So, as anyone who has ever been in an environment where meetings are common will tell you, on occasion I have to call a meeting in order to get something done. The convention at my workplace is, if you called the meeting, you own the meeting. Even if the directors of finance, public works, Information Technology, the mayor, and the City Manager are there, I am the leader for the purposes of the meeting.
T0sday, I have a meeting scheduled between some senior IT managers and a company referred to as a strategic partner. Essentially, a strategic partner helps take ownership of your environment. The better off your environment is, the better off your strategic partner is. A strategic partner will attempt to make your infrastructure as stable and reliable as possible, because they know they have done a good job if they never have to send engineers over at 12 am.
The meeting is about Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, and if you're not familiar with that, i'll keep it simple and just tell you that it's the opposite of regular computing, using very small cheap computers instead of expensive ones. This creates a lot of headaches in pushing to get it adopted. The advantages and cost savings are huge, but in government, unlike private industry, soft costs are not tracked.
Fortunately, there is an economic downturn and barrack obama passed a big piece of paper saying we can get money for projects that are kind of like this. We'll see how slaughtered I get at my own meeting.
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