Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Microsoft Azure Compute team recaps some of the cool technologies and announcements recently discussed at Microsoft Build. In this episode Corey talks (and Demos) the coolness of our new M-Series machines with hyper-threading and nested virtualization.
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Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Microsoft Azure Compute team is solo this week – Making up for the fact that RICK got a little heavy handed with the editing of the last episode on network watcher. See all the goodness that ended up on the cutting room floor – namely Packet capture and analysis.
Check out the announcement blog post for details on Azure Network Watcher and make sure to follow up with the documentation resources.
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Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Microsoft Azure Compute team goes ROGUE and decides to cut Rick out of the creation process in order to record his own #AzureTwC on the new AzureCLI tooling.
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Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Microsoft Azure Compute team sits down with Chetan Agarwal from the Azure Compute team in order to get an update on the newly released Managed Disk feature
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Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Microsoft Azure Compute team dives into Azure Functions ONCE AGAIN. This time we have Donna Malayeri, Program Manager on the Azure Functions team showing us the new Visual Studio Azure Functions tools.
Visual Studio Tools for Azure Functions – blog post with link to download the tools
Running Azure Functions Locally with the CLI and VS Code
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Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Microsoft Azure Compute team walks us (literally) through some of the highlights his recent Chef Conf Keynote in Austin Texas.
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Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Microsoft Azure Compute Recaps the announcements and cool stuff from the Day 2 Keynote from Scott Guthrie.
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Mark was away this week – I asked Naz to step in to second chair this episode. It’s Episode 249! Two hundred and Forty Nine episode of whatever Microsoft-ies are pinging each other about.
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It’s a little wonky, but a good laugh to enjoy and listen to Patch and Switch over a coffee or a beer on a Friday. It’s that time again, albeit a little late with getting the episode posted. This will be OUR LAST episode using the old technologies.
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But fear not – we shall be back, hopefully while staying on schedule. Our new solution should be ready now that we have moved into the new Bunker 2 weeks ago.
Kind of an ambitious title, eh? I was asked to talk about this subject recently and started to mull some things over in my head. I mean, lets start with the basics – what is “shadow IT” and why should you care. As an IT Professional who works in the IT Space – you should definitely care. It represents an individual / project / team who has gotten fed up with the current process for procuring “IT Services” and has gone around the blocking team and set something up themselves. this could lead to a couple of assumptions:
In case you don’t see the trend here, these are negative assumptions. There may be others, but when the term “shadow IT” comes up, it has generally already gone down the wrong path. This is something everyone in “IT” needs to help prevent – in a more proactive and agile way.
When I was starting out in IT a long time ago – the IT Manager I worked for enjoyed his position on the leadership team as an advisor and a partner. He did a good job of evaluating the requests and collaborating with the various groups and departments on projects that were important to the business. As Projects got more and more complex, additional full time resources and additional skillsets were not able to be secured or got left behind, which lead to a traditional problem of resource constraints. At some point he realized that there was a disconnect with what the business wanted to do and the actual “costs” associated with it. Long story short – the IT Department evolved into a cost center that was pushed out of relevancy with the rest of the business and the old school equivalent of Shadow IT crept in.
How can you keep it from happening OR how can you “recover” from it already appearing in your work environment. To some (on the other side) they see it as a good thing, so long as the project goes well and security / architecture was properly thought out. It’s when crap goes wrong that the chips fall and debts are repaid.
Going back to my story of working in that IT department with my Manager and looking back with 20/20 hindsight, some things could have been done to help overall. If budget was not a factor <sarcasm> we all have unlimited budget, right? </sarcasm> we could have implemented the following:
The main problem here is that all these points are mostly systemic and require some serious reform and commitment from all those folks in charge. What can an individual IT pro do? We are one part of the problem and also one part of the solution to change this perception. Admit it – as IT Folks, we love to solve problems and work on systems so that they provide services to the community of end users. It’s solving these challenges that keep us going and interested in the job. When we are no longer challenged, we get bored and look for new ones.
Here is what I have done to keep me happy and mostly SANE working in IT and help influence change within organizations I work in.
Do these things by themselves make your IT department more agile? Would it prevent a Shadow IT department from forming or fix up one that already has? I don’t think it is a silver bullet. As I mentioned before – it’s a bigger issue than one person to fix, but a bunch of people with a similar mindset AND a supportive management chain that is willing to try to be more responsive and agile will go a LONG WAY to fixing the issues and changing perceptions.
This whole being more agile and having more “dev ops” approach to projects and IT really comes down to some basics that are NOT rooted in various online services, 3rd party tools or solutions sold by different vendors. It’s about the PEOPLE you have in place, their ability to WORK TOGETHER towards a goal and their ability to keep COMMUNICATING without bias. I’m not going to go into a long discussion around DevOps here – my friends Volker Will and David Tesar have been doing a GREAT job talking about DevOps on their blog (http://blogs.technet.com/b/devops/) with more of a People/Process focus. They from an OPS background (which is rather refreshing in the DevOps world) with DEV experiences. Go check them out.
This was very much a commentary piece. I don’t profess to have all the answers – I can only talk from my experiences. We all have war stories about how things have gone wrong in various IT organizations we worked in. Hopefully we also have good stories of when things are going RIGHT as well. Do you have any ideas or stories to share? Comment below!
