Category: innovation

Do you really want your CMO in charge of IT? — Cloud Computing News

Over at GigaOm today, the excellent Barb Darrow (@GigaBarb) put out a very interesting article on the changing role of IT pruchasing, especially in the age of consumerization and cloud. We had a chat on Twitter and email and she…

Innovations disrupt established markets | ITWeb

I was interviewed while I was in South Africa recently at the CA IT Management Symposium Africa 2012. We are living in an age of innovation – innovation driven by technology, says CA Technologies’ Andi Mann. Innovations that would have…

Are IT leaders just too busy for innovation? | ZDNet

I was a panelist and co-host of a fantastic broadcast from the HBO studios in New York recently. With smart and experienced colleagues from Gartner,  Deloitte,  Global Partners, and Comcast, we talked about consumerization, desktop virtualization,  innovation, and a lot…

Who’s Who in Cloud, July 13, 2012 | Gathering Clouds

Wow, I have been name-checked in Gathering Clouds in their “Who’s Who in Cloud“. Wow. And check the other names in the list – that is a huge compliment! Barb Darrow: A timely dive into what Amazon’s recent outages really…

Why the Public Cloud is a Big Fat Enterprise #Fail

Simultaneously meeting the needs of consumers, while addressing the needs of IT leaders, is exactly how a small With the advent of the consumer driven enterprise, there are now two ways to define the success of a platform. One is…

Survivor: CIO Edition CeBIT Australia

I was thinking about the issues I will present at CeBIT Australia, and thought I would jot some thoughts down. The people at CeBIT thought it was interestign enough to publish in its entirety. How cool is that!? So here…

Top 10 Things I Learned About Cloud Last Week

While travelling back from VMworld EMEA last week, I stopped at London and visited with a fantastic CA Technologies customer and partner, Logicalis UK. Logicalis UK is an international provider of integrated information and communications technology (ICT) solutions and services,…

10 Preconditions for IT Solution Design

With VMworld EMEA coming up next week, I am reminded of an evening at VMworld last year, and a stimulating discussion about good product design with Prabhakar Gopalan (@PGopalan), a former colleague at CA Technologies who is now with Dell.…

The Opportunity of Social & Mobile – If Not You Then Who?

I was amused the other day by a line I saw on Twitter from Wall Street Journal columnist, Jason Gay (@jasonWSJ – see image at left): “If Twitter didn’t exist, you’d have no idea what airlines your friends are currently…