Beyond Big Data
Today’s post on Big Data is authored by Anthony Watson, CIO of Europe, Middle East Retail & Business Banking at Barclays Bank. It is thought-provoking take on ‘Big Data’ and how best to effectively...
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Using Organizational Best Practices to Handle Cloud and New Technologies
I have extended and updated this post which was first published in InformationWeek in March, 2013. I think it is a very salient and pragmatic organizational method for IT success. I look forward to...
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Turning the Corner on Data Centers
Recently I covered the ‘green shift’ of servers where each new server generation is not only driving major improvements in compute power but is also requires about the same or even less environmentals...
View ArticleLooking to Improve IT Production? How to Start
Production issues, as Microsoft and Google can tell you, impact even cloud email apps. A few weeks ago, Microsoft took an entire weekend to full recover its cloud Outlook service. Perhaps you noted the...
View ArticleGetting to Private Cloud: Key Steps to Build Your Cloud
Now that I am back from summer break, I want to continue to further the discussion on cloud and map out how medium and large enterprises can build their own private cloud. As we’ve discussed...
View ArticleWhither Virtual Desktops?
The enterprise popularity of tablets and smartphones at the expense of PCs and other desktop devices is also sinking desktop virtualization. In addition to the clear link that tablets and smartphones...
View ArticleHow Did Technology End Up on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows?
It has been two months since the Healthcare.gov launch and by now nearly every American has heard or witnessed the poor performance of the websites. Early on, only one of every five users was able to...
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Keeping Score and What’s In Store for 2014
Now that 2013 is done, it is time to review my predictions from January last year. For those keeping score, I had six January predictions for Technology in 2013: 6. 2013 is the year of the ‘connected...
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Moving from Offshoring to Global Service Centers II
As we covered in our first post on this topic, since the mid-90s, companies have used offshoring to achieve cost and capacity advantages in IT. Offshoring was a favored option to address Y2K issues and...
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Overcoming the Inefficient Technology Marketplace
The typical IT shop spends 60% or more of its budget on external vendors – buying hardware, software, and services. Globally, the $2 trillion dollar IT marketplace (2013 estimate by Forrester) is quite...
View ArticleImproving Vendor Performance
As we discussed in our previous post on the inefficient technology marketplace, the typical IT shop spends 60% or more of its budget on external vendors – buying hardware, software, and services....
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The Key Growth Constraints on Your Business
We have seen the accelerating impact of technology on a wide variety of industries in the past decade. We have witnessed the impact of internet shopping on retail industries, and seen the impact of...
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The Infrastructure Engineering Lifecycle – How to Build and Sustain a Top...
There are over 5,000 books on applications development methods on Amazon. There are dozens of industry and government standards that map out the methodologies for application development. And for IT...
View ArticleInfrastructure Engineering – Leveraging a Technology Plan
Our recent post discussed using the Infrastructure Engineering Lifecycle (IELC) to enable organizations to build a modern, efficient and robust technology infrastructure. One of the key expressions...
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The Elusive High Availability in the Digital Age
Well, the summer is over, even if we have had great weather into September. My apologies for the delay in a new post, and I know I have several topic requests to fulfill Given our own journey at Danske...
View ArticleWhither Virtual Desktops?
The enterprise popularity of tablets and smartphones at the expense of PCs and other desktop devices is also sinking desktop virtualization. In addition to the clear link that tablets and smartphones...
View ArticleHow Did Technology End Up on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows?
It has been two months since the Healthcare.gov launch and by now nearly every American has heard or witnessed the poor performance of the websites. Early on, only one of every five users was able to...
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Keeping Score and What’s In Store for 2014
Now that 2013 is done, it is time to review my predictions from January last year. For those keeping score, I had six January predictions for Technology in 2013: 6. 2013 is the year of the ‘connected...
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Moving from Offshoring to Global Service Centers II
As we covered in our first post on this topic, since the mid-90s, companies have used offshoring to achieve cost and capacity advantages in IT. Offshoring was a favored option to address Y2K issues and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Overcoming the Inefficient Technology Marketplace
The typical IT shop spends 60% or more of its budget on external vendors – buying hardware, software, and services. Globally, the $2 trillion dollar IT marketplace (2013 estimate by Forrester) is quite...
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