It seems like everybody that has written about this report always starts with, “Glad that McKinsey did this report, BUT…” Given that enough people (i.e the industry at large) has said their thanks, lets focus on the issues:
- Most customers adopting cloud computing “hide” behind cost saving to “bypass” operations. Why? Because IT operations as [...]
Cisco’s Unified Computing Systems announcement is a sonic boom that recognizes how customers will benefit from simplifying operations from two different operations teams for servers and networking, down to one. This unified solution translates to a lower total cost of ownership. UCS also gives customers a choice of talking to a new vendor. So is [...]
We recently had the chance to talk to Richard Ptak, a systems product management analyst who works closely with Fortune 50 companies at Ptak, Noel & Associates – an analyst firm focused on converging IT trends and how best to leverage them. We had a long discussion about the “mixed bag” cloud computing presents to [...]
