http://andimann.ulitzer.com/ Latest News from Andi Mann en Copyright 2012 Ulitzer.com Ulitzer.com Thu, 17 May 2012 18:52:31 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss 360 http://andimann.ulitzer.com/node/2224409 Key issues can make or break an organization’s strategic cloud adoption. The intersection of cloud computing with business strategy, Big Data, vendor lock-in, globalization, collaboration, security, licensing, virtualization, confidence, and the ‘new normal’ can act as huge points of concern. So I put down some thoughts on this, and ended up – in no particular order – with the following 11 tips for the successful adoption of cloud computing: 1. The ‘new normal’ makes cloud mandatory, not optional – the growing gap between flat (or down) IT budgets and the increasing business demand for innovation, new services, and growth is not sustainable. Any CIO who does nothing about this gap will be out of work – because they failed to deliver to business need, or because the business simply did it themselves. Cloud fills the gap by using time, money, and resources far more efficiently than legacy IT can, so IT can deliver business needs despite the ‘new normal’.<p><a href="http://andimann.ulitzer.com/node/2224409" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:15:00 EDT http://andimann.ulitzer.com/node/2224409 http://andimann.ulitzer.com/node/2224409#feedback http://andimann.ulitzer.com/node/1644203 There is a well-known and outstanding promise of virtualization, that it can and does deliver significant IT and business benefits. However, with more and more data coming through showing enterprises struggling to accelerate conversion and maturity of virtualization deployments, it is clear that “outstanding” in this context carries a dual meaning – not just in the sense of fantastic outcomes, but also undelivered outcomes. Actually, the raw figures for virtualization adoption can be very misleading. Every survey and study shows clearly that 75%, 85%, or even 95% of organizations are adopting server virtualization; more and more we see that these same high proportions are deploying virtualization for production applications; and we see the volume of new servers and new applications utilizing virtualization breaking well past the 50% range.<p><a href="http://andimann.ulitzer.com/node/1644203" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:00:00 EST http://andimann.ulitzer.com/node/1644203 http://andimann.ulitzer.com/node/1644203#feedback