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If you read our 2016 predictions for IT you would have noticed our 2nd prediction was “we’ll all be hacked”. As I mentioned the threat and top of mind placement for Cyber Security is stating the obvious. Cyber Security at top of mind has been a recurring theme over the past 3-5 years culminating with its attention in the C-Suite over the more recent end of that range. Based on […]
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We have spent the past few weeks analyzing the history and more recent trends of IT. Our specific focus is to help IT leaders ride the 3rd platform wave –becoming a disruptive business growth engine rather than the road-block stopping progress. It doesn’t seem like December (still quite warm here in New York City) however the end of the year and holiday season has arrived. So now let’s take a look […]
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We left off before Thanksgiving with an analysis of how the rise in mobility has created a new social norm for riders of the United States’ busiest transit system. As we’ve seen throughout the history of IT “ahead of its time” inventions such as GO Corporation’s work in pen computing lead to disruptive business innovation years later (i.e Android and iPhone). Ahead of their time inventions haven’t always led to […]
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Our look back at the last 50 years of IT history has finally brought us to the current day. The past few weeks have seen us go back 5 decades from the 60s to the 2000s to analyze how historic trends have set us up for the present“3rd platform of IT” era which includes Cloud, Mobility, Social and Big Data Analytics. Throughout our analysis one trend rose to the top and that […]
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Part 4 “I Don’t Want to Burst Your Bubble…The Rise and Fall of the Internet’s First Generation” “I wish I was born ten years sooner” – Children of the 1980s Last week we discussed the return of IBM as the dominant force in computing with the IBM PC. We also analyzed the precursor to the modern PC the Programma 101 from Olivetti which kicked off the PC era 20 years before […]
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Part 3 “The Phoenix Rises Again, how IBM Biting Apple made it Personal” “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” – Steve Jobs We left off last week with an analysis of the rise and fall of IBM’s 3rd generation mainframe the system/360. IBM became the gold standard of 1960s computing with early innovation in customizable software, marketing toward business impact, and the earliest ancestor of cloud computing. Once the decade ended IBM’s […]
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Part 2: How IBM’s 3rd generation never came back from the moon…. “Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster”. – Elon Musk This past Wednesday we took a look at how the cloud and Amazon’s innovations has separated the new disruptive forces of today’s IT away from the Old-Guard OEMs (OGOs) and Value-Added Resellers (VARs) of yesteryear. It has become clear […]
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Our ongoing series “How to stay ahead in an world of disruptive innovation” will analyze the past 50 years of IT disruption and innovation as the history is the best indicator of how things will move in the future. Today’s part 1 analyzes how a Seattle Bookstore’s cloud washed away the human network. Part 1: Learn how to swim before the rain clouds wash you away….. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader […]
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Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference puts the “IT giants” (and some small companies) on notice as HP shuts down their Helion Public Cloud…. HP announced this week that it was finally pulling the plug on the HP Helion public cloud service after close to a year of death row debate. This announcement occurred less than 2 weeks after the re:Invent conference hosted by Amazon Web Services. This year’s re:Invent took on a […]
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