{"id":179,"date":"2013-12-08T03:54:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T03:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/devops\/?p=179"},"modified":"2013-12-08T03:54:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T03:54:12","slug":"think-like-a-startup-run-like-an-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/2013\/12\/08\/think-like-a-startup-run-like-an-enterprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Think like a startup, run like an enterprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/files\/2013\/12\/Sun-Valley-3001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-180 aligncenter\" alt=\"Sun-Valley-3001\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/files\/2013\/12\/Sun-Valley-3001-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/files\/2013\/12\/Sun-Valley-3001-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/files\/2013\/12\/Sun-Valley-3001-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/devops\/files\/2013\/12\/Sun-Valley-3001.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We live in an age where the IT landscape is drastically shifting. \u00a0Companies like Amazon, Rackspace, Google, and Microsoft are each building more server capacity\u00a0<em>daily<\/em> that the University possesses in its entirety. \u00a0Think about that for a moment. \u00a0In a game where economy of scale wins, these companies are achieving massive economies simply due to the massive scale to which they create their infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>When more than one company has moved beyond the hypervisor to sourcing components directly and building their own servers, storage units, and networking equipment, it is clear that the future points towards global data center consolidation. \u00a0We would be fooling ourselves if we think we can create and manage more resilient, denser, geographically dispersed data centers than companies that employ geologists to ensure tectonic diversity.<\/p>\n<p>In light of this shifting environment, it behooves us now more than ever to challenge our notions of what is possible, what makes sense, and how to operate. \u00a0We need to think lean, like a startup company. \u00a0Pay-as-you-go services like <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\">Amazon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pagerduty.com\/\">PagerDuty<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/newrelic.com\">NewRelic<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cloudability.com\">Cloudability<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3scale.net\">3Scale<\/a> allow us to take advantage of technological advancements without entering into complex, multi-year contracts. \u00a0We can evaluate services\u00a0<em>as we use them<\/em>, determining in real-time if they deliver on the technical and functional objectives we expect from them. \u00a0Practical experience trumps theory every time.<\/p>\n<p>As we adopt these new services, we must focus internally on how that impacts the way we organize our work. \u00a0Processes which make sense in a local virtual\/physical environment may not make sense as we move towards software-defined everything. \u00a0As we go through this organizational\u00a0metamorphosis, we need to actively challenge <em>business as usual<\/em> to arrive at <em>business as optimal<\/em>. \u00a0This will allow us to derive maximum value from our vendors, optimize our organizational agility, improve the way we serve our constituents, provide exciting new opportunities for our staff, and control our costs.<\/p>\n<p>Onward!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in an age where the IT landscape is drastically shifting. \u00a0Companies like Amazon, Rackspace, Google, and Microsoft are each building more server capacity\u00a0daily that the University possesses in its entirety. \u00a0Think about that for a moment. \u00a0In a &hellip; 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