by Aneel Lakhani | May 10, 2013 | Submit a Comment
This is not one market, it’s a hundred (or hundreds of) markets. There is no real big pattern to where the inflection points are. There are lots of little patterns. We do not know: The line between what applications we will run and what we will totally outsource to SaaS The lines between what we [...]
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by Aneel Lakhani | April 5, 2013 | 1 Comment
Last December, I gave a presentation very similar to the Enterprise + Cloud + Open one at Gartner Data Center. During the session, I asked some polling questions about how much the audience cared about “openness” and for which part of their cloud platforms. Taking a cue from Chris Wolf, here they are. I have to assume that [...]
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by Aneel Lakhani | March 21, 2013 | 1 Comment
Last December, I gave a brief presentation at the first CloudStack Collaboration Conference on the open source cloud stuff in the enterprise. Some salient points: Things that work trump things that don’t Picking a winner is more important than picking the winner Speed and cost matter more than open or closed There are (and will [...]
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by Aneel Lakhani | February 14, 2013 | Submit a Comment
It’s been a little over a year since I joined Gartner and some things about startups, especially the cloud platform and management variety, stick out one anlayst-year in. 1. Many startups don’t know what to do with their product. They’re pursuing the wrong market, promoting the wrong feature, using the wrong metaphor, blowing the product [...]
by Aneel Lakhani | February 13, 2013 | Submit a Comment
It’s been a little over a year since I joined Gartner and some things about cloud stick out one anlayst-year in. 1. Cloud consumption is fragmented. I can find no single pattern or market or threshold function that tips any given organization over into using or building cloud services. If I take the aggregate of [...]
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by Aneel Lakhani | October 19, 2012 | Submit a Comment
One will be Linux. One will be BSD. The rest don’t matter.
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by Aneel Lakhani | August 25, 2012 | Submit a Comment
In [change the game]: There are physical limits to observation and action. Given equally matched adversaries with access to the same data and tools, both will hit absolute limits to how fast they can observe the environment or act on it. But realistically, adversaries are not equally matched. They gather different amounts + kinds of [...]
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by Aneel Lakhani | July 14, 2012 | 3 Comments
In ooda x cloud, I wrote: More: compressing Orient and Decide, the time between Observation and Action, enables you to change the operative environment such that the adversary is orienting towards and making decisions based on an outdated model representing a reality that no longer exists. There are physical limits to observation and action. Given [...]
by Aneel Lakhani | June 23, 2012 | Comments Off
Spending time discussing cloud in terms of mission objectives and operational leverage lately brought up John Boyd and OODA. The theory holds that: “…to win in battle a pilot needs to operate at a faster tempo then his enemy…he must stay one or two steps ahead of his adversary: he must operate inside his adversary’s [...]
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by Aneel Lakhani | June 18, 2012 | 2 Comments
“What IT people call shadow IT..what other people call getting work done.” -Jeff Gelb, Director of Technical Strategy at Pearson Getting work done is what people are paid for. IT exists to provide tools, platforms, levers, force multipliers, accelerators. No one invests in IT to create inhibitors to the work that needs doing. But where [...]
