Category: systems management

As interest grows, container management features still missing

I had a great chat recently with a fantastic journo and a good mate, Alex Barrett over at Tech Target, about one of the hottest areas in virtualization, cloud, and DevOps. Yep, that big! Enterprise IT shops are interested in…

The Top Five Can’t-Miss Cloud Sessions at CA World 2013

As most of you are well aware (unless you’ve been living under a rock), CA World is just days away. And the hype leading up to the event is palpable. With so many things to see, people to meet, and…

Why Boring Data Centers Are the Best – Slashdot

Data center designers should take a page from the High Performance Computing (HPC) market. I have always enjoyed talking with my mate Andy Patrizio, about all things tech. I recently had a chance to talk with him about standardization in…

Spending next week immersed in IT

Next week I will join thousands of other IT professionals at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2012 in Orlando. I have been to Symposium and ITxpo many times before, in many different roles, and it never disappoints. There is so much to see…

10 Virtualization and Cloud Predictions for 2012

Welcome to IT prediction season! Again, I am inspired to throw my exceedingly fallible hat into the ring with my predictions, specifically for virtualization and cloud. I seem to have had a decent run of predictions last year, but I…

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…