About 20 years ago the word “coach” began to be used in ways Bear Bryant or Red Auerbach would never have predicted. “Executive coach,” “life coach,” “sales coach” and about every other derivative popped up. Today you cannot spend much time on a business site like LinkedIn or business parts of Facebook without being inundated […]
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Edge is about a new tech stack, not a different location Edge computing is fundamentally different from “computing at the network edge”. Computing at the edge is what IBM, Nutanix, Dell and HP sell – putting current technology, mini-data centers, closer to the customer. That is NOT edge computing. True edge computing uses a completely
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The cloud is just someone else’s data center. Vendor driven madness is NOT transforming anything! Critical minds are beginning to see moving to the cloud is just using someone else’s data center. Cloud value-added services enable faster server provisioning, reduction of bloated tech staffs but do not deliver anything close to transformation. Provisioning servers fast
Nothing Much Changes – Just Paying Vendors For Nothing! “We are moving to the cloud to digitally transform our business!” Company after company is realizing moving to the cloud has not and will not transform anything. “Oh my gosh! It’s just someone else’s data center! Who knew?” Sure, you can provision that crappy UNIX server
Buoyed by hope, steeped in failure – social media marketing! Some sales activities work, others almost always fail, and a whole bunch sound good but in practice are terrible. Social media marketing is the current example of the terrible. It’s no secret B2B sales types seldom make quota. Those who regularly do have a set
Culture is the opium of the masses for high tech, B2B companies. The more a CEO and VP of People and Culture use that empty word “culture” the more insipid, rotten their company is likely to be. Culture is the perfect drug for young, inexperienced startup hires because it is a word defined by what
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Using Legacy Security For Cloud-Transformation Is Not Working Who’s in your wallet? This month’s epic security failure at Capital One tells a story about how two of the arguably most technically literate and digitally advanced U.S. corporations failed to secure customer’s data. This story will certainly repeat for the less technically advanced. The lesson is
You Don’t Need A Data Center Anymore – Yours Or The Cloud For a generation we have lived with Moore’s Law: the speed and capability of computers doubles every two years while their cost is cut in half. There has not, however, been a Moore’s Law in software. Actually, quite the opposite has happened. Software
EDGE Computing Vs. Computing At The Edge. Why It Really Matters! Edge computing and computing at the Edge: identical words in a different order that deliver starkly opposite outcomes. Computing at the edge replicates your data centers. IBM, Dell, Nutanix, HP sell computing at the edge because it is an extension of what they sell
Digital Transformation, Today’s CIO Activity Trap One of the most common, but subtle waste models is the activity trap. Some poor, struggling sales rep does not know what to do, has massive sales pressure on him or her, so they just “do something!” That something becomes activity like working on an account that will never