I was amused the other day by a line I saw on Twitter from Wall Street Journal columnist, Jason Gay (@jasonWSJ – see image at left): “If Twitter didn’t exist, you’d have no idea what airlines your friends are currently…
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A Service Taxonomy for Cloud Choices
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…
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!…
Enter the World of Consumer-Driven IT
I posted a new article over at the CA Community website titled ‘Enter the World of Consumer-Driven IT‘, where I talk about (obviously) the impact of consumer-driven IT: Consumerization of IT is not a really new concept. Consumers (as employees)…
Beyond BSM – Cloud Computing and the Next Generation of Service Management!
I have just started posting on BSM Digest on behalf of CA Technologies. You can read my first post there, Beyond BSM – Cloud Computing and the Next Generation of Service Management! In it, I talk about how cloud drives…
Microsoft’s Office 365 Hit By Outages: eWeek.com
I was quoted in eWeek this week, commenting on the Microsoft Office 365 outages: Even such incidents, though, don’t seem to be dissuading businesses from believing in the ultimate benefits of the cloud. “Clouds will have downtime—it’s a fundamental issue, 
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,…
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…
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…
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 [sic] are all increasing the complexity of the job of managing IT by…
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: . One of the problems that arises during virtualisation is virtual stall as…