Category Archives: Cloud

The McKinsey quarterly just published an interesting and very readable piece on “reshaping IT for turbulent times”.  In the article they analyze what seems to be a dichotomy for today’s IT management: How to balance running an efficient IT factory with being a responsive customer focused provider. In the article (which is freely accessibly after registering) Roberts,Continue reading “Reshaping IT Management – by cutting it into two halves?”

Slowly but steadily the debate in the blogosphere about private clouds is increasing. Now it is always good to see some debate, but is this a debate worth having? Will the cloud long term not be about other things than who owns a machine? Under provocative titles like “Private cloud discredited, part 1”  and “DoContinue reading “The private cloud debate is building up steam, but is it worth having?”

This week, Gartner is holding their Symposium/ITxpo to Europe in Cannes .  For some reason the industry seems to be cramming all their events in the two short months that fall between the summer vacation period and Xmas. To name just a few, I’ve presented at:  360IT in London VM World Europe Gitex in DubaiContinue reading “It is the season of cloud events”

This blog wa soriginaly published at ITSMPortal.com Cloud computing can be seen as an important enabler for more user and business empowerment. Traditionally we consideredany IT outside the IT department’s purview“Rogue IT” or “Shadow IT”.  In this blog we examine how further user empowerment may impact the future of corporate IT. Rogue IT (sometimes calledContinue reading “On empowered users, rogue and shadow IT, stealth clouds and the future corporate IT”

Originaly published at ca.com/blogs on October 12 2010, 03:56 AM This is a live blog, so appologies apologies for typo’s and possible other errors. This morning 6000 people streamed into the Bella center in Kopenhavn to see the VMworld opening keynote. I’ll cover the new items compared to the event in San Francisco. According toContinue reading “A (real-time) blog from VMworld Europe”

This blog was published originally as column at ITSM portal Many hypes in IT are just the same old idea, launched again, but with better technology and under a new name. Who remembers Larry’s original network computer? And who is just about to buy one, but now based on Android or iOS4? Similarly, we couldContinue reading “Downsizing, Rightsizing, Cloudsizing? Will today’s datacenter follow yesterday’s mainframe?”

You may have missed it in the flurry of news from Apple, but VMware recently had their annual get-together at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. On stage VMware shared two key insights: successful virtualization is becoming more about orchestration and automation than about hypervisors.  And, private clouds will rapidly develop into hybrid clouds. IContinue reading “VMworld 2010. Two trends and how they converge.”

Sure, it may all happen, but expect a similar timeframe as for the paperless office This post originaly was published as column at ITSMportal Predicting the future is a lot more fun than analyzing the past, but as Mel Brooks might say “A funny thing happened on the way to the future; it changed fromContinue reading “End of Outsourcing, Death of the Web, Self Managing Clouds? Not so fast, just yet!”