Posts Tagged ‘ VMware ’

6 Core Competencies to Use and Provide Enterprise Cloud Services

January 31, 2012
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I have a new blog post up now at The CA Cloud Storm Chasers – CA Technologies on the 6 Core Competencies to Use and Provide Enterprise Cloud Service

There is a persistent (mainly vendor-driven) meme going around the world of IT that building...
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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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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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Using Public Cloud To Sort Through VMworld ’11 EMEA Hotels

August 9, 2011
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Using Public Cloud To Sort Through VMworld ’11 EMEA Hotels

I have to say, I really have not enjoyed using the VMworld 2011 website. For VMworld US I managed, but when it came to booking a hotel for VMworld EMEA, I was totally floored.

Booking through the VMworld website, I was presented with a list...
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The Cost of Proprietary vs. Public Cloud

June 22, 2011
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The Cost of Proprietary vs. Public Cloud

After Australia’s Melbourne IT unceremoniously dumped VMware vCloud Express, I wondered whether proprietary offerings like vCloud Express can provide the margin to compete with equivalent open source cloud offerings (e.g. based on Xen or KVM).

I am not alone either. Respected analyst Dale Vile (co-founder of...
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Chinwag with Mike Laverick

June 3, 2011
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Chinwag with Mike Laverick

I recently had the great pleasure of recording a ‘Chinwag’ on RTFM Education hosted by the inestimable Mike Laverick (@Mike_Laverick). Mike is a consummate pro with a comprehensive understanding of virtualization, so it was a privilege and a joy to record this...
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CIOZone.com Virtualization Video Discussion – Moving Past Virtual Stall

January 14, 2011
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CIOZone.com Virtualization Video Discussion – Moving Past Virtual Stall

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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The Cost of Innovation in Virtualization and Cloud?

September 14, 2010
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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?

August 24, 2010
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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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