Each year Network World compiles a list of IT management start-ups to watch during the following year. The list of companies to watch in 2010, as well as those listed in 2008 (to watch in 2009) is made up of companies that share a mission to reduce the complexity of IT management, mainly around […]

There’s something about Thomas Bittman. For some reason, when he talks, he makes me believe the vision of the future he’s describing. This is probably the 4th or 5th time I’ve seen him speak about virtualization and cloud computing and the vision he initially laid out is slowly but surely coming true.
First, he set the […]

Analyst extraordinaire, Cameron Haight conducted a session at the Gartner Data Center show on, “After the Dust Settles: Maximizing Your Virtualization Investment”.
Virtualization is easy to get into but hard to get right.
Cameron shared a not-yet-ready for prime-time virtualization maturity model which I respectfully won’t share here, but beyond that he had a lot of nuggets […]

At the Inc. 500 Conference & Awards Ceremony I was again blessed to hear one of my favorite writers, Jim Collins, speak on the topics covered in his latest book, How the Mighty Fall: and Why Some Companies Never Give In. I took copious notes during this session (and others that I will share with […]

Nextgov(dot)com’s article Forecast: Mostly Cloudy provides an excellent overview of how federal IT is moving toward cloud computing. While the discussion focuses on the government’s adoption of public clouds and private clouds, the reasons, benefits and savings equally apply to business.
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has been promoting cloud computing, shifting the culture of federal IT […]