Posts Tagged ‘ Gartner ’

Public Cloud Computing is NOT For Everyone

December 2, 2010
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Public Cloud Computing is NOT For Everyone

Without pointing any fingers, there seems to be a persistent refrain from some public cloud computing proponents that says, ‘If you are running your own IT, then you are doing it wrong’. This attitude fails to account for the magnitude and value of many legacy investments...
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Top Ways to Start and Expand Your Virtualization Deployments

June 10, 2010
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Top Ways to Start and Expand Your Virtualization Deployments

Last week I spoke with Pam Baker, a writer with CIO Update, for an article titled The Top 5 Places to Use Virtualization. As you would expect from an experienced professional like Pam, it was a great article, with solid contributions from many others as...
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Is ‘VM Stall’ the Next Big Virtualization Challenge?

May 14, 2010
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Is ‘VM Stall’ the Next Big Virtualization Challenge?

There appears to be a challenger to ‘VM sprawl’ as the scourge of virtualization success - a problem I call ‘VM stall’. We know about ‘VM sprawl’ – because new virtual machines are so easy to deploy, organizations can end up with more VMs that they can handle, or even use. This has the potential...
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Does Virtualization Security Really Matter?

May 12, 2010
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Does Virtualization Security Really Matter?

Whatever happened to virtualization security?

Back in the day, everyone was talking about blue pills and red pills, about sideways attacks and DOM-0 threats, about security profiles and isolation policies, about perimeter defense and security embedded in the hypervisor.

Then, all of a sudden, the buzz seemed to...
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In Cloud, ITIL, and SOE – Heterogeneity is the New Standard

March 15, 2010
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In Cloud, ITIL, and SOE – Heterogeneity is the New Standard

I read recently a good blog post from Thomas Bittman (@tombitt) of Gartner Group, about how sometimes close enough is good enough. Talking specifically about private cloud, he talked about how an ‘imperfect’ cloud deployment – one that does not...
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Your Favourite Technology Will Not Kill Anything

March 5, 2010
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Your Favourite Technology Will Not Kill Anything

I have a request. I hope it is not too onerous, because something is really starting to grind my gears.

Can we in IT please all stop claiming that any technology is going to kill another?

The latest I am reading, for...
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