10 Ten Principles to Tackle the Business of IT

Let me guess. As you were making your New Year’s resolutions to exercise more, eat healthy, organize your office – or do whatever it is to make you feel like you’re on the path to self-improvement – you also thought about how you were going to manage IT better this year. Oh, those weren’t your resolutions? Your health, office, and IT organization are perfect? Lucky you! We can’t help you with the personal […]
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Are you a chef or a supermarket manager?

I’ve had a few false starts trying to describe the point of configurable cloud services with an analogy. I tried cars, but I’m not going to lie – I haven’t the foggiest idea what a transmission does. I can tell you how to do enterprise-class cloud provisioning, but my chassis is an utter mystery to me. I tried other analogies like custom-fit suits, which it turns out are the domain of highly-paid lawyers […]
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Who are the people in your neighborhood?

I used to love that segment on sesame street. I loved the firemen and the cops and the muppet barbers. The truth is, you have to get to know your neighbors –and that’s particularly important when you’re building a community resource, like a cloud.

So, who’s involved? Well, Gartner analyst Donna Scott and I were talking about this a few weeks back, and she had some pretty great insights. I think there are 2 […]

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