HP charts a course for the enterprise CIO from the inside out
HP's recent split into two technology companies brings into focus a renewed vigor to go after the enterprise CIO.
View ArticleThe Evolving Data Center – Preparing the CIO for IT Evolution
With the abundance of cloud offerings in the market place, physical infrastructure is no longer an enterprise IT requirement. Cloud has established itself as an excellent option for infrastructure...
View Article5 Tectonic Shifts facing today’s CIO
The past several years have presented an interesting time for CIOs, their staff and the companies they work within. In many ways, the changes are significant shifts how companies have operated…
View Article5 things a CIO wishes for this holiday season
It is that time of year when we start thinking about our predictions for the next year. Before we get to 2015 predictions next week, let us take an introspective look…
View ArticleNo, you really do need a CIO…and now!
For those that follow my writing, this post may have a familiar ring to it. Unfortunately, there is a reason I’m writing about this yet again as the point still eludes…
View ArticleAre you ready to take on tomorrow’s IT? Think again.
Let’s get one thing out of the way right up front. The business of IT is very complex and getting increasingly more complex every day. It does not matter whether you…
View ArticleChanging the CIO conversation from technology to business
For many years, traditional IT thinking has served the IT function well. Companies have prospered from both the technological advances and consequent business improvements. Historically, the...
View ArticleTime’s up! Changing core IT principles
There is a theme gaining ground within IT organizations. In truth, there are a number of examples that support a common theme coming up for IT organizations. And this very theme…
View ArticleDoes the enterprise marketplace really need a new email solution?
This week, Amazon announced their WorkMail solution as a business-class email and calendaring solution in the cloud. Over the past several years, Amazon has produced some amazing solutions. But is...
View ArticleThe enterprise CIO is moving to a consumption-first paradigm
Take yourself back a couple of decades and the IT industry looked very different than it does today. Back then the number of solution choices was relatively limited and only available…
View ArticleThe CMO is not replacing the CIO and here’s why
Three years ago, Gartner predicted that by 2017, the CMO (chief marketing officer) would spend more on IT than the CIO. This one prediction spurned a number of follow-up predictions pointing…
View Article3 reasons traditional enterprise vendors will fail
Many often ask for my thoughts on traditional enterprise vendors compared with their startup and mid-size contemporaries. Without going into naming names, let me outline a few real situations that...
View ArticleThe enterprise view of cloud, specifically Private Cloud, is confusing
Enterprise organizations are actively looking for ways to leverage cloud computing. Cloud presents the single-largest opportunity for CIOs and the organizations they lead. The move to cloud is often...
View ArticleThe 3 modes of enterprise cloud applications
One of the key attributes to a successful cloud deployment is thinking about the strategy holistically. In my post ‘CIOs are getting out of the data center business’, I introduced the…
View ArticleIBM InterConnect Day 1 Impressions
InterConnect 2015 Las Vegas is the combination of a few IBM conferences. Past conferences carried quite a bit of overlap in content. As the conversations blurred, it made sense to combine…
View ArticleUncertainty is the only certainty in technology today
Last week was spent at the IBM InterConnect and Green Data Center conferences in Las Vegas and San Diego respectively. At each of the conferences, there were a ton of great…
View ArticleThe 3 modes of enterprise cloud applications
One of the key attributes to a successful cloud deployment is thinking about the strategy holistically. In my post ‘CIOs are getting out of the data center business’, I introduced the idea of a Data...
View Article5 things a CIO wishes for this holiday season
It is that time of year when we start thinking about our predictions for the next year. Before we get to 2015 predictions next week, let us take an introspective look at 2014 and what we could hope for...
View ArticleIBM connects the dots between data, cloud and engagement
At this week’s IBM Insight conference in Las Vegas, IBM brought out the big guns to demonstrate their chops in the data analytics space. Insight is IBM’s conference dedicated to their solutions around...
View ArticleCould Rackspace start the cloud vertical movement?
There are plenty of other posts detailing whether Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) should sell or split. I detailed my own thoughts here back in May 2014. With the speculation continuing to twist in different...
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