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Survivor: CIO Edition – Will Cloud Computing Kill The CIO Role?

April 2, 2012
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Survivor: CIO Edition – Will Cloud Computing Kill The CIO Role?

Today I published a new blog post on CA.com in the ‘Perspectives’ section of our community site – you can see the whole blog here.

In this post, I discuss whether the CIO role is dead – and if it isn’t what...
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CA Putting Cloud Pieces Together

March 27, 2012
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CA Putting Cloud Pieces Together

I was interviewed for a great article published today in CRN titled, “CA Putting Cloud Pieces Together”. In it, Jack McCarthy writes:…


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Do Amazon AWS and Eucalyptus Now Have “Enterprise Cloud Appeal”?

March 23, 2012
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Do Amazon AWS and Eucalyptus Now Have “Enterprise Cloud Appeal”?

I saw a fantastic article from Nancy Gohring of InfoWorld yesterday, on how “Amazon said that it would back Eucalyptus’ efforts to support Amazon Web Services’ APIs”. Great article, well worth reading in full.

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As Cloud Becomes a Teenager, It Is Time for Adult Supervision!

November 30, 2011
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As Cloud Becomes a Teenager, It Is Time for Adult Supervision!

James Staten at Forrester recently published his Top 10 Cloud Predictions for 2012. In it, James talks about how cloud is maturing, and warns of the challenges as cloud enters, as he describes it, “the awkward teenage years” ……


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Top 10 Things I Learned About Cloud Last Week

October 27, 2011
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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, part of...
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A Service Taxonomy for Cloud Choices

September 22, 2011
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A Service Taxonomy for Cloud Choices

I have been talking with many CIOs for some time about strategic adoption of cloud solutions. A key step in these conversations is always the review of the portfolio of services they provide to business users, so they can choose which clouds to adopt and why.

This...
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VMworld Wrap Up: Extending VMware for Mission-critical Virtualization and Cloud

September 14, 2011
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VMworld Wrap Up: Extending VMware for Mission-critical Virtualization and Cloud

I had a great time at VMworld 2011 Las Vegas this year. As I predicted in my last blog post, I met with loads of amazing people – too many to list out here, let alone in 140 on Twitter! I also...
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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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Why Do You *NOT* Love Going to VMworld?

August 12, 2011
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Why Do You *NOT* Love Going to VMworld?

In my last post, I asked why you love going to VMworld, and gave you a few of my reasons – like the people, the technology, the announcements, the sessions, the labs, and the parties.

But like any business trip, it is not all fun...
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Why Do You Love Going to VMworld?

August 12, 2011
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Why Do You Love Going to VMworld?

I love going to VMworld. It may be my favorite conference of the year (after CA World, of course!).

If you love going to VMworld too, then I would really like to know why.

I’ll start …

For me, the best part of going to...
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Consumerization of IT – Your Responsibility, Your Opportunity

June 28, 2011
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There is a revolution happening with the rise of social, mobile, and cloud computing, the blurring lines between business and personal, and the proliferation of connected devices. This ‘consumerization of IT’ is forcing radical change on businesses (and governments), which are in turn...
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