From time to time organizations find that a critical application, say the one that produces a business critical report, slows down and the reason isn’t immediately clear. When the CEO or some Vice President starts calling to find out “where is that rep Continue...

Last week at the Structure 2011 conference, one of the most interesting and lively discussions I sat in was on the topic of the private enterprise cloud. Val Bercovici, Cloud Czar Netapp, Pete Malcolm, CEO of Abiquo, and Chris Weitz, Director of Strate Continue...

I recently had the chance to sit down with Bob Laliberte, from the Enterprise Strategy Group, David Winter, from Presidio Networked Solutions, and Floyd Strimling, Zenoss’ own Cloud Evangelist, to talk about the challenges and opportunities for deliver Continue...

In an “Everything-as-a-Service” world, there is a growing expectation that users should be able to request IT services and at the drop of a hat, have them ready for use. In a world that used to dependent on measured and predictable requests for busines Continue...

With the expiration of the Department of Justice’s nine-year-old antitrust oversight agreement of Microsoft, things are sure looking bright at Redmond these days.  The “legacy” application vendor who has survived multiple proclamations of the “death of Continue...