Consumerization of IT (CoIT) is rapidly giving way to Consumer-driven IT (CDIT), as tech-savvy consumers drive businesses to deliver increasingly innovative and satisfying technology experiences. As a result, consumer-driven development is focused heavily on delivering convenience, ease of use, mobility,…
Tag: Twitter
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…
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)…
Vendor FUD: How Should Vendors, Enterprises, and Influencers React?
I, along with many others, witnessed this week (or was it last week?) a public squabble between two well-known vendors in the virtualization market. Of course, this is nothing new. The whole world has been watching as Adobe attacked Apple…
Myopic View of DevOps Misses the Mark
I am hearing a lot about the rise of a concept called “devops” – a mashup of “development” and “operations”. I am not at all an expert in this area, but from what I can tell, devops is aimed at…
On My Leaving EMA to Join CA
For those who have asked, and others who may care to know – the rumours are indeed true. After many happy years leading the fantastic systems and storage management team at one of the very best IT industry analyst and…
In Cloud Computing, Downtime is Endemic – But Does it Matter?
There is a perennial debate in cloud computing about whether a failure of one cloud service provider can be more generalized to a “failure of cloud computing”. It is an important question because availability is a key decision factor in…
Why Blog, Why Now?
Someone recently asked me why I was starting a blog, and why I was doing it now. Anyone who knows me, knows that I had for a long time steered away from Social Media – blogs, Twitter, etc. – for…