Today's Tech Digest - Oct 03, 2019

Is hybrid cloud certification right for you?

One of the biggest mistakes a company could make, in Russell’s opinion, is having only one hybrid cloud expert. “You can have someone who acts as a catalyst – someone who is curious about the technology and gets you started. But the organization won’t survive well if only one person has the skill set. You need to have best practices for mindshare and knowledge transfer,” he says. Fuchs feels similarly: “We want to encourage purposeful cloud adoption.” NetApp holds workshops at customer sites to get stakeholders up to speed on the foundational aspects of hybrid cloud, as well as to provide specialized training for specific roles relative to the cloud such as how to best use analytics. “These decisions are getting more sophisticated and more data-driven because the tools are getting stronger, the processes are getting stronger, and education is getting stronger. Organizations are able to review their bills and try to reduce costs. The more trained your team is, the likelier they are to make good decisions,” he says. Williams recommends that anyone interested in gaining certification “should examine their own role in managing hybrid cloud operations and go after the certification that best supports the organization’s needs as well as their own,” she advises

Everything you need to know about Microsoft's dual-screen OS

For all intents and purposes, yes, Windows 10X is the official name for Windows Lite/Santorini. It is not a new operating system. It's Windows 10, in a more modular form, optimized for dual-screen/foldable devices. ... WCOS is one piece of the underpinnings of Windows 10X. In the past, I (and others) have described WCOS as the successor to Windows OneCore -- Microsoft's attempt to standardize a set of core components in Windows so that they would work across different types of devices. But WCOS is a combination of the OneCore OS pieces, UWP/Web and Win32 app packages, and the composable C-Shell. (See architectural diagram above.) Together, these are the foundational pieces of Windows 10X. ... As officials said today, Surface Neo, the dual-screen Surface device due around holiday 2020, will run Windows 10X. Any new dual-screen and foldable Windows devices from Microsoft partners like Dell, Lenovo, HP, Asus, and others also will likely ship with Windows 10X (and likely not before holiday 2020). Just to keep things confusing, the just-announced Arm-based Surface Pro X cannot run Windows 10X, despite the "X" in both product names.

Organizational vs. operational resilience: What's the difference?

Operational resilience examines what the business actually does and what it needs to continue performing those activities. This differs from organizational resilience in that OR looks at the entire organization, while OpR is more process-oriented, examining how the business functions and what the organization needs to protect those processes. What do businesses need to operate today? As with any business initiative, the push for OpR must start at the top. Senior management must be aware of the importance of maintaining OpR and must support initiatives such as the creation of policies, frameworks and structures that support OpR. These then filter down to operational teams to implement programs, controls and procedures to produce products and services. ... BC/DR, cybersecurity and supply chain initiatives are all essential building blocks for achieving organizational resilience as noted in the above figure.

It's time to change your cloud operating model

As the organization moves to cloud computing, application workloads should be able to move directly to a new operating model. This is a big job and requires support for IT leadership. If your organization is so inclined, consider becoming a cloud center of excellence that many enterprises are building these days. Enterprises typically have a large backlog of applications—numbering in the thousands—that can move through an assessment and be mapped onto a new operational model. This means that a roadmap is created for how applications will be processed and operated in the public cloud. I’ve found that short enablement sprints are better than one long one; moreover, the teams learn a lot as they move applications through the new operational model. However, this is a disruptive change in workflow for most enterprises, with associated pain and costs. Many changes are necessary, including training, mentoring, coaching, knowledge sharing, and open-door policies to make this work. Finally, you need support from the boardroom. This is the only way you’ll be an organization that’s able to leverage the public cloud to a productive end.

How to Dynamically Build the UI in Blazor Components

You can, using familiar Razor tools when creating a View (or page), dynamically build your component's UI. Alternatively, you can also use the rendering tools built into Blazor to dynamically construct the UI that makes up your component at startup. I'm going to show how both of those options work in this column. That's not the same as manipulating your component's HTML as your component executes. For that you can use binding, buy a third-party component, or call out to jQuery through Blazor's JavaScript interop. But if you want to create an initial UI dynamically, here's how you'll do it. As my case study I'll use an (admittedly, contrived) View that contains multiple forms. In this case study, the Model object that's passed to this View contains an ArrayList of objects for a single customer. The ArrayList can contain any combination of different "customer related" objects: the customer's profile object, the customer's address object , the customer's billing plan and so on. In this View, we'll set up each object with a different form and each form will have a button that invokes a different C# method to handle processing that form.

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