There is a persistent (mainly vendor-driven) meme going around the world of IT that building and running a responsible, secure, available, enterprise-quality cloud is simple. The theory seems to be that it just needs some server virtualization, adding automation, maybe…
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…
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Rating My 2011 Virtualization & Cloud Predictions
So it is prediction time again – a practice I am not keen on, but which provides a fun diversion for the silly season. But before I attempt the foolhardy mission of predicting 2012, I thought I would attempt the…
As Cloud Becomes a Teenager, It Is Time for Adult Supervision!
James Staten at Forrester recently published his Top 10 Cloud Predictions for 2012. In it, James talks about how cloud is maturing, and warns of the challenges as cloud enters, as he describes it, “the awkward teenage years” …
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,…
10 Preconditions for IT Solution Design
With VMworld EMEA coming up next week, I am reminded of an evening at VMworld last year, and a stimulating discussion about good product design with Prabhakar Gopalan (@PGopalan), a former colleague at CA Technologies who is now with Dell.…