Notes from the Consultant's Jungle

Through some of the work that I do for my Clients, I’ve helped to identify and reduce Shadow IT as a part of better aligning IT delivery with strategic business goals.  It has been sort of a mantra, that Shadow IT is a bad thing and must be eliminated.  Over the past couple of years [...]

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Following the deal between Verizon and Terremark earlier this year, Louisiana- based CenturyLink has agreed to a deal to acquire Savvis for $2.5B.  CenturyLink is a fixed-line phone and Internet access company, saying that it intends to let business customers store and access data and applications over the Internet. This is a continuation of the [...]

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For another point of view on the topic of “flat data center networks” we share the following discussion with Nic Ilyadis of Broadcom.  Nic does a great job of explaining the motivation for this development, and the scenarios under which it’s a good fit, as well as advice toward building the data center network as [...]

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Our regular readers will understand that we do not routinely report on vendor-specific industry events, but because of the increasing presence of virtualization as a foundational component in enterprise IT architecture, this week’s VMWorld in San Francisco is hard to ignore. In a press release, VMware revealed a roadmap that is focused on IT services [...]

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Confusion Persists Through several posts on this blog, we discussed the many aspects of confusion around the term, “Cloud Computing.”¬† After attending this year’s Cloud Expo in New York City and seeing the same three-layer stack (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) slide in fifty half of the presentations, I have to conclude that confusion still exists in [...]

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