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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 3:28 PM/EST

Champagne IT Results on a Beer Budget

By Larry Bonfante On Wednesday, March 10th at 9 a.m. I will be delivering the keynote address at the IT Roadmap conference being held at the Marriott Marquis at 1535 Broadway in New York City. You can see more about...

Friday, February 19, 2010 12:49 PM/EST

Why Vendor Events Are Useless

By John Parkinson I seldom go to major vendor events any more. They've gotten so big that you can't actually get anything useful done and I already own too many of the various give away items that abound at 'partner"...

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 7:04 PM/EST

Apple vs. Open Innovation

By John Parkinson It's become almost a religious belief that to get 'real" innovation you need a broad community of people sharing ideas and helping to improve whatever is being dreamt up. Free from stifling corporate constraints and management process...

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 8:15 PM/EST

The Disaster Recovery Conundrum

By John Parkinson If you're like me, you spend a decent amount of time worrying about whether your disaster recovery processes and plans would really work. Sure, you actually do have plans. Sure, you practice parts of them periodically. But...

Thursday, February 11, 2010 6:01 PM/EST

The Perfect IT Book for the Business?

By John Parkinson Several times over the past year I have been asked by senior executive colleagues to recommend reading material that would give them a working background on and understanding of enterprise IT. Something along the lines of the...

Friday, February 05, 2010 5:39 PM/EST

Data Center Power Play

By John Parkinson I haven't worried about reliable power for quite some time. But last week I started to, if not worry, at least think about how to cope with the levels of power density we are starting to see...

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 4:46 PM/EST

The Perils of Management Malpractice

By Susan Cramm There's only one kind of leadership malpractice: wasting the lives of those we lead. Consider this multiple offender (sent to me in response to my last blog concerning compassion in leadership): "I'm to show these fools some...

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 6:02 PM/EST

Virtualization's Reality

By John Parkinson Around the middle of last year, my then-boss asked me what I thought was the most critical strategic decision we had taken in the preceding 18 months. It wasn't a trick question--he was going to be asked...

Thursday, January 14, 2010 9:55 PM/EST

Do Businesses Need an IT Czar?

By Chris Curran With the NFL playoffs in full swing, most of the league's teams are on the sidelines thinking about how to get better for next year. Most of the introspection involves evaluating coaches and players. One new front...

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 1:39 PM/EST

The (Un)Economics of Infrastructure Support

It's a fact of life in IT that things break. As reliable as hardware is, over time there is a "natural" failure rate for components, sub-systems and the systems that are assembled from them. Nothing lasts forever, and we have...

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