by Richard Muirhead | 03 Aug 2008 | Permalink |
In my last two blogs we explored some hot trends and challenges facing us as we work to build a new market, as well as today’s Technology Adoption Lifecycle (TALC) and the ever growing importance of customer intimacy. Let’s now tie it together by using some totally fictitious and random…
by Richard Muirhead | 14 Jul 2008 | Permalink |
In my first post in this series, I wrote a bit about the trends challenging the widespread adoption of BSM, CMDB, ADM and others, and where Tideway and other companies are today in the Technology Adoption Life Cycle (TALC). Let’s expand on this a bit, starting by listing the constellation…
by Richard Muirhead | 09 Jul 2008 | Permalink |
A recent survey of 8,000 executive released by Brocade revealed 60 per cent of UK IT directors and board-level managers gave the thumbs down to their firm’s environmental credentials. But only 37 per cent of them said they were personally concerned about their company’s energy use and carbon footprint,…
by Richard Muirhead | 26 Jun 2008 | Permalink | CMDB, IT Management, Software, Software Business Models, Web 2.0
A couple of months ago I became the proud owner of an Apple Macbook Air. The little geezer immediately transformed my relationship with a laptop in a whole slew of ways. One way that it particularly seduced me was the delightful combination of my Macbook Air with TV Shows downloaded…
by Richard Muirhead | 13 Jun 2008 | Permalink |
Day three at the SIFMA conference, and several key themes have emerged – this year’s most urgent issues for financial services IT can be grouped under the following umbrellas:
Extreme Agility
If we now look at the rising expectations of the Facebook and GrandTheftAuto generation – and the…
by Richard Muirhead | 12 Jun 2008 | Permalink |
SIFMA, day two. What have I learned? The Grand Theft Auto network incorporates the Cisco Nexus 7000. Operational features preventing human error-like blinking port lights to guide cable swaps are key.
What does this have to do with SIFMA? We all know how incredibly intense the world of banking has…
by Richard Muirhead | 11 Jun 2008 | Permalink |
Apparently the Wall Street technology budgets are in rude health, that is if the array of attention-grabbing gimicks at SIFMA today are anything to go by. Nintendo Wiis; iPod Touch; young ladies in Pink Fairy costumes and our very own Dave Kirby will be thrilled to hear that one messaging…
by Richard Muirhead | 09 Jun 2008 | Permalink | IT Management
As I gear up to attend and blog from this year’s SIFMA Technology Management Conference , I thought I’d take a moment between trips to the shops to find something comfortable to wear in this 100 degree heat to blog about some of the trends and top-of-mind issues I…
by Richard Muirhead | 03 Jun 2008 | Permalink | IT Management, Virtualization
Virtualisation in the data center clearly requires management…and in particular it heightens the importance of clear and precise technology or business service context – see for example Does B-hive Acquisition Make VMware a Cloud Vendor? in which James Staten, principal analyst with Forrester Research, “lauds another feature of B-hive’s…
by Richard Muirhead | 02 Jun 2008 | Permalink | Go Green, Hardware, IT Management, Virtualization
It’s often hard for people outside of the slightly specialised world of distributed computing and data centres to get their heads around quite how critical and complex they have become. So it was a bittersweet moment to find this article in The Economist last week – Buy our stuff, save the planet.
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