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

One of the common questions or misconceptions that I encounter during my client engagements is  “I am already running a private cloud because I have virtualized a good proportion of my servers” or “What is the difference between server virtualization and private cloud?” To some, the above sentence may sound trivial.  But if you try

Go Big or Go Home, seems trite, but it is applicable to IT transformation. Companies that are successfully adopting cloud technologies are taking a transformation approach, not a technical project approach. The larger the scale of the program the more traction they are getting across the enterprise, business and IT. For too long virtualization has

I recently attended EMC’s IT Leadership Council where I presented a session on mobile workforce strategies.  The session was well received and generated a great deal of attendee conversation around cloud based models and tools to help deliver better secure mobile experiences.  This topic in itself is interesting; however, the questions being asked were even

Welcome! As my inaugural post on The Practical Polymath I wanted to make some kind of introduction, maybe a little getting to know you post…you know, something soft.  Truthfully, you don’t care about me so let’s just dive right in with Geocaching and Demand Management.  While I am diving, please excuse the mess as we clean