Since I wrote last September’s article Bimodal IT: Gartner’s Recipe For Disaster lambasting Gartner’s advice on Bimodal IT, quite a number of analysts, pundits, and…
In my first article for Forbes in July 2014, Is Enterprise Architecture Completely Broken?, I compared enterprise architects to Milton, a character in the cult…
For this edition of my Digital Influencer series I interviewed Gene Kim, one of the best known and respected thought leaders in the DevOps world.…
I have attended Sys-Con’s Cloud Expo conference several times both in New York and Silicon Valley over the last few years, but last week’s installment…
How healthy is your business? Or to place the question into a more strategic context: how will digital transformation impact the health of your business?…
There’s an old saying about plumbing: you never think about it until there’s a problem with it. Then the plumber is your best friend in…
At last week’s Knowledge 16 conference, the big news from service management vendor ServiceNow was its push into customer service management (CSM). Venturing beyond its…
The rise of ‘citizen development’ signals the end of shadow IT. That realization is one important takeaway from QuickBase’s second annual Empower customer conference, and…
Last week, Las Vegas proved to be the center of gravity for the technology industry, as the EMC World and Interop conferences bookended an extended…
In some ways, this week’s massive EMC World conference represented the end of an era, as Dell’s acquisition of EMC Corporation is now a mere…


