Update: am revising this still... Reposting now - but send me your comments via @CloudBzz on Twitter if you have them. It seems like every day there's a new company touting their infrastructure stack. I'm sure I'm missing some, but I show more than 30 solutions for building clouds below, and I am sure that more... Continue Reading →
Putting Clouds in Perspective – Cloud Redefined
You'd think as we head into the waning months of 2011 that there'd be little left to discuss regarding the definition of cloud IT. Well, not quite yet. Having spent a lot of time with clients working on their cloud strategies and planning, I've come to learn that the definition of cloud IT is fundamentally... Continue Reading →
CloudFloor Drives the Cloud To Achieve Business Results
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 →
Dell (and HP) Join OpenStack Parade to the Enterprise…
(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 →
Citrix + Cloud.com = OpenStack Leadership?
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 →
The Hybrid Enterprise – Beyond the Cloud
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 →
Forward PaaS: VMware’s Cloud Foundry First Down
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 →
SeaMicro: Atom and the Ants
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.
BlueLock Takes an IT-Centric Cloud Approach to Hybrid Cloud
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 →
Ready! Fire! Aim!
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 →
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