4:50 PM -- The dog days of summer are a dangerous time for any marketeer. It's too early to announce something really interesting, yet it's just the right time to sow some messaging for the fall conferences.
Enter Microsoft, which today revealed that it's joining up with other tech suppliers to create something called Service Modeling Language (SML) -- an XML-based "common language for expressing information about IT resources and services," including storage ones. The goal? (drumroll...) Interoperability of data management software!
Microsoft has no spec, but a draft has been cobbled together (along with the requisite quotes of support) from BEA, BMC, Cisco, Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, and Sun. The group plans to unite soon and send their draft to a standards body for ratification.
Is your head tipping ever so slightly forward, as your eyelids droop? Perhaps a thin line of drool is starting to snake down your chin.
Get out that hankie. It may be worthwhile to stay awake. First of all, it's Microsoft, so we have to listen, however reluctantly. Second, this new technique just might make life easier for some of you in the end.
With the move to the cloud, CISOs must shift priorities from operating security programs to overseeing (monitoring and auditing) outsourced cybersecurity programs.
2022 was a boon year for IT salaries. 2023 came in like a beast with layoffs, raise freezes, and ChatGPT, but that beast has few teeth.
Age is only a number. Don't let a high number cancel your career.
