Author: Andi

Andi Mann is an accomplished digital business executive with extensive global expertise as a strategist, technologist, innovator, marketer, communicator, and thought leader. For over 25 years and across five continents, Andi has built success with Fortune 500 corporations, technology vendors, governments, and as a leading research analyst and business consultant. Andi is a sought-after commentator on business technology - published in USA Today, New York Times, Forbes, CIO, and Wall Street Journal; presented at Gartner ITxpo, VMworld, CA World, Interop, Cloud Expo, SAPPHIRE, and Citrix Synergy; participated and hosted interviews for radio, television, webcasts, podcasts, and live events; and more. Andi has been named to Business Insider's Top Thought-Provoking Enterprise Tech Execs, Huffington Post's Top 100 Cloud Computing Experts, Gathering Clouds Top 5 Cloud Experts - Who’s Who in Cloud, SAP's Top 50 Cloud Computing Influencers, and in research firm ITSMA's Best Practices in B2B Thought Leadership. Andi is co-author of the popular handbook, 'Visible Ops – Private Cloud'; and most recently, 'The Innovative CIO'. He blogs at 'Andi Mann – Übergeek' (https://pleasediscuss.com/andimann), and tweets as @AndiMann. Outside work Andi is an avid sports fan who loves cycling, skiing, basketball, and rugby; he also enjoys cooking, eating, travelling, art, photography, and gaming.

CloudViews Unplugged: Cloud Standards with Marvin Waschke – YouTube

In this special edition of CloudView Unplugged, Marvin Waschke, author of Cloud Standards: Agreements That Hold Cloud Together, is interviewed by Andi Mann and George Watt of CA Technologies. In this video, Marvin discusses why cloud standards are important and…

Spending next week immersed in IT

Next week I will join thousands of other IT professionals at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2012 in Orlando. I have been to Symposium and ITxpo many times before, in many different roles, and it never disappoints. There is so much to see…

CA Technologies announces ‘CloudViews Unplugged’ video chat series to power cloud debate | ITWeb

Caption contest challenges entrants to capture the lighter side of cloud computing. CA Southern Africa has announced that CA Technologies has unveiled a new monthly video chat as part of its cloud thought leadership programme, called CloudViews. With this move,…

10 Ways IT Can Own Cloud Decisions

How IT leaders can bring the true value of cloud computing to their organizations. Much of the hype surrounding cloud computing is causing confusion among enterprise IT looking to cloud to solve problems and hoping not to introduce more. Unfortunately several…

The Hype About Gartner’s Cloud Computing Hype Cycle

And musings on the actual state of cloud computing If anyone wasn’t wondering about the cloud’s readiness for enterprise computing, they are now, thanks to several stories in the news recently. Some of these reports question cloud computing’s business value,…

CloudViews Unplugged: October 2012

In this episode of CloudViews Unplugged, Andi Mann and George Watt of CA Technologies wrap up the month’s cloud news in 10 minutes. Topics for this month’s episode include rogue enterprise IT spending, schools using cloud for collaboration, Amazon’s EC2…

Conversations with CIOs: Leaving Technology Behind

  The Wall Street Journal recently poked fun at “innovation” as an empty marketing buzzword. They might be on to something, according to the latest research from CA Technologies. Our study of 800 global business and IT leaders found a gap between…

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…

CloudViews Unplugged: September 2012

In the September episode of CloudViews Unplugged, Andi Mann and George Watt of CA Technologies discuss what happens when cloud providers go out of business, SMEs benefit from cloud, CFOs see cloud benefits, Google Science Fair, AWS gathers Mars images,…

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…