by Gene Phifer | December 7, 2009 | 2 Comments
I am currently in Las Vegas at our AADI Summit. We have over 750 attendees, and the buzz is really good. This is Gartner’s primary conference for cloud computing in 2009, and the interest in cloud computing is very high. I did a keynote this morning with Dave Cearley and the room was packed. Lots [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: cloud computing AADI
by Gene Phifer | March 15, 2009 | 2 Comments
Last week I posted a tribute to Sir Tim Berners-Lee celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Web. This week I’d like to look toward the future and discuss some potential scenarios for the next 20 years. I don’t pretend to have a crystal ball that looks 20 years into the future. Yet I can see [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags:
by Gene Phifer | March 6, 2009 | 1 Comment
On March 13, 1989, Sir Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first paper on adding hypertext capabilities to the Internet. At the time, the Internet was used almost exclusively by defense agencies, defense contractors, and higher education institutions. The traffic on the Internet was dominated by SMTP-based e-mail, NNTP-based newsgroups, FTP-based file transfers and TELNET sessions to [...]
Category: Uncategorized web Tags: anniversary, tim berners-lee, web
by Gene Phifer | November 19, 2008 | 2 Comments
I’m at the IBM Software Group Analsyt Summit today and tomorrow. I am sitting in the keynote, which is being delivered by Steve Mills. The focus of the keynote is IBM’s industry solutions. I heard Steve mutter the word ‘application’ more in this speech than I have in any other. And he used the term [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: application, IBM, IBMAnalystconf/08
by Gene Phifer | October 19, 2008 | 2 Comments
I was chastised last week by an attendee at Gartner’s Symposium for our analyst keynote address. He said that we were telling everybody to cut back, retrench, delay big IT investments and to generally get very frugal due to the economic meltdown. His beef was that those that continue to cut back past the trough [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags:
