Welcome, and thanks for joining the discussion.
To briefly introduce myself, I work for IBM as a business management
consultant. I handle a lot of the number-crunching, CFO-facing stuff.
Basically, I'm called upon to do three things:
1. work directly with clients to develop business cases, chargeback models,
and other stuff that involves working with spreadsheets (i.e., the junk that
everyone else in IT spend their careers avoiding);
2. develop intellectual capital as part of IBM's Global Deployment Center;
and
3. lead the global core team for the roughly 1,000 IBMers worldwide who
comprise the IT Business Management community of practice.
Because of my misspent past -- my first career was in journalism -- the
PWGPMTM (people who get paid more than me) asked me to start a blog about
where business management processes intersect with the new "cloud" approach.
Since they'... (more)
If you haven't already, could you please take a quick look at the 31 July
entry, "Scattered Clouds"?
I'd like to see how close we can get to mapping the entire cloud
infrastructure, then continuously updating it.
Your comments will be crucial.
I expect to have a more substantive post tomorrow.
Have a better evening,
BillBill Freedman bfree@us.ibm.com
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I am guessing that Vivek Kundra, the US Government's new CIO and a strong
advocate of Cloud Computing, is sending Barak Obama and Ray LaHood, the US
Transportation Secretary, an email saying "I told ya so".
Why? The "Cash for Clunkers" auto stimulus program's web site clunked due to
the popularity of the program.
First of all, what is Cash for Clunkers? A US Government program created to
stimulate the sales of newer automobiles which also enabled the removal of
older, less efficient (lower MPG), higher polluting cars from US roadways.
The program will end in less than 24 hours an... (more)
I am very intrigued by the following quote from Dave Powers at Eli Lilly, the
pharmaceutical giant and makers of Prozac®, Cymbalta®, Cialis® and dozens
of other medicines. Their IT challenge was daunting - purchase 64 compute
nodes and storage, assemble, and perform their critical testing. The choices
were a large capital expense layout with high-cost management or look to a
new method to conquer the task. Lilly turned to Cloud Computing and
specifically Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud). Their comment below is
the epitome of Cloud Computing. Lilly's project is fairly typical... (more)
Hmmm, I don't know how much of these numbers in front of me I'm allowed to
share. A lot of it is IBM-confidential. But I'll try to walk the thin line.
It's public knowledge that IBM is a player in the cloud computing space. It's
also public knowledge that IBM is not a huge player. And it's an easy guess
that IBM wishes it had a bigger slice of the pie. Given all that, you could
infer -- correctly -- that IBM is cooking up some ideas that it expects to
vault it over the competition.
And for any more about that, you'll have to wait for the announcement.
Still ...
I can tell you to expe... (more)
A 20 year veteran of the storage industry, Rich has been a business leader in product marketing. He has seen the industry change from backup on 5.25" floppies to 10,000 cartridge tape libraries with every tape "standard" in between. Rich has supported 5.25" 30MB hard drives and launched disk arrays with hundreds of drives. Most recently, Rich has focused on business continuity and disaster recovery.
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