I had a great time at VMworld 2011 Las Vegas this year. As I predicted in my last blog post, I met with loads of amazing people – too many to list out here, let alone in 140 on Twitter! I also...
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VMworld Wrap Up: Extending VMware for Mission-critical Virtualization and Cloud
New Cloud Reference Architecture From NIST
So, here is something interesting I discovered today, courtesy of a tweet from Christian Reilly (@ReillyUSA) – the US federal agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), today released Version 1 of their Cloud Computing Reference Architecture (PDF). It is free...
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Cloud Computing in the Public Sector
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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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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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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What is Wrong With the NIST Definition of Cloud Computing?
I am getting so sick of the continual bickering over definitions of cloud computing. Even more frustrating is the hype from all the vested interests – vendors and analysts, mostly – trying to define cloud...
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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
