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Is “Build Your Own Cloud” the new IT Gym Membership?

Shadow IT is not Good Guys vs. Bad Guys

For the past few years, there has been greater recognition that a few major trends are invading the IT landscape - smarter business users, challenging IT...

Extending the Concept of “Application Tiering” to Cloud

While the discussion about Cloud Computing has evolved over the past few years, far too often it still devolves into a semi-religious debate about Private Cloud vs. Public Cloud. Traditional IT viewpoints say that security and reliability should rule the day, while more progressive viewpoints...

Be Aware of Your Cloud Computing Costs

Several years ago, it wasn't unusual to hear people say that public cloud computing was significantly cheaper that trying to build a private cloud computing environment. This was mostly because people would see the cost/hour (in USD pennies) and immediately think this was significantly less than...

Is IT the Last Major Open-Source Project?

Traditionally, internal IT organizations have leveraged proprietary software and public Internet services have been built using open-source software. Some of this behavior was driven by legacy...

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

[This is the second in a series of blogs focused on strategies to address the 80/20 Budget Dilemma in Enterprise IT] Last week, I talked about the challenge of demand outpacing capacity and how IT departments could push

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...