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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
While the business is celebrating some new announced organizational change, as an IT professional, you are sitting back wondering how you are going to accomplish some unreasonable task related to the said business decision. This post is the first in …
