Whether large or small, companies are seeking solutions to simplify IT operations and reduce cost, especially in a world where COVID 19 is a clear and present danger to business survival. For many, consolidating workloads onto denser, centralized computing platforms … Continue reading Leveraging Workload Consolidation for Lower IT Costs

With a change of scenery, IBM THINK rolls around again.  This year’s IBM annual jamboree is set to be bigger, better and more ‘open’ than ever before.  Firstly, let’s get the change of venue out of the way. The pros … Continue reading #Think2019 – What to look forward to

The move to the cloud is inevitable according to most, if not all, industry analysts (see below for IDC’s perspective).  According to these analysts the  benefits far outweigh the challenges for the majority, but certainly not all clients. Certain clients … Continue reading Are your Mainframe ISV’s running scared of the cloud?

This blog is aimed at IBM partners who are looking to grow their business and adapt to the ever changing world of how IT is bought, provisioned and consumed by IT organizations. IBM Partner World Leadership Conference is going on this … Continue reading Mainframes, Cloud and Business Partners…

This week I had the pleasure of being on an Enterprise Architecture twitter chat with other industry luminaries such as Guy Shone (@GuyShone) who is CEO of Explain the Market and a regular on the BBC, and Major Hayden (@MajorHayden) who is Principal Architect at Rackspace.  These sessions are always lively and wide ranging but this was particularly interesting, we ranged from how to design a cognitive enterprise architecture to the relevance of mainframes in a cloud deployment model. For more details and to sign up for future chats click here. The discussion got me to thinking of the challenges … Continue reading Heading to IBM Interconnect???

2016 wow what a year… The big news was the US Election, Trump Vs Clinton – The grudge match to hopefully end all grudge matches. Whatever your views, and we certainly won’t be passing comment here, it was an election like none before.  In my homeland of the UK, again politics was the year’s big ‘event’, with the landscape of Europe forever being changed by the vote by the majority of UK to leave the EU, in what widely became known as BREXIT. In the world of entertainment, 2016 has mainly been a year tinged by the passing of some … Continue reading 2016 in review…