Category: Commentary

Every vendor offering you a cloud product touts their ability to provide agility to your IT organization. But, how do you place a value on agility in order to prioritize IT projects? There are a number of economic tools that come up frequently in describing value of software investments. I favor a simple economic approach:…

There are a lot of threads around asking, “Is cloud computing less expensive than on-premise?” The short answer is: it depends. Here’s a quick outline of the why the better question is which provides more value. In economics, there are two types of costs in production: fixed costs and variable costs. Fixed costs are independent…

With the deliberate abstraction of hardware from software in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) , the US and development partners are creating the potential for realizing the customization and training powers of commoditization we’ve seen in the datacenter server world.

In Boston this week planning for the new fiscal year, I stayed in a brand new boutique hotel. So brand new that the price was well below any of the local chains, and they hadn’t worked out all of their kinks. The look and comforts of the room was excellent: clean design furniture, Lavazza in-room…

Watch Bruce Feiler discuss using Agile Programming techniques to help build a stronger family.  Would love to talk to him about this again in 10 years. [ted id=1675]

RIP Google Reader. Even though all evidence pointed to it, I hoped it wasn’t going to happen. Here’s my coping mechanism: OpenShift + Tiny Tiny RSS I installed the Tiny Tiny RSS aggregator and reader using an +OpenShift  quickstart +Gunnar Hellekson put together.  If you already have an account, you can have your Google Reader replacement up in running in 10…