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Stamford artist Julliette Tehrani in Loft Artists Association solo exhibit, ‘Nature Abstracted’

Published 12:34 pm EST, Monday, February 18, 2019

Award-winning Stamford artist Julliette Tehrani’s works will be on view at her solo show, “Nature Abstracted,”at the Stamford Loft Artists Association March 30-April 28.

Award-winning Stamford artist Julliette Tehrani’s works will be on view at her solo show, “Nature Abstracted,”at the Stamford Loft Artists Association March 30-April 28.

Photo: Loft Artists Association / Contributed Photo

Photo: Loft Artists Association / Contributed Photo

Award-winning Stamford artist Julliette Tehrani’s works will be on view at her solo show, “Nature Abstracted,”at the Stamford Loft Artists Association March 30-April 28.

Award-winning Stamford artist Julliette Tehrani’s works will be on view at her solo show, “Nature Abstracted,”at the Stamford Loft Artists Association March 30-April 28.

Photo: Loft Artists Association / Contributed Photo

Stamford artist Julliette Tehrani in Loft Artists Association solo exhibit, ‘Nature Abstracted’

The latest works of award-winning Stamford artist Julliette Tehrani will be on view at her solo show, “Nature Abstracted,” at the Stamford Loft Artists Association Saturday, March 30, through Sunday, April 28.

There will be an opening reception on Saturday, April 6, from 5-7 p.m. in the Phillips and West Galleries.

The exhibit also includes her new paintings on aluminum, reflecting her ongoing artistic journey where she explores new ideas and materials, Loft Artists said in a news release.

“I love working on aluminum, because it enables the paint to be moved around in ways not possible on more traditional surfaces,” she was quoted as saying. “Magic is created when intended outcomes develop into unplanned random occurrences.”

Tehrani returned to painting, her lifetime passion, following a career as a senior executive in finance. The London-born artist’s themes are influenced by her extensive travels. She paints in her studios in Stamford, and the French Riviera. Her works are held by collectors in the USA and internationally. Most recently, a body of her work was purchased for the new Stamford Hospital. She has exhibited extensively locally and is represented by galleries in the U.S. and France.

Stamford Loft Artists Studio and Galleries, 575 Pacific St., Stamford. 203-247-2027

Beware the siren song of no-ops

Beware the siren song of no-ops | InfoWorld Some enterprises are buying into the no-ops premise, and so are setting unrealistic expectations for what cloudops should be "); }); try { $("div.lazyload_blox_ad").lazyLoadAd({ threshold : 0, // You can set threshold on how close to the edge ad should come before it is loaded. Default is 0 (when it is visible). forceLoad : false, // Ad is loaded even if not visible. Default is false. onLoad : false, // Callback function on call ad loading onComplete : false, // Callback function when load is loaded timeout : 1500, // Timeout ad load debug : false, // For debug use : draw colors border depends on load status xray : false // For debug use : display a complete page view with ad placements }) ; } catch (exception){ console.log("error loading lazyload_ad " + exception); } });

No-ops is the concept that an IT environment, such as cloud computing, can become so automated and abstracted from the underlying platforms that there is no need for a team to manage the thing. The no-ops concept has largely arisen from the introduction of serverless cloud computing, and the automation that has occurred on the devops side of cloud computing.

If serverless computing systems can deal with the back-end infrastructure automatically, why not take that to the next level and automate operations completely? This means no people are involved in the provisioning of virtual servers, the changing of databases, monitoring, or the management of application workloads.

While the tools are indeed there to automate operations, the idea that you can remove people from this equation completely is pretty absurd, at least in the next five years. Here’s why:

Most of ops will be focused on legacy, extending to cloud computing. So the ops team needs to be focused on both, and it will need to do so under the same functional domain. You can’t remove ops from the cloud side of that. Clearly no-ops is not a one-size-fits-all solution.

Devops is not just about the automation of ops, it’s about people working together to continuously improve software development and operations. If that means fewer people and more automation, that’s fine. However, the notion that somehow you’ll automated everything anytime soon is just pie-in-the-sky thinking.

So, I’m okay with “fewer ops” or, as my friend Mike Kavis says, “less ops,” but no-ops is another one of those dubious “replacement” concepts such as edge computing replacing cloud computing, or data lakes replacing good database best practices.

Sadly, some enterprises are buying into the no-ops premise, and so are setting unrealistic expectations for what cloudops should be. They will be too automated, spend too much money doing so, and end up failing.

I would rather see good practices emerge around the idea of ops, including helpful automated tools. However, I would not fire your ops team anytime soon.

David S. Linthicum is a chief cloud strategy officer at Deloitte Consulting, and an internationally recognized industry expert and thought leader. His views are his own.

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