Charlie Burns is a Vice President for Saugatuck Technology, focusing on enterprise software, business/IT services, and IT systems technologies and management. With over 35 years of experience in the Information Technology arena, Charlie is an established expert in IT product and marketing management, and in IT user issues and requirements.

The Cloud Computing Business Bounty
November 21, 2012 Among many personal things to be thankful in wake of superstorm Sandy, grateful for evolving for enterprise IT

Can Open Cloud Handle Real Workloads?
October 22, 2012 Cloud-oriented open source groups miss core enterprise needs on migration, utilization

Teaching an Old Mainframe New Tricks
August 30, 2012 IBM EC12 illustrates Big Blue’s ongoing cloud strategy

Changes from Cloud-based Data Integration
February 10, 2012 Cloud computing is enabling much more enterprise data use and management improvement, especially through integration of...

Cloud IT Failures Emphasize Need for Expectation Management
August 10, 2011 I am surprised to see that conventional wisdom among users appears to have become that Cloud-based services are somehow...