Enterprise IT Unit Cost – Microsoft Could Play a Leadership Role in Cloud Computing

In his article “Microsoft has nowhere to go but up in cloud market”, Robert Mullins examines BTC Logic’s cloud computing ranking report.  As part of the cloud computing ecosystem, Microsoft could take a leadership role through cloud technology, to help the enterprise CIO understand their unit costs, and supporting how best to allocate costs across business lines. As a major player, they could support the revitalization of unit costing in data center management.

In a recent discussion with a top 10 cloud management company, the chief marketing officer mentioned a major sales challenge: getting [...]

A thought provoking response to the iPad

http://stevenf.tumblr.com/post/359224392/i-need-to-talk-to-you-about-computers-ive-been

This is a well thought-out perspective in terms of *usage*. Steve’s positions on the “New World” use model and its pervasiveness are rather valid. That is a good thing – we would have very different lives if compute power were still in the hands of “Old World” IT. Despite all the advantages of an “Old World” experience where one needed to know how things worked from the inside out, it greatly limited the applicability and accessibility of computing to relatively few. If you wanted to use a PC in the “Old World”, you either needed to know how one worked [...]

Beyond the Kindle

Possible trends of e-book industry for [...]