The question of Public Cloud versus Private Cloud is one of the most contentious in the field right now. It generates some very heated debate between evangelists of both camps. The answer is of course “Your Mileage May Vary”. The most important thing for an organisation making a decision in this area is that [...]
In my previous post, I talked about why the cultural readiness was a sine qua non when moving to the cloud. If that does not exist, then any other efforts are, at best, academically interesting and, at worst, wasted and irrelevant. However, once the cultural commitment has been made, the business needs to set the framework [...]
I deal with a lot of customers for whom, (unsurprisingly), cloud is very much on the agenda. However the challenge almost invariably is how they make this happen in reality. One customer had the intention to move 15% of all enterprise workloads into the cloud within a year, but halfway through the year, they [...]
After attending Microsoft Management Summit 2012 in Las Vegas this past week, a few things became quite clear in regards to implementing cloud-based solutions whether they are private, public or hybrid. The first take-away from MMS was the need for “standards” at all layers of the enterprise architecture. Most IT organizations have IT standards defined for naming [...]
Recently, our CTO commented on an article from Inc. Magazine that talked about six major tech innovations that will disrupt business – HTML5 is one of those. But, will HTML5 ultimately replace Flash? That would depend on how you characterize HTML5. The industry tends to grab one piece of the puzzle and paint all of the [...]
Recently I read an article from Inc.com that outlined the six major tech trends for 2012. Inc.com claimed that these trends could create huge opportunities or huge disruptions in the enterprise. As I read through the six trends (predictive technology, HTML5, high resolution displays, social analytics, speech for business and business-ready storage), it struck me [...]
Recently, I talked about key technology trends for 2012 and called out cloud computing as one area that companies are further exploring in 2012. Cloud computing is obviously an area where companies see opportunities to create more efficient, scalable systems and applications while also reducing costs. To that end, we see companies slowly moving various [...]
Recently, I read a Huffington Post article that outlined 20 technology-driven trends that cover everything from the rapid growth of Big Data to social business and the gamification of training to visual communications. My first thought after reading this – wow, this list is long. Today’s IT landscape is filled with numerous technology trends [...]
Pre-Internet Era The Information Technology (IT) landscape is constantly changing and evolving. Before the Internet and social networking, I relied heavily on computer publications like InfoWorld, Computerworld, Digital Review, Network World, PC Week, PC Magazine, PC World and the ever voluminous (400-600 pages) in-depth Byte magazine for information on the latest computer technologies. During [...]
This week, I’m at NRF 2012 talking with industry leaders about the latest innovations in retail. Today, there are many prominent technology trends that retailers are looking to leverage to enhance their customer’s experience and increase sales revenue. In fact, there are more than 35 sessions at the show this year discussing many of these [...]
