Given the giant cloud of volcanic dust currently passing over Europe I could have also titled this blog “The cloud strikes back”, but that is not the topic of this “the cloud changes everything” blog. It also has nothing to do with my earlier topics on Lean IT and Lean manufacturing. Lean Back and LeanContinue reading “The Cloud leans back – an iPad epiphany”
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A cloud experiment @ ComputerTotaal!
ENGLISH: Started my one-time guest editorship of ComputerTotaal!, by far Holland’s largest monthly IT magazine. Goal is to make the summer edition (#8) one of the world’s first and largest experiments in cloud collaboration. Lead by 5 guest editors, reviewed by an editorial board of several hundred and with potential contributions from the 100K+ readership,Continue reading “A cloud experiment @ ComputerTotaal!”
Notes from the Cloud Academy: RAIC – Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Cloud services
We have been running the Cloud Academy roundtables in several European countries. I’d like to share some of the more interesting questions, debates and insights around a number of topics, starting today with RAIC—Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Cloud Services. Other topics will include: A TV industry analogy: Competition for the IT department Cloud Shortcuts: CanContinue reading “Notes from the Cloud Academy: RAIC – Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Cloud services”
How Lean is your Cloud? Part 2
In the first part we discussed lessons that IT can learn from a hundred years of manufacturing best practices and the possible role of cloud computing in that endeavor. We now continue with what may very well be the area that IT can learn most from manufacturing: Costing. Costing. Many feel that the billions thatContinue reading “How Lean is your Cloud? Part 2”
How Lean is your Cloud?
Delivering IT services can be in many ways be compared to manufacturing processes, and over the years the concept of an “IT factory” has become a popular way of explaining best practices in IT operations. In this tradition Cloud Computing can be seen as the logical next step, converting the traditional IT factory into aContinue reading “How Lean is your Cloud?”
Introducing the Cloud Academy: as cloud is not a sprint but more a marathon
More and more people are realizing that Cloud Computing may be a hype, but for sure it is not an invention. The components that make up or enable the cloud are not new. We have had fairly broad networks for 10 years, have used virtualization for 20 years and were sharing of computing capacity (timeContinue reading “Introducing the Cloud Academy: as cloud is not a sprint but more a marathon”
The Cooperative Enterprise Cloud – Easy as a whistling song
For anyone still doubting whether the Cloud indeed will change everything, the below video is really something to watch. It tells the story of how UK headquartered Logicalis group partnered with Cisco, Netapp and CA to deliver their Cooperative Enterprise Cloud Service. After being the first vendor to deploy Cisco new Unified Computing System inContinue reading “The Cooperative Enterprise Cloud – Easy as a whistling song”
This may be your last Windows upgrade, you better enjoy it!
Cloud Computing promises to move all functionality into the cloud. At the same time the consumerisation trend is driving the use of consumer electronics such as of the shelf laptops, iPhones, MacBooks and home entertainment centers as access devices. Typically these devices will be cool, flat, inexpensive and it’s doubtful they will have a physicalContinue reading “This may be your last Windows upgrade, you better enjoy it!”
Service Portfolio Management or How Cloud Computing puts an end to bottoms up Service Management
This blog features both under our Service Management and Portfolio Management sections and revolves around a video we created earlier this year. In the video a demand manager tries to convince an operations manager of the benefits of a portfolio approach. The operations manager is not easy to convince as he feels his approach ofContinue reading “Service Portfolio Management or How Cloud Computing puts an end to bottoms up Service Management”
Cloudy Xmas cards and new year’s predictions
At the end of the year – and in this case the end of a decade – I thought it made sense to look back at what has been and try and predict what may be. Many already have named 2010 the year of Cloud Computing, so I decided to call on Google Trends toContinue reading “Cloudy Xmas cards and new year’s predictions”
Tune Into The Cloud 