Moving Business Applications to the Cloud – Part One
My best clients have been migrating their on-premise line-of-business applications to the cloud, with varying degrees of adoption. In the coming series of articles, I’ll explain some of the business...
View ArticleMoving Business Applications to the Cloud – Part Two – Cloud Migration...
In my previous article, we examined the business drivers for a cloud migration. Next, let’s look at some strategies for success, and some common challenges when moving and IT organization to the cloud....
View ArticleAmazon’s Outage and your Customers
This past Sunday around 6am ET, Amazon Web Services had a mega outage, affecting millions of customers worldwide. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is Amazon’s global cloud computing infrastructure business...
View ArticleThe CIO should become the CDO
The role of CIO as Chief Infrastructure Officer is becoming increasingly irrelevant. IT budgets have shifted to Marketing. Corporate infrastructure is moving to the cloud. So what’s left? Data. Enter...
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What’s your SCAM Strategy for 2016?
Now that we’re in Q4, your technology strategy for 2016 should be well formed. So what’s your plan for SCAM? The Social, Cloud, Analytics, and Mobile (SCAM) stack presents a framework in which...
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Get your Head out of the Cloud!
Software is a means to an end, not an end in and of itself. My long-time client, a general contractor, called me this weekend with a “great idea” for some custom cloud-based software that will...
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Are you Elastic Enough for Cyber Monday?
Imagine a typical week of traffic to your company’s web store. This pattern might look a lot like your own traffic, with a peak during the middle of the day, and a slowdown in the middle of the night....
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How to Fail Fast and Succeed
With the end of the year fast approaching, my clients are now focusing like a laser what they would like to accomplish in 2016. Many are finalizing their technology strategy, investing in DevOps...
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