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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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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Tags: application virtualization, Cisco, Citrix, cloud, cloud computing, desktop virtualization, endpoint virtualization, Hewlett Packard, HP, IBM, mainframe, 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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Whatever happened to virtualization security?
Back in the day, everyone was talking about blue pills and red pills, about sideways attacks and DOM-0 threats, about security profiles and isolation policies, about perimeter defense and security embedded in the hypervisor.
Then, all of a sudden, the buzz seemed to...
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Tags: Blue Lane, Catbird, CIO, CISO, Configuresoft, EMC, Gartner, McAfee, Prism Microsystems, Reflex, RSA, Security, Symantec, Trend Micro, Tripwire, virtualization, VMsafe, VMware, vShield
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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 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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I really enjoyed my first podcast with the crew from SearchCloudComputing – hosted by Carl Brooks (Twitter’s @eekygeeky) – last week. (Of course I did...
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Tags: BMC Software, CA, cloud, cloud computing, Hyperic, Nimsoft, RightScale, SMB, systems management, TechTarget, VMware
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A couple of days ago, I was dropped into the middle of a sticky situation with one of my clients, a service provider of desktop systems – both physical and virtual (VMware and Citrix) – to schools across the country. This situation provides a great case...
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Tags: application virtualization, Citrix, desktop virtualization, endpoint virtualization, VMware
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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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Tags: Android, application virtualization, Citrix, DaaS, Desktone, desktop virtualization, Doyenz, endpoint virtualization, iPhone, Microsoft, MokaFive, Neocleus, Novell, Quest, SaaS, Symantec, Virtual Computer, VMware
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