Author: Leo
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How do we stay relevant in our own industry?
My recent visit to the Fujitsu Forum 2015 in Munich got me thinking on what established people and companies need to do to stay relevant in our own industry. At the event, you could engage in hundreds of conversations and dozens of sessions on innovation, connected enterprise, hybrid cloud, SaaS, disruption caused by digitization and […] -
Get rid of your 4+ years storage HW, you bleed on HW maintenance costs
For our customers, it is not a question if they should consider data centre optimization, but rather when and how. Since the “when” question is almost always related to business priorities and budget, I will focus on answering the “how”. The most important area to have a look at is the IT Infrastructure environment itself. […] -
Building large complex systems is hard!
One of my earlier blog posts re-published here again. It comes from the period of time back in 2012 when I was in the business of Cloud Solutions. Recently, Mark Thiele of GigaOm published the article “The cloud backlash could be deep”. I agree with most of the conclusions in his article. However, at one point […] -
Why we ended up focusing on daily deliverables?
Recently, I’ve read Ted Bauer’s article “Daily deliverables murdered strategy”. While I agree with most of the points there, I thought it could be worth looking at what made us to focus on the daily deliverables in the first place. Many of us who were at any level in the corporate world would remember either […] -
It’s not about you
Prince Roger Nelson known by his mononym Prince is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor. On top of that, he is a genius, great business person and leader. What promted me to write this post anyway? Recently, I stumbled upon one song I particularly remembered from the early 90s. The song in question was “Love […]