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 well.
Pam specifically asked me to provide readers with advice...
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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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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 disappear. It really seems like organizations simply don’t...
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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 have all five essential characteristics, for example – might be enough for some organizations.
I...
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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 example, is that NoSQL (for want of a better term) will kill off SQL.
No,...
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