The Desirability of Enterprise Vendor Status
Visiting two conferences in the US brought home the desirability of enterprise status. Or should [...]
Re-scaling the maintenance footprint
Vendors are obliged by law to provide warranty on the products they sell. IT vendors [...]
Big Data – Poor Label
The IT industry sometimes chooses to name concepts and trends badly. 'Cloud' is not exactly [...]
Nexenta – Opening Up Arrays
The Nexenta product proposition is simple: buy your disk arrays as software loaded onto commodity [...]
Autonomy Buys Iron Mountain Digital
Today Autonomy announced that it is acquiring Iron Mountain Digital’ assets. This means a couple [...]
Backup or DR?
This blog post applies to situations where DR does not involve instant fail-over. Having been [...]
Business Continuity
Mostly I am happy for people to use the Business Continuity (BC) definition loosely, because [...]
Self-service re-defines the services landscape
Since the late 1980s, technology vendors have looked to services as logical adjacent business lines [...]
When AWS went down
Many businesses have woken up today to the reality that cloud providers too can fail. [...]
Aggregators in your customer base
Segmenting the target market remains an inexact art form. Technology as an industry has increasingly [...]
The line-of-sight journey
Translating firm goals into tangible results requires that employees not only comprehend the organization’s strategy, [...]
The importance of tribes
We all form tribes. It’s a natural human condition, and it’s been going on for [...]
How Zuora is enabling a new world of subscription consumption
The way that we consume is changing. We are moving from a world of buying [...]
The art of asking the right questions
In Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, researchers discovered that the answer to [...]
Checklist: Mitigating the 360 degree feedback risk
“the difference between knowing someone and knowing of someone” It’s that time again, the annual [...]
Book review: The Naked Corporation
As an analyst interpreting trends in the IT industry, corporate opacity was a common challenge [...]
Age of Unreason
Change is not what it used to be. One of the more enduring management books [...]
Defining the Governance Agenda
Good governance creates a strong organisation by continuously steering it towards a vision and ensuring [...]
Can business and social responsibility co-exist?
“Corporate Social Responsibility” is a dynamic term steadily evolving thus escaping standard definition. Applied CSR [...]