Today marks one year since I passed CCIE Routing and Switching, and was branded number 36708. This is supposed to be a huge achievement, bringing fame and fortune, right? You’re supposed to immediately change jobs, with an accompanying large pay rise, right? No more drudgery for me, I’m a rock star now! Isn’t that how it’s supposed to work? Let’s look at what’s changed in the last 12 months for me:
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(Read more...)Everyone talks about how moving to Cloud-based services can reduce CapEx, and that you only “pay for what you need.” People seem to assume this is a Good Thing, and to my mind, it probably is. But many businesses are obsessed with reducing OpEx, not CapEx. In fact, they will use all manner of tricks to move expenditure to the CapEx bucket. Why is that, and what might it mean for “Pay as you go” models?
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