Comments for Lydia Leong

Comment on Corporate culture and women in IT by Triona Guidry

Triona Guidry — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:48:41 +0000

Great post. I only wish it wasn’t necessary. I was also incensed by the Dell incident. Sometimes it’s better if the bias is blatant, then you can see it coming. The subtle incidents are harder to quantify. And of course, as a woman if you complain you’re told you’re imagining it or making a big deal out of nothing.

As a response to the Dell fiasco I wrote about some of my experiences as a woman in IT on my blog, in corporate settings, academic ones and also as a freelance IT consultant. Sad to say the problem is widespread. I don’t blame today’s girls for stifling their geekiness when the only IT future they see is booth babe.

http://www.trionaguidry.com/blog/2012/05/women-in-technology-dells-gaffe-and-the-geek-girl-struggle/

Comment on Corporate culture and women in IT by ICT skills shortages – where are the women?

ICT skills shortages – where are the women? — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:02:40 +0000

[...] digesting this report I came across this blog post by Lydia Leong of Gartner. Lydia has a distinguished resume, having worked in IT for 20 years. [...]

Comment on Corporate culture and women in IT by ICT skills shortages – where are the women?

ICT skills shortages – where are the women? — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:02:39 +0000

[...] digesting this report I came across this blog post by Lydia Leong of Gartner. Lydia has a distinguished resume, having worked in IT for 20 years. [...]

Comment on Corporate culture and women in IT by Tim

Tim — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:07:49 +0000

Lydia,
Thanks for having the courage to write and post this piece. You say a lot of things that need to be said (and said over again, unfortunately). It is hard to believe that it is 2012, and this s**t is still happening.

The rarest thing in any profession is talent, and it constantly amazes me that some companies are still effectively restricting themselves to half or less the talent pool.

I am employed at one of the large companies you regularly cover, and while opportunity for non-white males is decent at the entry level, at the top it is still WASP males only. Sends a big signal.

Comment on Ecosystems in conflict – Amazon vs. VMware, and OpenStack by OpenStack Conference: Keynotes - Head in the Clouds: SaaS, PaaS, and Cloud Strategy

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:17:58 +0000

[...] argued against a recent report from Gartner analyst Lydia Leong, stating that he did not think that OpenStack competed with VMware or Amazon Web Services. After [...]

Comment on Citrix, CloudStack, OpenStack, and the war for open-source clouds by Cloud WAR! Open season on Amazon for cloudy rivals | Business Blogs and News

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:12:13 +0000

[...] successfully transitioning to Apache ownership improving ease of use is also top-of-mind. In fact, Gartner notes that CloudStack already may be better than VMware’s vCloud Director for ease of [...]

Comment on Citrix, CloudStack, OpenStack, and the war for open-source clouds by Clement Chen

Clement Chen — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:53:46 +0000

Well written. Anyone who has actually tried to deploy OpenStack would NOT argue that it is immature. The only mature part of OpenStack is Swift and Cloudstack also uses it for its object storage.

Comment on Citrix, CloudStack, OpenStack, and the war for open-source clouds by maccad » Cloud WAR! Open season on Amazon for cloudy rivals

maccad » Cloud WAR! Open season on Amazon for cloudy rivals — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:03:20 +0000

Comment on Citrix, CloudStack, OpenStack, and the war for open-source clouds by Cloud WAR! Open season on Amazon for cloudy rivals

Cloud WAR! Open season on Amazon for cloudy rivals — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:48:20 +0000

Comment on Ecosystems in conflict – Amazon vs. VMware, and OpenStack by cloudcomputing.info | HP, IBM and RedHat confirm their commitment to OpenStack

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:04:05 +0000

[...] suggest you to learn more about the “war of the vendors” in the article posted by Lydia in her personal Gartner Blog. Labels: Gartner, HP, IBM, OpenStack, Red Hat [...]