Chuck's Blog

The End Of Knowledge Management?

In our industry, we get to see all sorts of new trends and ideas.  And, occasionally, we see a few older ideas lose favor, to be replaced by newer approaches.

I was out travelling last week, and got into a heated discussion with a customer that classical knowledge management -- as we know it -- was probably well on its way to the dustbin of technology history. 

Given that this person had invested a sizable piece of their career in KM, maybe that wasn't the most politically correct thing to say ... but there's no arguing that there's an entirely new way of looking at the problem.

Of Clouds and Next Gen Data Centers

When I'm with customers, there's a lot of interest in the whole topic of "cloud" these days.

And there's also a lot of interest in NGDCs, or next-generation data centers.

But if you're interested in one, I'd argue you should be interested in the other -- as the two concepts may end up being connected in a way that's hard to ignore.

Infrastructure Software In Virtual Machines

I've written before that I believe that virtualization changes everything.  The idea of wrapping up environments that used to require a dedicated server or desktop isn't just limited to user applications.

A significant part of the IT landscape consists of infrastructure software -- and it's fair game for being virtualized as well.