Author Archive: Jonathan Cavell
Jonathan is a solution architect and product manager with Adaptivity. In this role he helps his clients leverage Adaptivity's tools and techniques to align their IT to their business. He applies not only his technical expertise but his MBA to understanding the client's business needs and their technology options.
Over Jonathan's 10 plus years in IT he has shown a passion for applying the newest trends in information technology to practical, business problems. He's done this while working in industry, for IBM, and with several tech startups.
Leveraging SaaS to Get Over Enterprise IT Barriers to Entry
Cloud computing has challenged the way the enterprise thinks about running its software. The old days of identifying a need, developing software and deploying it on a server (or 1000 servers) is over. Now enterprises need to balance varied deployments and sourcing models. At Adaptivity, we make it our mission to help our clients understand [...]
Category: Cloud Computing
Adaptivity Announces a BluePrint4IT Product Blog!
Even though this blog (blog.Adaptivity.com) is chalk full of the opinions of some of the best thought leaders and architects from Adaptivity, it doesn’t usually have any direct information about our products. If this has left you wondering, it’s my pleasure to announce that we’re launching a product blog: blog.Blueprint4IT.com. This new blog will have [...]
Category: Blog Information
IT Consultants Can (Finally) Bring Order From Chaos
On this blog we’ve addressed mostly datacenter problems that effect CIOs, CTOs and their staff. That’s not the only place IT is changing though. There is plenty going on in the world of System Integrators (SIs) and consultancies. More and more these companies are being asked to bring order to the chaos and for a [...]
Category: Business Alignment, Cloud Computing, Datacenter Transformation
The 5Ws of the Workload
There has been a great deal written about infrastructure optimization over the past 20 years, and everyone seems to have their own slant on what should work and why. At Adaptivity, we believe in fit-for-purpose solutions. Not always the cheapest, not always the fastest, not always the highest availability… but always the right choice. [...]
Category: Business Alignment, Cloud Computing, Datacenter Transformation
Lack of Organizational Capability = IT Waste
At Adaptivity, I work helping some of the largest companies in the world upgrade their IT to match the demands of their business. In the process I come across a variety of maturity levels, from those that are managing IT efficiently, to those wasting fortunes on unnecessary technology and resources. Usually I am focused on [...]
Category: Cloud Computing, IT Management
Cloud Availability Management: Know Thy Cloud
On Thursday last week our Twitter handle @Adaptivity barely said a word. The reason was that our primary link to Twitter, HootSuite, crashed. It crashed along with more than 100 other sites when Amazon Web Services experienced an outage. If you had asked me Thursday morning if we had any exposure to Amazon Web Services [...]
Category: Cloud Computing
