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HPE brings their A game for enterprise CIOs

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon October 1, 2021November 3, 2021in Business, CIO, Cloud, Data, EdgeLeave a comment

This week, HPE made several announcements related to new strategies and service offerings. A few of these are particularly relevant for enterprises and CIOs addressing their ever-changing business and customer dynamics. There are four specific areas that stand out for CIOs. HPE…

Assessing the impact of the IBM leadership changes

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon February 6, 2020February 6, 2020in Business, Cloud, Data1 Comment

Last week, IBM announced a few significant leadership changes that put a lot of things in play. First, is IBM’s sheer leadership challenge as it pertains to culture. Second, is the impact to customers including existing IBM customers, Red Hat…

Charting the path forward for VMware

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon September 9, 2019September 24, 2019in Business, CIO, CloudLeave a comment

VMware has long served as a key partner for enterprises. For roughly two decades, their VM-based technology and management tools served as a solid base to support enterprise applications. Over the past decade, the enterprise applications have shifted in new…

Oracle works toward capturing enterprise Cloud IaaS demand

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon April 18, 2018April 18, 2018in Business, Cloud2 Comments

The enterprise cloud market is still shows a widely untapped potential. A significant portion of this potential comes from the demand generated by the legacy applications that are sitting in the myriad of corporate data centers. The footprint from these…

Upgrading to a mesh wifi network

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon December 12, 2017December 12, 2017in Network1 Comment

After several folks asked about a recent tweet I posted about upgrading my home wifi network to a mesh network, I thought I would spend a few words to describe the before and after. UNDERSTANDING THE BASELINE Before discussing the…

Salesforce bridges the customer engagement gap for growth at Dreamforce

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon November 15, 2017November 15, 2017in Business, Cloud, DataLeave a comment

Last week was Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco with a whopping 170,000+ attendees. Even so, what were the key takeaways? Today, many enterprises are either Salesforce customers and follow the space closely as it pertains to a key element…

The difference between Hybrid and Multi-Cloud for the Enterprise

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon October 17, 2017October 17, 2017in CIO, Cloud8 Comments

Cloud computing still presents the single biggest opportunity for enterprise companies today. Even though cloud-based solutions have been around for more than 10 years now, the concepts related to cloud continue to confuse many. Of late, it seems that Hybrid…

Why are enterprises moving away from public cloud?

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon July 18, 2017in CIO, Cloud, Data12 Comments

We often hear of enterprises that move applications from their corporate data center to public cloud. This may come in the form of lift and shift. But then something happens that causes the enterprise to move it out of public…

Google Next Expectations, A CIO’s Perspective

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon March 6, 2017March 6, 2017in Business, CIO, CloudLeave a comment

This week is Google’s Next conference in San Francisco and all eyes are on Google to gain insights to their direction, activities and plans around cloud. That being said, there are a few specific things I am looking for here…