Kyle Smith
Kyle K. Smith has been a Systems Engineering consultant with Avanade for over 10 years. Kyle has over 20 years of IT consulting experience primarily around Microsoft technologies. He is currently, the Engineering Technical Lead for Avanade’s Elastic Datacenter Solution, which is built around virtualization, Microsoft’s System Center suite and ITIL V3. Prior to becoming an IT consultant Kyle spent 10 years in the Aerospace industry. Kyle is married and the father of two sons and a graduate of Texas A&M University. His hobbies and interest include photography, movies, reading, writing, gardening, hiking, science and technology and space exploration.
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Cloud Computing Requires Ruthless Standards, Explicit Processes and Robust Automation
After attending Microsoft Management Summit 2012 in Las Vegas this past week, a few things became quite clear in regards to implementing cloud-based solutions whether they are private, public or hybrid. The first take-away from MMS was the need for “standards” at all layers of the enterprise architecture. Most IT organizations have IT standards defined for naming [...]
Keeping Pace with Information Technology Trends by Leveraging Social Networking
Pre-Internet Era The Information Technology (IT) landscape is constantly changing and evolving. Before the Internet and social networking, I relied heavily on computer publications like InfoWorld, Computerworld, Digital Review, Network World, PC Week, PC Magazine, PC World and the ever voluminous (400-600 pages) in-depth Byte magazine for information on the latest computer technologies. During [...]
Getting Your House in Order
Cloud computing is all the rage. Unfortunately, everyone seems to have a different definition as to what constitutes cloud computing. Some analysts and service providers define it narrowly as an updated version of utility computing: basically, virtual servers available over the Internet. Others go very broad, arguing anything you consume outside the firewall is “in [...]
Demise of the Graphical User Interface (GUI)
PowerShell – The Retro User Interface (RUI) for Systems Management in the Elastic Datacenter I began my IT career in the 1980’s before the advent of Windows (or Macintosh) and Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). I was proficient with MS-DOS and Netware as well as VMS DCL and UNIX Shell command line interfaces but always found [...]
