I saw an interesting post at Forbes.com last week titled ‘The Coming Crisis of IT Management,’ lamenting that “consumerization, virtualization, cloud computing, software as a service, mobility [sic] are all increasing the complexity of the job of managing IT by…
Category: CIO
About 70 per cent of local servers have been virtualised but it’s not about the numbers: Unisys
Hafizah Osman from ARN was on hand for my Virtualisation and Cloud plenary session at the CA World Expo in Australia, and gave it a great write-up: . One of the problems that arises during virtualisation is virtual stall as…
Consumerization of IT – Your Responsibility, Your Opportunity
There is a revolution happening with the rise of social, mobile, and cloud computing, the blurring lines between business and personal, and the proliferation of connected devices. This ‘consumerization of IT’ is forcing radical change on businesses (and governments), which…
El Reg guide to the Private Cloud
I had the great pleasure of talking with The Register’s Nathan Coates about my experience in what applications makes are a good fit for private cloud deployments. Nathan actually ended up quoting me in his article, which is excellent reading!…
Cloud Expo East: Choosing Your Path to Cloud Computing
Cloud Expo just wrapped up this week, and I’ve had several attendees reach out to me asking for copies of my session slides. Rather than clog up everyone’s inboxes, I thought it worth posting them on the CA Communities blog…
How To Build an Effective & Pragmatic Cloud
It was great to have my upcoming session at Cloud Expo, ‘How to Build an Effective and Reliable Cloud’ previewed on the SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Journal web site in a nice short article by Roger Strukhoff. Remaining unambiguously on Planet…
Review of Virtual Ops Private Cloud
I am grateful to James Downey, Solution Architect at Dell, for writing a review of my new book, ‘Visible Ops – Private Cloud‘ on his excellent blog, Cloud of Innovation. In it, James takes a very even-handed look at our…
CIOs’ new handy guide to sell private cloud to CEO/CFOs
I did a great interview recently with Carol Ko of Asia Cloud Forum about the release of my new book, ‘Visible Ops – Private Cloud‘. We had a great Q&A on why the book matters, how it came about, key…
The cost benefit myth of the public cloud
There is a lot of hype around how much money you can save with public cloud. Public cloud can be cheaper than on-premise IT or private cloud, especially for selected services and SMBs. However for large enterprises, while there are…
Calculating the cost advantages of private cloud
I was happy to see an excerpt from my new book, ‘Visible Ops – Private Cloud’ was posted recently on Tech Target’s SearchCloudComputing.com. To master private cloud economics, tune up your spreadsheets and refine the business value proposition of your…
Launching my first book – Visible Ops Private Cloud
Today is a very exciting day for me. After many months of blood, sweat, and tears, today we are finally launching a brand new book that I co-wrote (alongside a couple of amazing people – Kurt Milne and Jeanne Morain),…