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…
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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…
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…
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…
Why Large Enterprises Need Public Cloud Too
In several recent posts, I have concentrated on the benefits of private cloud for large enterprises. For example: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Cloud: The Evolutionary Path The cost benefit myth of the public cloud Launching my first book – Visible…
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…
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Cloud: The Evolutionary Path (Cloud Slam ’11)
At Cloud Slam ’11, I hosted a session with ‘clouderati’ luminary Jay Fry (my colleague at CA Technologies and @JayFry3 on Twitter) on “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Cloud: Tips for Navigating the Evolutionary and Revolutionary Paths to Cloud.†Between…
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…
The cost benefit myth of the public cloud
There is a lot of hype around how much money you can save with public cloud. Public cloud can be cheaper than on-premise IT or private cloud, especially for selected services and SMBs. However for large enterprises, while there are…
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…