cloud automation

Pressure to transform is coming from every direction:  customers, competitors, heads of departments and the C-suite.  Convert high cost manual services to lower cost automated ones.  Create development environments or place applications into multiple clouds.  Change the way employees and customers i…

Digital transformation is everywhere.  Read any technical site, blog or conference agenda.  You get can’t away from it.  But all the discussion has lead to one simple fact. Organizations that start their journey to digital position themselves to not only capture the benefits but regularly outpace in…

Digital transformation is happening NOW.   Your smartphone is your bank branch.   Your mouse and PC are quickly replacing brick and mortar stores. As consumers, we have the tendency to seek alternatives when we don’t get want we want, when we want it. If you’re in IT, you are already feeling t…

I love buffets.  (Especially when they are all you can eat). But what I really like is the ability to choose what and how much I want. This is where I know that the use of cloud services will become useful. When we don’t have to make an ‘either/or’ decision. How work gets done has…

IaaS (infrastructure as a service) and PaaS (platform as a service) are new to the financial services vocabulary. They stand to dominate the discussions around the digital evolution. Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A or BBVA has been the focus of global industry attention as they develop a modern…

There has been a revolutionary change in the conversation over IT’s role within your business.  Once centered on reducing costs, today’s conversation centers on how IT can move with greater speed and flexibility.  Why the change? The answer is simple– the digitization of business.   You don’t…

Customers are gaining market power and they want to interact with your organization using digital technologies.   As a result there is a plethora of automation solutions on the market.   Did you ever wish for guidance on these solutions from industry peers? Since 1986, the Software & Information…

Digital disruption is resulting in smarter and smarter devices, an explosion of business services, and increased complexity for data center professionals.   The initial response of many organizations was to increase virtualization and headcount only to discover that this was not the way to increase…

The world is experiencing a digital revolution that is rapidly changing your business landscape.  This revolution is not only connecting people with digital technology; but it has made this technology ubiquitous in all of our lives.  The result is tech-savvy employees and customers with new expectat…