At IoT World, it was a flurry of Internet of Things' potential and platforms paired with an overwhelming sense of confusion and questions with few answers. At the IoT World 2016 conference, there was a real sense of energy and excitement about the potential for the connected device ecosystem to change the world. Over 12,000... Continue Reading →
Using an IoT gateway to connect the “Things” to the cloud
As IoT grows and billions of devices need to connect to the world, one of the most critical components of future Internet of Things systems may be a device known as an "IoT gateway." An IoT gateway aggregates sensor data, translates between sensor protocols, processes sensor data before sending it onward and more. Read more... Continue Reading →
The Great Cloud Shakeout – A Look Back
Back in 2009 I posted about the "Great Cloud Shakeout" and the coming market consolidation into a few very large clouds. Nearly 5 1/2 years later and it's about (long past?) time I took another look to see how I did. Back then I predicted that the market would be dominated by "mega CSPs" by... Continue Reading →
Rethinking a stale IT governance model for the cloud era
The rise of cloud computing is a perfect opportunity to rethink your IT governance model in a fundamental way. Read the first part of this column for a discussion of how to reshape IT governance to add value, rather than hold a business back. Many enterprises place prohibitions on the use of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google... Continue Reading →
Modernizing the IT governance framework for fun and profit
An overhaul of your IT governance framework can be fun and profitable. This may sound a little far-fetched, but bear with me. IT leaders, including chief information officers (CIOs), must ensure proper governance over all aspects of the IT estate. IT governance focuses on five core principles, according to theISACA's COBIT 5 framework: Meeting stakeholders'... Continue Reading →
Reshaping IT organizations to fulfill a DevOps strategy
DevOps is an exciting and far-reaching shift in IT delivery. The promises are tempting: radically higher productivity, lower cost and more reliable systems. So I guess it's finally time for your IT organization to get on the development-operations (DevOps) bandwagon, right? Everybody's doing it, so don't delay. The big question isn't whether, but how and... Continue Reading →
How to revamp your IT operational plan without getting fired
Hey there, aren't you the one who keeps telling everybody that the IT operations team is a service provider to the business? That you're customer-centric? That you deliver high-quality technological capabilities for a fair price? Aren't you the one who said that you know what it takes to satisfy the needs of developers and application... Continue Reading →
The {Private} Cloud of Despair
"Oh ye of little faith!" That's kind of the reaction I have been getting from some of you to my last missive on the End of Private Clouds. Perhaps it's the definition of "not too distant future" that has people confused. There will absolutely be a continuing investment by vendors and their enterprise customers in building... Continue Reading →
The End of Private Cloud – 5 Stages of Loss and Grief
It's not today, or tomorrow, but sometime in the not too distant future the bulk of the on-premise private cloud market is going to shrivel into a little raisin and die. A very small number of very large companies will operate private clouds that will be, by an large, poor substitutes for the services available... Continue Reading →
It’s All About SDN
By Ben Grubin HP's announcement last week at Interop that they are shipping their SDN SDK and SDN App Store is merely one of the first salvos of a war that will likely heat up over the next 24 months. What was once the purview of marketing and start-ups, Software Defined Networking has now become... Continue Reading →
John Treadway 