Archive for November, 2009

HP & CIO Magazine’s New Virtualization Survey

November 23, 2009
By Andi
HP & CIO Magazine’s New Virtualization Survey

HP Software & Solutions recently conducted a global CIO survey with CIO Magazine on virtualization trends.  Shay Mowlem, Director Virtualization Strategy with HP, and Jim Malone, Editorial Director of CXO Media’s Custom Solutions Group, held a free webcast last week to cover the details of the survey.  If you missed it, you should certainly...
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Virtualization is not Cloud … but Cloud needs Virtualization

November 20, 2009
By Andi
Virtualization is not Cloud … but Cloud needs Virtualization

Surfing  a couple of blogs today, jumping from another analyst commenting that virtualization is not cloud (a fair, if unexplored, post), I came across William Vambenepe’s post from September on the confusion between virtualization and Cloud Computing. As he did on my blog recently, I started to post a reply to his site, and...
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Cloud Computing Podcast with Techtarget – Part 2

November 17, 2009
By Andi
Cloud Computing Podcast with Techtarget – Part 2

My podcast with SearchCloudComputing’s Carl Brooks (Twitter’s @eekygeeky) was so much fun. In this two-part podcast, Carl and I talk about all sorts of issues regarding the management of cloud computing – a critical part of EMA’s ‘Responsible Cloud’ approach to cloud computing. Of course I had too much to say to fit in...
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Cloud Computing Podcast with Techtarget – Part 1

November 16, 2009
By Andi
Cloud Computing Podcast with Techtarget – Part 1

I really enjoyed my first podcast with the crew from SearchCloudComputing – hosted by Carl Brooks (Twitter’s @eekygeeky) – last week. (Of course I did – I am an analyst. If there is one thing I love more than being asked my opinion, it is talking about my opinion!). In this two-part podcast, Carl...
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What is Wrong With the NIST Definition of Cloud Computing?

November 13, 2009
By Andi
What is Wrong With the NIST Definition of Cloud Computing?

I am getting so sick of the continual bickering over definitions of cloud computing. Even more frustrating is the hype from all the vested interests – vendors and analysts, mostly – trying to define cloud computing in ways that they imagine will best contribute to their own commercial success. And I know that I...
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Human Issues in Endpoint Virtualization – A Cautionary Tale

November 9, 2009
By Andi

A couple of days ago, I was dropped into the middle of a sticky situation with one of my clients, a service provider of desktop systems – both physical and virtual (VMware and Citrix) – to schools across the country. This situation provides a great case study (or war story) of endpoint virtualization, especially...
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Why ‘Endpoint Virtualization’?

November 3, 2009
By Andi

Back in September 2009, EMA released a research report that I authored, titled Real World Experiences of Endpoint Virtualization*. In it, I defined and used a new term (for EMA), ‘Endpoint Virtualization’. 
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