Forget The Hype, How The Cloud Is Going To Impact You

Can we all agree that the era of cloud computing is almost upon us? That’s all great and such, but what is this going to mean for IT leaders? In the worst case your senior management is going to be flying somewhere and they’re going to read one of those trade magazines, discover that there’s … Read more

Cloud Computing 101: Just Exactly What Is A Cloud?

So there I was the other day talking with one of my IT manager customers and I was going on and on about how her team needed to start adapting their design process to include cloud computing. She knows me very well so she felt comfortable in stopping me in mid-sentence. She said “Jim, I’ve … Read more

Do IT Leaders (and CEOs) Have Their Heads Stuck In The Cloud?

Ok, enough of this cloud stuff already! The field of IT is just like every other field out there and we have our own share of trendy topics – cloud computing sure seems to the one that we’re dealing with right now. With all of the magazine articles on clouds and conferences going on, you’d … Read more

Why Cloud Computing Won’t Work For Every IT Project

If IT was a game show and you were a contestant on it, right now it sure seems as though you could correctly any question that you were asked by replying “cloud computing”. That’s because cloud computing, basically outsourcing parts of your next IT project’s IT infrastructure and applications, sure seems like a great idea. … Read more

Secure Your Data And Boost Your Career

I guess I could have used a different title also “Make Your Data Unsecure and Sink Your Career”! Although IT Leaders spend much of their time worrying about making sure that their IT teams are working together to be successful, that pesky issue of data security keeps creeping into everything that we do. Maybe it’s … Read more