by Colin Cecil | Oct 19, 2024 | Best Practices, Data Governance, Service Delivery
When designing an archiving service a key consideration is the level of access available to archived assets. Whilst there is no single solution that meets all needs I’ll focus on the best practice we have used, which is centralized records management...
by Colin Cecil | Sep 3, 2024 | Best Practices, Data Governance, Service Delivery
Just as real world garbagemen have restrictions on what can be thrown into the municipal waste dump there are rules on what the IT Garbagemen will accept into the corporate archive. Our basic rules: The owner of the application or data asset must have been identified....
by Colin Cecil | Aug 21, 2024 | Best Practices, Data Governance, Risk Management, Technical Debt
Cars Age Better Than Applications Every Friday night in local towns there are displays of vintage cars, all immaculately maintained, engines clean, leather polished, windows and dashboards gleaming. Some were top of the line originally, some were more mass produced....
by Colin Cecil | Aug 18, 2024 | Best Practices, Data Governance, Risk Management, Technical Debt
What is Considered an Orphaned Application? Every found a server stuck in a closet still running with some application on it? Acquired a company and all of the employees headed straight for the exit? An unlisted application is found on a server that has to be retired?...
by Colin Cecil | Aug 17, 2024 | Best Practices, Delivering Value, Risk Management
Keep it All or Slice and Dice? Easiest post on this site. Back in the 80s data storage was at a premium, particularly in mainframes. I remember thinking that the 160MB hard disk in my new computer was absurd and that I’d never fill it – now a single video...
by Colin Cecil | Aug 16, 2024 | Best Practices, Data Governance, Delivering Value
Quick aside. This is a group of people celebrating that according to AI are “mixed ethnicity and age”. WTF? Rant #1 Over … On To A Rant About The Fundamental Failure of Application Design Of all the posts on this blog this may be the one that matters...
