Ideas at the intersection of Cloud, AI, and Automation. Rooted in real-world experience. All views my own.

Tobias Lilley

Cloud and AI technologist, builder at heart. Thoughtfully exploring technology, raising great kids, and never too far from a guitar.

Cloud Management

Cloud Management turns infrastructure into a cloud, providing Self-Service, Elasticity, Metering, Security and more.

From Infra to Innovation: Why Unit Metrics Are the Next Step in DevOps Evolution

April 11, 2025 tobiaslilley Cloud Management Cloud Native Apps

I’ve been fortunate to spend the last 16 years working with engineering teams in some capacity. Designing cloud infrastructure, building automation pipelines, helping clients optimise for performance, resiliency, and uptime. The focus was always fairly straightforward: move fast, ship often, keep it running, keep it compliant. But more and...

A Clarion Call for Data Centre Sustainability

August 10, 2023 tobiaslilley Cloud Management

How VMware Aria helps organisations achieve their environmental goals With scorching temperatures and devastating wildfires, July 2023 has etched a grim milestone: the world’s hottest day on record. The urgency of the climate crisis has reached unparalleled heights, demanding immediate and resolute action. The outlook can seem bleak, but...

Observe, Engage and Act AIOps with vRealize (Part 1)

September 14, 2021 tobiaslilley AI/ML Cloud Management

The Need for Intelligence In today’s age of mass digital transformation, it’s not always the strongest, or largest businesses that survive and thrive. It’s often the ones who can adapt the quickest to the change in markets. If you were running a bricks-and-mortar only store pre-COVID, when lock-down hit, you needed to either adopt technology very quickly, or risk obsolescence. It didn’t matter if you...