Navigating Digital Transformation Challenges with the Platforming Approach: A Guide for Leaders.
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by Julio Villarreal Pelegrino
1y ago
Leadership plays a central role in tactical and strategic decision-making and balancing change and stability. Navigating this intersection requires strong leadership that can make difficult decisions, communicate effectively with stakeholders, and maintain a clear vision for the future. On the one hand, leaders must make short-term, tactical decisions that address immediate needs and challenges. On the other hand, they must also consider the organization's long-term strategic direction and ensure it is aligned with its goals. Additionally, leaders must find a way to balance the need for chang ..read more
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How to drive out complexity, lower costs, and increase security in the Modern Enterprise with an Automation Strategy.
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by Julio Villarreal Pelegrino
2y ago
“Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” – Bill Gates Businesses are evolving; some are in this evolution process because they want to transform for good. On the other hand, a few others are in this evolution process because of external factors; they need to keep up with the market to survive. No matter which of these two scenarios is triggering this Darwinian process, one thing is true: every business is becoming digital. With these increases in innovation and digital adoption in the Enterprise, IT departments are at the helm of the drive for innovation ..read more
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Embracing Open Transformation
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by Julio Villarreal Pelegrino
3y ago
"Magic doesn’t require beauty,’ she said. 'Easy magic is pretty. Great magic asks that you trouble the waters. It requires a disruption, something new." ― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic It’s been a while since my last post. To get back on the saddle, I want to tell you a story, as you may assume by the title, about Open Transformation. The funny thing is that this article’s title does not describe my true feelings about the topic at hand; a much appropriate title should be something like this: "The process of embracing Open (Digital) Transformation ..read more
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An introduction to Enhanced Platform Awareness (EPA) capabilities in OpenStack
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by Julio Villarreal Pelegrino
4y ago
One of the main topics of discussion when architecting an OpenStack cloud to support Telco workloads is around Enhanced Platform Awareness (EPA) capabilities. After all, for an NFV platform to be useful, its virtualized functions must meet or exceed the performance of physical implementations. Some of the EPA features that contribute to the VNF performance are described briefly in this blog post and are fully supported by OpenStack. Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) In previous hardware architectures (back in the early days of computing), CPUs ran slower than their memory. That changed conside ..read more
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An introduction to Enhanced Platform Awareness (EPA) capabilities in OpenStack
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by Julio Villarreal Pelegrino
4y ago
One of the main topics of discussion when architecting an OpenStack cloud to support Telco workloads is around Enhanced Platform Awareness (EPA) capabilities. After all, for an NFV platform to be useful, its virtualized functions must meet or exceed the performance of physical implementations. Some of the EPA features that contribute to the VNF performance are described briefly in this blog post and are fully supported by OpenStack. Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) In previous hardware architectures (back in the early days of computing), CPUs ran slower than their memory. That changed conside ..read more
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Technologies to watch in 2019
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by Julio Villarreal Pelegrino
4y ago
First of all: 1. I work for Red Hat Inc. 2. Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer. Another year is over, and now, like is customary in this blog every January, let’s take a look to some of the technologies that I believe you should follow up close this 2019. Kubernetes and Container Native Virtualization (KubeVirt) This is the year for Container Native Virtualization, driven by the needs of a unified platform to manage containers and virtual machines. KubeVirt will finally get out of proof-of-concept environments and make his way to test and pilot platforms, providing the vir ..read more
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Beyond technology: the process of Digital Transformation
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by Julio Villarreal Pelegrino
4y ago
No doubts that Digital Transformation (DT) has been part of most business strategies in every industry (Telecom, Finance, Retail, Software, and more) in the last couple years. Every executive I’ve had the opportunity to talk to, is either in the process or about to be in the process of Digital Transformation. Moreover, the message is direct, if you are an executive and are NOT thinking about Digital Transformation, you need to acknowledge, your company may not be able to compete soon. However, what is Digital Transformation? The concept of Digital Transformation is somewhat ambiguous and a sim ..read more
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High Performance Computing (HPC) on OpenStack: a few recommendations.
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by Julio Villarreal Pelegrino
4y ago
OpenStack is, without doubt, an exciting project and the lead open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform. In the last couple years, I had the privilege to architect and deployed dozens of OpenStack clouds for multiple customers and use cases. One of the use cases that I worked on in the last year was High-Performance Computing (HPC) on OpenStack. In this blog, I am going to cover some of the considerations to host high performance and high throughput workloads. First, let's’ start with three types of architectures that could be used when hosting HPC workloads on OpenStack: Virtualized HP ..read more
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Ansible and Ansible Tower: best practices from the field
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by Julio Villarreal Pelegrino
4y ago
“Automation is not magic” --me One of my favorite open source projects in the last couple years is Ansible. Things got even more interesting for me after Red Hat (my employer) acquired the software in 2015 and I got to architect, deploy and write Ansible roles and playbooks as part of my day-to-day. In this article, I want to share some recommendations based on first-hand experience in the field. But before we start, what is Ansible? Created by Michael DeHaan Open source software is written in Python (https://github.com/ansible/ansible) Modules can be written in any language that can retur ..read more
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What technologies to follow and learn in 2018!
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by Julio Villarreal Pelegrino
4y ago
First of all: 1. I work for Red Hat Inc. 2. Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer. 2017 is gone and with it a great year for technology and innovation. Now, it is time to look a little bit into the future and talk about couple technologies that I believe that will become more relevant in this new year 2018. 1. Managed Security Last year was a terrible year for IT Security after multiple high profile breaches like the ones that happened to Equifax, BCBS, Alterix, and a few other companies. I do believe that this year security will be top-priority for CIOs and CTOs across the ..read more
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