I was quoted in eWeek this week, commenting on the Microsoft Office 365 outages:
Even such incidents, though, don’t seem to be dissuading businesses from believing in the ultimate benefits of the cloud. “Clouds will have downtime—it’s a fundamental issue,” Andi Mann, chief cloud strategy guru at...
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At VMworld 2010, I had the great pleasure to record a video interview with Roger Green, Executive Editor at CIOZone.com. We chatted for about 20 minutes in total (in 2 parts) about virtualization, the issues of virtual stall (including both causes and solutions), how the antecedents...
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Tags: Amazon, CA, CA Technologies, CIO, CIOZone, cloud, cloud computing, compliance, desktop virtualization, IT Process Automation, Microsoft, Rackspace, virtual stall, VM stall, VMware
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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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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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Tags: Citrix, cloud, cloud computing, IBM, mainframe, Microsoft, virtualization, VMware
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If there was still any doubt about the real world use cases for cloud computing, the US Federal Government last week published a 38-page report entitled “State of Public Sector Cloud Computing” (link to PDF at CIO.gov). Attributed to the Federal CIO Vivek Kundra,...
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Tags: Amazon, CIO, CIO Council, cloud, cloud computing, CollabNet, compliance, Enterprise Management Associates, Google, Intuit, Microsoft, NIST, public sector, Salesforce.com, Terremark, virtualization, Vivek Kundra
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There is a perennial debate in cloud computing about whether a failure of one cloud service provider can be more generalized to a ‘failure of cloud computing’. It is an important question because availability...
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Tags: Amazon, availability, cloud, cloud computing, Google, IaaS, Microsoft, PaaS, PayPal, Rackspace, RIM, SaaS, SLA, Twitter, uptime, Yahoo
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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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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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Tags: CA, cloud, cloud computing, desktop virtualization, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, systems management, virtualization, VMware
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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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