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 …
I’ve sat back and noticed an interesting employment trend in the technology industry. Talented IT professionals are leaving enterprise organizations in what seems droves.
Technologies such as Cloud Computing, Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Big Data analytics are true enablers for …
I expected some FUD from VMware competitors as the long period between the announced of the acquisition of EMC by Dell and the close of the deal. EMC and VMware have added to the confusion by announcing a combination of …
One of the common questions I get from new graduates and people considering a role as a technology-focused management consultant is the type of work they’d be doing at a Big 4 consulting firm. Question circle around the level of …
So, you read my blog post and decided to go work for a Big 4. Your life is one airport after another, and you’ve sat in board rooms discussing tough challenges with Fortune 50 senior executives. Or, you are still …
