This is part 2 of the Information Technology Transformation series, describing the creation of the “A-Team” / Architecture Office and the associated Architecture Review process.
IT Transformation – Part 1 – The 90-Day Plan
You have been hired as the new “Chief Architect and Strategist” or “Chief Information Officer” for an organisation that is struggling to deliver services to their customers. Customers are not satisfied, the company is losing money, staff are demoralised and looking for new jobs; things do not work – how are you going to transform the IT Division? How do you make sure that your plans and actions will actually fix the problems your customers are complaining about?
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“Hardening” the Architect
I have always been petrified of public speaking. During my VCDX certification journey, the presentation was always my toughest task, I would spend hours and days stressing and freaking out about talking to the panelists. Yesterday, I realised I was cured. Now public speaking does not bother me in the least; no nerves, no second guessing, just the concise delivery of information to my audience. How did this reversal occur?
New Company, New Job: Empty Your Cup
I have just completed the first week at my new company. I have moved from a medium sized bank with 3,000 employees to the largest service provider in the Middle East with 30,000 employees and millions of customers.
During my time with my previous employer, I was a significant part of the team pushing infrastructure consolidation and application transformation over five years to reach 99% virtualisation with the VMware vCloud Enterprise suite of products. Things were small enough that I could perform a lot of the work myself, which definitely will not work here: team-work and a unified sense of purpose will be the key to success.
NSX DLR and ESG with OSPF – Part 5 – Configure OSPF
This is part 5 of the NSX Distributed Logical Router (DLR) and Edge Services Gateway (ESG) with OSPF configuration guide, describing the configuration of OSPF and DLR DHCP Relay to an external DHCP Server.
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NSX DLR and ESG with OSPF – Part 4 – Deploy ESG
This is part 4 of the NSX Distributed Logical Router (DLR) and Edge Services Gateway (ESG) with OSPF configuration guide, describing the deployment of the Edge Services Gateway (ESG).
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NSX DLR and ESG with OSPF – Part 3 – Deploy Logical Switches and DLR
This is part 3 of the NSX Distributed Logical Router (DLR) and Edge Services Gateway (ESG) with OSPF configuration guide, describing the deployment of the Logical Switches and Distributed Logical Router (DLR).
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