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For those who have hit the high seas with the intension of sailing to a faraway land, there are many elements that can contribute to missing arriving at your harbor. Sail one degree off course then for every 60 miles you sail you will miss your target by one mile. Not much, or so it seems and yet, sail around the world following the equator and you will be off course by 500 miles. While flying between Sydney and San Francisco during the year I commuted between the Tandem office in North Sydney and the Cupertino campus, there was a time when I received an invite to enter the flight deck. Those were different times when security wasn’t an issue and on the Queen of the Sky, that venerable Boeing 747. Imagine my surprise to see the first officer pulling out his sextant, sighting a planet as it rose from the horizon and then checking with the aircraft’s inertial navigation system remarking as he did so that he was right on course. It shouldn’t come as a surprise then to know that the NonSto...

                 “I’ve got a feeling and I just can’t let it go!” This is a line from a haunting song by Los Angeles indie electro-soul band, Caught a Ghost. Not to be confused with the song from Frozen, it became the theme song of Amazon Prime series “Bosch” that was based on numerous novels by Michael Connelly. For those familiar with the novels or those who have viewed the Prime series, you will know that the main character Bosch enjoys jazz and the choice of this song for the series title may have been a surprise and yet, it absolutely captures the indomitable spirit of Detective Bosch. This is the same feeling I get whenever I hear news about the latest cloud offering or about the enterprise that has elected to migrate everything to the cloud. And this feeling is amplified whenever I read of news about yet another outage affecting millions of users. It is almost as if IT professionals have forgotten the first law of IT: Change. Call it...