CIO WaterCooler | David Norfolk | Activity https://www.ciowatercooler.co.uk/members/david-norfolk/activity/ Activity feed for David Norfolk. Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:56:19 +0100 https://buddypress.org/?v=3.4.4 en-GB 30 hourly 2 6931fe5ad2c712cbdb55923ff064302d David Norfolk updated their profile https://www.ciowatercooler.co.uk/news-feed/p/11720/ Wed, 06 Nov 2024 22:12:35 +0000 0 d3f36b0488dbd6491a942aa9a5cf02ac David Norfolk posted a new post. https://ciowatercooler.co.uk/?p=303867 Tue, 04 Aug 2020 11:30:08 +0100 0 05698a1b2aa455d695e916e69f815286 David Norfolk posted a new post. https://ciowatercooler.co.uk/?p=303622 Mon, 27 Jul 2020 06:30:34 +0100 0 ebbc450a0cc00187e6814e6ffbcd75fd David Norfolk posted a new post. https://www.ciowatercooler.co.uk/?p=302839 Mon, 29 Jun 2020 07:00:42 +0100 This one’s a Keeper – with KeeperHR, FTEs can have personalities too

Bloor Editor David Norfolk explores KeeperHR, which aims at elucidating employee personalities and keeping a record of them in a Personality Profile. This one’s a Keeper!

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The Chaos Factory by Adam Wasserman

David Norfolk reviews “The Chaos Factory” by Adam Wasserman, an excellent historical guide to how IT got the way it is today.

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IBM Think 2020 – Online

David Norfolk from Bloor Research provides some perspective on IBM’s Think Conference being hosted online this year. David also shares some of the key developments coming from IBM including advances in…

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A Contemporary Confucian business governance approach

A Confucian governance framework in a tech-based company can allow effective self-regulation, with public trust and technological innovation.

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Costing Cloud Data migrations

A cautionary tale about cloud data migrations as NASA moves its Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) storage onto an AWS Cloud.

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Shift Left - Don’t wait until delivery to test things like Performance and Security

A cautionary tale about the importance of testing against user expectations, from Bloor analyst David Norfolk.

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Secure Cloud Platforms and Business Continuity - Some thoughts, from a holistic POV

A secure cloud platform may make sense – but only in the context of holistic business continuity. Bloor’s David Norfolk explores in his new blog.

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No Code is a major cultural change from Low Code and may be what the Mutable Business needs.

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Restore as a service - Backup is good, but restore is a lot more useful. I talk to W. Curtis Preston, “Mr Backup”.

Talking to Curtis Preston about Druva’s data-management-as-a-service and its support for AWS Snowball Edge, speeding-up and de-risking cloud transitions.

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DevOps Orchestration - the Morpheus tool integration platform looks interesting

Automation of software service delivery links your tools with software APIs – giving you a “software-defined infrastructure” and the Morpheus platform is a good basis for this.

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KPIs for Innovation - Managing Innovation for the Mutable Business

Choosing KPIs is important, they can be financial or non-financial, or composite KPIs that you can’t measure directly may be better indicators than simple KPIs.

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Managing Collaboration - As usual, it’s going to be a culture thing for the Mutable Business, not just a technology thing.

Collaboration is a cultural and good management thing, much more than a technology thing (at first, anyway).

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The days of current public key cryptography, used to secure everything from e-Commerce and Digital Signatures, to internet communications, are definitely numbered, thanks to the advent of Quantum Computing.

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DevOps, an IBM Perspective - it’s going to be a culture thing for the Mutable Business, not just a technology thing, and most of IBM’s ideas have general application

I’ve just had an interesting conversation with a couple of DevOps people from IBM, Eric Minick, OM lead for DevOps and James Hunter strategy lead for DevOps. IBM defines DevOps as an “essential enterprise…

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Future starting here? Looking at DevOps processes beyond simple software development

The recent TSB migration debacle was more than an Ops project and had Dev, testing and customer impacts. In these days of Ops/Dev collaboration, should it have been run as a DevOps-style process – or was it run…

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As companies like TSB are currently finding out, “rip and replace” modernisation of high-capacity business-critical systems is high risk.

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Change platforms change comes from the grass roots

This is an interesting article, for emerging Mutable Businesses, from McKinsey. It was pointed out to me by John Blackham, CEO of XSOL, a New…

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Latest News: Robots Still Rising! Robotic Process Automation Rules OK

When I think of how a Mutable Business (a business in a constant state of evolution and change) can be made to work, I think…

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A mutable Puppet show Configuration management is essential for Mutable without tears

Without Agile configuration management (automated with tools such as Puppet), it is hard to be Mutable without breaking things.

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