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…
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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…
CA updates cloud management software
I did an interview with Liz Tay for CRN Australia, talking about the CA Technologies blockbuster release of 10 new and improved solutions for cloud computing: . . Mann urged IT managers to strive for greater oversight of their IT…
CA, Unisys bring private cloud partnership to Oz
I spoke with Richard Chirgwin from The Register during my trip to CA World Expo in Australia, about the mammoth ‘Cloud Choices’ announcement, the release of 10 new and improved products from CA Technologies: Speaking to a media lunch at…
Consumerization of IT – Your Responsibility, Your Opportunity
There is a revolution happening with the rise of social, mobile, and cloud computing, the blurring lines between business and personal, and the proliferation of connected devices. This ‘consumerization of IT’ is forcing radical change on businesses (and governments), which…
The Cost of Proprietary vs. Public Cloud
After Australia’s Melbourne IT unceremoniously dumped VMware vCloud Express, I wondered whether proprietary offerings like vCloud Express can provide the margin to compete with equivalent open source cloud offerings (e.g. based on Xen or KVM). I am not alone either.…
El Reg guide to the Private Cloud
I had the great pleasure of talking with The Register’s Nathan Coates about my experience in what applications makes are a good fit for private cloud deployments. Nathan actually ended up quoting me in his article, which is excellent reading!…
Cloud Expo East: Choosing Your Path to Cloud Computing
Cloud Expo just wrapped up this week, and I’ve had several attendees reach out to me asking for copies of my session slides. Rather than clog up everyone’s inboxes, I thought it worth posting them on the CA Communities blog…
Executivo adverte sobre a cloud: nem toda revolṳ̣o ̩ boa РTerra
My Cloud Expo plenary session presentation was reviewed in Brasil on the massive Terra online network. . . Executivo adverte sobre a cloud: nem toda revolução é boa O vice-presidente da fabricante de software CA Technologies, Andi Mann, aproveitou a…