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Greg Scandrett

The Deadline You Bought Two Years to Avoid

August 4, 2026 by Greg Scandrett
The Deadline You Bought Two Years to Avoid

In 2027, the decision a great many organizations deferred comes due.  The version of VMware they upgraded to specifically to buy time reaches the end … Read more

Tags VMware migration

Your VMware Provider May Not Be There in 2027

July 28, 2026 by Greg Scandrett
Your VMware Provider May Not Be There in 2027

Broadcom has narrowed the VMware partner ecosystem to a fraction of its former size.  For organizations running on a hosted VMware environment, the question is … Read more

Do Your Legacy Systems Belong in the Secure by Design Conversation?

July 21, 2026 by Greg Scandrett
Do Your Legacy Systems Belong in the Secure by Design Conversation

Regulators and security leaders increasingly expect software to be secure by design. The harder question is what that expectation means for the legacy systems quietly … Read more

Everything Was in Place.  The Modernization Still Stalled.

July 15, 2026July 14, 2026 by Greg Scandrett
Everything Was in Place. The Modernization Still Stalled.

We recently conducted an internal debrief with a software portfolio leadership team that had, on paper, done everything correctly.  The modernization roadmap was defined.  Funding … Read more

How to Migrate Off VMware Without the Chaos

July 12, 2026July 7, 2026 by Greg Scandrett

Last week we made the case that the smart money is already leaving VMware, and we closed on an uncomfortable truth.  Migration is hard, and … Read more

Why Smart Money Is Already Moving Off VMware

July 12, 2026June 30, 2026 by Greg Scandrett

For most of the last decade, VMware was the safe choice, the platform you could standardize on without anyone questioning the decision.  That era is … Read more

Tags VMware migration

How Organizations Break Free from the Endless Development Backlog

July 12, 2026June 23, 2026 by Greg Scandrett

Most organizations eventually find themselves staring at the same uncomfortable reality.  The development backlog keeps growing, yet the amount of work actually delivered never seems … Read more

Tags backlog management strategies, software development backlog

Why CIOs Are Losing Innovation to Technical Debt (and How to Restore It)

July 12, 2026June 16, 2026 by Greg Scandrett

Over the past five to ten years, something subtle but important has been happening inside many organizations.  Increasingly, business executives are relying less on their … Read more

Tags Why business leaders don’t trust IT delivery

Modernize Legacy Systems Before Knowledge Disappears

July 12, 2026June 9, 2026 by Greg Scandrett
Modernize Legacy Systems Before Knowledge Disappears

Organizations across both the commercial and government sectors are approaching a moment that, candidly, many leadership teams have not fully accounted for. For decades, critical … Read more

Tags Risks of legacy systems when IT staff retire, 

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  • The Deadline You Bought Two Years to Avoid
  • Your VMware Provider May Not Be There in 2027
  • Do Your Legacy Systems Belong in the Secure by Design Conversation?
  • Everything Was in Place.  The Modernization Still Stalled.
  • How to Migrate Off VMware Without the Chaos

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