Data: Information Technology's Next Greatest Challenge
March 9, 2011
2011 State Of Storage Survey | www.informationweek.com
The amount of data generated continues to grow at 20% or more each year. While new storage hardware can adequately record all this information, we are losing control of the data itself. The current solution of simply adding more storage capacity perpetuates the issue. The better long term answer is to understand and control our information. Some solutions like de-duplication from EMC, Symantec, and Falconstor provide some relief, but not nearly enough to overcome this issue.
Managing Partnerships and Alliances
March 9, 2011
Growth with Partners - Alliances for Success to Deliver Customer ValueEveryone is looking for the "easy" answers for growth and often turn to business partners and alliances. However, there needs to be a model for mutual success for such partnerships to be successful. Managing alliances takes work and requires investments at many levels. Without such commitments alliances could be a fast path to failure.
Solid State Drives belong in the data center
March 5, 2011
The speed at which solid state drives can perform should make them a heavy part of your data center drive strategy. But somehow that still has not happened. We still see most companies sticking with fiber channel drives using traditional hard drive platters. This is in spite of the performance gains. So just why do we not see more solid state drives in the data center.
Can IT speed products to market by implementing Social Networking
February 27, 2011
Product development cycle times have been shrinking for decades. But the truth is that we have optimized the Supply chain from the manufacturer back to the suppliers for the last 100 years (or more). The new frontier for reduced product cycle times involves customer input and the ability to take feedback and execute quickly. This is not necessarily a new topic. Many companies have been doing focus groups and pilot launches for several decades. In the past, these efforts have been limited geographically or in participation (2% response was considered fantastic). And companies have been tracking competitive information for generations. The use of Social media may be the driver for faster product development.
Smartphone and Tablets may use the same OS but create different IT challenges
February 19, 2011
Smartphones are all over the enterprise. But most content on smartphones is replicated on a PC somewhere in your organization. The same is not true for tablets. Tablets have unique data capabilities and unique applications that many not fit on a laptop.
Storage vendors gaining clout over server vendors in the Data Center
February 12, 2011
Virtualization of servers has reduced the effort to manage servers. It has allowed IT to spend more energy managing the data in the enterprise. This has resulted in an increase in the importance of the storage vendors within the IT organization.
Are we on the door step of IT "Technological Change"
February 8, 2011
The Digitia Natives are Restless: The Impending Revold Against the IT Nanny State Published by Jim Shepherd of Gartner Research | www.gartnerinfo.com
The following comments are my response to the February 7th release of the AMR/Gartner “First Thing Monday” article: The “Digital Natives” Are Restless: The Impending Revolt Against the IT Nanny State, by Jim Shepherd of Gartner. In keeping with his analogies from the Sixties, I believe that his comments are “right on".
Verizon iPhone selling out means surge of Smartphones for IT
February 5, 2011
Apple: Verizon Sells Out iPhone Pre-Orders In 17 Hours | blogs.forbes.com
Is 2011 the year that applications in IT are re-written with the assumption that mobile devices are the main access to our critical systems? WHere does IT get these type of skills? Does the Verizon lauch of the iPhone create a tipping point?
The Biometric phone could change the credit industry
January 29, 2011
I hardly go anywhere without my cell phone. And it seems like every day, there is a new credit card that will allow me to earn points for something. And then there are the cards that I have for the library, my insurance, a local museum, etc… My wallet is already overloaded with stuff in it. Maybe a biometric based cell phone could reduce the weight of my wallet (besides costing me money tor another gadget).
From Davos on the strengths of the Scandinavian model economy
January 29, 2011
The strongest girls in the world | www.economist.com
This neat and witty article points to a recent study presented at Davos: one that does justice of the Scandinavian way of doing business, one that has apparently allowed a number of countries to go through the economic crisis with very little problem.The central idea of the study, also available in full athttp://www.globalutmaning.se/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Davos-The-nordic-way-final.pdfis that Scandinavian are individualists who see their main relationship with the State.
SOPA and the wisdom of Yogi Berra
January 19, 2012
Larger wafers present a growth opportunity for LEDs
January 6, 2012
Smartphones threaten digital camera industry
December 1, 2011
Google music launches: The end of the end for the music industry
November 22, 2011
The move to the cloud will impact multiple industries
November 17, 2011