In 2003, Mark Achbar presented the perception that any organization or corporation can be treated as living beings. He prepared a documentary ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379225/ ) that presents the concept of the corporation throughout recent history to its present-day dominance, including with the way it takes BIRTH, grows, and evolves with different experiences. It is very much like saying that the corporations have its own life. And as a... Wednesday, August 18, 2010 In today’s economy, Self-Service Business Intelligence (BI) is becoming one of the major requirements of organizations. In order to reduce IT costs organizations want their employees to be able to carry out reporting and analysis related tasks themselves. Organizations are also looking at self-service BI to help their employees make better decisions by using these reporting and analysis features. These better decisions will help organizations make more money. They are trying to reduce IT costs a... Wednesday, August 18, 2010 Complex event processing has been the top  ic of discussion for a while now. CEP is a technology for high-throughput, low-latency processing of event streams. While reading on SQL server 2008 R2 new technologies, I came across StreamInsight. Microsoft has come out with a new technology called StreamInsight for complexevent processing. Microsoft has introduced this technology wi... 
Google is determined to gain credibility in the offices of CIOs and business decision makers.
After years of keeping their products in perpetual beta status, Google has finally removed the beta tag from most of their Google Apps offerings. This is significant news for any Google competitor in the enterprise space. It has been pretty easy for competitors to dismiss Google apps as ... Monday, February 22, 2010
Server OEMs tend to be missing part of one index finger because they tend to tap it on the table and say, “This year the blade computer will take off.” It hasn’t happened yet, but virtualization just might be the reason why they might finally be right.
Blades are a very interesting type of system. More than a decade ago, they were the big buzz in the industry. The idea of discreet computing resources allocated independently of each other, with great flexibility in scalability, and provid...
Cloud computing is one of the most popular buzzwords in the IT world these days, and the technology holds lots of promise for cash-strapped IT departments who need extra capacity and compute power but don't have the resources to hire more in-house staff and purchase lots of on-premise hardware and software.
Yet despite the growth in cloud computing products and services, many CIOs and IT pros still have unaddressed questions about what cloud computing is, and how such thorny issues as se... Wednesday, February 03, 2010
When is it time to change your IT platform? How do you decide if a point solution in your architecture should follow your current vendor offerings or that it’s time to add something new? Let me give you my perspective on this important question.
I recently worked on a project for a large company that was considering upgrading components and services in its infrastructure portfolio. The issue was whether to expand the footprint of the existing vendor’s solutions or replace some technology ... Wednesday, January 06, 2010
I am, therefore I travel. I travel across the country and around the world working with large enterprise customers and looking at the business value of various IT strategies. Of late my focus has been on Unified Communications (UC) and its potential for improved collaboration and cost savings and as a platform for innovation and competitive advantage.
UC has been discussed for many years, but it has now finally evolved to real solutions with demonstrable cost-savings and productivity ... Friday, February 12, 2010
Information Overload, Platform Value Assessments, and Mount Everest
About a year ago I was talking with the sponsor of an Advaiya Platform Value Assessment (PVA) I’d completed. This sponsor, who was the CIO of a large international organization, said, “Don’t give me more ways to communicate. Give me the ability to figure out what communication is important.”
I understood exactly what he meant. In an effort to improve communication, organizations sometimes feel they are drowning in ...
Moving all or some of your IT infrastructure to the cloud has its positives, as well as its challenges. How do you manage your systems that are on-premise and in the cloud? Integration and management are always at the top of any IT person's list of pain points, but it's important to know what your options are if you decide to use Windows Azure.
That topic forms the core of a discussion I recently had with Dmitry Sotnikov, Director of Cloud Solutions for Quest Software. Dmitry candidly to... |
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