In a recent blog post I stated that 2013 will be a pivotal year for the use of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions. I will use my next two posts to elaborate on some of the changes that I see happening in that environment. The initial set of IaaS solutions that were brought to market by Cloud [...]
The End of the Enterprise App
Feb 1, 2013 by Leave a Comment
How well is your organization supported by its existing enterprise apps? Do your ERP and CRM systems fully support the dynamic nature of the business, enabling processes to be changed as and when the business requires? Or is it far more the case that your organization has had to change its processes in order to [...]
“The Cloud Isn’t Just For Storing Tweets”
Jan 25, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I love the title above. I saw it in a great article by Derrick Harris in GigaOM where he talks to Amazon Web Services Chief Data Scientist Matt Wood about the symbiotic nature of big data and cloud computing. While Justin Bieber may disagree, those of us in IT know that the implications of Software-as-a-Service, [...]
Us or Them? How Should Data Stored in the Cloud be Encrypted?
Jan 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
There are plenty of good reasons for storing data in the cloud: the seemingly limitless availability of new capacity, access to enterprise class facilities, the ease of retrieving data from multiple devices, and so on. However, there is always that niggling doubt, especially when it comes to sensitive business data, about how safe cloud storage [...]
If You Store It, They Will Come
Jan 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Do you remember the movie, Field of Dreams? I’d like to put a twist on the famous line from the movie, “if you build it he will come.” This is for my friends who are responsible for their corporate networks and the movement of large amounts of data stored in various data centers around the [...]
The Great 2013 Race – Ready, Get Net, Go
Jan 17, 2013 by Leave a Comment
So here we are — 2013 already. No matter what New Year’s resolutions you have made, can I advise a few more to take on so that your organization is ready to better face what promises to be a tough year ahead? Firstly, review your current approach to data center networking. Over time, it is [...]
The Future of Careers in IT
Jan 14, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Call it ‘cloud’ if you like, but looked at from the high level, more and more of the IT infrastructure that businesses rely on is being managed by third parties. This ranges from the use of co-location data centers to house private infrastructure, through to full blown software-as-a-service where the users provide nothing but the [...]
Seven Tools That Quantify Cloud ROI
Jan 10, 2013 by 2 Comments
“Going to the Cloud” may have implicitly meant saving money for many in 2012, but increasingly, IT has to provide deeper fiscal justification for its cloud strategy if it’s to get buy-in from the business. Matters are only made more complicated by the emergence of different types of clouds. As I point out in my [...]
13 Predictions For 2013
Jan 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Over the course of my thirty-plus years writing about IT I have been bombarded by pundits’ predictions of what’s coming next, and even –- abject apologies to IBM, AT&T, and Apple –- made my own share of fearless forecasts. While the following 13 items represent only a small fraction of the predictions that passed through [...]
Looking Forward to 2013
Dec 31, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Working in IT in 2013 will not be suited to the faint of heart. I say that because, in over thirty years of working in the IT industry, I have never seen so much fundamental change occurring across so many dimensions. While some of these changes have been around for a while, some are relatively [...]
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