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Author Archives: Ian
Changing the culture is the real global challenge with Covid-19
Well it’s here, it will go and something else will come again. We have taken for granted that: physically close social interaction is a way of life the healthcare system can handle anything the shelves are always full of whatever … Continue reading
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And soon it will just feel normal
Recently Mitsubishi has been running ads for its plug-in hybrid SUV. There is a tag line in the ad that says the future just sort of sneaks up on you and one day you’re plugging in your SUV and it … Continue reading
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So was I right?
https://infinite-shades.com/2011/11/02/does-your-it-vendor-have-their-head-in-the-clouds/ I wrote an article in 2011 talking about why cloud technology would run rampant over what the dominant models were at that time, only 7 years ago. If you had bought $1000 worth shares of both Oracle and Microsoft … Continue reading
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Blockchain enabling Santa Claus
I am often asked what all the fuss is about Blockchain and then asked to explain it. Well the fuss is about a fundamental paradigm shift in how electronic transactions can be done. BitCoin is just one of millions of … Continue reading
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AI will make the world’s first trillionaires
Hate or love Mark Cuban, you have to agree that the man has an eye for trends, after all he made one of the biggest gains in tech history getting Yahoo! to pay him a few billion for his Broadcast.com … Continue reading
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Note to CEO from your shareholders: If you think cloud IT is optional, please resign now.
When I first joined Microsoft in 2001 I met the indomitable Bob McDowell, the founder of Microsoft Consulting Services and the author of “Driving Digital” (yes in 2001). He relayed a story of his meeting with a CEO of a … Continue reading
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Real Digital Transformation vs. Snake Oil
I had dinner with a very good friend of mine last week. He asked me what I was working on these days, but before I could answer he said laughing “Please tell me it’s NOT Digital Transformation”. So, in the … Continue reading
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You are running out of pencils….
Eventually you will run out of pencils and can’t give your users any more. Faber-Castell was one of the first to mass manufacture introduce this awesome productivity tool in the mid 1700’s. We have received more than 250 years … Continue reading
The Rise of the Personal Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI)
In computer technology a processor interrupt is a signal to the processor indicating an event that needs attention. The processor responds by suspending its current activities, saving its state and executing a routine to deal with the event. This … Continue reading
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Don’t Migrate to the Cloud … Restart on it
There are two philosophies of using cloud: moving workloads to the cloud and using cloud to move workloads. They are two very different approaches. When you move a workload to the cloud, you take what you are doing today and … Continue reading
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Infinite Shades of Grey 