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Brian McCallion

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President, Bronze Drum Consulting, Inc.

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I've worked with New York City media and financial firms over the past two decades. I'm interested in Cloud Computing, Social Media, and Mobile applications. I am developing two start-ups and developing on the Android / Galaxy Tab platform ...

I've worked with New York City media and financial firms over the past two decades. I'm interested in Cloud Computing, Social Media, and Mobile applications. I am developing two start-ups and developing on the Android / Galaxy Tab platform. One of my projects is focused on redefining wealth management relationships around Private Client Fine Arts assets, the other is focused on building a shopping experience around a user's digital media assets and media context (sufficiently vague, i know).

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May 20, 2012

Brian McCallion and 6 other people answered this question

What is the future of Cloud Computing?

In terms of the technology industry, my assertions are as follows:
1. Cloud computing will benefit firms that move quickly, or have already embraced SOA architecture. Firms that attempt to extend their enterprise infrastructure to the Cloud over VPNs, MPLS, or multi-mode fiber miss a ... more

Information Technology

Cloud Computing

May 20, 2012

Brian McCallion and 6 other people answered this question

Who in companies drives the decision to implement mobile solutions - business or IT?

Based on what I have observed, business drives mobile application development and deployment. IT plays a supporting role in mobile and may provision infrastructure in response to business requests. However, as much of mobile application web services and data services run in the Cloud, aka ... more

Information Technology

Dec. 9, 2011

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Nov. 24, 2011

Brian McCallion and 3 other people answered this question

What percentage of cloud providers in today's marketplace offer vendor neutral applications?

The approach I think works is to choose a Cloud Management or Cloud Governance solution that enables you to manage multiple Cloud Service providers. I recently wrote this article about the enStratus approach, but other vendors offer management layers that can help you to more ... more

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Cloud Analytics

Cloud Benchmarks

Cloud Computing

Oct. 17, 2011

Brian McCallion and 8 other people answered this question

Is Cloud Computing a technology driven wave or a business lead wave of change?

While much of the noise in the Cloud is about products, that's because it's a major trigger for technology spending and nobody wants, or can afford to get left without a chair. Cloud emerges like many innovations by simply looking at a business or process ... more

Information Technology

Cloud Computing

Oct. 16, 2011

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What are the ramifications of Amazon AWS Direct Connect for Cloud Computing?

Information Technology

Cloud Computing

Oct. 1, 2011

Brian McCallion and 3 other people answered this question

What does RIM need to do to improve PlayBook sales?

If facebook is valued at $80B usd and has 800 million subscribers, or faces, that are sold advertising, that puts the value of each subscriber at $100 per face. Amazon surely knows well how much each user will buy of media, books, and other amzn ... more

Information Technology

Oct. 1, 2011

Brian McCallion and 7 other people answered this question

Private vs Public Cloud: What's cheaper?

Even the largest firms outsource much of what they do either because the cost of doing it in-house is greater, or because the return on investment is less than deploying capital to other projects. The next element of the analysis is risk. ROI analysis tends ... more

Information Technology

Cloud Computing

Private Cloud Computing

Sept. 17, 2011

Brian McCallion and 1 other person answered this question

How does big data affect the average business person (outside of IT)?

To me big data means not only access to a new and much higher degree of granularity of data about the world, but more immediately Big Data might mean access to large sets of data currently held in private silos. And access to data to ... more

Information Management

Aug. 30, 2011

Brian McCallion and 6 other people answered this question at this roundtable

Open Standards in the Cloud [8/22 @ 11 am]

What are your thoughts on open cloud standards?

Thank you Dennis for your kind words! I am honored by your praise.

Information Technology

Cloud Computing

Open Cloud Standards

Aug. 25, 2011

Brian McCallion and 5 other people answered this question

Can an operational leader like Tim Cook be enough of a replacement for a visionary like Steve Jobs?

I agree wholeheartedly with Andrew's assessment. I would add that after John Sculley removed Steve Jobs from Apple, the company foundered and eventually and on the brink of bankruptcy brought Steve Jobs back as a "consultant" to Gil Amelio. I'm trying to think of a ... more

General Management

Information Technology

Consumer Electronics

Aug. 23, 2011

Brian McCallion and 3 other people answered this question at this roundtable

Open Standards in the Cloud [8/22 @ 11 am]

Are Cloud APIs like the Amazon AWS API, apis that the industry can freely adopt?

Oracle seems to have different ideas about APIs than suit the comfort level of most technologists. Here's some research I've found:
http://gigaom.com/2011/03/16/are-apis-the-new-black/
http://blog.bronzedrum.com/2011/08/side-show-in-oracle-google-patent-fight.html more

Information Technology

Aug. 22, 2011

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Open Standards in the Cloud [8/22 @ 11 am]

Do standards automatically inhibit innovation?

I think the discussion is worthwhile. And I believe that structure can foster innovation. Yet I believe that at this point in time so many incumbent vendors have so much to lose to Amazon, that standards may serve as a means of dampening the disruptive ... more

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

Cloud Computing

Aug. 22, 2011

Brian McCallion asked a question at this roundtable

Open Standards in the Cloud [8/22 @ 11 am]

How are standards and the question of Open relevant to the consumers of Cloud Services?

Information Technology

Aug. 20, 2011

Brian McCallion asked a question

Do well-funded start-ups choose Amazon AWS vs a PaaS vendor like SFDC or Heroku?

Information Technology

Cloud Computing

Infrastructure as a Service

Platform as a Service

Aug. 19, 2011

Brian McCallion and 9 other people answered this question

SITUATION: I've been unemployed for awhile. Should I accept a so-so job offer?

In my experience the human resources market is extremely inefficient and subjective. When I look at consulting opportunities I find the range of budgets, rates, firms varies widely. It might be ok to settle for a different salary than a prior position but there should ... more

Human Resources

Career Development

Aug. 9, 2011

Brian McCallion and 1 other person answered this question

How are organizations employing desktop virtualization to gain a competitive advantage?

One large insurance firm I worked with recently is eager to eliminate as much office space as possible and has created a rule that all new desktops need to be virtual, or laptops, and that no new desktop computers can be ordered. I think the ... more

Information Technology

Cloud Computing

Desktop Virtualization

Aug. 3, 2011

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POLL: Klout is a legitimate metric of online influence (Agree or Disagree)

What concerns me about all social media measurement and feedback is the huge risk of self-full-filing prophecies. Politicians already live in a separate world of idealised world perceptions and crowd appealing rhetoric. Start paying people with goodies or cash for their views and 'metrics will ... more

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