Big Data represents the next not-completely-understood got-to-have strategy. This first dawned on me about a year ago and has continued to become clearer as the phenomenon has gained momentum. Contributing to Big Data-mania is Hadoop, today’s weapon of choice in the taming and harnessing of mountains of unstructured data, a project that has its own…
Earlier this week Dell held an industry analyst summit in Boston. The event, “Dell Services and Solutions for the Virtual Era” was attended by analysts from around the world and was a follow-on to the event Dell held in San Francisco back in March. What went on The two-day event featured presentations from Dell’s senior…
At Cloud World/Open Source World earlier this month I grabbed some time with Forrester’s “Mr. Cloud” James Staten. I wanted to get his take on Cloud Computing and what was hot and what is not. Here is the result. Some of the things James talks about: How the conversation about cloud has changed over the…
The other day, I came across an entry on CIO.com discussing a recent Forrester report. The report, snappily entitled “Conventional Wisom is Wrong About Cloud IAAS,” details the results of a recent survey administered to small and large enterprises located in the Europe and North America. The survey’s key findings were: Confirmation of a strong…
A few weeks ago I blogged about the Forrester review of Blueprint that was published in early February. We recently purchased licensing rights to the report, “Vendor Snapshot: Lombardi Blueprint Bridges Gap Between Process Discovery And Execution” and it is now available here. Quotable Quotes Here are some of my favorite quotes from the report:…
At the end of last year, Blueprint Product Manager Dave Marquard and I had a call with Forrester analyst Clay Richardson to brief him on Lombardi Blueprint. The result of that call and a considerable amount of further research was a 6-page report that debuted last Friday — “Vendor Snapshot: Lombardi Blueprint Bridges Gap Between…