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.

The rise of DevOps in the Enterprise | Network World Video

At Interop recently I had the chance to talk with the excellent Brandon Butler (@BButlerNWW) about the rise of DevOps in the Enterprise. It is a short video, I hope you will enjoy it. Check it out over at Network…

CA Technologies the 800 Lb. DevOps Enabler- TMCNet

Since visiting Interop 2015 in Las Vegas, I was excited to sit down with a great writer for TMCnet, Rich Tehrani, and my colleague at CA Technologies, Aruna Ravichandran, to talk APIs, microservice architectures, DevOps, and the enterprise. Rich posted…

Virtualization vs. Containers: What You Need to Know – Datamation

I recently spent spome time thinking abotu virtual machines and containers, in light of the new thrust from orgs like Docker and CoreOS, for an article from the excellent Andy Patrizioover at DataMation. “Containers have critical limitations in areas like…

Highlights from Interop 2015 | Network World Video

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I am super excited that I finally met Brandon Butler from Network World (@BButlerNWW on Twitter) in the flesh recently at Interop 2015. He hit me up in the hallway for a video vox pop, which he posted as part of a great short roundup of some of the hot topics for Interop – including cloud computing, DevOps, and Software-Defined Networks (SDN).

Check out what I had to say over at the original video via Network World.

Digital Enterprises Face DevOps Dilemma – Forbes

Today I was privileged to be featured in Forbes, since being interviewed at Interop 2015 on DevOps in the enterprise by the excellent David F Carr (@davidFcarr on Twitter). Here is a taste of what I had to say: Andi…

Get Fast: A Survival Strategy For Software Development – InformationWeek

 Via Information Week: Speed is of the essence in a world where every company must be a software company. At the InformationWeek Conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Andrew Zitney, SVP at Allstate’s technology and operations infrastructure services organization and fellow…

5 Channel Ops: Big Show Highlights

My great mate Lorna Garey recently reached out and invited me to present at the Channel Partners Conference & Expo in Las Vegas. My first time at this event made me wonder why I had never attended before. It was…

The Digital Disconnect with @AndiMann By @MadGreek65 | @DevOpsSummit [#DevOps] | SYS-CON MEDIA

Check out my guest appearance on  Mike Kavis, a key influencer in the DevOps space podcast. We discuss the “digital disconnect”, a gap between the expectations of business leaders and the ability of IT leaders to deliver, and how DevOps…

IT Leaders Prepare for Next Wave of Smarter and Smaller Connected Devices

Chatted with Hunter Muller at HMG Strategy about the Next Wave of Smarter and Smaller Connected devices. “We’ve all heard or read about the Internet of Things. But what excites me more is the Internet of Cars. Automakers are placing…

Seven Reasons Your Cloud Deployment Might be Delayed – Datamation

I was recently interviewed by Andy Patrizio over at Datamation.com for his article on Seven Reasons Your Cloud Deployment Might be Delayed. Another industry expert weighed in. “It does spread the cost of infrastructure, which makes it very attractive to…