IBM zEnterprise and The Reintegration of Everything.
IBM’s just launched its new zEnterprise server at a very interesting time for the market. So interesting in fact that’s its very hard indeed to sum up all the swirls and currents currently roiling enterprise IT. Cloud (public and private), consumerisation of IT, Big Data, devops, NoSQL and did I remember to say… cloud? IBM [...]
Meet the sourcing gangsters in Chicago
HfS has teamed with its networking partner, SSON, to present a superior discussion across the world of finance and sourcing, with Jay Desai, one of the buy-side’s most respected voices for sourcing governance, Capgemini’s own sourcing sherif David Pool…
CoIT: How an accidental future is becoming reality
It’s a story as old as the IT department: New technology arrives in the market, it makes some type of work easier to accomplish, the business asks for it, and IT reacts and delivers it. Not always however, and usually somewhat slowly. It was this way with PCs, it was this way with the Internet, [...]
Friday Rant: Why Has the Longevity and Quality of Household Appliances Gone Down the Tube?
Earlier in the week, I shared a quick story in a comment about a recent appliance purchase in the Busch/Reisman household. I’ll repeat the comment here: “We recently purchased a German washer/dryer (Miele) because it’s the last one made with primarily Western-sourced parts and components (not because we believe in buying US or European products [...]
‘Success and failure in the time of social’
To cut through the noise surrounding Social CRM, star analyst, Esteban Kolsky, and I held a spirited debate at the CRM Evolution 2010 conference, held in New York this week.
