I had a great interview recently with Kathleen Lau for her feature article in IT World Canada, Sprawl or Stall: How’s your virtualization project going? where she looks at the causes behind two common problems plaguing virtualization deployments, and how…
Category: virtualization
What to expect at Interop? At least one great panel session!
I posted a blog over at the CA Communities web site, talking about how I am excited to be on a panel session at Interop next week entitled, ‘Best Practices: the Road From Server Virtualization/Consolidation to Private Cloud’, and giving…
The cost benefit myth of the public cloud
There is a lot of hype around how much money you can save with public cloud. Public cloud can be cheaper than on-premise IT or private cloud, especially for selected services and SMBs. However for large enterprises, while there are…
Calculating the cost advantages of private cloud
I was happy to see an excerpt from my new book, ‘Visible Ops – Private Cloud’ was posted recently on Tech Target’s SearchCloudComputing.com. To master private cloud economics, tune up your spreadsheets and refine the business value proposition of your…
Launching my first book – Visible Ops Private Cloud
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),…
Private cloud not necessary for enterprises, analyst says
In a recent article on IT World Canada, Selena Mann (no relation) talks about the need for private and public cloud, and whether enterprises really need a private cloud. She also highlights the advice in my new book, ‘Visible Ops…
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…
How Do You Measure ‘Value’ in IT Innovation?
I recently met with a number of CIOs from large enterprises and discussed, among many other things, what the notion of ‘value’ really means to the modern CIO. As a marketer, I was very interested to talk about this topic, …
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…
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)…
“Software Mainframe” – a Poor Analogy for Virtualization
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…