I was pointed the other day to a chart on the Business Insider ‘Chart of the Day’ (@chartoftheday) showing the R&D expenditures for a handful of tech companies, evidence of Apple’s supposedly superior ‘innovation’ compared to four apparently randomly chosen tech companies.
On the surface,...
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Tags: Amazon, CA, CA Technologies, CIO, cloud, cloud computing, desktop virtualization, Google, Hewlett Packard, HP, IBM, innovation, Microsoft, Novell, virtualization, VMware
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In my last blog, I talked about the idea of a ‘software mainframe’, and how – if that term really means anything – IBM could actually be a serious threat to VMware (and the Virtual Computing Environment coalition of VMware/Cisco/EMC) , if it decided...
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Tags: application virtualization, Cisco, Citrix, cloud, cloud computing, desktop virtualization, endpoint virtualization, Hewlett Packard, HP, IBM, mainframe, virtualization, VMware
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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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Tags: CDW, CIO, EMA, Enterprise Management Associates, Gartner, Hewlett Packard, HP, IBM, Prism, virtualization, VM sprawl, VM stall
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The other day I saw someone post a poll question, “Is KVM a credible choice for x86 virtualization?” My immediate response was – “Is that even a credible question?” If you read Read more »
Tags: cloud, cloud computing, HP, IBM, KVM, Linux, Microsoft, Red Hat, Sun, systems management, TechTarget, virtualization, VMware, Windows, Xen
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Today Microsoft Corporation (NASD:MSFT) announced a definitive agreement to acquire Opalis Inc., the leading independent vendor of IT Process Automation (ITPA) software.
IT Process Automation (ITPA) is a Data Center Automation (DCA) discipline that EMA defines as “the ability to automate and integrate the workflow of complex,...
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Tags: application virtualization, BMC, CA, Hewlett Packard, HP, IT Process Automation, Microsoft, NetIQ, Novell, Opalis, Symantec
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HP Software & Solutions recently conducted a global CIO survey with CIO Magazine on virtualization trends. Shay Mowlem, Director Virtualization Strategy with HP, and Jim Malone, Editorial Director of CXO...
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Tags: application virtualization, CIO, desktop virtualization, endpoint virtualization, Hewlett Packard, HP, Microsoft, server virtualization, systems management, virtualization
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Surfing a couple of blogs today, jumping from another analyst commenting that virtualization is not cloud (a fair, if unexplored, post), I came across William Vambenepe’s post from September on the confusion between...
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Tags: application virtualization, cloud, cloud computing, Hewlett Packard, HP, IBM, mainframe, NIST, storage virtualization
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