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  • Cloud Security Monitoring: IaaS Conundrum
    As you learned from my previous posts related to security monitoring of public cloud assets, there are challenges related to monitoring data availability as well as data interpretation. IaaS environments – such as the well-known ecommerce-retailer-turned-cloud-provider as well as other cloud service providers (CSPs) – offer an interesting challenge that I call “IaaS conundrum.” To [...]

  • Email Overload Cannot be Solved by Changes to Just Email
    Have you gotten any emails with this Email charter attached that points to “10 Rules to Reverse the Email Spiral”?  I’ve seen a few examples, but the “email charter” is one of the better and more organized attempts I’ve seen.  Unfortunately, these email etiquette screeds suffer from the problem that they focus on email.  I’m [...]

  • Leveraging Business Rules for Revenue Generation: Success Snippet
    This situation is where a company employed policies/rules to identify and execute on cross-selling opportunities in a dynamic manner. This organization provides connected software applications to the financial services industry for lending, collection, recovery, and sales/service. Today, nearly 500 financial institutions in all 50 states and all provinces of Canada are using their technology. Leveraging [...]

  • Mobile Technology: Endpoint Independence for Non-Routine Work?
    Many clients are asking about how to develop mobile custom applications, create mobile front-ends to existing applications, secure their mobile content, select mobile devices, craft mobile policies, and manage the devices.  Those are all very good questions to ask and critical to supporting the needs of flexible, distributed organizations and workers.  But what about mobile [...]

  • Big League Business Influence: The Super Bowl versus the Super PAC
    Yesterday during the on-air buildup to the Super Bowl a reporter mentioned that over one billion people were expected to watch this year’s big game. It occurred to me how few of these individuals, including some Americans, fully understand what the Super Bowl really means.  The next news story was about Super PACs (a new [...]

  • New Research Released — SDLC Infrastructure
    My research concerning the need for strong SDLC infrastructure has been released. Check it out here! Here’s a summary: Increasing Agility Through Software Development Life Cycle Infrastructure Every organization that creates software must ensure that the infrastructure supporting its development process is robust and applicable to the needs of the team. In this guidance document, [...]

  • Is the quality of executive sponsorship falling?
    Every business book you read says that you need to have ‘executive sponsorship’ for any major initiative.  Fail to involve the executives and you are likely to fail.  That advice has become so prevalent that it is almost worthless.  Getting executive sponsorship is not what matters; it’s the quality of the sponsorship that makes all [...]

  • Prediction Provides Questions; Not Answers
    December 2012 marks the end of a time period in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. Some believe this is because the world will end. Unix time ends on Tuesday, 19th January 2038. So assuming we are all still here next February, should we believe that the world will end in 2038? Did the POSIX committee [...]

  • A Tale of Two (E-Commerce) Retailers
    Last week I attended the Massachusetts Internet & Technology Exchange (www.mitx.org) conference on E-Commerce, held at Microsoft’s R&D Center in Cambridge MA and on the other side of the Charles River from Gartner’s Boston offices. MITX is a non-profit trade association for digital marketing and the Internet business industry, with a membership of technology vendors, [...]

  • Back to Formality Rebuttal
    Well, this whole virtual collaboration thing, working from anywhere at anytime, was a nice try but now I guess it’s over.  So says Lucy Kellaway in the Economist’s “Year in 2012” issue (Back to Formality).  I’d best transition my industry analysis coverage area (collaboration, communication) to dry cleaning of wool suits, corporate real estate trends, [...]