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Executivo adverte sobre a cloud: nem toda revolução é boa – Terra

June 6, 2011
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Executivo adverte sobre a cloud: nem toda revolução é boa – Terra

My Cloud Expo plenary session presentation was reviewed in Brasil on the massive Terra online network.

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Executivo adverte sobre a cloud: nem toda revolução é boa

O vice-presidente da fabricante de software CA Technologies, Andi Mann, aproveitou a Cloud Expo, que está sendo realizada em Nova York, para...
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Chinwag with Mike Laverick

June 3, 2011
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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 record this...
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How To Build an Effective & Pragmatic Cloud

May 31, 2011
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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 Earth, I’d like to mention...
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Review of Virtual Ops Private Cloud

May 31, 2011
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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 writing, and...
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CIOs’ new handy guide to sell private cloud to CEO/CFOs

May 24, 2011
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CIOs’ new handy guide to sell private cloud to CEO/CFOs

I did a great interview recently with Carol Ko of Asia Cloud Forum about the release of my new book, ‘Visible Ops – Private Cloud‘. We had a great Q&A on why the book matters, how it came about, key competencies for success,...
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Cloud computing’s big surprise

May 16, 2011
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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 a “Big Switch” in the sense...
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Sprawl or Stall: How’s your virtualization project going?

May 12, 2011
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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 IT departments can craft their...
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Andi Mann at EMC World 2011 on siliconANGLE TV

May 12, 2011
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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 Stu, and/or Read more »

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

May 5, 2011
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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 some details about the panel and...
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Calculating the cost advantages of private cloud

May 3, 2011
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Calculating the cost advantages of private cloud

I was happy to see an excerpt from my new book, ‘Visible Ops – Private Cloud’ was posted recently on Tech Target’s SearchCloudComputing.com.

To master private cloud economics, tune up your spreadsheets and refine the business value proposition of your portfolio view of computing environments. You need...
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Will Amazon EC2 Outage Negatively Affect Attitudes Toward Cloud? Nah!

April 22, 2011
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Will Amazon EC2 Outage Negatively Affect Attitudes Toward Cloud? Nah!

In the aftermath of the recent Amazon EC2 outage, I spoke with Chris Preimesberger at eWeek about what this means to the perceptions of cloud computing, and whether or not it really mattered:

“The first thing to understand is that this changes...
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