IT-as-a-Service and the Facebook Effect
I’ve recently been theorizing around a new model for IT transformation. There’s anecdotal evidence that, in general, business problems tend to change slower than the rate of technology innovation. Thus,…
The Path to the Intelligent Cloud
Let’s face it right now the cloud is pretty immature. The level of automation and management of these environments are analogous to the early assembly lines, but it won’t be…
Cloud Needs Application Architects To Understand IaaS
Application development has been moving in the direction of platform abstraction. That is, the need for developers to have detailed knowledge of the infrastructure that the application was being deployed…
Why Poor Data Classification in Government Will Impact BYOD
In recent discussions with IT leaders from both federal and Department of Defense sides of US government, representatives stated that they are having a heck of a time accommodating expansive…
Adventures in Cloudwashing: Are You the Cloud Or in the Cloud?
Anyone who is working intimately with cloud computing and having critical conversations regarding this medium will eventually be party to the “cloudwashing” conversation. Cloudwashing: the activity of associating all your…
Start Building Your Next Generation IT Department Now
David Johnson’s Blog piece really got my goat. In this piece, “Meet Jamie – A HERO With The Power To Force Change,” Johnson paints a sales representative that has rejected…
Become the Platform
Steve Yegge, a Google engineer, recently posted a long rant on Google+ about how Amazon does everything wrong and Google does everything right. Probably the most traffic generated for Google+…
Cloud Conundrum: Private Cloud Computing With A Pay-for-Use Model
One of the touted benefits of cloud computing is supposed to be that it is a metered service. Much like your water and electric, the cloud is supposed to allow…
Cloud and Tablets Favor the Content Publisher, LANs and PCs Favor the Content Creator
I recently added a Vizio tablet to my list of technological acquisitions. It’s a relatively good Android-based tablet that is very reasonably priced compared to equivalent functional models. However, I…
There Is No ROI in Cloud Computing
Return-on-Investment (ROI), perhaps the biggest crock-of-$%@& metric ever applied to the information technology industry. How does one measure return? If we use monetary return, then the question, “how much money…