“What if Google does it?” That has to be a pretty common question among startups when they discuss their business plans. Gaining Google as a sudden competitor is usually not good news. The problem is, no matter how brilliant your…
Should flexibility be a primary IT strategy? I define the strategy of IT flexibility as the consideration of future changes in business and the technologies that support it. A company’s ability to change is a keystone of success in today’s…
The next generation of IT vendors has arrived on the scene. Driven by a tentative economic recovery that is seeing venture capitalists release a few more dollars to tech startups, and a need to create tools for the world of…
What do outages and data center downtime mean to you? Does it mean that your phone system doesn’t work? Does it mean that you cannot bill your clients? Does it mean that you cannot deliver your services? Does it put…
It may have been only last week that the Office of Management and Budget announced the 26 high-risk federal IT projects it will scrutinize in great detail at the risk of agencies receiving significant cuts, but already the Department of…
