Posts Tagged ‘ virtualization ’

11 Tips for Successful Cloud Computing Adoption

March 28, 2012
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11 Tips for Successful Cloud Computing Adoption

Today I was published in one of the top cloud computing journals. In fact, it is the Cloud Computing Journal, part of the SYS-CON stable and the same organization that runs the excellent Cloud Expo events. The article is called “Read more »

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CA Putting Cloud Pieces Together

March 27, 2012
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CA Putting Cloud Pieces Together

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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10 Virtualization and Cloud Predictions for 2012

December 7, 2011
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10 Virtualization and Cloud Predictions for 2012

Welcome to IT prediction season! Again, I am inspired to throw my exceedingly fallible hat into the ring with my predictions, specifically for virtualization and cloud. I seem to have had a decent run of predictions last year, but I claim more luck than...
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Top 10 Things I Learned About Cloud Last Week

October 27, 2011
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Top 10 Things I Learned About Cloud Last Week

While travelling back from VMworld EMEA last week, I stopped at London and visited with a fantastic CA Technologies customer and partner, Logicalis UK. Logicalis UK is an international provider of integrated information and communications technology (ICT) solutions and services, part of...
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Real-World Applications for the Private Cloud

October 6, 2011
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Real-World Applications for the Private Cloud

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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VMworld Wrap Up: Extending VMware for Mission-critical Virtualization and Cloud

September 14, 2011
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VMworld Wrap Up: Extending VMware for Mission-critical Virtualization and Cloud

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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Why Do You *NOT* Love Going to VMworld?

August 12, 2011
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Why Do You *NOT* Love Going to VMworld?

In my last post, I asked why you love going to VMworld, and gave you a few of my reasons – like the people, the technology, the announcements, the sessions, the labs, and the parties.

But like any business trip, it is not all fun...
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Why Do You Love Going to VMworld?

August 12, 2011
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Why Do You Love Going to VMworld?

I love going to VMworld. It may be my favorite conference of the year (after CA World, of course!).

If you love going to VMworld too, then I would really like to know why.

I’ll start …

For me, the best part of going to...
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The Coming Crisis of IT Management – More Opportunity Than Challenge

August 8, 2011
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The Coming Crisis of IT Management – More Opportunity Than Challenge

I saw an interesting post at Forbes.com last week titled ‘The Coming Crisis of IT Management,’ lamenting that “consumerization, virtualization, cloud computing, software as a service, mobility are all increasing the complexity of the job of managing IT by orders of magnitude.”

I certainly...
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About 70 per cent of local servers have been virtualised but it’s not about the numbers: Unisys

August 5, 2011
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About 70 per cent of local servers have been virtualised but it’s not about the numbers: Unisys

Hafizah Osman from ARN was on hand for my Virtualisation and Cloud plenary session at the CA World Expo in Australia, and gave it a great write-up:

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One of the problems that arises during virtualisation is virtual stall as management tipping points emerge between the different...
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El Reg guide to the Private Cloud

June 12, 2011
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El Reg guide to the Private Cloud

I had the great pleasure of talking with The Register’s Nathan Coates about my experience in what applications makes are a good fit for private cloud deployments. Nathan actually ended up quoting me in his article, which is excellent reading!

“The key environments for private cloud we...
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