John Brand on IT-Analysis.com

Cloud computing: Understand proprietary risks

rss@it-analysis.com (John Brand, Hydrasight) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:05:00 +0100

As cloud computing matures, Hydrasight foresees that proprietary enterprise cloud infrastructures will become increasingly attractive to vendors, as a point of competitive differentiation. [Read More...]

Cloud computing: worthy of definition(s)

rss@it-analysis.com (John Brand, Hydrasight) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:00:00 +0100

Hydrasight notes that the terms 'cloud', 'utility', 'on-demand', Software-as-a-Service and 'network' computing are being used to describe a very simple premise-that the server-centric computing model is (slowly) returning to favour. [Read More...]

Alfresco - dining outside proprietary content management vendor's solutions

rss@it-analysis.com (John Brand, Hydrasight) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:00:00 +0100

The open source Alfresco project is a worthy attempt at advancing the cause of improved content management inside organisations, however Hydrasight believes it will ultimately fail due to an abundance of competing approaches. [Read More...]

Thought-leaders are in over-supply: herald the era of thought-movers

rss@it-analysis.com (John Brand, Hydrasight) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Hydrasight believes that the value of thought-leadership is rapidly diminishing. Thought-movers who can influence at both a strategic and operational level will be a valuable yet increasingly scarce resource through at least 2015. [Read More...]

ODF and OOXML: a holy war over no-man's land

rss@it-analysis.com (John Brand, Hydrasight) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:05:00 +0100

The argument about which is the right document format is masking the fact that it's still just about a document format. [Read More...]

Invitation-based access begins to enter the enterprise

rss@it-analysis.com (John Brand, Hydrasight) — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:00:00 +0100

Hydrasight observes rising interest within the enterprise for invitation-based access models as a result of online collaborative workspaces plus social networking and media sites. [Read More...]

How Oracle's acquisition of BEA will cause (con)Fusion

rss@it-analysis.com (John Brand, Hydrasight) — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:00:00 +0100

While Oracle gains a set of premium customers from the BEA acquisition, Hydrasight believes BEA customers will be challenged over time to rationalise their existing implementations with Oracle's emerging Fusion platform. [Read More...]

The greening of AsiaPac IT

rss@it-analysis.com (John Brand, Hydrasight) — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:00:00 +0100

Before the end of 2008, more than 10% of large Asia Pacific organisations will announce their intent to 'go green'. Hydrasight believes this will be a near impossible challenge to meet - but one that will increasingly be required... [Read More...]

Web 2.0: Technology and social trend (but don't confuse the two)

rss@it-analysis.com (John Brand, Hydrasight) — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0100

Hydrasight notes that the term 'Web 2.0' is currently being used to describe two entirely different things. We expect the majority of organisational efforts centred on Web 2.0 to ultimately fail. [Read More...]

The fallacy of the single repository

rss@it-analysis.com (John Brand, Hydrasight) — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:00:00 +0100

Hydrasight observes that organisations tend to believe a single repository is the only answer to information management needs. As such, these are at risk of over-investing and under-delivering on ECM [Read More...]

The outlook for enterprise take-up of Vista

rss@it-analysis.com (John Brand, Hydrasight) — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 07:00:00 +0100

Hydrasight notes that early analysis, by larger enterprises, has been underwhelming in regard to the likely business value from upgrading to Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system. [Read More...]