Practical insights on technology, sourcing, cloud, and emerging technology.
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
IT Infrastructure Services: A little over a month ago, on a hot and sunny day at a coffee shop in Santa Monica, I bumped into Tony Greenberg, CEO of RampRate Sourcing Advisors, as I was waiting for my double espresso. I’ve known Tony from years ago, when I was running marketing for one of the… Read More »The Cheesy Million $ IT Infrastructure Services Promotion
November 30, 2015
How can hosting, colocation and cloud managed services providers position themselves to best enable digital enterprise transformation? DCD As-a-Service 6 Questions 1. For a while the idea of a hosting provider as a strategic partner seemed dead. Differentiated providers in co-lo had trouble retaining their margins, half the cloud market indexed Amazon’s rates, and the… Read More »DCD As-a-Service 6 Questions to the Plenary Panel
October 26, 2015
Digital enterprise transformation is real and here now. What role do colocation and cloud service providers play in enabling customer’s business innovation strategies? DCD as-a-Service conference: A special CEO keynote panel at the DCD as-a-Service conference will explore whether and how service providers can best support digital business innovation efforts by enterprise CIO customers. The… Read More »DCD As-A-Service Conference: Opening Plenary Keynote Panel
October 23, 2015
Russian Data Center & Cloud Market Update – Addressing Russia’s Data Sovereignty Laws ARE YOU IN COMPLIANCE WITH GLOBAL DATA SOVEREIGNTY LAWS? RUSSIA, TURKEY & OTHERS? If you’re providing services to people in Russia, store some personal data, and are not an airline, you have until September 1, 2015 to move that data to a… Read More »Deadline for Russia’s Data Localization Law
August 25, 2015
An ITBM Primer Infrastructure Optimization According to ITBM leader Apptio: “Modern IT leaders use facts to collaborate on the tradeoffs needed to maximize business value. Cost-only conversations become a thing of the past.” Modern IT leaders: Manage CapEx/OpEx, Fixed/Variable, CtB/RtB, Direct/Indirect Manage cost and variance for Plan/Build and Run activities Manage IT internally with these… Read More »Infrastructure Optimization: ITBM’s Last Mile
August 3, 2015
Cloud Migration Strategy: SPY INDEX Call it app modernization as-a-service. For many enterprises it is their “last mile” to the cloud: How to assess and measure the business impact of migrating legacy, e.g., non-virtualized, distributed applications to one or more cloud deployment options. In a previous post, Bulletproof Your Core App Migration to the Cloud: An Essential Readiness… Read More »Core App Migration to Cloud: Solving the App Modernization Use Case
June 29, 2015