Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Statistics show that it took nearly 15 years for businesses to shift from mainframes to client/server. cloud Computing is arguably the next paradigm shift we will see, but the jury is still out as we are only about halfway through the 15-year period. While isolated cloud services have existed for five years or so, the…
Editor’s Note: While Thoughtworks Studios is affiliated with the IT consultancy ThoughtWorks, it’s aim is the development and marketing of automation tools to enable more Agile delivery of DevOps. IT organizations are under ever increasing pressure to deliver software faster and more reliably. On the one hand, businesses are being squeezed by faster-moving competition. On…
Cloud has been at the forefront of every IT discussion in 2011 and will continue to be due to the potential system optimization and cost savings that are associated with it. However, industry-wide motivation and business impact behind cloud implementation remains unclear. To better understand the top end-user business requirements for cloud computing and determine…
Editor’s Note: Datapipe is a global provider of mission critical IT solutions. The company’s offerings include Datapipe Managed Cloud for Amazon Web Services. This service helps clients manage their AWS environments. The effects of the recent outages at Amazon Web Services (AWS) have reverberated through the cloud community and the IT community at large. For…
For every IT organization, IT asset management (ITAM) is truly a “need to have” these days for reasons including compliance and cost containment. A fundamental part of ITAM is software asset management (SAM). SAM applies to everyone from your regional bank to a Fortune 500 global company. Every organization is using some type of software,…
At the end of last year and into this year I did a five-part series on strategies for adopting and assimilating cloud. My overall message was, and remains, that good service management disciplines and technologies still apply — though the need for some unique planning and more dynamic approaches to traditional service management technologies are…
The reviews of the new BlackBerryPlayBook are in and they are terrible. David Pogue in the New York Times dismissed it with, “It must be skating season in hell.” In the Wall Street Journal, Walt Mossberg was a tiny bit more charitable but he, too, ultimately shrugged it off as a non-event. Laptop Magazine just…
As companies become increasingly more complex and, simultaneously, more integrated, the need for additional cross collaboration and more effective leveraging of the resources at their disposal is becoming increasingly significant. The shared services organization (SSO) concept can help because it consolidates support operations into a service-oriented organizational unit and can substantially improve operating efficiencies by…
The sight of survivors circling the weak and dying is one of the surest signs of economic recovery and the tech sector is showing signs of just such a feeding-frenzy-in-the-works as its rate of mergers and acquisitions continues to increase. “Most tech segments have not seen this level of activity since the pre-tech bubble days,”…
Quite by coincidence as I’m writing this (I came up with the title last night), a remnant Tsunami that devastated Japan is just now hitting Hawaii — with apparently far less devastating effects. But, in fact, this column was inspired by something far more trivial (yet, somehow, related — at least that’s how it feels):…