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‘Software Mainframe’ – a Poor Analogy for Virtualization

July 30, 2010
By Andi
‘Software Mainframe’ – a Poor Analogy for Virtualization

IT loves analogies. Seriously, will the computer-as-a-car analogy ever die (please)? It has been over 10 years since we first heard jokes about if Microsoft built cars: At a computer expo (COMDEX) Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated “If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles/gallon.” Recently General Motors addressed this comment by releasing the statement : “Yeah, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?” It has been popular ever since. Citrix stretched the car analogy significantly last year, comparing VDI to a truck, XenDesktop (or was it XenApp?) to a Prius (or was it an SUV?), and XenServer to a Porsche (with Xen as the engine, ‘natch). This year Citrix again used some kind of car analogy, but the compact car was apparently no longer...
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VM Stall – More Than Four Reasons

July 26, 2010
By Andi
VM Stall – More Than Four Reasons

I recently saw a great article in IT World Canada titled “Virtual stall: What it is and why you have it,” written by Jay Litkey, that took up my idea of VM stall, which I first came up with in my blog from...
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Top Ways to Start and Expand Your Virtualization Deployments

June 10, 2010
By Andi
Top Ways to Start and Expand Your Virtualization Deployments

Last week I spoke with Pam Baker, a writer with CIO Update, for an article titled The Top 5 Places to Use Virtualization. As you would expect from an experienced professional like Pam, it was a great article, with solid contributions from many others...
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Vendor FUD: How Should Vendors, Enterprises, and Influencers React?

June 4, 2010
By Andi
Vendor FUD: How Should Vendors, Enterprises, and Influencers React?

I, along with many others, witnessed this week (or was it last week?) a public squabble between two well-known vendors in the virtualization market. Of course, this is nothing...
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Cloud Computing in the Public Sector

May 27, 2010
By Andi
Cloud Computing in the Public Sector

If there was still any doubt about the real world use cases for cloud computing, the US Federal Government last week published a 38-page report  entitled “State of Public...
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Is ‘VM Stall’ the Next Big Virtualization Challenge?

May 14, 2010
By Andi
Is ‘VM Stall’ the Next Big Virtualization Challenge?

There appears to be a challenger to ‘VM sprawl’ as the scourge of virtualization success - a problem I call ‘VM stall’. We know about ‘VM sprawl’ – because new...
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