In The Media

Enter the World of Consumer-Driven IT

September 9, 2011
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Enter the World of Consumer-Driven IT

I posted a new article over at the CA Community website titled ‘Enter the World of Consumer-Driven IT‘, where I talk about (obviously) the impact of consumer-driven IT:

Consumerization of IT is not a really new concept. Consumers (as employees) have been ...
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Beyond BSM – Cloud Computing and the Next Generation of Service Management!

August 19, 2011
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Beyond BSM – Cloud Computing and the Next Generation of Service Management!

I have just started posting on BSM Digest on behalf of CA Technologies. You can read my first post there, Beyond BSM – Cloud Computing and the Next Generation of Service Management! In it, I talk about how cloud drives an urgent need for...
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Microsoft’s Office 365 Hit By Outages: eWeek.com

August 19, 2011
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Microsoft’s Office 365 Hit By Outages: eWeek.com

I was quoted in eWeek this week, commenting on the Microsoft Office 365 outages:

Even such incidents, though, don’t seem to be dissuading businesses from believing in the ultimate benefits of the cloud. “Clouds will have downtime—it’s a fundamental issue,” Andi Mann, chief cloud strategy guru at...
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About 70 per cent of local servers have been virtualised but it’s not about the numbers: Unisys

August 5, 2011
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About 70 per cent of local servers have been virtualised but it’s not about the numbers: Unisys

Hafizah Osman from ARN was on hand for my Virtualisation and Cloud plenary session at the CA World Expo in Australia, and gave it a great write-up:

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One of the problems that arises during virtualisation is virtual stall as management tipping points emerge between the different...
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CA updates cloud management software

July 26, 2011
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CA updates cloud management software

I did an interview with Liz Tay for CRN Australia, talking about the CA Technologies blockbuster release of 10 new and improved solutions for cloud computing:

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Mann urged IT managers to strive for greater oversight of their IT resources, and “start thinking about themselves as a service...
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CA, Unisys bring “private cloud” partnership to Oz

July 25, 2011
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CA, Unisys bring “private cloud” partnership to Oz

I spoke with Richard Chirgwin from The Register during my trip to CA World Expo in Australia, about the mammoth ‘Cloud Choices’ announcement, the release of 10 new and improved products from CA Technologies:

Speaking to a media lunch at CA World Expo in Sydney yesterday (July...
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El Reg guide to the Private Cloud

June 12, 2011
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El Reg guide to the Private Cloud

I had the great pleasure of talking with The Register’s Nathan Coates about my experience in what applications makes are a good fit for private cloud deployments. Nathan actually ended up quoting me in his article, which is excellent reading!

“The key environments for private cloud we...
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Cloud Expo East: Choosing Your Path to Cloud Computing

June 10, 2011
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Cloud Expo East: Choosing Your Path to Cloud Computing

Cloud Expo just wrapped up this week, and I’ve had several attendees reach out to me asking for copies of my session slides. Rather than clog up everyone’s inboxes, I thought it worth posting them on the CA Communities blog and in the CA Technologies channel...
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Executivo adverte sobre a cloud: nem toda revolução é boa – Terra

June 6, 2011
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Executivo adverte sobre a cloud: nem toda revolução é boa – Terra

My Cloud Expo plenary session presentation was reviewed in Brasil on the massive Terra online network.

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Executivo adverte sobre a cloud: nem toda revolução é boa

O vice-presidente da fabricante de software CA Technologies, Andi Mann, aproveitou a Cloud Expo, que está sendo realizada em Nova York, para...
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Chinwag with Mike Laverick

June 3, 2011
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Chinwag with Mike Laverick

I recently had the great pleasure of recording a ‘Chinwag’ on RTFM Education hosted by the inestimable Mike Laverick (@Mike_Laverick). Mike is a consummate pro with a comprehensive understanding of virtualization, so it was a privilege and a joy to record this...
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How To Build an Effective & Pragmatic Cloud

May 31, 2011
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How To Build an Effective & Pragmatic Cloud

It was great to have my upcoming session at Cloud Expo, ‘How to Build an Effective and Reliable Cloud’ previewed on the SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Journal web site in a nice short article by Roger Strukhoff.

Remaining unambiguously on Planet Earth, I’d like to mention...
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