Twitter Feed
The Endpoint Imperative: In a Software World, Hardware Does Matter
Hardware matters. From productivity to security to innovation, make sure your machines can keep up. Intel’s Sarah Wieskus joins The End Point Imperative: A Podcast series from Intel to discuss…
IT Transformation with Watson
Credit: Shutterstock by Kevin Jackson & Dez Blanchfield IBM recently launched an exciting new project in the form of a podcast series produced and hosted Dez Blanchfield, appropriately titled the…
The Endpoint Imperative: A Form Factor Renaissance
Workplace expectations are changing, and along with them, the devices we use to do our jobs. In this episode of “The End Point Imperative”, Intel’s Sarah Wieskus tells us about…
Cloud Storage 2.0 Set To Dominate Market
The enterprise data storage marketplace is poised to become a battlefield. No longer the quiet backwater of cloud computing services, the focus of this global transition is now going from…
Top “Cloud Musings” Posts For 2017
( This content is being syndicated through multiple channels. The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not represent the views of GovCloud Network, GovCloud…
The Endpoint Imperative: ID’ing and Overcoming the Stumbling Blocks to Digital Transformation
Digital Transformation is the No 1 priority for organizations large and small. It’s imperative that IT remove any obstacles to digital transformation success – including outdated PCs and mobile devices.…
Industry Verticals Tackle Unstructured Data
Organizations around the world are struggling to cope with the current data explosion. A vital characteristic of this data is that it is unstructured and represents things like email,…
The Endpoint Imperative: The Perimeter is Dead; Long Live the Perimeter!
Cloud, mobility and the Internet of Things have obliterated the traditional perimeter that protected organizations. The result: Higher productivity, but bigger challenges for security, data protection, and mobile device management.…
The Data Storage Explosion
Cloud computing innovation will power enterprise transformation in 2018. Cloud growth is also driving a rapid rise in the storage market, exacerbating the enterprise challenge around storage cost and complexity.…
Digital Transformation Drives Mainframe’s Future
Digital Transformation is amplifying mainframe as mission critical to business growth more than ever before. With 70% of the world’s corporate data and over half of the world’s enterprise…
- Financial changes designed to minimize CAPEX and maximize OPEX.
- Acquisition changes that prioritize as-a-service IT consumption and multisource procurement.
- Operational changes that shift from data center ownership and physical management toward the virtual management of IT services from data centers owned by AWS, Azure, IBM and Hosted VMware providers.
What’s Driving Innovation?
- Monolithic designs, toward designs that aggregate the use of microservices.
- Agile and Waterfall management models, toward fully automated DevOps.
- Physical infrastructures and virtual servers, toward containerized environments.
- How to design and build new apps.
- How to modernize existing apps with cloud services.
- How to optimize the IT owned and operated by the enterprise.
Pursue Multipath Digital Transformation
- How IT service consumption is changing into a commerce-like transaction similar to buying songs from multiple online streaming music vendors;
- How IT service delivery is changing from service requests that initiate workflows towards fully automated functions governed by IT corporate policies;
- How IT service governance is changing from incident keyed governance after-the-fact to the proactive setting and enforcement of policies that control consumption based on individual business unit usage models and cloud adoption strategies.
- Run a strategic portfolio analysis: Prioritized based on importance to customer experience, focus on high priority apps.
- Develop your app-by-app migration plan: For priority, application create a focused SWT Team for each application.
- Create a customer-obsessed cloud team: Think products and not projects (short iterations with quick customer feedback).
- Pursue relentless automation: This requires standardization.
- Re-engage with your trusted partners: External advice in the early change of a cloud migration can kick off the required culture change.
( This content is being syndicated through multiple channels. The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not represent the views of GovCloud Network, GovCloud Network Partners or any other corporation or organization.)
This post was brought to you by IBM Global Technology Services. For more content like this, visit ITBizAdvisor.
( Thank you. If you enjoyed this article, get free updates by email or RSS – © Copyright Kevin L. Jackson 2016-2018)
Cloud Computing
- CPUcoin Expands CPU/GPU Power Sharing with Cudo Ventures Enterprise Network Partnership
- CPUcoin Expands CPU/GPU Power Sharing with Cudo Ventures Enterprise Network Partnership
- Route1 Announces Q2 2019 Financial Results
- CPUcoin Expands CPU/GPU Power Sharing with Cudo Ventures Enterprise Network Partnership
- ChannelAdvisor to Present at the D.A. Davidson 18th Annual Technology Conference
Cybersecurity
- Route1 Announces Q2 2019 Financial Results
- FIRST US BANCSHARES, INC. DECLARES CASH DIVIDEND
- Business Continuity Management Planning Solution Market is Expected to Grow ~ US$ 1.6 Bn by the end of 2029 - PMR
- Atos delivers Quantum-Learning-as-a-Service to Xofia to enable artificial intelligence solutions
- New Ares IoT Botnet discovered on Android OS based Set-Top Boxes