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  We get it. You've been deluged with the advertisements on television and social media from the major wireless carriers touting their 5G roll out, with hyperbolic comparisons touting that ‘their network’ is more available and robust than the competition. Mobile phone manufacturers are pushing the availability of their devices on 5G and how life changing it will be. Articles abound from all the business forums on IoT and 5G, and what a seismic shift it will be. 5G is also propelling this notion of   Industry 4.0 , and how it will accelerate that process. All this promise is, well, promising. But in the real world of managing a business, growing revenue, and streamlining operations – what does it all mean for your Digital Strategy and Transformation? How does it change the relationship between you and your telecom suppliers? How will it change the nature of your customer relationships? And how do we execute on the promise of 5G/IoT without wasting millions and stepping on land ...

  It’s a now well-known axiom that there is opportunity in chaos.  From our vantage point, technology suppliers are joining in the spirit of that theme to accelerate price increases which are then passed along to their customers.  Price gouging it would seem is no longer the domain of consumer goods as we suspect it’s also being employed in high tech.  If you have been involved recently in a renewal, software audit, M&A activity, or any other supplier intensive negotiation, some of these price increase ‘excuses’ may sound familiar:    Inflation   Energy costs   Interest rates   Labor supply   Economic downturn   War in Ukraine   Rising US dollar value   CPI/Innovation Index   We’ve just been sued by SEC for fraud/bribing…again ( maybe that’s just Oracle )   The list could go on but serves as a theme for excuses on why your discounts are being slashed and prices are going up.  But this begs the question, ...

  A rigorous assessment of the business objectives and a well-defined migration plan are critical to realize the benefits of moving IT activities from your legacy on-premises infrastructure to a public cloud provider.  Any technical gap or delay in cloud migration will erode the economics and benefits of the cloud with unexpected expenses and performance issues.    To that point, a recent survey by SunGard Availability Services uncovered the following:   Over 45% of IT decision-makers indicate they struggle to forecast and understand the costs associated with cloud migration.   40% of respondents cited they ‘lack understanding of cloud architecture dependencies and security compliance issues.’   45% of enterprises cited a gap of experienced internal resources to plan and execute the migration.   Considering the above, it is not surprising cloud waste will exceed $60B USD in 2023 ( infographic on cloud waste ).   Cloud Benefits   The scal...