• Layoffs suck (2/2) — Where are your people?

    This is Part 2 of 2 for folks who’ve been laid off … reductions in force … reorganizations … role eliminations … whatever. As you start to recover and bounce forward, some folks will tell you to focus on ‘self-care’…

  • Layoffs suck (1/2) — the Five Stages of Grief

    Last week, several thousand talented professionals often with decades of experience and years with their company were cut loose. Over my career, I’ve been laid off … been fired … been ‘reorg’d’ out of the team … etc. So, this…

  • Why BaaS or DRaaS matters for Data & Cyber Resilience

    One of the most important things you can do to ensure data or cyber resilience is to get your data out of the building or cloud region – i.e., the production environment. Get your data out of the building because…

  • How JFK predicted AI and Data Management

    In 1962, JFK gave his famous moonshot speech to put an astronaut on the moon using a rocket “made of new metal alloys, some of which have not yet been invented”. They knew the outcome and the method years in…