Alvin Toffler first predicted that the rate of technological change and progress was accelerating faster than people are ready for, or can handle, in his 1970 bestseller, Future Shock. Future shock, he argues, causes disorientation, […]
It is hard enough to make sense of things when you are in the middle of the action. Harder yet is to perceive the reality behind events that do not conform to your worldview. It […]
“An object that is at rest will stay at rest unless an external force acts upon it” (Wikipedia, 2015). This is Isaac Newton’s first law of motion. In the IT world, we can make the […]
Converged infrastructure (CI) describes the practice by storage, network, and server vendors to offer a joint, pretested, preintegrated platform. Server virtualization also plays heavily in such converged environments. The result of CI is a highly […]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it will be no surprise to hear that the global economy has its challenges. Instead of waiting for global corrections, companies have resorted to solely relying upon themselves […]
So much is so great about the cloud that anyone who talks or writes about it is in danger of sounding like they are in the midst of some kind of religious rapture. Naysayers, on […]
Some people question my use of the word “emerging” to categorize technologies such as social, mobile, cloud, analytics, sensors and others. They argue that these technologies are already here and aren’t emerging anymore. Some suggest […]
If someone tells you they like change, they are lying to themselves and to you. No one likes change. Change is hard. Change requires effort. What if you have been in an organization for many […]
Granted, legacy transformation or legacy modernization is not new. Usually the first association people have when hearing the word legacy transformation is the process of replacing old technology with newer IT systems and applications. Upgrading […]