What Comes Next

Here are the slides from my talk on the impact of the current generation of emerging technologies on the startup, given at the Emerging Technologies in the Enterprise conference in Philadelphia yesterday. The event wrapped up today; by all accounts it was the best value in web technology conferences in recent memory, and I look […]

I’d like to throw out an idea for discussion, especially as it applies to startups selling into the enterprise:
Small buyers of technology, acting early in the technology adoption life-cycle, are motivated by hope (hope == ROI, opportunity, etc). Large buyers of technology, acting late in the life-cycle, are motivated by fear (fear == risk of […]

I gave a talk today at the pre-conference CxO breakfast for the Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference. The group was great; so much discussion that we didn’t make it through all of the material I had planned.
As promised, here are the slides from today’s presentation. We talked so much about each point that I’m […]

Each generational transition in IT, such as from mainframe to client server or from client server to web applications, has presented challenges to enterprise security. The pattern is clear, and will likely sound familiar to anyone working in IT through these last two major shifts:

The emerging technology is initially ignored as a lab project or […]

I’m going to be speaking at a couple of related events in March. The Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference on the 28th and 29th in Philadelphia has an interesting array of topics, centered around open source, lightweight architectures and Web 2.0, all with an enterprise twist. On the first day, I’m giving a talk […]