By Okay, it’s a silly question. But after years of Relational Databases, RDMS (and frankly with database skills and operation being one of the most core and central planks of the IT department) we suddenly have a rash of announcements. This can only...
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The Situational Cloud
By Ron Tolido
They’re all residing on my laptop, smartphone and tablet now. Like four quarreling sisters, SkyDrive, iCloud, Dropbox and Google Drive are ostentatiously competing for attention. As a consumerized IT user – in my own micro space – I am...
Read moreBYOD (iPad) meets ‘Secure Journey to the Cloud’
2CommentsIs the industry hyping ‘Bring Your Own Device’ (BYOD) as the next big thing? I don’t think so. It’s much more a forced response to users driving the issue by deciding to use their own devices. AND this is the big point: it’s the cloud that...
Read moreWhat would Amazon do?
By Ron Tolido
It’s still an established benchmark for any application developer building a web shop: before starting to discuss structure, activity flow and lay-out, you have a look at the world’s leading example and see what’s hot. What would Amazon...
Read moreAre we witnessing the demise of traditional IT services?
We live in exciting times. As long as I’ve been in this business (and that’s quite a while), I’ve never encountered the level of disruptive change that our industry is currently going through. Our customers and partners require closer...
Read moreAll the trends are to de-centralization; what does that mean for governance?
The one common feature that unites the various reported trends is that they all represent some form of de-centralization, and since the core reason for adopting the current Enterprise IT model was to centralize, this is a challenging moment.PCs as...
Read moreRoadmaps for the IT shop’s evolution
I got emailed a question asking if I could blog on the more mundane but very important topic of what an average IT shop should do today around the ‘evolution’ of its existing IT. The challenge of new technology and the disruptive change it...
Read moreMore ways to get and manage business information
When asked to give a talk and struggling to think of a topic, the general rule at the moment is you can’t go wrong if you talk about Business Intelligence. So I make no apologies about returning to the topic since it is rapidly expanding in...
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