra model
- business app model
- get better results more quickly
- come to market more quickly
- DSI
- four year journey
- dynamic systems integration
- Four technology initiatives
- User driven
- b
- c
- d
- Long term plan
- Technology is driving change to agile and dynamic
- Needs to connect (partner, supplier, etc.)
- Response time expectations are shrinking
- Experience of kids today is very different
- Get everything instantly and have no tolerance for delay
- Next gen of customers and executives
- Relationships are discovered, established, transacted and done
- Smaller and faster, need to be captured and the first to do this wins
- This is the need for agility - the differentiator
- Gap is growing between agile and non-agile
- Agility gives higher QoS
- Ability to sense a change in the environment and do something about it
- Balance between speed and operational efficiency
- Not something done in one place - it must be system-wide as any single non-agile piece can bring down the entire system.
- Business throws a need over the wall to the developers who in turn write an app and throw it over the wall to infra - but then scale and other problems crop up.
- SoA and virtualization, operationally aware apps, etc will lead the way here.
- How to measure agility? (Gartner speaker)
- Damning effect - 70% on maintaining - treading water
- Some luck ones get to 50-50
- How?
- Focus on cost - change the equation
- From more and more with less
- Pay for what the business needs
- Variable cost model
- Pay for each transaction
- QoS
- Every app doesn’t need five nines or millisecond response time. Build only what it needs.
- Is QoS a silver bullet?
- Not without agility
- Adjust for change
- If you cannot adjust for change then you are just a cost center and will be outsourced
- Outsourcing known for agility?
- Cost, agility and QoS are all a pendulum - all 3 are important
- Hard to measure QoS as businesses are hard to measure
- How do you measure agility?
- Ask the customer and then translate it to what you do in IT
- Measure and improve it
- You can then come full circle and demonstrate it to the business
- Maturity model
- CMM
- Process
- Focus on process - you will get it right
- If process is right technology will change which will in turn mess up process
- Process alone is not enough
- Process, technology and organization
- Every step needs its own ROI
- ROI is not always about $$
- Squeeze cost out in early stages
- Take IT from cost center to profit center
- Later stages require investment
- It is a system
- Focus on cost, QoS and agility
- Dynamic IT (Back to Bob)
- Foundation
- Federated
- Need to work with others more and more
- Share identities
- Share systems
- Access for customers
- SaaS
- Security
- Foundation for federation
- InterOp
- Wide variety of heterogeneous systems
- Committed to making sure your data can be shared with others
- Products are built to be interoperable
- Communities (including open source)
- Virtualization
- Virtualized and physical are cohesive and need to be managed from the same set of tools
- Windows Server 2008 and System Center 2007 demo
- Server core demo
- Sweet Windows Server 2008 wallpaper!
Well, I need to leave to a meeting so you're only getting the first half! :)