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Ruairi McBride

Ruairi McBride

Ruairi is a technical individual with over 14 years experience in the IT industry, and likes to think of himself as a “jack of all trades.” With experience in everything from networking, security, end user compute, and enterprise application deployments, as well as dabbling in the cloud, he's happy discussing many different areas within modern IT architecture. Ruairi's current main focus is with storage products and associated software, and understanding their associated strengths and weaknesses. He currently enjoys working with the reseller community within the U.K. channel to make sure they have all the necessary technical skill sets to improve and differentiate their business.

The Latest Posts Featuring Ruairi McBride

5 Ansible Playbook Steps to Success
January 8, 2020
Applications
There are many configuration management, deployment, and orchestration tools available, ranging from open-source tools to automation engines. Ansible is one such software stack available to cover all the bases, and…
Don’t Let Technical Debt Be Your Company’s Subprime Loan: Mapping Your Way to Better Software
December 16, 2019
Network
I was in the pub recently for the local quiz and afterwards, I got talking to someone I hadn’t seen for a while. After a few minutes, we started discussing…
IT—More Than a Fancy Calculator: Moving From Cost Center to Business Value
November 22, 2019
Network
It’s time to stop seeing IT as just a black hole to throw money towards and instead, give back to the business. Often, the lack of proper measurement and standardization…
I Have My Plates Spinning, Now Where’s My Crystal Ball? What We Can Expect from Hybrid Cloud
April 3, 2019
Applications
In my final post in this series, I want to talk about some things that we have not touched on already and how it relates to what we’ve already discussed.…
Getting the On-Prem Part of Hybrid Cloud Right
March 20, 2019
Applications
In my previous articles, I’ve looked at the challenges and decisions people face when undertaking digital transformation and transitioning to a hybrid cloud model of IT operation. Whether it’s using…
21st Century Application Development
March 7, 2019
Applications

There’s a revolution underway with application deployment, and you may or may not be aware of it. We’re seeing a move by businesses to adopt technology the large public cloud providers have been using for many years, and that trend is only going to increase.

What Is Digital Transformation? And Why Do You Need a Strategy?
February 25, 2019
Applications
In this blog series, we’ve been looking at various methods of utilization with cloud infrastructure. While cloud adoption can be beneficial to almost any organisation, change for change’s sake can…
To Cloud or Not to Cloud?
February 11, 2019
Applications
There’s a question I’m sure is keeping some IT managers and CTOs up at night. How do you know when it’s right to move a workload to the cloud? And when you…
Why Move to the Cloud? Benefits of the Ever-Onward Advancement of Hybrid IT
January 29, 2019
Applications
There is no getting away from it: the word “cloud” is a buzzword in the IT industry. Maybe it’s graduated onto something more. Why Cloud? I remember being asked this…