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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 our Innovation During a Downturn podcast a few weeks...
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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 make business sense. Information technology enables...
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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 that SMU held in San Antonio. Their rankings came...
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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 running independently managed operating systems. These...
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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 MP3 file here. Click here to play this audio clip
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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 find a home. This is one of the areas that HP...
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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 and the Internet Protocol , HTML , HTTP ,...
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Darrel Thomas
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05-15-2009
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Filed under: Applications, Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, infrastructure, IT Services, SaaS, Cloud Computing , Emerging technologies , Infrastructure , SaaS, Applications, IT Services
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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 which workloads can be used for different style of...
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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. This week, while reading and working out (that's...
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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 is vendors of all sizes and stripes are so desperate...
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Charlie Bess
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03-09-2009
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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 and communications. He questions whether the...
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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 conference centers and the like." But then...
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Charlie Bess
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02-05-2009
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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
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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. It this situation, the investments in technology...
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Charlie Bess
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12-29-2008
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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 adoption of new technology, it became apparent that...
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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 itself. Most discussion about Green IT focuses on...