In the past weeks we launched directly from the season of cloud events into
what SYS-CON calls the Annual Predictions Bonanza. Gartner released its
predictions on December 1 leading with "critical infrastructure will be
disrupted by online sabotage." At CIO magazine Bernard Golden gave two
interesting points of view, one for vendors and one for users, and even CA
Technologies offered insights into the changes we expect in 2011, including
how "security will shift from being perceived as a cloud inhibitor to
becoming a cloud enabler."
So, what happens after 2011? In a few upcoming blogs I will highlight some
"megatrends" that I believe are happening - or need to happen - in the decade
about to start. (Now, you may argue that the decade started a year ago, but
starting to count at zero is very "old school IT" and "old school IT" is
definitely not what we are going t... (more)
If the cloud is to fulfill on its promise we need to start thinking of it as
a cloud, not as an aggregation of its components (such as VMs etc.)
As mentioned in a previous post I‘ll use some of my upcoming posts to
highlight some cloud computing "megatrends" that I believe are happening - or
need to happen – beyond 2011. One of these would be the creation of an
“abstraction model” that can be used to think about (and eventually
manage) the cloud. A nice setup to this was done by Jen-Pierre Garbani of
Forrester, who in a recent post at Computerworld ... (more)
Cloud Computing is the most discussed IT innovation of recent times. This
Primer provides a structured overview of what Cloud Computing is and what the
potential benefits and risks are. In addition it explores how Cloud Computing
will impact IT management and IT's role in the organization as a service
provider.
It also looks at the risks of Cloud Computing. Risk is consistently cited by
CIOs and CFOs as the largest obstacle of cloud computing for their
organizations. In this primer we consider the risks in areas such as
availability, privacy and regulatory compliance. The bookle... (more)
In my last blog, a cloud of two speeds, I mentioned Vivek Kundra's very
readable cloud strategy and the industry stimulus effect this approach can
have on the emerging cloud industry. By presenting his strategy not simply as
a way to cut costs and reduce budgets, but as a way to get more value from
existing IT investments, he enlisted IT as an ally to his plans, instead of a
potential opponent. Section two of the strategy - summarised below - is a
pragmatic 3 step approach and check-list for migrating services to the cloud,
which can also be valuable for organizations outside the... (more)
If an article, 10 years after its initial publication date, is featured in
several look backs, reviews, Q&As and still gathers reactions and emotional
analysis, it can be concluded it must have struck a chord - or in this case -
more an open nerve.
In May 2003*, the Harvard Business Review published "IT Doesn't Matter" , an
article by then still largely unknown editor "at large" Nicholas Carr.
The premise of the article was that infrastructure has a diminishing impact
on competitiveness and that IT was infrastructure (although Carr in the
recent Q&A seems to indicate he meant IT In... (more)