What do cloud consolidation and disruption have in common?
One thing is for sure, we can expect to see much more of cloud consolidation and disruption happening in the IT space over the coming months and years. Recently, Cisco, EMC, HP and IBM have all...
View ArticleThere comes a point when it is not just about storage space
Is the difference between cloud storage provides about free space? In a word, no. I wrote about the cloud storage wars and potential bubble here: The cloud storage wars heat up...
View Article8 Reasons Not to Move to Cloud
Cloud-based solutions present the largest opportunity today for the enterprise, business, IT and the Chief Information Officer (CIO). Recent conversations have posed the question about cloud adoption...
View ArticleThe enterprise CIO needs a comprehensive strategic plan and quick
There are many who profess to know what goes on within the mind of the CIO and across the IT organization as a whole. The challenge is: If you have not been responsible for the role, it is increasingly...
View ArticleIs the cloud unstable and what can we do about it?
The recent major reboots of cloud-based infrastructure by Amazon and Rackspace has resurfaced the question about cloud instability. Days before the reboot, both Amazon and Rackspace noted that the...
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The number of 9s don’t matter, but business metrics do
IT organizations across the globe use a number of metrics to measure their successes, failures, and standings. One of the more popular metrics is the “number of 9s” as a measure of system uptime. Why...
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 will change the way...
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...
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The 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 to those with the...
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The 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 toward the...
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...
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The 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 idea of a Data...
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 the...
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 conversations around the...
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