I never knew how good I had it as an application programmer at Morgan Stanley (MS) in the 1980‘s. A long overdue acknowledgement to Scott Abbey and his leadership team for creating an environment that was decades ahead of its time. Terms like agile, low technical debt, developer mobility, DevOps, etc. were not used back then, but they existed in the house that Scott built. One could describe the MS environment circa 1985 as heavily standardized with respect to architectural f

Volatile corporate environments with a high number of mergers and acquisitions, with outsourced operations or with a significant number of contract staff are challenging companies to provide remote access to private corporate applications in a safe and secure manner. The traditional approach is to provide a Virtual Private Network (VPN), however this has one glaring deficiency. It is a network connection! A connection that can be used by any bad actor. A pipe through the peri

For some of you this will feel like shock therapy. Or remember that TV drug commercial from a few decades ago "…this is your brain, this is your brain on drugs…" ? Well, for many IT leaders who are still protecting their internal IT and building private clouds – "…this is your job, this is you without your job…". Time to wake up and think Cloud First! As in public cloud. I come across way too many IT leaders who still protect their internal IT environments, and state how they