by Jack Santos | February 1, 2012 | Comments Off
I keep getting interesting stories from folks about the “Find My iPhone” app, so I thought I would add mine, and maybe extrapolate what I think the moral of the story is for Enterprise “Bring Your Own Device” strategies, and Mobile Device Management (MDM). Recently my wife and I were dining at a restaurant. We [...]
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Category: IT Governance Managment Mobility Wireless management Tags: 3g, Cloud, consumerization, culture, management, mobility, UI, Wireless
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 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 | 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 | December 21, 2010 | 3 Comments
“Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour” Matthew 25:13 For only the second time in my short 15+ year internet life, I have found myself to be the target of a hacker, and dealing with a serious personal security breach. I post the details here, in the hopes it helps others [...]
by Jack Santos | December 14, 2010 | Comments Off
Our Data Management guys in the Gartner IT1 offering do a lot of research on data – in all its forms. They are looking at things like “Big Data” and “Data Clouds” and “MODS” (the Methodology for Overcoming Data Silos). My cohort, Mike Rollings, passed along this link: http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/. It really is very interesting, and [...]
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Category: Applications Cloud Fun Information Management Tags: Cloud, consumerization, data management, information, Predictions, Strategy, UI
by Jack Santos | December 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
OK. I’ve succumbed. A week ago I said to myself “avoid, at all costs, commenting about the Wikileaks story – especially on the blog”. That was before 249 internal emails on wikileaks (and counting). There is just so much in this event that our research has foretold, or that has proven our advice to clients [...]
Category: Externalization Future Information Management Managment Predictions Strategic Planning governance management Tags: Cloud, consumerization, culture, information, management, Predictions, security, Strategy
by Jack Santos | November 19, 2010 | 4 Comments
I have a thesis that the recent history of bubbles are not just reflective of economic “irrational exuberance”, but in fact reflect social reality – the ability of individuals to influence and communicate with each other. The “bubble” is just the final effect, the consequence of that behavior. Our ability to influence and communicate has [...]
Category: Cloud Externalization Future Managment Predictions Strategic Planning economy management Tags: Cloud, IT relevance, Predictions, Strategy
by Jack Santos | November 12, 2010 | Comments Off
Yesterday I cancelled my home PC backup contract. It was with a leading online (cloud based) provider of backup services. It’s not that I wasn’t happy with them. In fact, when I signed up 4 years ago, it was one of the things that made me realize cloud services were players – not only for [...]
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Category: Cloud Externalization Managment Outsourcing management security Tags: Cloud, data management, Outsourcing, security
