All I can think as I read through this Inc.com Article on “Why not to
respond to RFP’s” is…
“Man, I really hope our competition is reading this and decides to follow
their advice, ha!”
Although the author makes a couple of good points about the negatives of
responding… RFP’s are so engrained in the culture of corporate and
government procurement that I think responding will always be a large piece
to the success of any business development team.
However, I do think we are seeing a permanent shift in the scope of RFP’s,
especially on the government-side. They are moving more toward pre-approving
smart and qualified vendors that provide long-term strategic guidance in an
“on-call services” manner, rather than releasing RFP’s for each
individual project.
Obviously this isn’t new, as the practice of Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite
Quantity (IDIQ) contracts have been us... (more)
If you're an IT manager calling your internal VMware or other virtualization
farm a "Private Cloud" in an attempt to prove to your leadership that "public
cloud is insecure" or "I built the same thing as Amazon Web Services (AWS)",
you need to get ready for a dose of reality in the coming year.
Server-huggers beware, you might have been able to get away with it until
now, but 2013 will mark a turning point in which the term Private Cloud will
be permanently exposed for what it is... a capital intensive, server
stacking, virtualization game.
Just because you might have flexibilit... (more)
The impact that Cloud Computing has brought to the IT industry to date has
been primarily beneficial to application developers, system admins, and
network architects, and not directly to end-users of technology.
Yes, IT developers and architects leverage cloud computing’s flexible and
virtualized compute, storage, and network infrastructure to build resilient
applications that eventually benefit end users due to improvements in
speed-to-market and improved up-time statistics, but the direct benefits to
the tech-needy end user are still rarely recognized.
Most daily users of pers... (more)
The answer is not SaaS, nor VDI, nor Cloud; rather, an evolutionary
compilation of all these technologies.
The impact that Cloud Computing has brought to the IT industry to date has
been primarily beneficial to application developers, system admins, and
network architects, and not directly to end-users of technology.
Yes, IT developers and architects leverage cloud computing’s flexible and
virtualized compute, storage, and network infrastructure to build resilient
applications that eventually benefit end users due to improvements in
speed-to-market and improved up-time statistics,... (more)
The day the "cloud-powered, vendor-neutral, GIS App Store" concept was born
was probably one of the best and worst days of my life. That rainy Southern
California morning in December 2008 marked the day that is responsible for
fully consuming the following 483 days of my life with conference calls to
countless vendors, writing seemingly endless API calls, and completely
scrapping two beta systems before reaching our final goal:
TheGISmarketplace.com. Ultimately our vision is to bring an end to GIS
software vendor lock-in and facilitate virtually painless delivery of even
the mo... (more)
Ryan Hughes, blogging at www.RyHug.com, is the Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) of Skygone (www.skygoneinc.com), a Cloud Computing solution provider to SI's, ISV's, Commercial, and Government.
Education: MBA in Project Management from Penn State University; BS in GIS from Bowling Green State University
Ryan currently has 10 years in Enterprise-level IT Program Management and Operations Management, as well as vast experience in Enterprise System Design and Cloud implementation methodology.
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