Strategies for SaaS, Cloud Computing, Governance and Sustainability

2009 was a banner year for SaaS. With all the banter around Cloud Computing as an advancement in technology and it glories bandied around I would still be hard pressed to find a more compelling reason behind the larger success of SaaS – than the distressed economy. Companies with dwindling IT budgets ratcheted up the [...]

After 4 months of wrangling and hundreds of thousands of dollars in the lawyer’s kitty and finally the European Competition Committee seems to be closer than ever before to approving Oracle’s $7 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems. When all is said and done it will be a case of much ado about nothing.  Sans the [...]

Energy efficiency has become the new mantra in this greening economy. But who is the biggest culprit when it comes to energy consumption? In what seems like the blink of an eye, data centers are now among the leading energy guzzlers.
We’re at a tipping point of unparalleled dimensions with respect to data center energy consumption: [...]

Peter L. Bernstein, the celebrated author of Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk gives us his great insight on history of Risk Management and the two sides of risk. Great thoughts!