Heavy Strategy
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From technology to workplace culture, from geopolitical trends to economics, Heavy Strategy debates pivotal questions in enterprise IT. Hosts Johna Till Johnson & John Burke bring their technical expertise, analytical acumen, and contrasting viewpoints to discuss complex topics of interest to IT leaders. Frequently irreverent and always thought-provoking, these are the conversations you wish you could have at the leadership table. Tune in and join the think tank, where unanswered questions are better than unquestioned answers.
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Nov 18, 2021 • 0sec
HS013 SaaS Solutions – What Does the Customer Lose ?
SaaS is popular as a 'not my problem' solution and easy-on-pocket entrè. So lets examine adversarial question "What does the customer lose?". Johna and Greg discuss many issues on both in the search for critical analysis on SaaS and the longer term impacts.
Nov 4, 2021 • 39min
Heavy Strategy 012: Professional Development in Infrastructure Technology
A rarely covered topic in technology is professional development. Other careers have extensive programs to ensure practitioners develop and maintain a wide range of skills but this principle is rare in IT.
Oct 20, 2021 • 31min
HS011 Can We Survive IT Supply Chain Disruption
We discuss what we know so far about supply chain disruption, what impacts to your projects. We also consider resellers/distributors survival and what plans can companies make.
Sep 2, 2021 • 34min
HS010 Budgeting for Cybersecurity
When it comes to allocating budget for cybersecurity there are many approaches to breaking it down into line items. We discuss various ideas and possibilities that might offer some insight for your own situation.
Jul 28, 2021 • 0sec
HS 009 The Metrics of IT Security
How do you measure IT Security ? Specifically, how do you decide to allocate budget and justify the underlying reasoning. Most companies allocate a percentage of IT Budget, but Johna argues differently.
Jul 15, 2021 • 31min
HS 008: Five Core Issues for IT Architects in 2021
What five issues would be top of mind for IT architects ? Security, Backup.Recovery, Cloud, Skills Development and Distributed/Hybrid Work. Listen in on why and how these issues are our choices. If you have feedback or want us to followup then head over to our Follow Up page and send us your anonymous (or not) feedback.
May 24, 2021 • 0sec
HS007: Distributed Work and Return To Office Strategies
Returning to the office is a key issue as companies learn that being "in person" is the new remote working
Nov 30, 2020 • 21min
Heavy Strategy 006 – Renting your Hyperconverged Stack, Wrong or Right
Some call it subscription but we call it renting your hyper-converged solution. Whats the business and technology strategy of consumption based HCI ?
Nov 17, 2020 • 0sec
Heavy Strategy 005 – Infection Handling Open Source In Enterprise IT
The question: Is open source is viable for Enterprise IT ? The discussion resulted in describing the mechanics of onboarding new products as infection repsonse. Did the metaphor work ?
Nov 10, 2020 • 28min
Heavy Strategy 004 – Is Kubernetes A Thing
Kubernetes is operational not transformational.
