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Fountainhead: Cloud's Transformation: The Softer Side

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. After having spoken to numerous customers and vendors, its clear to me that cloud computings operational transformation necessarily triggers structural changes in the IT organization - as well as in the rest of the enterprise. Big Data. (6).

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Fountainhead: Why Utility Computing Failed (But Cloud Computing.

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Since about 2006 I’ve been involved with data center IT automation. Back then I started with Cassatt, one of the first companies trying to automate infrastructure components in the data center. Enter Virtualization.

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Fountainhead: IT-as-a-Service: Models for Consumption, Operations.

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. IT as a Service isnt just "more virtualization". The market is equating virtualization with cloud, and worse, equating cloud with IT Transformation. And arguably the virtualization initiative is beginning to be completed.

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Fountainhead: Act Now! Top Opportunities for IT Transformation.

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. IMO there is a massive opportunity for leading change-management organizations to work with IT organizations to help them assess and execute this transition. Perhaps they have IT change management practices. Fountainhead.

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Fountainhead: Predictions: What You WON'T See in IT For 2012

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. And I hope that change-management and organizational design models will mature to the level of technology models so that "turn-key" process change and skill development will accompany the product sale. Big Data. (6).

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9 traits of great IT leaders

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Additionally, they are part of executive teams that are likewise virtual and distributed. Early in his CIO tenure at the university, his IT department experienced a systems outage as it worked on migrating from a data center to the cloud, he says. “It I had to lean in and say, ‘Ok.’

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Fountainhead: Marketing the Cloud

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Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. They might be trust/security/governance issues; economic models to justify the investment; the risk of moving to new operational models; dealing with change management (a change in IT will necessarily impact changes in related orgs); the list goes on.

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