The CTO Advisor Road Trip Jun 1 to Sep 3
So, Melissa (@MrsCTO) and I are jumping into a Ford [...]
16
Apr 2021
19
Oct 2020
Who are you Building the Thing For?
I once had the CEO of a company tell me that I helped bring the company he led out of the stone ages. The sales manager thought less of my work. The experience was one of my first understanding of …
27
Sep 2020
How Much Did our VMware Cloud Study Cost? – Running POCs
What’s the real value of a Proof of Concept (POC), and is there enough value to pay for it. I’ll run down the (sanitized) cost of what it took for us to run the comparison of three of the four …
23
Sep 2020
The Myth of M & A and Multi-Cloud
So, you read a white paper on Kubernetes, and now you want to apply a multi-cloud strategy to your IT infrastructure? As my industry friend Amy Lewis loves to say, “Bless your heart.” Multi-cloud isn’t as simple as taking an …
4
Sep 2020
Intelligent ERP – Use Case
Sponsored by SAP
I sat down for a discussion with the CEO of a local non for profit in Illinois. He spoke of his frustration with their current IT systems. The organization with a multi-million dollar annual budget provides affordable …
12
Jul 2019
Oracle – The new Old HPE?
Oracle announced the shuttering of their Ravello Systems solution. Is the inability to capitalize on the $500M purchase an example of Oracle becoming too big to innovate?
Back in 2016, Oracle purchased Ravello Systems. A small cloud startup from Israel. …
31
May 2019
2019 – The Year it all Changed for VMware
2019 will go down as the year it all changed for VMware. Count me in the camp of people who weren’t impressed with their vSphere everywhere cloud strategy of 2016. Having vSphere in the major cloud providers wasn’t enough. Fast-forward …
14
May 2019
VMware Cloud on AWS: Business Outcomes
A competitor has started to win your customers by providing a better digital experience. They’ve built an SAP Fiori app that enables sales teams to check the account status of a customer before going into a big sales meeting. At …
13
Sep 2017
Embracing digital transformation isn’t enough
A consistent message from the ‘cloudarotti’ trumpets the end of any company that doesn’t embrace digital transformation. Netflix and Uber represent the ultimate digital disrupters. Blockbuster was too slow to embrace electric delivery. Hailing a cab at home proved too …
20
Apr 2016
Reaction to Intel & VMware 2016 Q1 fiscal results
Since I left, PwC, I don’t get to talk to as many customers. I still have a thrust for understanding and talking about what’s happening in the industry. So, I speak at as many conferences as possible to get a …