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The Cloud - Welcome sign by Blue Coat Photos

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Welcome to Cloud Computing and the new world of IT. This artistic approach is different than the standard rendering of a computer sitting on a cloud.

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IT Architect Series: Stories from the Field by Wood's Stoneworks and Photo Factory

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Available now from Lulu:

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$35 for paperback edition. A less expensive electronic version is also available.

Photo shows final back cover, spine, and front cover. Cover art by Ioannis Dangerous Age.

I am chief editor on this project along with Information Technology Architect Series co-founders John Arrasjid (VCDX001) and Mark Gabryjelski (VCDX023). In this collection, 35 prominent IT Professionals from around the world describe their most challenging datacenter projects and provide insights into why failures occurred, including lessons learned and what they would do differently.

What is it like to be engaged on an IT project when it turns into a horror story?

* What do you do when you are asked to design a resilient and recoverable datacenter in a war zone?

* What happens when your VDI launch fails because of the missed requirement that your customers did not want to mention?

* How do you deal with scope that creeps all the way from a Proof of Concept to production?

* How do you respond when a small underground transformer fire initiates a cascade of events that threaten to take down a major regional data and communications center?

* How do you recover when when a ransomware attack locks out all of your corporation's Windows computers, including computers at 50 remote branch offices that require site visits?

* How do you salvage the project when the project manager from Hell commits to an impossible schedule before you have even finished gathering requirements and designing the solution?

* What happens when your risk assessment identifies a potential water hazard in a datacenter and the customer decides not to mitigate the risk?

* What is the impact when you deliver a new Cloud Management Platform and discover that key stakeholders were not included when the requirements were gathered?

* Can you deliver an effective solution when security is so tight that requirements are not fully disclosed and you are not even permitted to observe the tests you provided for the solution you designed?

* What is the cost of ignoring a potential single point of failure when snow melt drips along an improperly sealed cable and through the main (un-virtualized) file server in a datacenter?

* Can your datacenter migration succeed when lack of preparation and due diligence pushes Murphy’s law into overdrive?

291 pages. Volume 2 will be available December 2022.

Harel Kodesh, President of EMC’s Cloud Infrastructure Business, EMC Corporation; and President of Mozy by Dell EMC

Harel Kodesh is President of EMC's Cloud Infrastructure Business. With 2009 revenues of $14 billion and approximately 43,000 employees, EMC is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information.

Kodesh is responsible for the growth and development of EMC's global cloud infrastructure products and solutions and for the expansion of the business's partner ecosystem. Kodesh is also the President of Mozy, the industry leading online backup service provided by EMC. Kodesh reports to Howard Elias, President and COO of EMC's Information Infrastructure & Cloud Services.

Kodesh previously served as Chief Product Officer at Amdocs, Inc., a leading provider of software and services to the communications industry, where he was responsible for the research and development of the company's global product strategy, development programs, architectures, and applications. Prior to Amdocs, Kodesh held a variety of executive positions at Microsoft, including Vice President of the Information Appliance Division. At Microsoft, he founded the Windows CE operating system and led the development and marketing of this operating system and a wide range of products based on this technology.

Kodesh also served as President and CEO of Wingcast, Inc, a company formed by Qualcomm and Ford Motor Company to provide services for sending, receiving, and storing information via telecommunication devices to the automotive industry. Kodesh earned a master's degree in electrical engineering and bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel.

Robert Scoble & GoGrid team by ServePath

Randy Bias, Michael Sheehan, Robert Scoble, John Keagy, Paul Lappas and Justin Kitagawa

Harel Kodesh, President of EMC’s Cloud Infrastructure Business, and CEO of Decho, the EMC subsidiary focused on personal information management in the “cloud” by Dell EMC

Harel Kodesh is President of EMC's Cloud Infrastructure Business. With 2008 revenues of $14.9 billion and approximately 40,000 employees, EMC is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information.

Kodesh is responsible for the growth and development of EMC's global cloud infrastructure products and solutions and for the expansion of the business's partner ecosystem. Kodesh is also the CEO of Decho, an EMC subsidiary focused on personal information management in the "cloud." Decho (short for "digital echo") helps individuals protect, manage, and enrich their ever-growing quantity of personal digital information. A member of EMC's executive management team, Kodesh reports to Joe Tucci, EMC Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer.

Kodesh previously served as Chief Product Officer at Amdocs, Inc., a leading provider of software and services to the communications industry, where he was responsible for the research and development of the company's global product strategy, development programs, architectures, and applications. Prior to Amdocs, Kodesh held a variety of executive positions at Microsoft, including Vice President of the Information Appliance Division. At Microsoft, he founded the Windows CE operating system and led the development and marketing of this operating system and a wide range of products based on this technology.

Kodesh also served as President and CEO of Wingcast, Inc, a company formed by Qualcomm and Ford Motor Company to provide services for sending, receiving, and storing information via telecommunication devices to the automotive industry. Kodesh earned a master's degree in electrical engineering and bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel.

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