InFocus Weekly Roundup May 11, 2012 “Stump the Bloggers” with your questions on Capitalizing on Cloud Services and Transitioning to ITaaS.  Post your questions for InFocus bloggers here – and they will be answered live from EMC World May 21 (simulcast on the EMC Community Network). This week, Wayne Pauley, Choong Keng Leung, and JP Morgenthal

Traditional views on IaaS and PaaS are already outmoded. They present a view of the universe that delineates based on a particular software element called a hypervisor. However, these terms do nothing more than continue to promote a stratified IT organization. As I discussed in my previous blog, stratification of IT has become a primary

Referring to the IT Transformation Puzzle which we discussed in my previous blog post IT Transformation – Where to Start?, most IT organizations will start their transformation journey with the Infrastructure Layer as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1: Infrastructure Transformation This is because Infrastructure is the foundation that everything else ‘rides’ on top of.

In my last post, I discussed why cloud architects need to be business savvy when transforming IT to ITaaS.  Part of that discussion was how to get the information needed to assess the organization and the technology.  In this post I will dig a little deeper into that assessment process, starting with the working definition

InFocus Weekly Roundup: April 27, 2012 “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” Choong Keng Leong draws on Sun Tzu’s quote to explain the use of holistic strategies as the starting point for IT Transformation. Engage in a discussion with InFocus Bloggers on “Capitalizing on Cloud

“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.”  — Sun Tzu The reason why people are reading this blog post is because IT Transformation has become inevitable to a certain extent for many IT organizations.  Do a quick scan of major IT vendors’ websites — everyone

One of the things that I’m most passionate about in life and also in my job are tools that make things easy and less complex.  It’s not that I mind working hard, but what I HATE, yes (HATE) is not working smart.  I could go on for days on a soap box about said topic

Transforming IT continues as our topic of focus this week with answers to many questions about IT as a Service. Once you’ve bought into transforming IT to ITaaS, you need to answer a key question: “Where do we start?” Wayne Pauley shares his thoughts on the business skills needed by Cloud developers and explains “Why do

We are a few years into this whole Cloud thing now and I’m surprised by how people still talk about it as a Cure All, some sort of silver bullet, conflating Cloud as a Service Delivery model with all sorts of things like collaboration, increased productivity, analytics – analytics?!, and a new model for application

IT Transformation has become a popular topic lately and has been closely associated with recent technology innovation and evolution, namely virtualization, mobile computing and cloud computing. Why does IT need to transform and why now? We can look at this from several perspectives. Global Economy Recent spates of global financial crisis and recessions reinforce the