Everybody wants to know the score — the game, the poll, the election, the vote, and the economy. Gartner is a well-respected source when it comes to IT infrastructure market sizing. Sound-bite summary: mobile devices and cloud services up, PC sales down, overall slow growth. Article by Paul Mah in FierceCIO, original article by Melissa Lewelling in CRN. Emphasis in …
Dell, VMware Change Cloud Stripes
Big moves afoot by Dell and VMware; today’s bold move is tomorrow’s change in strategy. The article below is by 451 Research analysts William Fellows, Carl Brooks, Michelle Bailey, and Peter Christy. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———— The in and the out: IaaS landscape shifts again There was a good deal of movement between …
IT as a Service CHIMEs In
It’s conventional wisdom that there is “a lot” of opportunity to squeeze costs from the U.S. healthcare system. That’s an understatement. As described below, healthcare providers consuming IT “as a service” is but one way in which AIS can help take part in improving the efficiency of a system we all need. Original article by Susan D. Hall in FierceHealthIT. …
Enterprises Spend HOW MUCH on Storage?
This is a short but practical (and relevant) article on a survey conducted by NaviSite. The contents speak for themselves. Article by Nicole Henderson in The WHIR. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——– Enterprises Spend 25 Percent of IT Budgets on Data Storage: NaviSite Study Most companies allocate 25 percent of their IT budget to …
Fear and Inertia Grasp at Security
Ah fear and inertia, the bane of me and all my sales-and-marketing brothers and sisters out there. Fear of change, fear of the unknown, and prospective customers’ reluctance to try something other beyond the devil that we know. And because perception is reality (for many), this is a real issue that must be overcome. For cloud services, the perceived issue …
You Are Anonymous and Unique — Just Like Everybody Else
We all think we’re unique; we all like to think that we “think different” from one another, and act different too. Well, maybe that’s true, but it’s also a fact that in this modern world we are trackable and predictable: enter big data. Any pretense of anonymity is just that — a pretense. Summary article by Tim McElligott in FierceBigData, …
Progressive Ideas for the New Role of IT
Ch-ch-ch-changes in our information-rich, data-driven, knowledge-producing workplaces requires new modes of thinking by, and support from, IT. Centralized, top-down planning and deployment now needs to morph into dispersed, bottoms-up, street-level support. Business cases and long-range budgets go out the window — or do they? Summary by Caron Carlson in FierceCIO; original by Andrew Horne in CEB Emphasis in red added …
Walking the Talk: USTA CIO Keeps it Real
I love this article because I love this philosophy. Simple, straightforward, results-oriented. Bing bang boom. Less is more. Summary article by Caron Carlson in FierceCIO, original post by Larry Bonfante (CIO of the USTA) in CIO Insight. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——— 4 budget management principles to get them eating out of your hand …
Cloud Pricing Demystified
Here’s a great article from 451 Research analysts Owen Rogers and William Fellows about cloud pricing. Using hotel rooms as the analogy, they make clear all the variations available from the dozens of cloud providers hawking service. To be explicit, AIS offers both Pay-As-You-Go and Allocated pricing models for BusinessCloud1 — including a hybrid between the two. ClearCompute currently just …
McDonald’s, Starbucks, AWS: Not for Everyone
McDonald’s and Starbucks are ubiquitous. McDonald’s and Starbucks serve the masses. McDonald’s and Starbucks are the gorillas of their categories. Even so, McDonald’s and Starbucks are not for everyone. Some prefer Burger Lounge, In-N-Out, or Five Guys — or Peet’s or The Coffee Bean. And some prefer AIS for cloud services. (See the Liquid Grids presentation for a specific example.) …
