Speed Bumps on the Road to True Utility Computing

By Max Staines of Compass Management Consulting Discussions of cloud computing benefits often turn to the virtues of dynamic, usage based pricing where IT resources are delivered on-demand to customers in response to changing business requirements. Users pay only for what they consume, and don’t have to worry about insufficient capacity or idle resources. The…

Launching into the Cloud – A Vendor’s Perspective

Looking at the resignation letter on my desk, I don’t understand how we got it so wrong. He was our top salesman and was the most vocal about offering a cloud solution alongside our existing product. And now he’s joining our biggest competitor, who haven’t even considered the cloud. Why? Execution was clearly the issue….

How to Sell the CEO on Change

In this second article in a six-part series, we look at why a converged infrastructure may make sense for your organization and provide some guidance on how to sell your decision in-house to the business folks. Most IT departments spend 70 percent of their time putting out fires and only about 30 percent responding to…