November, 2012

Enterprise IT: The 80/20 Budget Dilemma (Part I)

[This is the first in a series of blogs focused on strategies to address the 80/20 Budget Dilemma in Enterprise IT] It’s widely acknowledged that the majority of IT organizations spend about 80% of their budget to maintain existing applications, leaving only 20% of the budget left for...

“Lock-In”: More than just Vendors, Standards and Open-Source

A funny thing happened on the way to the next wave in IT technology - Cloud Computing - people seemed to want combine the portability of a time-machine with the

Why the Hype about SDN?

Two Views of OpenStack – From Beginners to Experts

This past week I had the opportunity to have two very distinct conversations about OpenStack, the evolving open-source cloud computing project. One from the