Cloud spending: What do you think?
A recent article estimated that 65% or more of new enterprise IT spending will be cloud-based by 2015. Tell us what you think. Continue reading →
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Enterprise Social Player Emerge with Differentiators
A colleague from my former days with the Microsoft Architecture Strategy Team, Simon Guest, just joined a company called Neudesic. I just read an interesting article on his blog entitled “Feeling the Pulse at Neudesic!” which triggered a few thoughts…
Misys CIO discusses the role of the CIO as a business leader, innovator, and enabler of growth
Microsoft was recently at Sibos, an event facilitated and organized by SWIFT, for the SWIFT community, which creates the stimulus for learning, collaborating, developing new business, defining future strategies and taking collective action that shapes the future of the Financial…
Welcome to The Open Group blog
What do you do when you are full of ideas, are privy to the collaboration initiatives between the top IT, security and EA professionals in the world, and have a lot to say? You start a blog, of course. Welcome … Continue reading →
Moore's Law, Air Travel Tech and PAYG
Jim Peters, CTO at SITA wrote an interesting blog a few days back – though it started off with an Intel announcement, Jim was really commenting on increasing demand for computing power. I posted the following comment to his blog post.In a sense the bus…
Summer full of Clouds…..or?
The Cloud offering space is getting rather busy as we expected this summer. Capgemini annoucement of “Immediate” and its pilot with Royal Mail, closely follows other major developments such as IBM’s acquisition of Cast Iron. While IBM claims to get bet…
Is Facebook The Consumer Cloud?
With the announcement of docs.com on Wednesday from Microsoft, it got me thinking about what I’ll call the consumer cloud. As my iPhone has become a critical device for me, and I expect my iPad 3G to do the same when it arrives on 4/30, I find myself longing for better use of the cloud […]
A Good Cloud and A Bad Cloud…
An interesting time to write about cloud, what with the ash cloud from Iceland volcano grounding air travel in and out of Europe to complete halt. Usually the views from my office window are dominated by planes which are either taking-off or landing at…