IBM Survey: CIOs Expect A Cloud Boom
IBM recently released the results of their CIO study survey which predicts a boom in the enterprise cloud adoption. As I usually do with any vendor sponsored survey, I take it with a grain of salt. However, this is a trend most of us observe in the industry and I won’t be surprised if this [...]
CIOs & Cloud Centric IT Organization Refresh Strategies
As enterprises concentrate on growth, they remain vigilant about costs and operational efficiencies – coming out of recession, even in times of high growth and radiant optimism. Such a model of growth provides IT with a lot of fresh opportunities to…
10 Critical Requirements for Cloud Applications
Another day, and another software vendor—or two, or three—will announce some strategy around the cloud. As a CIO, I’ve benefitted hugely from cloud applications, and view it as a positive sign that more and more software companies are exploring alternative delivery models. What concerns me, however, is when vendors tout cloud applications (also known as software [...]
Present & Correct ?
There are fewer sobering moments in the life of a Principal Technology Architect (which is apparently my official new title) than returning from a trip to the crazy world of Silicon Valley and next day finding oneself standing before a room full of CISOs from some of the leading Fortune 100 companies, rattling off a [...]
Selling To Enterprise – Power Struggle Between IT And Line Of Business
During my several interactions with – CIOs, senior IT leaders, and Line of Business (LoB) heads – I have firsthand observed the power struggle between LoB and IT and a slow but continuous tarnish in their relationship due to cloud and SaaS offerings. IT and LoB work for the same company but they build their [...]
Bottom Up Adoption, CIOs Watch Out
Yesterday I was at a dinner on the sidelines of Enterprise 2.0 conference and during the dinner, everyone present was asked to offer their thoughts on what is happening in the space. Since my focus is more on Open Source and Cloud Computing, I was more of a bystander in this space than an expert. [...]
Questions to Discuss with your SaaS Provider
Today I’m practicing the part of the Lazy Blogger, who just points to what others write… Two years ago Krish wrote about Questions To Ask Before Trusting a Cloud Vendor. His focus was largely infrastructure, security, data ownership, privacy and service level. He listed 14 questions, not because it was some magic number, but he [...]
Mr. CIO Check your Premises
When a new CIO steps into office he is given three envelopes in the event he runs into trouble. Inside the 1st envelope a note reads “play it safe”. If that doesn’t work than he opens the 2nd envelope which reads “blame the business unit”. If neither works than he opens up the 3rd envelope [...]
The Art of the Enterprise- The Ovation
“You simply must fire that guy, he’s after your job!”, said the CFO. “He’s had it in for you since he brought in that ERP system against your wishes.” “I’ve had enough of him. I am going to embarrass him in front of the board next week,” said the CEO. ‘”He’s pulled one too [...]
Obstacles To Enterprise Cloud Adoption: Who Is The Culprit?
Slowly, but steadily, enterprises are warming up to Cloud technologies. No, they are not queuing outside the Amazon headquarters waiting to order public cloud infrastructure, like the Amazon’s EC2 offerings, yet. But, the idea of private clouds and the advantages of tapping the public clouds for non mission critical operations like testing are slowly making [...]
Services, The Very Critical Part of the On Demand Ecosystem – Appirio
Yesterday I had a great conversation with one of the founders of Appirio, a new age services organization founded in 2006. They are an 80-person company with an additional 20 people offshore through a partner. Their original investors include Salesforce.com along with a couple of angels. More recently Sequoia capital invested in them. Appirio is [...]
