Angelbeat staff who plan agendas/content and/or recruit attendees are very sensitive to the time demands placed on IT professionals. “Doing more with less” is a common theme heard at every seminar. So why should you attend Angelbeat versus other shows, and how can Angelbeat help with your own career and your employers’ profitability?
The agenda at each show is always world-class, …
Every IT executives is looking at cloud solutions; the challenge is where to start. Well here is my suggestion. Identify customer facing web applications that have sharp variations in demand. Some notable examples are Domino’s Pizza and NFL.com on Super Bowl Sunday, IRS.gov around April 15th, online retailers right after Thanksgiving, etc. In the past IT professionals might have configured …
It seems clear that bring-your-own-device (byod) initiatives are being rapidly embraced by IT executives, who will increasingly spend money on thin client/VDI solutions and middleware software platforms to support consumer devices in the enterprise. Good news if you sell these solutions, potentially tricky for Microsoft and Intel who have grown accustomed to the 3-4 PC refresh over the past ten …
The first ten Angelbeat events in 2012 were absolutely fantastic and it gave me the chance to interact with over 1,000 senior IT executives throughout the southeast. At the end of each seminar, I asked the attendees “Let’s say you were building your IT infrastructure from scratch. Would you ever buy another server or storage hardware platform, or just go …
The telecommunications sector suffered a major crash in 2000 as multi-billion investments in fiber optic infrastructure went unused. Take a look at the sharp decline in Corning’s stock price back then (Corning is among the world’s largest manufacturer of fiber optic cabling). It has only been in the last few years that much of this so-called dark fiber has been …
I recently attended my 25th Harvard Business School reunion and came away with three important insights:
Professors now ask students/alumni to follow them on twitter and do not actively promote/release their email address. Big change from my 20th reunion just 5 years ago. Obviously they still use e-mail, which is not going away as a communication method. But this is a …
Thank you very much for visiting Angelbeat.com and considering attending a seminar in your hometown. This short podcast by CEO Ron Gerber highlights new features for 2012 – integrating virtualization and cloud strategies, supporting byod initiatives and Apple in the enterprise – while maintaining the proven Angelbeat methodology of concise, technical talks on related, complementary fields by industry leaders. We …
Ronald J. Gerber is the CEO of Angelbeat, Founder of Gerber & Company, and serves on the Board of Directors and is a former President of the Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York. Angelbeat has held over 750 technology symposiums on throughout North America since its founding in 1999. Angelbeat is the largest technology event company in North …
So I was right about Microsoft making a big deal to expand its mobile footprint but wrong about the partner (Nokia, not RIM). At first glance this partnership seems good on paper but would have too many executional problems to work: 1) Nokia-Microsoft cultural battles (entrenched Scandinavian workforce animosity towards Microsoft only grew with the hiring of the ex-Microsoft executive …
Cloud-based services present major challenges – and opportunities – for Apple’s iTune and Microsoft’s Office client platforms. If you could find all your songs at an Internet Radio site accessed via a 4G/WiFi connection, then do you really need to store all the songs on your iPod? Similarly, if all of your word processing and spreadsheets were available from a …
While generally hesitant to predict this rapidly changing IT world, I have been asked and now offer my two top acquisition predictions for 2011:
1. Cisco Buys a VAR/Systems Integrator: Cisco’s main competitors in servers/data center offerings – IBM, HP/EDS, Dell/Perot – all offer professional services to complement hardware. With these global giants now ex-Cisco customers and pushing their in-house brands, Cisco buys its …
IBM achieved tremendous success in the 1970′s by creating a closed and highly integrated mainframe architecture, controlling all IT elements including chip-sets, hardware, terminals, middle-ware, application software, network connections, etc. Now look at Apple. Their strategy of controlling hardware design and underlying software worked great with the iMac. With the recent expansion into displaying mobile advertisements, designing iPad chip-sets and …
