CloudFloor (Waltham, MA) is getting close to starting the beta program for CloudControl, their system to tie cloud usage to measurable business metrics. I had an interesting call with co-founder and CTO Imad Mouline last week to learn more about this innovative system. There are a couple of ways to approach the concept of CloudFloor.... Continue Reading →
(and HP) Update: HP also announced support for OpenStack on its corporate blog. And the beat goes on... The OpenStack Parade is getting bigger and bigger. As predicted, enterprise vendors are starting to announce efforts to make OpenStack "Enterprise Ready." Today Dell announced their support for OpenStack through their launch of the "Dell OpenStack... Continue Reading →
TechCrunch reported today that Citrix has acquired Cloud.com for > $200m. This is a great exit for a very talented team at Cloud.com and I'm not surprised at their success. Cloud.com has had great success in the market, especially in the last 12 months. This is both in the service provider space and for internal... Continue Reading →
In the past few months we (at Unisys) have been rolling out a new strategic concept we call the Hybrid Enterprise. Normally I don't use this forum to talk about Unisys but, as one of the lead authors of this strategy, in this case I'll make an exception. The starting point for this hybrid enterprise... Continue Reading →
I know it's baseball season, but there's no passing in baseball and this post will just work better as a football analogy. VMware's announcement this week of Cloud Foundry (twitter @cloudfoundry) has gotten a lot of attention from the cloud community, and for good reason. Just as hardware is a low-margin commodity business, hardware as... Continue Reading →
I predict that significantly more than half of new data center compute capacity deployed in 2016 and beyond will be based on Atoms, ARMs and other ultra-low-power processors. These mighty mites will change much about how application architectures will evolve too. Lastly, I seriously believe that the small, low-power server model will eliminate the use of virtualization in a majority of public cloud capacity by 2018. The impact in the enterprise will be initially less significant, and will take longer to play out, but in the end it will be the same result. So, let’s take a look at this in more detail to see if you agree.
A couple months back I had a chance to catch up with Pat O’Day, CTO at BlueLock. They are a cloud provider headquartered in Indianapolis with two data centers (a primary and a backup), and also cloud capabilities on Wall Street and in Hong Kong for specific customers. BlueLock has been a vCloud service provider... Continue Reading →
Time to talk about cloud stacks again. No, not that there are too many (though there are), but rather the one-track mind that many IT buyers I encounter have with respect to cloud. Some end users I have spoken with in the past few weeks are looking to implement a private clouds, and they are... Continue Reading →
David Linthicum writes in a post on InfoWorld today about "How VCs are leading us down the wrong path for cloud computing." In this, he gives three reasons for this premise, but provides little in the way of substantiation for this position. We started a twitter discussion but David suggested I respond in a post... Continue Reading →
As I’ve written about previously, there are many tools in the market for building clouds – whether private or public. There are too many, in fact, and it will be hard to see most of them still around after the next five years. BMC is in a very strong position with both enterprises and large... Continue Reading →
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