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 management Managment Mobility Wireless Tags: 3g, Cloud, gearheads, IT relevance, management, mobility, Wireless
by Jack Santos | July 8, 2011 | 1 Comment
This past week, I have had to deal with one of those inevitable consequences of living – dealing with the death of someone close. But even then, it was hard to get away from the effects of IT. Digitization seems to crop up in the most unusual places. Like, for instance, at a cemetery. Sure, [...]
Category: Applications Mobility Wireless Tags: 3g, consumerization, culture, mobility, Wireless
by Jack Santos | June 3, 2011 | Comments Off
The recent spat of bad news about Nokia brings pause. Two years or so ago I met with the CIO and staff, and presented them with dire predictions. If it wasn’t mid-winter, they would have thrown me in the lake. Even then I was prepared for an ice bath. But there was no question that [...]
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Category: Mobility Wireless Tags: 3g, culture, mobility, network, Wireless
by Jack Santos | June 1, 2011 | Comments Off
“There is absolutely no reason for any person to download their Facebook into the car.” … Ray LaHood, U.S. Department of Transportation “There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.” … Ken Olsen, Digital Equipment Corporation Amazingly similar quotes. The first is in today’s Wall Street Journal, the context [...]
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Category: CIO issues governance Mobility Predictions Tags: 3g, consumerization, mobility, Predictions, Wireless
by Jack Santos | May 19, 2011 | Comments Off
Hanging around Wednesday at the MIT CIO conference. Great opportunity to reconnect – and even get caught up on the latest campus news. I hadn’t heard that Frank Moss left Media Lab. Frank and I worked together at Bowstreet (he was a major investor and Chairman); Frank also was an IBM Research guy from way [...]
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Category: Fun Mobility Predictions Wireless Tags: 3g, CIO, consumerization, mobility, Predictions, 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 | May 11, 2011 | Comments Off
I attended a Babson College’s Center for Information Management Studies event yesterday that has been long a staple on my diet of how to stay current. Since coming to Gartner, my role has changed from currency sink to currency source. Last year, Chris Howard and I tagged team a “Cloud Tutorial” event which was very [...]
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Category: CIO issues IT Governance management Managment Mobility security Wireless Tags: consumerization, culture, management, mobility, privacy, security, Strategy
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 8, 2011 | Comments Off
An interesting anecdote from the Premier 100 Conference in Palm Springs ( I am a past honoree, and have habitually attended these these events as an alumnus). In a discussion about “bring your own devices” (or bring your own technology) it was noted that human nature favors control. So if a person buys/owns their own, [...]
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Category: CIO issues IT Governance management Managment Outsourcing Vendor Contracts Tags: CIO, consumerization, Externalization, mobility, Outsourcing
by Jack Santos | January 17, 2011 | Comments Off
