The Cloud and Infrastructure Management Services
Infrastructure Management Services or IMS is one of the fastest growing services for IT Services companies. But computing infrastructure is what the Cloud will impact first and foremost. Is the fast growing IMS in jeopardy, then? There are good reasons why the Cloud is a big trend. Enterprise IT loves the pay per use, “utility” [...]
The Cloud & Enterprises
This is in continuation of the previous note:Thomas Friedman makes the case that Value creation is becoming so complex that no single firm can master it without closely collaborating with a wide set of partners. John Hagel brings this up :” We are s…
Next year is a strategic opportunity
Recessions are always a good time to rebuild your competitive infrastructure and the slow growth/recession of the last couple of years has been no exception. On the stock market, the technology sector seems to be doing quite well. After bottoming in the middle of the summer the software companies especially seem to be rebounding. Microsoft, [...]
Clouds: The HOT seat
People still roll their eyes when they hear Marc Benioff talk about “the end of software”. The reality of course is, it took guts and vision for his company to relinquish an existing, established industry sector definition and create a “polym…