...all.” To be fair, Network World’s headline mis-states Gartner’s prediction, as does Gartner’s lead paragraph, both of which emphasize virtualization and The Cloud. What follows heads in a very different...(12 comments)

...tautologically inevitable significance, Gartner was recently surprised … that’s right, surprised … to discover that SaaS — a Cloud centerpiece — is going nowhere, due primarily to high cost of...(4 comments)

In May of 1996 my InfoWorld column, then called the IS Survival Guide, introduced the technology life cycle: Hype, disillusionment, application. Several years later, Gartner introduced its highly similar “Technology...

...it to everyone they meet, with boundless energy and enthusiasm, unifying their organizations and creating demand. They take operations for granted, though, as unimportant detail. Kindergartner: Kindergartners learned a long...