I was interviewed for a great article published today in CRN titled, “CA Putting Cloud Pieces Together”. In it, Jack McCarthy writes:…
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The Cost of Innovation in Virtualization and Cloud?
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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Mainframe as an Enterprise Desktop Virtualization Server?
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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‘Software Mainframe’ – a Poor Analogy for Virtualization
IT loves analogies.
Seriously, will the computer-as-a-car analogy ever die (please)? It has been over 10 years since we first heard jokes about if Microsoft built cars:
At a computer expo (COMDEX) Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated “If GM...
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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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Is KVM a credible choice for x86 server virtualization?
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 »
Novell Announces Intelligent Workload Management (IWM)
Today Novell released the details of their eagerly awaited Intelligent Workload Management (IWM) solutions. Novell has an exceptional opportunity, great development, and an excellent product line that clearly makes sense in this newly...
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You Cannot Separate Security and Systems Management
A few days ago I was pleased to brief again with Reflex Systems. Apart from the fact that they are doing some very cool things with virtualization management, their approach struck me as,...
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Virtualization is not Cloud … but Cloud needs Virtualization
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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Virtual Appliances – More Risk than Reward?
I have to say – and I have said it before – I am not a great fan of the ‘virtual appliance’ model for delivering enterprise management software. Specifically, I have ongoing concerns about how these software appliances break compliance, security, and other important management and...
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Cloud Expo & Virtualization Conference
June 6-9, 2011
Jacob Javits Center New York City
Breakout Session - From Virtualization to Cloud Computing – Building an Effective, Pragmatic & Reliable Cloud, Jun 6, 4:55 - 5:40pm ET
Cloud Boot Camp - An Actionable roadmap to deliver public, private, and hybrid cloud, Jun 8, 8:15 - 9:00am
General Session - Follow YOUR path to Cloud Computing - Jun 8, 9:05 - 9:35am ET
