Monday, April 11, 2011

A question of standards.

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I'm all in favour of standards for the "cloud" world because such standards should enable and accelerate innovation in IT thr...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Preparing for war

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Following on from my post on ecosystem wars , I thought I'd discuss some techniques and tactics to use. However, before I do, I need to ...

Ecosystem wars

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Back in 2005, I started to talk publicly about lifecycle concepts and the importance of ecosystems. In the next two posts, I'd like to...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Consumerization

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The evolution of any business activity is complicated by the existence of multiple ecosystems such as the enterprise and consumers. Activit...
Friday, March 18, 2011

Building a private cloud

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As we move from a world of infrastructure products to a competitive market of infrastructure services, private clouds have a valid role as ...
Monday, March 07, 2011

Componentisation

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Herbert Simons showed in the Theory of Hierarchy how the evolution of a system is dependent upon the organisation of its subsystems. In shor...
Sunday, March 06, 2011

The online grocery guide to keeping me happy

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There are many things which I find annoying about shopping online, the most irksome generally deal with grocery shopping. Now let's assu...

The confusion of choice

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I've been asked many times whether there are any mechanisms to slow down, prevent or reverse commoditisation? Well, there are a long li...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Private vs Enterprise Clouds

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There is a debate raging at the moment between different types of clouds hence I thought I'd stick my oar in. First, let's clear up...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

Will Cloud Computing help the business align to the market?

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I was recently at a private conference of CIOs when in the midst of discussing activities such as CRM to ERP, it became clear that not only ...
Friday, February 25, 2011

VMware as an acquisition target?

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Back in 2009, I proposed that VMware (or more importantly its master EMC) would eventually divest itself of its virtualisation business. Th...

Should I listen to my users?

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Following on from my previous post on lifecycle , I thought I'd discuss the question of when to listen to users. I'm going to use my...