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In this exclusive Q&A for SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal with Cloud Expo
Conference Chair, Jeremy Geelan, Tony Bishop - Founder & CEO of Adaptivity -
discusses Adaptivity's "IT Transformation Factory" and their Cloud Computing
strategy.
Bishop gave a General Session at the 5th Cloud Expo in New York in April
entitled "Understanding the Relationship Between Workloads and the Cloud."
About Tony Bishop: As Chairman and CEO, he leads the team and provides
hands-on coaching, thought leadership and executive strategy support for
Adaptivity's key clients and partners. He is an innovative IT executive, with
an excellent track record in strategy, design, and the implementation of
business-aligned enterprise technology platforms across large organizations.
He most recently served as SVP and Chief Architect of Wachovia’s Corporate
Investment Banking ... (more)
Today's IT organizations face a dual challenge of "keeping the lights on"
while providing "new services" at unprecedented rates with reduced investment
support from the business. At the same time, the very business model of IT is
changing - how applications, content, information, and infrastructure are
delivered.
One of the biggest barriers to business execution and innovation today is
managing complexity. This barrier forces the largest IT investment spend to
be focused on keeping lights on while containing infrastructure sprawl. IT's
inability to focus a majority of its time a... (more)
A few days ago we facilitated a passionate discussion on the subject of
Blueprints (ah, the joys of an emerging market). The gist of the conversation
was focused on deciding where limited marketing resources should be applied,
and during that exercise a surprising insight came to us. It seemed so
counter-intuitive at first, then as we kept exploring it became so blindingly
obvious that we questioned our intelligence for not thinking of it before.
What was this revelation, you ask – and more importantly, why should you
care?
An Architect doesn’t need a Blueprint.
Let’s step outsi... (more)
SYS-CON Events announced today that Adaptivity, the IT transformation
company, has been named "Platinum Plus Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 5th
International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place
on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City.
Adaptivity's CEO Tony Bishop (http://tonybishop.ulitzer.com) will be offering
major thought leadership on Day Two of the 3-day event in a Morning Keynote.
Read Exclusive Cloud Computing Journal Q&A with Tony Bishop here.
Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term "cloud
comp... (more)
In our last post we discussed the positive shift in the Cloud Computing
discourse towards actionable steps rather than philosophical diatribes on
definitions. And to support that discussion we offered the following list of
things not to do:
Not understanding the business value Assuming server virtualization is enough
Not understanding service dependencies Leveraging traditional monitoring Not
understanding internal/external costs
In this installment we are going to focus on the first mistake - failing to
understand the business impact of leveraging a Cloud delivery model for a
g... (more)
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