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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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.…
Real-World Applications for the Private Cloud
Not surprisingly, since the release of my new book, Visible Ops – Private Cloud, I have been talking with a lot of people about how to deploy private cloud, where to start, what to avoid, etc. So far, the most…
The Opportunity of Social & Mobile – If Not You Then Who?
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…
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!…
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,…