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Three ways to thrive

Jim Miller and Mateen Greenway (a couple of other fellows here at HP) just posted an article on hp.com about Three Ways to Thrive in an Uncertain Economic Upturn . These are a different perspective of some of the same issues Jean and I talked about in...

Published 11-07-2009 12:35 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Collaboration, Business value generation , Emerging technologies , Innovation , Applications, IT Services, Technology adoption

Is Business-IT Alignment Suicide for the CIO?

Last week, Bob Evans published an article entitled, " Suicide Strategy For CIOs: Aligning IT With The Business ." In it he asserts that the CIO must abandon efforts to align IT to the business and instead align with customers. This does not...

Published 10-21-2009 1:51 PM by fredcummins

Filed under: Business transformation , CIO, Value chain , IT Services, SOA value chain, Business-IT Alignment

Technical trends from an HR perspective

A few weeks ago I participated in a technical trend conversation aimed mainly at the oil and gas organizations. Last weekend I did something similar but this time talking with some individuals from various HR organizations - at an HR Roundtable Summit...

Published 10-19-2009 11:55 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Trends, IT Services, Technology adoption

Are the drivers for a cloud data center all that different than for a traditional data center?

A colleague asked some of us here: “Does the enterprise data center as we know it needs to change?“ My immediate thought was “Of course it needs to change!” The typical raised floor data center is filled with isolated hardware...

Published 09-25-2009 10:15 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Cloud Computing , Emerging technologies , Infrastructure , IT Services

Interview with HP Fellows: A prime time for innovation

A few times on this blog I've talked about the use of the downturn as a jumping off point for innovation and advantage . The other day Jean Lehmann and I were interviewed by about why now is a prime time for innovation. I've put a link to the...

Published 09-21-2009 3:52 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Collaboration, Business value generation , Emerging technologies , Innovation , Applications, IT Services, Technology adoption

Moving Bits not Atoms

One of the things we've talked about before is moving bits not atoms . When you do need to move atoms, make sure that they will be used. Amazon has selected HP to print books on demand . This is critical because a significant percentage of books never...

Published 07-15-2009 4:31 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Business value generation , Green IT, Innovation , Trends, IT Services, Technology adoption, Virtualization

Cloud Computing – Will History Teach Us Nothing – Yet Again?

We have seen the early versions of Cloud Computing models, with the promise of rapid service invocation, pay-per-use, ease of scaling, and simplified service-to-service interaction, and one can only help but think back to the mid-‘90s when the Internet...

Published 05-15-2009 11:30 PM by Darrel Thomas

Filed under: Applications, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, infrastructure, IT Services, SaaS, Cloud Computing , Emerging technologies , Infrastructure , SaaS, Applications, IT Services

In the Shadow of the Cloud – Part 2

In part 1 , I discussed the motivation and expected benefits that many enterprises are seeking from the use of cloud computing services. In this entry, I'll briefly compare and contrast the non-cloud alternatives, and how enterprises can consider...

Published 05-13-2009 10:00 PM by Ed Reynolds

Filed under: Emerging Technologies, infrastructure, IT Services, Cloud Computing , Emerging technologies , Infrastructure , IT Services

Complex-event processing at the intersection of unlimited data and computing

A few weeks back, I was talking to EDS marketing. They interviewed me for some thoughts on technology innovation during a downturn in the economy . I spoke with them about the intersections of technology and how those possibilities grow exponentially...

Published 04-20-2009 8:00 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Applications, Business Value Generation, Emerging Technologies, IT Services, Vision, Business value generation , Emerging technologies , Vision , Applications, IT Services

Cloud myths exploded – a reaction

I recently saw this article on Five cloud computing myths exploded . It is focused on: Cloud computing is one of the most overhyped phenomena to have hit the IT industry in a long time. It is a business model that definitely has its advantages. The trouble...

Published 03-09-2009 11:00 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Applications, Business Process Outsourcing, Business Value Generation, Emerging Technologies, infrastructure, IT Services, Operations, Business process outsourcing , Business value generation , Cloud Computing , Emerging technologies , Infrastructure , Operations , Applications, IT Services

Business-IT Alignment: Time for a Paradigm Shift

The vision of business-IT alignment has been pursued by the industry since at least the 1960's, as noted by Brian Dooley in his 2008 Cutter Consortium article entitled "Business-IT Alignment (Again)" . Dooley sees this as a problem of processes...

Published 02-18-2009 3:30 AM by Fred Cummins

Filed under: Business-IT Alignment, IT Services, SOA, Business transformation , SOA , IT Services, Business-IT Alignment

Moving to the 3D web and telepresence

Intel is inviting the public to come to ScienceSim (a virtual world ) and discover its possibilities for building collaborative visualization tools... "Within ScienceSim's world you'll find some starting buildings, templates for forums and...

Published 02-05-2009 6:15 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Applications, Business Value Generation, Collaboration, Communications, Emerging Technologies, Green IT, IT Services, Transportation, Vision, Collaboration, Business value generation , Communications , Emerging technologies , Green IT, Transportation , Vision , Applications, IT Services, 3D

Predictions for 2009

For the last 4 years I've put out a blog entry of my predictions for the coming year - like most others do. Since this is a year where the world will be coming out of a financial crisis, I'll try to be a bit more conservative than in the past...

Published 12-29-2008 9:00 PM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Applications, Business Value Generation, Collaboration, Emerging Technologies, Green IT, infrastructure, IT Services, SaaS, SOA, Vision, Collaboration, Business value generation , Emerging technologies , Green IT, Infrastructure , SaaS, SOA , Vision , Applications, IT Services

Is the next wave of computing a product of the financial downturn?

The Fellows have been discussing the perspective that, based on previous technology shift performance, 2008 is the year that is the tipping point to the next wave of computing. In a discussion with the Enterprise Irregulars about organizations and the...

Published 11-22-2008 3:17 AM by Charlie Bess

Filed under: Applications, Business Value Generation, Collaboration, Emerging Technologies, IT Services, Collaboration, Business value generation , Emerging technologies , Applications, IT Services

What do you mean by "Green IT" (part 3)? – The Green Data Center

Part three of What do you really mean by Green IT??? Also refer to part one , around green IT with regards to green washing, and part two , around using IT to green the enterprise. The third area I'd like to address is that of the green data center...

Published 09-23-2008 7:41 AM by ed.kettler@eds.com

Filed under: Applications, Green IT, infrastructure, IT Services, Green IT, Infrastructure , Applications, IT Services

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