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.

TalkShoe – Audio

I was Invited to speak on the Virtualization Security Podcast with analyst/influencer Ed Haletky.  Check it out at http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/audioPop.jsp?episodeId=881832&cmd=apop

Five Top Tips for DevOps At Scale – DevOps.com

Since I published my blog explaining the topic of ‘Big DevOps’ late last year, the concept of Enterprise DevOps has exploded, with commentary, experience, and advice (some good, some awful) popping up from many different quarters. Fortunately, many pundits have…

Don’t Look Now, But The Developers Are Winning – InformationWeek

Don’t Look Now, But The Developers Are Winning!  Check out this  promo for the InformationWeek radio show I am doing 6/24 – http://www.informationweek.com/dont-look-now-but-the-developers-are-winning/a/d-id/1278646

The Top Automation Tools for Public Cloud at Scale

Cloud computing is more than just fast self-service of virtual infrastructure. Developers and admins are looking for ways to provision and manage at scale. This InfoQ article is part of a series focused on automation tools and ideas for maintaining dynamic…

Five Top Tips for Cloud and DevOps AutomationDevOps.com

A while back, I overheard someone asking why many of the ‘cloudy people’ have moved on to DevOps. One reason is certainly that cloud is at the heart of DevOps. Many of the grounding principles of DevOps – rapid iteration,…

‘Mobile App Sprawl’ Is Here. Is ‘App Stall’ Next? – InformationWeek

We’ve seen cloud and virtual machine “sprawl” and “stall,” and now history is repeating itself with mobile apps. Here’s how to take control of “app sprawl.” I was interested to see McKinsey refer to the phenomenon of “cloud stall” in…

App production starting to slow in response to business developments |

Component One recently gathered my thoughts on App Production. “The goal is to help other business areas ‘do’ mobile apps right, rather than ban the applications they’ve developed,” Mann wrote. “However, it may eventually be best for the company for…