To state the obvious, cloud hype is extremely loud and distorted right now. As with most emerging technologies or computing paradigms, the rush by vendors to capitalize on (or, create) new opportunities and by enthusiastic early adopters to try to gain a competitive edge creates lots of confusion and silliness. (Maybe Gartner should have a [...]
Even though the potential benefits are obvious, and some early adopters are already experiencing a positive ROI, I fear for the near-term future of Cloud Computing! (For a late-breaking ROI example see http://bit.ly/HDJVy)
It looks to me like we are very close to the peak of the Hype Cycle – lots of, often irrational, press; “silver [...]
Clearly the economic challenges we’ve been facing over the past 18 months have been almost unprecedented. As business leaders, it’s been very difficult to plan and to know how to best use our scarce resources. But, as always, those who demonstrate creativity, leadership and courage can seize opportunities to focus on developing powerful IT strategies [...]
Welcome to my personal Web site. This is the first post to my new site since it’s been modified to a blog format! I’m very excited because this new format will allow us to actually carry on a dialog.
Now… my challenge is to find some interesting and provocative topics that are worth the time and effort [...]
