I was recently cited in C|NET News by Red Hat’s Gordon Haff (@ghaff) talking about the myth of public cloud and how Nick Carr pretty much got it wrong in his book, ‘The Big Switch’: the idea of there being…
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Cloud: The Evolutionary Path (Cloud Slam ’11)
At Cloud Slam ’11, I hosted a session with ‘clouderati’ luminary Jay Fry (my colleague at CA Technologies and @JayFry3 on Twitter) on “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Cloud: Tips for Navigating the Evolutionary and Revolutionary Paths to Cloud.†Between…
Sprawl or Stall: How’s your virtualization project going?
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…
Andi Mann at EMC World 2011 on siliconANGLE TV
At EMC World 2011 recently, I had the pleasure of chatting with Stu Miniman, Analyst and Researcher at Wikibon, on the SilconAngle TV show about management, cloud and organizational transformation. You should definitely go to Wikibon.org to see more from…
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…