Integration insights regardless of the phase of your M&A activity
“You cannot neglect your infrastructure. Just like the world around you changes, so must it to keep up with your growing business. You ignore this at your peril.” I’m going to take a break from the Saxy Inc. series to provide my $0.02USD on the debacle of the previous week: the meltdown of Southwest Airlines. Especially since I was one …
A great majority of the cost in an M&A is on the IT side, and you CANNOT skip due diligence. Once the beat finally dropped, and Charlie picked himself off the floor, the gravity of the situation began to sit in like a dropped beat. He’s fairly familiar with the Claranetters, and even has a few colleagues there as well. …
Going forward, we will be following the trials of Charlie. He’s the CIO of a company called Saxy Inc. that is dedicated to making saxophones. They make a full range of saxes and are really good at it! Charlie has been instrumental in transforming the business into the leading Sax company it is through the digitization of various activities ranging …
Before I launch into my series, I wanted to commented on the acquisition that has taken the world by storm: Saxy Inc. Oh wait, sorry that’s next time. I’m referring to Musk’s acquisition of Twitter. The media reports have been quite extensive over the course of the acquisition mainly due to the ensuing drama, and everyone loves watching a train …
For a little bit of background, I’ve been attending KubeCon off and on for a while. I attended last year in LA. It was quite the let-down for several reasons, but most important was the surging Delta variant that prompted a new batch of fears resulting in sponsors and attendees cancelling out. This resulted in a very small conference given …
When discussing how to transition to new systems or environments, one of my favorite approaches is the strangler pattern because it allows for a low risk approach to transition to the new environment in a piecemeal fashion. There is a hidden risk with this approach, and it is the price tag is increased tech debt adding complexity and maintenance costs. …
Last week Protocol hosted a panel discussion called So you want to go Multicloud. Now what?There was one common theme that ran counter to the initial topic, and it startedfrom Priyanka Sharma of CNCF: you don’t decide to go multi-cloud. multi-cloud will find you. That one comment shatters perhaps the biggest held belief: that companies choose to go multi-cloud at …
I was talking with my client the other day as they were looking to replace their web gateway from the early 2000s with an enterprise version of an open-source alternative. This client had a long-standing relationship with BigCo, but wasn’t really happy with them. My client’s previous attempt to escape for a smaller vendor with a much better offering and …
Coming of age as a programmer around the .com boom of the late 90s and early 2000s, there was one blogger that had a big influence on the developer me, and that was Joel Spolsky of Fog Creek Software. One of his posts went viral and became the cornerstone of what true software development was supposed to be like, called …
I’m going to share part of a conversation I had while attending KubeCon last fall. We sapped stories on our experiences with esoteric hardware, but there were two that came to mind. The first looked at a regional bank that happened to have a VAX based system running their daily transactions. There was an issue that required rebooting the system …
