by Lydia Leong | November 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
Prospects or Gartner clients who want to meet with me: I will be in Los Angeles on November 18th, and in the San Francisco Bay Area on November 22nd and 23rd. If you want to meet while I’m there, contact your account executive. I’ll also be at Gartner’s Application Architecture, Development, and Integration Summit in [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: Gartner
by Lydia Leong | October 9, 2010 | 2 Comments
I will be at three Gartner conferences during the remainder of this year. I will be at Symposium ITxpo Orlando. My main session here will be The Great Debate: Shared-Hardware vs. Shared-Everything Multitenancy, or Amazon’s Apples vs. Force.com’s Oranges. (Or for those of you who heard Larry Ellison’s OpenWorld keynote, Oracle ExaLogic vs. Salesforce.com…) The [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: Cloud, conference
by Lydia Leong | October 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
I will be at VMworld Europe this week. I am speaking on Wednesday, October 13th, at 10:30 am, giving a short tutorial on outsourcing cloud infrastructure as a service. This is an NTT Communications-sponsored session. I also expect to be available to answer questions at NTT’s booth during that day. During the rest of the [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: Cloud, conference
by Lydia Leong | September 13, 2010 | Comments Off
My colleague Alex Winogradoff (alex dot winogradoff at gartner dot com) has begun to pick up an increasing percentage of the colocation inquiry that myself and Ted Chamberlin have previously taken. Ted and I are both hugely busy (if you don’t know him, Ted is my co-author on the Magic Quadrant, and is our primary [...]
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Category: Analyst Life Tags: Gartner
by Lydia Leong | August 23, 2010 | 1 Comment
I’m going to be at VMworld next week. If you’re a Gartner client, and you’d like to meet up with me while I’m there, please contact your account executive to arrange it. If you’re not a Gartner client, please email me and I’ll see what I can arrange. (My days are mostly spoken for, but [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: conference, Gartner
by Lydia Leong | June 30, 2009 | 1 Comment
Does this picture describe your IT project plan? Evidence indicates that it is illustrative of a significant percentage of the plans of the clients that I speak with, once I probe beneath the glossy surface of false confidence.
Category: Analyst Life Tags: humor
by Lydia Leong | February 28, 2009 | Comments Off
Excerpt: Click here to read the original. I am a big fan of Amazon’s Kindle. People like Roy Blount fear it, but smart guys like Seth Godin really get it. Authors shouldn’t fear the future. Devices like the Kindle open up a wealth of opportunities to authors who are willing to seize them.
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Category: Analyst Life Tags: Amazon, excerpt
by Lydia Leong | February 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
I have found at a partial solution to my communication proliferation problem. The tool I’m employing, at least for the moment, is Digsby, a free client that combines cross-platform instant messaging with access to social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. This has replaced my usual IM client (Trillian, which I like a lot), [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: software
by Lydia Leong | February 20, 2009 | Comments Off
I’ve recently read Pete Blackshaw’s Satisfied Customers Tell Three Friends, Angry Customers Tell 3000, which is a well-written, methodical introduction to consumer-generated media (CGM, also known as UGC, user-generated content). I’d recommend the book to anyone who hasn’t read a book on the topic; if you’re social-media savvy, chances are you won’t learn much (if [...]
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Category: Analyst Life Tags: book, customers, ethics, Gartner
by Lydia Leong | February 12, 2009 | Comments Off
A client recently asked me what my Clifton Strengths are. I couldn’t remember at the time, but I’ve dug out old 1.0 results from back in 2006… Ideation. People strong in the Ideation theme are fascinated by ideas. They are able to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena. Strategic. People strong in the Strategic theme [...]
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Category: Analyst Life Tags: people
