Archive for February, 2011
Last summer, President Obama wrote a memo halting new data center construction and ordering organizations to create plans to consolidate data centers. Earlier this month, the US CIO released a report on the federal government's cloud strategy. Boiling it down to a Microsoft ad slogan, the government''s strategy is "To ...
I just read that one of my local business publications (Boulder County Business Reports) has named Molly Rector, the VP of marketing and product management at Spectra Logic, one of its “Forty Under 40.” The list honors distinguished Boulder County professionals under the age of 40 whose ...
It’s late and my brain is fried from 3 days of meetings — but here are a few more observations from the RSA Security conference.
There is way less discussion about regulatory compliance than in the past which puzzles me. Compliance fatigue? Perhaps but with PCI 2.0, FISMA 2.0, ...
I've been in back-to-back meetings at the RSA Conference, which limits my time for blogging. Here is my brain dump for the day:
The focus of RSA seems to be on cloud and mobile security. I get that these are hot areas with lots of marketing buzz but I ...
This time of year it's usually cloudy in San Francisco. But this year clouds seem to dominate more than just the weather. Case in point, RSA.
It's not surprising to see this theme. According to the recent ESG 2011 IT Spending Intentions Survey, cloud computing has emerged this year as a ...
Bob Laliberte, an ESG senior analyst, said there's a greater need for tighter integration among server, network and storage administrators. "There are people embracing the change," Laliberte said, "and they understand things need to be more tightly integrated."
via Storage management requires better collaboration in virtual world.
I recently spoke at an IT roadmap event and walked away with some interesting observations:
CIOs are building cloud computing into their plans as they model skill sets based on how the current talent will impact new recruitment, training, outsourcing, and retention of staff.
If you move to the cloud, know what ...
I’ve been doing a ton of research lately about how new-breed service providers (a.k.a., cloud) and resellers will continue to occupy an adjacent space in the IT ecosystem.
The only major conclusion I can draw to date is that neither party really has any idea of how they are going to ...
It's no secret that corporations are drowning in data. IDC estimates the volume of computer data worldwide will reach 1.2 million petabytes during 2011. A November, 2010 Gartner study found data growth was one of the top three challenges for data center managers at 47 percent of large enterprises.
That usually ...
ESG research indicates that organizations deploying new applications in 2011 will focus on both revenue-generating and back-office applications to support key business process improvement initiatives. These new applications will require specialized skills in application development and database administration—two areas in which both enterprise and midmarket companies expressed a problematic shortage ...
