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December 10, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

On Organizations’ Real Requirements Around BigData

By Ben Kepes

Every time another vendor takes the “big data” moniker and applies it to some legacy system a cat somewhere on the internet dies. Like “cloud” a couple of years ago, big data has become the term de jour – and vendors seem to think that simply using it will give

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November 1, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

BMC Launches MyIT – Bridging the IT/Business Divide

By Ben Kepes

Cross posted from the BMC blog. I spend most of my time talking to technology vendors, IT folks and business people all in an effort to drive organizational benefits through the use of technology. Over years of doing this, I’ve noticed a stark divide that exists within an organization between

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October 22, 2012 Posted in Business 2 Comments

Gartner’s Latest IaaS Magic Quadrant Released–Meh With a Bit of Interesting

By Ben Kepes

I’m not usually big on Gartner’s crystal-ball-gazing Magic Quadrant methodology – some people claim it’s pay-for-play writ large. I don’t know about that, it just seems to be a somewhat hokey, albeit scientifically-based, prediction of what might occur or, more often, hat already is. Anyway – with that said, the

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October 3, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

On Open Source Cloud Adoption

By Ben Kepes

Last week Lydia Leong from Gartner published an analyst report with some opinions on Open Stack. I’ve been critical in the past about traditional analyst firms and I’ve also gone on record as being positive about open source (and, for full disclosure, the CloudU program I run is sponsored by

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January 6, 2011 Posted in Business 25 Comments

Gartner’s “Creative” Cloud Magic Quadrant – On Analysts, Cogitation and Vested Interests

By Ben Kepes

Earlier this week Dennis Howlett posted on ZDNet a fairly scathing attack on poor analysis and its creators – be  they traditional firms or people with a different approach. In his post (in which I came in for a lambasting myself) Howlett makes a call for a change in the

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May 18, 2008 Posted in Efficiency, IT, Strategy Leave a comment

Cringely on Analysts…

By Ben Kepes

It’d be nice to have the same reckless, damn the torpedoes and take no prisoners attitude that Cringley has. I was amused to read his post yesterday single-handedly writing off the $2bill analysis industry. He says; The five P’s of IT are Pride, Prejudice, Politics, Price, and Performance, with the

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