Archives for September 2016

The great telco quality transformation

The telecoms industry has two fundamental issues whose resolution is a multi-decade business and technology transformation effort. This re-engineering programme turns the current “quantities with quality” model into a “quantities of quality” one. Those who prosper will have to overcome a powerfully entrenched incumbent “bandwidth” paradigm, whereby incentives are initially strongly against investing in the […]

The lean and anti fragile data centre – part 4

In this final part of my interview with Pete Cladingbowl we examine what the future might look like once the telecoms industry finally emerges from its ‘lean’ revolution, and masters the management of flow.

The lean and antifragile data centre – part 3

In this third part of my interview with Pete Cladingbowl we consider how the current Internet may be transcended with richer architectures and models that better align to physical and social reality.

The lean and anti fragile data centre – part 2

In this second part of my interview with Pete Cladingbowl we explore how the data centre industry still has much to learn in terms of managing flows of value. The quality control techniques are well known in other industries, but often have yet to be applied.

The lean and antifragile data centre – part 1

Cloud is a new technology domain, and data centre engineering is still a developing discipline. I have interviewed a top expert in cloud infrastructure, Pete Cladingbowl. He has a vision of the ‘lean’ data centre and a better kind of Internet for users to reach it. He also has a roadmap for how these can be […]