Posts Tagged ‘ Twitter ’

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

September 29, 2011
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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 furious at”

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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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Vendor FUD: How Should Vendors, Enterprises, and Influencers React?

June 4, 2010
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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 (and Apple responded) over...
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Myopic View of DevOps Misses the Mark

March 26, 2010
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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 streamlining rapidly iterative application delivery to...
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On My Leaving EMA to Join CA

February 26, 2010
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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 consulting firms, Read more »

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In Cloud Computing, Downtime is Endemic – But Does it Matter?

January 21, 2010
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In Cloud Computing, Downtime is Endemic – But Does it Matter?

CaduceusThere 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...
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Why Blog, Why Now?

October 23, 2009
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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 a number of reasons. But I am...
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