Category: In The Media

El Reg guide to the Private Cloud

I had the great pleasure of talking with The Register’s Nathan Coates about my experience in what applications makes are a good fit for private cloud deployments. Nathan actually ended up quoting me in his article, which is excellent reading!…

Cloud Expo East: Choosing Your Path to Cloud Computing

Cloud Expo just wrapped up this week, and I’ve had several attendees reach out to me asking for copies of my session slides. Rather than clog up everyone’s inboxes, I thought it worth posting them on the CA Communities blog…

Executivo adverte sobre a cloud: nem toda revolṳ̣o ̩ boa РTerra

My Cloud Expo plenary session presentation was reviewed in Brasil on the massive Terra online network. . . Executivo adverte sobre a cloud: nem toda revolução é boa O vice-presidente da fabricante de software CA Technologies, Andi Mann, aproveitou a…

Chinwag with Mike Laverick

I recently had the great pleasure of recording a ‘Chinwag’ on RTFM Education hosted by the inestimable Mike Laverick (@Mike_Laverick). Mike is a consummate pro with a comprehensive understanding of virtualization, so it was a privilege and a joy to…

How To Build an Effective & Pragmatic Cloud

It was great to have my upcoming session at Cloud Expo, ‘How to Build an Effective and Reliable Cloud’ previewed on the SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Journal web site in a nice short article by Roger Strukhoff. Remaining unambiguously on Planet…

Review of Virtual Ops Private Cloud

I am grateful to James Downey, Solution Architect at Dell, for writing a review of my new book, ‘Visible Ops – Private Cloud‘ on his excellent blog, Cloud of Innovation. In it, James takes a very even-handed look at our…

Cloud computing’s big surprise

I was recently cited in C|NET News by Red Hat’s Gordon Haff (@ghaff) talking about the myth of public cloud and how Nick Carr pretty much got it wrong in his book, ‘The Big Switch’: the idea of there being…

Sprawl or Stall: How’s your virtualization project going?

I had a great interview recently with Kathleen Lau for her feature article in IT World Canada, Sprawl or Stall: How’s your virtualization project going? where she looks at the causes behind two common problems plaguing virtualization deployments, and how…

Andi Mann at EMC World 2011 on siliconANGLE TV

At EMC World 2011 recently, I had the pleasure of chatting with Stu Miniman, Analyst and Researcher at Wikibon, on the SilconAngle TV show about management, cloud and organizational transformation. You should definitely go to Wikibon.org to see more from…

What to expect at Interop? At least one great panel session!

I posted a blog over at the CA Communities web site, talking about how I am excited to be on a panel session at Interop next week entitled, ‘Best Practices: the Road From Server Virtualization/Consolidation to Private Cloud’, and giving…