R.I.P.  IT 1962-­‐2014

Long  Live  TI

Jay  Kuri  @JayKuri  Camp  DevOps  Conference  @GlueCon  May  20,  2014

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IT’s  Mandate

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Provide  the  technology  and  tools  so  that  the  organization  can  operate  at  peak  performance.

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How  did  IT  Accomplish  This?

• Manage  and  Control    !

• Control  all  technology  assets  !

• Manage  the  Applications

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Thinking  Was:

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• Better  results  through  complete  control  of  technology.  !

• Lofty  Ideal.    In  practice  results  in  slow  technology  adoption.

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Our  World  has  Changed

• SaaS,  PaaS,  IaaS  have  changed  everything.

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• Users  now  have  a  way  around  slow  adoption  by  technology  departments.  !

• This  is  Shadow  IT.

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We  can’t  put  that  genie  back  in  the  bottle.  

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(nor  do  we  want  to)

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“More than ever before, IT is primed to become application assemblers and

brokers of business services. As SaaS, PaaS and IaaS provide turnkey access to compute capacity, IT will increasingly

focus on composite business applications - rather than a buy-build-manage.” SDN - Liz

McMillan

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Our  App  Center  of  

the  Universe

Big  Bunch  O’Code

Center  of  the  Universe  Model

What’s  Changed  for  Us?

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• No  longer  in  control  of  everything  • Must  understand  more  than  how  technologies  work  !

• No  Longer  dictators  of  infrastructure  – Now  conductors  of  data-­‐flow  • Now  must  understand  how  technologies  work  within  the  organization

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INFORMATION  TECHNOLOGY  becomes  TECHNOLOGY  INTEGRATION

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Our  App

Big  Bunch  O’Code

Part  of  an  Ecosystem  

New  Focus  is  Needed

• Larger  understanding  of  data-­‐flow  within  the  organization  !

• New  tools  are  necessary  to  manage  information  flow

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Focus  Was:

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Understanding,  building  and  managing  technologies  and  tech  infrastructure.

Hook it up.

Build it

Focus  is  now:

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Understanding  and  managing  the  flow  of  data  across  all  the  tools  an  organization  uses—  regardless  of  in-­‐house  or  in  the  Cloud.

Hook it all up

Build it

Goal  is  the  same:

Provide  the  technology  and  tools  so  that  the  organization  can  operate  at  peak  performance.  !

Only  the  method  has  changed.

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Technology Integration Is:

• Understanding the flow of information within the organization

• Managing the links between the apps

• Control data flow directly wherever possible.

I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! —Linus Torvalds

Bad technologists worry about control of technology. Good technologists worry about data flow.

What do we need?• Let go of the idea of controlling technology and

assets

• Focus on understanding the data

• Learn how to facilitate and manage the flow of data

• Find and create new tools to help manage data flow between apps.

We can do it!We’ve already Begun.

We Must Embrace our new roles as Conductors of Data Flow

We must share the new tools and strategies we use to handle our new responsibilities.

We’re all in IT together.

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