I’ve been seeing a lot of industry data citing that over a third of IT budgets are going to cloud solutions, and that progressive, innovative IT leaders are advocating a cloud-first design policy to reduce expenses and respond quicker to customer demand. I can confirm that this definitely rings true with our customers as their [...]
It’s winter in Seattle… and for those of you familiar with the weather here, that means it’s extra cloudy. So I think it’s only appropriate to discuss today how Avanade can help our customers manage their clouds. Today, Avanade announced that it has acquired Opstera software that provides monitoring and management of applications running on [...]
One of the reasons I enjoy my role at Avanade is because I get to have discussions with major customers around how disruptive technology shifts, (such as cloud), will make a difference to their business and IT strategies. However, it is quite rare for a customer to deal with these trends in isolation (I wrote [...]
Some of you may have seen our news that we have completed our acquisition of Azaleos. Over the past eight years, Azaleos has built a reputation for offering private managed cloud services using advanced technology to remotely monitor and proactively manage email, collaboration, and unified communications systems … at very high service levels that large [...]
One of the reasons I enjoy my role at Avanade is because I get to have discussions with major customers about how disruptive technology shifts (such as cloud) will be to their business and IT strategies. The impact becomes even larger when coupled with other major trends such as Consumerization of IT, (which is what [...]
Microsoft’s “tag line” for the Windows Server 2012 release is “built from the cloud up.” I’m guessing the “c” word is in the tag line because cloud has become such an important focus area for businesses trying to leverage cloud architectures and processes for competitive advantage. But, a cloud conversation is about more than just cost. It’s [...]
One of the key principles in economic investment curricula is the principle of “sunk costs.” Bluntly, this means if you have invested in a proposition which you know is losing… don’t throw good money after bad. When it comes to IT strategy, this same principle applies. Traditionally, the extremely high cost of capital would [...]
One of the defining trends in the evolution of computing has been the increasing diffusion of platform and control. Today, we have moved from a single mainframe tended by a small team of specialist administrators through distributed computing to the explosion of corporate/divisional Windows and Linux servers. This trend has taken a further leap forward in recent [...]
In other posts, I have alluded to the fact that the cloud computing paradigm, (with it’s pay-as-you-go financial modelling and it’s prescriptive service descriptions), will present a disruptive factor in traditional sourcing, but I thought I would flesh this out a little more. Fundamentally this is all about what I refer to as the [...]
Microsoft held a global webcast today introducing the latest functionality in Windows Azure, including an expansion of the Virtual Machine (VM) functionality that now enables an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering from Microsoft. Avanade has a deep understanding of Windows Azure and we have been working closely with Microsoft before the public release today. These new features [...]
