Enterprise IT

The Myth of the Virtual Desktop Comes to the Phone

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ January 9, 2012 / 2 Comments

A few years ago I wrote a 40 page whitepaper on Virtual Desktops. I extolled the virtues of what seemed to me to be an obvious decision. You take the hundreds or thousands of desktops in your office and cost $600 per system and replace them with little boxes that...
Yammer, Twitter, Skype, Sametime and How Enterprises Will Adopt Technology

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ January 6, 2012 / Leave a comment

As I perused my reader this morning I found an interesting note on TechCrunch talking about both the success of Yammer! and mentioning that they’ll be raising another round of financing. For those of you who don’t know about Yammer! it is a set of social media technologies that can...
VMWare as the Amazon of PaaS

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ December 20, 2011 / Leave a comment

Note: This is an extremely geeky post… if you have no interest in Enterprise Infrastructure it will not only bore you, it probably won’t make much sense. I noticed this week that VMWare expanded their Cloud Foundary offering to include support for .NET. I had three seperate thoughts about this...
We’re Not Nearly Done Making Things Cloudy

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ December 12, 2011 / Leave a comment

Note: I had written a very elegant post on this topic, but it got lost deep in my wordpress instance… so all you’re going to get is the executive summary. Amazon’s cloud is starting to reach critical mass and that is believed to be a sign that cloud computing is...
ChromeOS, Google Docs and Fighting With Microsoft

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ December 1, 2011 / 2 Comments

Joe Brockmeier over at RWW asked an interesting question in his post yesterday, “Why hasn’t Google killed off Chromebooks?” They’ve been on a killing spree lately with labs, Wave and others. So why not kill off a set of devices that Brockmeier points out will have lower sales per year than...
What’s Blackberry Up To?

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ November 30, 2011 / Leave a comment

Blackberry announced a new product yesterday, Mobile Fusion. It is basically an update to the Blackberry Enterprise Server that has long been a dominant player in enterprise IT, but with a new twist: compatibility. In addition to managing blackberries, the software will also be able to manage Android and iOS...
Not Too Late For Microsoft to Stay Relevant?

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ November 25, 2011 / Leave a comment

The world is moving away from Windows as we know it. Cloud based technologies will make for thinner and thinner personal computers (in technical terms a “thin” computer is one that doesn’t have a lot of computer power or storage). Most of the technical community assumes that this means the...
People as a Service

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ November 23, 2011 / Leave a comment

Those of you that have been working with the cloud and Amazon for a while now have probably heard of Mechanical Turk, but I thought the concept might be interesting for people who read this but aren’t familiar with it. Essentially, the Mechanical Turk function allows you to leverage humans...
Time to Clean Up the Amount of Cloud Washing

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ November 23, 2011 / Leave a comment

When I was with IBM, we used to have a term called, “Blue Washing”. The term referred to taking a software product from a new acquisition and slapping the IBM logo all over it to make it in to a new product. The product usually was mostly unchanged and not...
Hacking Enterprise IT: Flipping the Model

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ November 21, 2011 / Leave a comment

Note: As a former IBM Architect who loves startups, my sweet spot of the moment is enterprise IT startups (like the one I work for presently). I don’t talk about them as often on this blog as I’d for two reasons. First, they’re not that sexy because 95% of the...