A few days ago I attended the analyst summit of one of Europe’s large
service providers and the theme of industrialization rang through very
clearly in many of the presentation and interview sessions. Those of you who
followed my earlier writings know that applying the lessons of modern
manufacturing to today’s IT, is a topic near to my heart. Back in 2004,
long before joining Gartner, I wrote an article on IT-dustrialization in CFO
magazine , followed by many blogs, later bundled in “Lean and the art of
cloud computing management”. At Gartner IT services industrialization is
covered in my area under the topic of IUS (Infrastructure Utility Services)
and I am currently working with two of my European colleagues - who have been
covering IUS for several years - on a market map and compass for this IT
industry area.
But, as mentioned earlier publishing in many cases p... (more)
Statistics matter, not only in business, but increasingly also in our social
life - well, at least in our social media life. Some of the statistics I
noticed this week were round numbers, like 1000. With 1000 representing both
the number now showing under "followers" in Twitter and the revenue number
for research (that's excluding events, consulting and other items) we grew to
in 2011.
And on my blog I saw - a bit to my surprise - it has been a full 10 weeks
since my last post! That's however more a case of blogger's block than
writer's block, as I did (co-)author the round numb... (more)
The public cloud infrastructure as a service market is developing quickly,
also in Europe. Over the past months we saw the number of international IaaS
providers setting up shop in Europe increase, and several European based
providers launched new or upgraded offerings.
To keep a finger on the pulse of developments we started, as part of the
European Cloud IaaS coverage at Gartner, surveying pan-European providers of
Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service . We are now extending the invite to
participate in that survey more widely (like we recently did for the CIO
survey).
Esp... (more)
If the cloud is to fulfill on its promise we need to start thinking of it as
a cloud, not as an aggregation of its components (such as VMs etc.)
As mentioned in a previous post I‘ll use some of my upcoming posts to
highlight some cloud computing "megatrends" that I believe are happening - or
need to happen – beyond 2011. One of these would be the creation of an
“abstraction model” that can be used to think about (and eventually
manage) the cloud. A nice setup to this was done by Jen-Pierre Garbani of
Forrester, who in a recent post at Computerworld ... (more)
Cloud Computing is the most discussed IT innovation of recent times. This
Primer provides a structured overview of what Cloud Computing is and what the
potential benefits and risks are. In addition it explores how Cloud Computing
will impact IT management and IT's role in the organization as a service
provider.
It also looks at the risks of Cloud Computing. Risk is consistently cited by
CIOs and CFOs as the largest obstacle of cloud computing for their
organizations. In this primer we consider the risks in areas such as
availability, privacy and regulatory compliance. The bookle... (more)
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