by Daryl Plummer | February 9, 2012 | 2 Comments
The Gartner Cool Vendors process happens at the beginning of each year and terminates in the April timeframe with the publication of our annual list of relatively un-known but interesting IT vendors. In early January, we launched the internal nominations process for identifying Cool Vendors candidates. After a month of interaction, we finally reviewed and [...]
Category: Applications Broker Business Process Management Cloud Cool Vendors Tags: Billing, Business, Cloud, Trends
by Daryl Plummer | August 31, 2011 | 2 Comments
All of a sudden, everyone is interested in cloud services brokerage. Well, by everyone, I mean end customers looking for an easier way to integrate cloud computing into their plans and vendors seeking a new set of markets to mine. But no matter the interested party, one thing is clear. The options for doing cloud [...]
Category: Cloud Emerging Trends SOA SOA Governance Service Orientation Virtualization Tags: Billing, Cloud, Cloud computing, Commoditization, Elasticity, Enterprise, Pay as you go, private cloud, Services, SOA, Telecom enabled, Trends
by Daryl Plummer | November 8, 2010 | 8 Comments
I’m about to introduce a term to describe a solid trend in cloud computing integration – Cloudstreams. It will come as no surprise to those of you who have spoken to me that this trend lays in the domain of cloud services brokerage. I have said, and will continue to say, that cloud services brokerage [...]
Category: Cloud EA ERP Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Google IAM IT Governance SOA SOA Governance Service Orientation Social Computing Social Networking Social Sites Strategic Planning Vendor Contracts Virtualization Windows 7 Tags: Billing, Business, Cloud, Cloud computing, Cloud Services, Commoditization, Communities, Elasticity, hype, IBM, Inrastructure, IT, private cloud, Smarter Planet, SOA, Social, Telecommunications, Trends
by Daryl Plummer | March 30, 2010 | 5 Comments
I posed an interesting question in our cloud council meeting last month. Since then, I have been trying to get more detail on the issue. The question was, when will cloud services providers begin to acquire bulk licenses of popular software products to deploy on behalf of cloud services consumers? The essential issue here is [...]
Category: Cartoon Cloud Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Google SOA SOA Governance Service Orientation Social Computing Social Networking Social Sites Uncategorized Tags: Cloud, Cloud computing, Cloud Services
by Daryl Plummer | February 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
In the last three months, I seem to be spending a lot of time with legal staff at large enterprises talking about cloud computing. I knew the lawyers would wake and get in this game in a big way, but what has surprised me is the amount of glee these lawyers seem to have re [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Management Cartoon Cloud Comic Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Google Music SOA SOA Governance Service Orientation Social Computing Social Networking Social Sites Uncategorized Tags: Cartoon, Cloud, Cloud Services, Comic, Enterprise, Infrastructure, Pay as you go, private cloud, Smarter Planet, SOA, Social, Social Networking, Trends
by Daryl Plummer | November 25, 2009 | Comments Off
The days of thanks begin at birth. For the few things we adults see as thankful-giving are echoed in the heart of the giving that came when we were put together as children. So conceive again the child… Conceive every day the living breath… Conceive again the joy of light seen through eyes not blinded [...]
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Category: BPM Business Process Management Cartoon Cloud Comic Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Google Music SOA SOA Governance Service Orientation Social Computing Social Networking Social Sites Thanksgiving Tags: Business, Cloud, Cloud computing, Jokes, Obama, Opportunity, private cloud
by Daryl Plummer | November 24, 2009 | 2 Comments
Wow. A great article by Mike Elgan on the impermanence of the web and the cloud was a treat to read and an eye opener to anyone who forgets that all things go through cycles of maturity (See The Wikipedia Exodus Is the Least of Our Worries). Mike correctly notes that we are all relying [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Management Cartoon Cloud Comic Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Google Music SOA SOA Governance Service Orientation Social Computing Social Networking Social Sites Uncategorized Tags: caution, Cloud, Cloud computing, Cloud Services, Commoditization, Communities, Elasticity, Opportunity, private cloud
by Daryl Plummer | November 13, 2009 | 9 Comments
On the heels of its recent release of the new programming language “Google Go” (See Gartner Analyst Ray Valdes’ take), the Mountainview behemoth has trumped itself with today’s release of “Google Stop”. Unlike “Go” which is a high productivity and fast system programming language, “Stop” is actually a low productivity and slow campaign to get [...]
Category: BPM Business Process Management Cartoon Cloud Comic Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Google Music SOA SOA Governance Service Orientation Social Computing Social Networking Social Sites Tags: Cloud, Cloud computing, Cloud Services, Comic, Dilbert, Elasticity, Enterprise, Funny, Geek, Green IT, hype, Infrastructure, private cloud, Service, Services, Smarter Planet, Social, Social Networking
by Daryl Plummer | September 1, 2009 | 5 Comments
Have you noticed the outmoded forms of speech that just litter our modern world? Do you remember your grandparents talking about when their grandparents first got one of those new “horse-less carriages”? Or maybe your parents remember a time when their parents talked about going to a movin’-picture? Still not close enough? How about the [...]
Category: Cartoon Cloud Comic Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Music SOA SOA Governance Service Orientation Social Computing Social Networking Social Sites Tags: Add new tag, blogger, Blogging, chat, Cloud, collaboration, facebook, forum, myspace, Social, Social Networking, Tweet, Twitter
by Daryl Plummer | August 18, 2009 | 10 Comments
For years I have had to interact with IBM as the “Big Dog” or the “Stodgy Legacy Guys” or the “Mainframe guys” or some such appellation that exists somewhere outside the range of any sense of coolness. The last three years have seen a change in the “grand old dame” of IT and I have [...]
Category: Cartoon Cloud Comic Emerging Phenomena Emerging Trends Music SOA SOA Governance Service Orientation Tags: BlueWorks, Cloud, Cloud computing, Cloudburst, David, IBM, Late Night, Letterman, Lotus Live, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Smarter Planet, SOA
