Practical insights on IT infrastructure, sourcing, cloud, and emerging technology.
Happy Holidays from RampRate! During this season, we take time to reflect upon the good things we have…like our partnership with you. We appreciate working with you and hope the coming year will bring you much happiness and success. Hot Sauce, is What I Got If you want to make it cool, you’ll have to sing… Read More »Hot sauce, is what I got, just remember that Sourcing, is what I got..
January 7, 2018
Cloud computing isn’t emerging, futuristic, or innovative. It’s just a building block in the CIO’s infrastructure arsenal. One piece of evidence: it’s missing from Gartner’s latest Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. That doesn’t mean that all cloud technologies are commoditized …
December 28, 2016
Are You Going to Be All Talk or All Action? ..Getting the Most out of Your Existing Cloud But supposing you’re one of the many that has made the leap and deployed some apps in the cloud. How will your organization continue to extract efficiencies for the long haul? It’s not just an arbitrage of …
December 27, 2016
CIO Vacancy: Must Bring Own Crystal Ball Build Shared Services: If a time machine that takes you back a year is invented, the most profitable use is probably gambling – Leicester City at 5000-1, some powerball tickets, etc. But selling it to CIOs planning shared services IT budgets could be a close second. Each year,… Read More »Build Your Shared Services
June 22, 2016
Optimize & Re-Negotiate Contracts – 100% job satisfaction in IT is rare – each day brings new headaches. At best you get the usual suspects: excessive demands from business that recall the old Queen song, ornery suppliers, understaffed teams, budget cuts, etc. At worst you have delayed deployments, outages, failed upgrades, and contentious internal politics.… Read More »Optimize & Re-Negotiate Contracts
May 24, 2016
Scale & Buy: Owning a big IT budget is a bit like sudden fame. At first, it’s great – everyone wants to be your friend, you get perks and freebies, and feel like a rock star. And then you realize: Budgets, like fame, may be fleeting – you need to manage them well today to… Read More »Scale & Buy Global IT Infrastructure
May 23, 2016
Microsoft Underwater Data Centers: There’s something about the water that keeps attracting data center builders. We were brought in by a VC firm to vet out a project all the way back in 2008 (the idea was sunk not because of the project’s merits but because the financial assumptions of the founders were way off).… Read More »Microsoft’s Underwater Data Centers – Really ?
February 3, 2016
Excerpts from a presentation at the H+ Conference, Harvard University June 13, 2010 Download the PowerPoint deck here (10MB) Click through web preso here Building a Services Market for the Transhuman Era By Tony Greenberg, Alex Veytsel & Eric Pulier One man, one army. So we’re going to count down what we do. I’m honored to be hanging… Read More »“Boiling the Human” H+ Summit Transcript / Harvard-Kurzweil
December 13, 2015
The 5 Disciplines – Compute & The Human Operating System circa 2020 Human Operating System – We’re making everything smarter – from our data centers to our watches. But this wonderful technology is and misused in myriads of unpredictable ways. On the one end of the spectrum, there are CIOs with access to the type… Read More »Human Operating System
December 13, 2015