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The New Digital Age Economy?

The promise of reinvigorating the economy through strategic government investment is appealing.  Obama’s economic recovery plan is deeply rooted in leveraging technology; there hasn’t been this much talk about driving technology adoption since Al Gore.   The plan put forth by Obama’s team centers on two main themes:  green our economy and redefine our industries by [...] Read More

Virtualization is Evolving Away

Virtualization cuts across just about all of what you might find in the data center. Clients, servers, applications, storage systems, data networks, and security can all be virtualized to one degree or another. And chief executives are discovering that virtualization has the potential to not only improve the balance sheet, but strengthen competitive advantage and [...] Read More

Not the Time to Turtle…

We can’t ignore the fact that the overall economy has caught a bad case of the flu, but the fact is that the demands on IT have not changed as a result of the economy.  It’s easy to get distracted in times like these – but we’ve all got to focus…harder than ever before. Data [...] Read More

Building Blocks to a Reliable Dynamic Data Center

There are a number of challenges facing data center managers today – not just the sudden curtailment of investments due to the economic situation.  Data centers are in the midst of one of the largest transformations in decades.  The shift is driven by more than just new technology.  New business models that extend corporate systems [...] Read More

Cloud Computing: The Web Grows Up (maybe)

Late last week, SDForum in San Jose, CA, hosted a standing-room only conference on Cloud Computing.   The speakers were a good mix of industry analysts, end-users and vendors with a very lively audience that asked some great questions. There were several key take-aways from where I sat…most notably that Cloud Computing is part of the [...] Read More

Financial Crisis: Digging-in for the long haul

Over the next several posts I’ll be exploring the impact the financial crisis is having on all of us – vendors, customers, individuals and leaders. I hope we’ll get some good discussion going – and be able to openly explore how we all can manage through this. After all, challenges breed opportunities. The financial market [...] Read More