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Author Archives: Edward
Five Years
I thought I’d post a few thoughts and get back into the swing of blogging on the occasion of my five year anniversary with EMC Consulting. The last five years have brought a huge amount of change for me both … Continue reading
Clouds on the horizon
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about clouds and the future of IT across the blogosphere: Chuck is always good for a post or two; IBM spoke up the other day; and there are even reports that “Hey, this … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT
Tagged convergence, Future of IT, Infrastructure, ITSM, service catalog
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Product Management
Awhile back I got a call on a Friday night that is familiar to many consultants, “Can you be in City X on Monday morning?”¬† The program manager on the other end of the phone remembered hearing that I had … Continue reading
Posted in The Nature of IT
Tagged Change, convergence, Infrastructure, ITSM, service catalog
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Utilization
One of my biggest pet peeves over the years has been utilization or capacity reporting.¬† I firmly believe that in order to figure out how to transform an environment into a more efficient one you have to first know what … Continue reading
Posted in Driving Transparency
Tagged Change, Infrastructure, Reporting, Transparency
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Outsourcing & margins
It seems about 50% of my clients these days have outsourced, are thinking about outsourcing or are insourcing.¬† Some of my customers are themselves outsourcers.¬† An interesting facet of the model these days is the introduction of new services to … Continue reading
The changing nature of Information Technology
I’ve been lucky enough to be in our industry for the last 17 or so years and I have seen all sorts of changes, as we all have. If I think back to my days as a research assistant at … Continue reading
Posted in The Nature of IT
Tagged Change, Future of IT, History of IT, Infrastructure
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