By George M. Tomko
Many cloud computing boosters use the selling point that establishing large amounts of storage or computing requires no “up-front capital investment”. Pleading before the gods of capital within corporations has been a bane for IT and business operations functions forever. All those appropriation request forms and cash flow analyses – not much fun [...]
By George M. Tomko
This is about the 20 millionth blog post or article that has been written with some reaction to last week’s *new* Google Chrome OS announcement. For the most part, it was a surprise announcement – mostly because it was not leaked to the press.
I have posted about Google in a mostly positive [...]
It has been about two weeks sine the big launch of “Bing”. Great name. Love the hype. Cool TV.
Why would I care?
I already have a hammer in my toolbox – Google. If Bing was there first, perhaps it would be in the box instead of Google.
Every time I open a browser window, Google greets me [...]
By George M. Tomko:
As the hype continues regarding “Cloud Computing”, there are now tales from those who have recently experienced the current offerings of these services.
Also, there are more and more seasoned, veteran practitioners of information technology (“IT”) that have been at conferences, had prosepctive suppliers call on them and, in a number of cases, [...]
According to ExecuNet, LinkedIn and other sources, the job market for executive positions “bottomed-out” in the first quarter of 2009. This would seem to suggest that things will be getting better. However, information technology executives remain pessimistic about the near future recovery for chief information and technology officer positions.
One side of the story is in this interesting discussion of the open source cloud options by Gary Richmond at Free Software magazine. Ultimately the “answer” lies in careful analysis of the type of project and risk profile. This is where experienced consultants earn their keep in helping customers wade through hype vs. fact.
