Powerful Cloud Services with Opstera

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 [...]

The Changing Role of the IT Architect: If You’re Not Part of the Solution, You’re Part of the Problem

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 [...]

Cloud Computing – The Difference Between Intention and Commitment

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 [...]