Not surprisingly, since the release of my new book, Visible Ops – Private Cloud, I have been talking with a lot of people about how to deploy private cloud, where to start, what to avoid, etc. So far, the most common question has been, “What...
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I have been talking with many CIOs for some time about strategic adoption of cloud solutions. A key step in these conversations is always the review of the portfolio of services they provide to business users, so they can choose which clouds to adopt and why.
This...
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In several recent posts, I have concentrated on the benefits of private cloud for large enterprises. For example:
Today is a very exciting day for me.
After many months of blood, sweat, and tears, today we are finally launching a brand new book that I co-wrote (alongside a couple of amazing people – Kurt Milne and Jeanne Morain), called Visible Ops Private Cloud: From Virtualization...
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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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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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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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Back in September 2009, EMA released a research report that I authored, titled Real World Experiences of Endpoint Virtualization*. In it, I defined and used a new term (for EMA), ‘Endpoint Virtualization’.
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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
