Doug Chandler


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HP Services Needs a New Strategy

“One of things to think about long-term, once you evolve to a utility model, services don’t actually play a part in it – think about how many services you use to run your electric utility or your phone utility, as an end-user consumer of that. You don’t, it just works.”  –David Scott, SVP, HP Storage, ...

HP Wants to Make Cloud Simple and Accessible for Customers

Most companies today have a bunch of IT-related projects stuck on the back burner, due a shortage of people, infrastructure, funding, or a combination of these. HP wants to help its customers break through those backlogs by making people and infrastructure more efficient and allowing them to focus instead on their businesses, said Nick van ...

HP’s New World of Services as the Speed of Business Accelerates

The IT services business is evolving from the old outsourcing model – “your mess for less” – to a rapidly changing universe of discrete services that fit together and help customers manage the new speed of business, HP VP of Data Center Services Rob Taylor said at HP Discover 2011 this week. “Businesses are threatened ...

David Scott at HP Discover: Cloud is Here to Stay, and Service Providers Need Best-of-Breed IT

The debate about whether cloud is going to become a significant part of the future of computing has almost ended now, said David Scott, HP Storage Senior Vice-President and former CEO of 3PAR, HP’s major storage acquisition in 2010.  “Ten years ago, people weren’t sure whether that transition would ever take place, but now I ...

HP’s Donatelli: “We’re Playing Offense, We’re Out to Change the Market”

For people familiar with the old, stodgy, slow-moving HP, David Donatelli is breath of fresh air. The company’s EVP and General Manger of the ESSN (Enterprise Server, Storage and Networking) division, who came over from EMC two years ago, says this about ESSN’s competitive position: “I like to talk about the two people being chased ...

Game-Changing Nirvana Phone is Here, Says Citrix’s Chris Fleck

Citrix earlier this year unveiled its Nirvana Phone concept, where a smartphone in combination with a virtualized desktop and applications like XenDesktop and XenApp could plug into a full-sized display, keyboard and mouse and run everything in a hosted environment. Sound futuristic? Citrix VP of Solutions Development Chris Fleck took it even further in April ...

Despite Its Complexity, VDI is a “Hot Button” with CIOs

Desktop virtualization (VDI) is one of the hottest pockets of IT innovation today and one where customers are spending without an obvious economic return – something that consulting firms haven’t seen since the Y2K days, according to Richard Scannell, Senior Vice-President and co-Founder at GlassHouse Technologies. “This is one of the first infrastructure projects that ...

J. Tyler Rohrer: VDI’s Just Starting the First Inning

Tech innovation is everywhere these days, and that includes the previously stodgy world of consultants and integrators who in the past were associated with dark suits, conservative ties and big expensive projects. “Services innovation is happening,” declared J. Tyler “T. Rex” Rohrer, chief revenue officer and founder of Liquidware Labs, a software and services firm ...

Vendors Must Demystify IT, Focus on Business Value

His first SAP project in 1996 was “harder than it needed to be,” and until the underlying architecture gets simpler, it’s going to stay complex, commented Mike O’Dell, CIO at Pacific Coast Building Products, on SiliconAngle.tv at SAP Sapphire 2011 this week.  The company is a building materials manufacturer and distributor, and also does contract ...

Cloud is Transforming the Way We Interact with Customers, Says CSC’s Siki Giunta

One way to look at cloud computing is this: Based on the amount of data they are producing, we don’t have enough trees or data centers for the next generation, so we need cloud computing’s promise of consolidation and efficiency to solve that problem. This was one of several original perspectives on cloud provided by ...