virtualization

Top 10 Things I Learned About Cloud Last Week

October 27, 2011
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Top 10 Things I Learned About Cloud Last Week

While travelling back from VMworld EMEA last week, I stopped at London and visited with a fantastic CA Technologies customer and partner, Logicalis UK. Logicalis UK is an international provider of integrated information and communications technology (ICT) solutions and services, part of...
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Real-World Applications for the Private Cloud

October 6, 2011
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Real-World Applications for the Private Cloud

Not surprisingly, since the release of my new book, Visible Ops – Private Cloud, I have been talking with a lot of people about how to deploy private cloud, where to start, what to avoid, etc. So far, the most common question has been, “What...
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VMworld Wrap Up: Extending VMware for Mission-critical Virtualization and Cloud

September 14, 2011
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VMworld Wrap Up: Extending VMware for Mission-critical Virtualization and Cloud

I had a great time at VMworld 2011 Las Vegas this year. As I predicted in my last blog post, I met with loads of amazing people – too many to list out here, let alone in 140 on Twitter! I also...
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Beyond BSM – Cloud Computing and the Next Generation of Service Management!

August 19, 2011
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Beyond BSM – Cloud Computing and the Next Generation of Service Management!

I have just started posting on BSM Digest on behalf of CA Technologies. You can read my first post there, Beyond BSM – Cloud Computing and the Next Generation of Service Management! In it, I talk about how cloud drives an urgent need for...
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Why Do You *NOT* Love Going to VMworld?

August 12, 2011
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Why Do You *NOT* Love Going to VMworld?

In my last post, I asked why you love going to VMworld, and gave you a few of my reasons – like the people, the technology, the announcements, the sessions, the labs, and the parties.

But like any business trip, it is not all fun...
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Why Do You Love Going to VMworld?

August 12, 2011
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Why Do You Love Going to VMworld?

I love going to VMworld. It may be my favorite conference of the year (after CA World, of course!).

If you love going to VMworld too, then I would really like to know why.

I’ll start …

For me, the best part of going to...
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Using Public Cloud To Sort Through VMworld ’11 EMEA Hotels

August 9, 2011
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Using Public Cloud To Sort Through VMworld ’11 EMEA Hotels

I have to say, I really have not enjoyed using the VMworld 2011 website. For VMworld US I managed, but when it came to booking a hotel for VMworld EMEA, I was totally floored.

Booking through the VMworld website, I was presented with a list...
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About 70 per cent of local servers have been virtualised but it’s not about the numbers: Unisys

August 5, 2011
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About 70 per cent of local servers have been virtualised but it’s not about the numbers: Unisys

Hafizah Osman from ARN was on hand for my Virtualisation and Cloud plenary session at the CA World Expo in Australia, and gave it a great write-up:

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One of the problems that arises during virtualisation is virtual stall as management tipping points emerge between the different...
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The Cost of Proprietary vs. Public Cloud

June 22, 2011
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The Cost of Proprietary vs. Public Cloud

After Australia’s Melbourne IT unceremoniously dumped VMware vCloud Express, I wondered whether proprietary offerings like vCloud Express can provide the margin to compete with equivalent open source cloud offerings (e.g. based on Xen or KVM).

I am not alone either. Respected analyst Dale Vile (co-founder of...
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Cloud Expo East: Choosing Your Path to Cloud Computing

June 10, 2011
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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 and in the CA Technologies channel...
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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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