by Jack Santos | January 25, 2012 | 2 Comments
I love how the fragmentation of communication is actually moving away from appropriate use, and moving to duplicative use, amplifying the total volume of messages on the planet — while real content or (more accurately) unique thought is growing in proportion to population growth – no small number by itself. This has probably been a [...]
Category: Cloud Future Predictions Tags: Cloud, consumerization, culture, IT relevance, mobility, network, Predictions, Wireless
by Jack Santos | August 8, 2011 | 1 Comment
The Professional Effectiveness group in Gartner (which I am a member of) recently hosted a webinar on “The Future of IT Work”. We had three questions for the audience. Let’s analyze those: This was really important to us; you see, when Gartner bought Burton and renamed that product line IT1, we kept the team – [...]
Category: CIO issues Cloud Externalization Future Managment Mobility Strategic Planning management Tags: career, CIO, consumerization, culture, Externalization, gearheads, IT relevance, management, mobility, Outsourcing, Predictions, Strategy
by Jack Santos | August 5, 2011 | Comments Off
Just for the record, here’s my picture: I have been told more than a few times that I am good looking, and people always stop me for autographs. Sorry, I am married. (BTW, only one of these statements is true) So now that I am past introductions, I am hoping this blog post throws off [...]
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Category: Cloud Future IAM Mobility Wireless security Tags: consumerization, culture, management, mobility, privacy, security, Wireless
by Jack Santos | August 5, 2011 | Comments Off
Back from the Gartner Catalyst conference last week. I was on stage six times over the course of four days, not to mention the numerous customer meetings we had. Two things stuck out in my mind from this years conference: “Mobility” is the new “Cloud” and Everyone is worried about IT Our mobility sessions (chaired [...]
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Category: Cloud Managment Mobility Wireless management Tags: 3g, Cloud, gearheads, IT relevance, management, mobility, Wireless
by Jack Santos | May 17, 2011 | Comments Off
175 Years ago (in 1836), Texas beat the Mexican army to become an independent state….and eventually a US state. Today, the Alamo (the battle loss that led to the war win) is a car rental agency, and a tourist attraction. The “I don’t knows” (abbreviated phonetically in the post title) are the segment of the [...]
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Category: Applications Cloud Fun Mobility Wireless Tags: consumerization, culture, mobility, Wireless
by Jack Santos | April 28, 2011 | Comments Off
The Journal (and for those of you that don’t know what I am referring to, go read someone else’s blog) had a recent section on IT that was interesting, and a good overview of the executive POV. But one of the things I see fundamentally missing in their viewpoint, and in many discussions I have [...]
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Category: CIO issues Cloud Externalization IT Governance Managment Offshore Outsourcing Strategic Planning career governance management Tags: CIO, consumerization, culture, Externalization, gearheads, management, Outsourcing
by Jack Santos | March 15, 2011 | Comments Off
Our thoughts and prayers are with Japan, and the ongoing humanitarian and nuclear crisis. Living within 10 miles of a nuclear plant on the seacoast of the northeast US, I am more than aware of the plant’s presence in times like these. What I am also following is the impact this crisis will have on [...]
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Category: CIO issues Cloud Externalization Managment Offshore Outsourcing Strategic Planning economy management Tags: consumerization, Externalization, management, Outsourcing
by Jack Santos | March 10, 2011 | Comments Off
There is no question that the new form factor for personal computing – the tablet – is changing how many businesses use IT devices to interact. There is also no question that to really create content (for many roles) the shift is not happening. Some pundits predict the death of the laptop or net top, [...]
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Category: Cloud Mobility Predictions Tags: Cloud, consumerization, mobility, UI
by Jack Santos | March 3, 2011 | Comments Off
Took a long blog hiatus – mainly because I was way too busy, and fell off the wagon of doing regular blog updates. Still too busy (I write this while traveling in Sao Paulo, Brazil)….but find the need to make blog observations (and get feedback)… One of the things we are finding in our IT1 [...]
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Category: CIO issues Cloud Outsourcing Uncategorized Tags: Brazil, CIO, Cloud, economy, Externalization
by Jack Santos | January 6, 2011 | Comments Off
A few weeks ago I went public with a Facebook breach that I incurred. That post here. I suppose hacking is a relative term. A few years ago, my (then) college aged son got into hot water during the early days of Facebook; he “hacked” Facebook to get a collection of MoveON.org aficionado email addresses, [...]
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Category: Cloud Externalization Managment management security Tags: consumerization, Externalization, management, security
