Author Archive: Alex Pecoraro
Alex is Executive Vice President of Product Management at Adaptivity, and leads a critical team whose role is to institutionalize our intellectual capital as productized services, knowledge platforms and SaaS offerings. He collaborates with the CIO, CTO and CEO to ensure that we exceed client expectations with our offerings, services and products. Most recently, as Vice President and Program Manager of Architecture and Innovation at Wachovia's Corporate Investment Bank, he led a program to modernize the DMZ networking and security infrastructure through which Internet applications are hosted. This leveraged a compilation of virtualization technologies, security standards, and policy enhancements to reduce time to market and fault domains while improving protection, performance and uptime. Alex holds BSEE, MSEE, and MBA degrees from Northeastern University, Purdue University, and Duke University respectively.
Inflection Point: Accelerating Transformation
In our Inflection Point posts we dig a little deeper and take a hard look at the root of an issue currently plaguing enterprise IT by breaking down the problem(s), offering remediation approaches, and highlighting points of insight we’ve seen work with clients. Much of IT strategy revolves around aligning IT to business objectives. (Past [...]
Category: Datacenter Transformation, IT Management
Inflection Point: Business Platform Transformation Strategy
In our Inflection Point posts we dig a little deeper and take a hard look at the root of an issue currently plaguing enterprise IT by breaking down the problem(s), offering remediation approaches, and highlighting points of insight we’ve seen work with clients. Today’s CIO organizations face a complex array of challenges in managing the [...]
Category: Business Alignment, Datacenter Transformation
Rethinking SLAs
Managing expectations in any type of consumer- supplier relationship is critical to maximizing revenues and profitability. As a result, organizations have been turning to a Real Time Enterprise (RTE) strategy to give them agility to respond to business events in near real-time, which in turn relies on services from Information Technology (IT). In this [...]
Category: IT Management
The Many Facets of Security in your Infrastructure Utility – A Checklist
Security is the ability for organizational tasks to be carried out in a manner that meets governmental and business polices for integrity, confidentiality and non-repudiation. Applying the proper balance of security is difficult to achieve in most organizations because strict adherence is often viewed as an anti-innovation, an inhibitor to business and a severe resource [...]
Category: Cloud Computing, IT Management
Inflection Point: DR Capacity Harvesting
In our Inflection Point posts we dig a little deeper and take a hard look at the root of an issue currently plaguing enterprise IT by breaking down the problem(s), offering remediation approaches, and highlighting points of insight we’ve seen work with clients. The theme continues… every day IT is being challenged to do more [...]
Category: Cloud Computing, Datacenter Transformation
Inflection Point: Virtual and Dynamic Infrastructure
In our Inflection Point posts we dig a little deeper and take a hard look at the root of an issue currently plaguing enterprise IT by breaking down the problem(s), offering remediation approaches, and highlighting points of insight we’ve seen work with clients. The more tightly bound an application is to its underlying platform; the [...]
Category: Cloud Computing, Datacenter Transformation, IT Management
Inflection Point: Next Generation Resource Delivery
In our Inflection Point posts we dig a little deeper and take a hard look at the root of an issue currently plaguing enterprise IT by breaking down the problem(s), offering remediation approaches, and highlighting points of insight we’ve seen work with clients. Organizations have become more sophisticated in detecting business events as they occur. [...]
Category: Cloud Computing, Datacenter Transformation
Inflection Point: Datacenter Transformation
In our Inflection Point posts we dig a little deeper and take a hard look at the root of an issue currently plaguing enterprise IT by breaking down the problem(s), offering remediation approaches, and highlighting points of insight we’ve seen work with clients. Today’s IT organizations face a dual challenge of “keeping the lights on” [...]
Category: Datacenter Transformation, IT Management
Creating a Forensics Discipline
It’s typical to join a troubleshooting bridge-line to find all the support groups are reporting green lights on their dashboards, but that the holistic application performance is horrendous. The root of this problem can again be traced back to the bottom-up approach of thinking about the application environment. This must be reversed to consider end-to-end [...]
Category: IT Management
Enabling the Real-Time Enterprise
A Real Time Enterprise (RTE) enables the business to react to business events as they happen in real time. Traditionally organizations have been forced to be passive or reactive to business events. Reporting on operations was traditionally executed on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly schedule. By the time management learned about events that had taken [...]
Category: Cloud Computing, IT Management
