2011 Through The Eyes of A Sourcing Advisor
2011 was a very busy year for us at RampRate. I’ve spent nearly 20 years, on many sides, of the technology business and I enjoy reflecting across large swaths of time to see if there are patterns,...
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A Cynic Predicts IT and Media in 2011
(Prove me wrong or shut the heck up.) As pondered by Tony Greenberg and Alex Veytsel 1. Everything that’s old will be new again. Last year brought us the return of 3D from the 1950s, cloud (a.k.a. the...
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Google Wrecks the CDN Market
Last week Google formally launched its Page Speed Service, the latest in a long line of Content Delivery Network (CDN) services from dozens of suppliers from big and small to hit the market over the...
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Key Cloud Migration Decisions
Most legacy applications have implicit assumptions about operating systems, hardware, geography, latency, throughput, scalability, governance, access rights, monitoring and other aspects that must be...
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Amazon Trumps All Other Suitors in Quest for Hulu
The battle for Hulu has come down to a few prime fighters hustling for victory. I’m placing my vote that Amazon should be the winner. Well, that is for a consumer win. There’s been a lot of courting...
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Jumping Through Hoops with Hulu will Hollywood Kill Their Offspring Again
Congratulations should go to News Corp., Disney, and NBC Universal for finally creating an online company so big and successful that tech industry giants may stumble over each other to acquire it....
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When Valuations Don’t Mean Valuable
It’s Time For A New Wave Of Investing “You’re walking around blind without a cane, pal. A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.” – Gordon Gekko in “Wall Street” By...
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The 2011 Cynic Measures His Predictions
A friend of mine in the research industry used to give out little post-it-notes to trainee analysts that said “be wrong boldly.” Her reasoning – if you are bold and right, you will be hailed as a...
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Business At The Speed Of Light – What is a Millisecond Worth?
In the low-latency world of high-frequency trading, some will lose, no matter how smart their systems and people. Can you catch up? Or should we slow them down? Speed thrills, especially near the speed...
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Peter Gross Has Joined RampRate’s BOA to Continue Innovative Sourcing Index...
Peter Gross joins company board of advisors to help address environmental and social responsibility challenges in enterprise data centers and outsourced co-location SANTA MONICA, Calif. – April 24,...
View ArticleCSRHub Scores Join RampRate’s SPY Index
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Scores Will Drive Triple Bottom Line in IT, Data-Center Supplier Choice SANTA MONICA, CALIF. May 16, 2012 – RampRate Sourcing Advisors, the premier sourcing...
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Lean As A Mindset – Da Syzygy of IT?
It Aint Easy Being Green Everything is about to change. Wow. A fluid market is starting to take place right before our eyes. Syzygy of software hardware and services, bundled into a piece of joy...
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Future of IT Sourcing Negotiations
THE CLOUD LIVES IN DATA CENTER By Alex Veytsel – One of the panels I most regret missing at Data Center Dynamics annual London show last week, where our CEO spoke was a discussion of the future of data...
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eBay’s DSE — Making IT Efficiency a True Business Metric
There’s a change in the way businesses look at energy efficiency today. From an IT conversation is becoming a business conversation. eBay is leading the way, yet RampRate continues to play a part in...
View ArticleAvoiding The Rigged Managed Services RFP
Rigged Managed Services RFPs Harm Suppliers and Buyers Alike As a seller of IT managed services, you may spend hundreds of hours on a quote only to find that you really had no chance because the game...
View ArticleInfrastructure Optimization: What You Need to Know About Wasteful IT
Typically, the IT services buyer forecasts usage utilizing a number of factors at his/her disposal: Prior contracted capacity—that is, what was signed up for in the past. Forecasted business...
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Making IT Fit Like a Good Shoe, or, 10 Years Later, and RampRate Has a Long...
Re-posted from the Year 2000 “Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.” – Rebecca Johnson In 1996, I recognized a problem in the way IT...
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The Data Center Industry is in Crisis: And Now What?
Over the last 2 years, on like-for-like data center deals with the same provider and renewals without growth, we’ve frequently seen price cuts of 8%-25% depending on location and buyer leverage....
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Infrastructure Optimization: ITBM’s Last Mile
An ITBM Primer According to ITBM leader Apptio: “Modern IT leaders use facts to collaborate on the tradeoffs needed to maximize business value. Cost-only conversations become a thing of the past.”...
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Deadline for Russia’s Data Localization Law
Russian Data Center & Cloud Market Update – Addressing Russian’s Data Sovereignty Laws ARE YOU IN COMPLIANCE WITH GLOBAL DATA SOVEREIGNTY LAWS? RUSSIA, TURKEY & OTHERS? If you’re providing...
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