Without A Strong PaaS, ITaaS, DevOps & IaaS Fall Short
To lower IT operational costs and/or to become more agile, the business must simplify the processes to deliver and manage…
A Design For An Agile Cloud Management Platform
In the early part of 2013, EMC announced a new storage virtualization product called ViPR that delivers a software interface…
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Transformation Is More Important Than Cloud
On the surface it looks to be a chicken and egg problem. Is cloud driving IT transformation or is IT…
The Macro and Micro of Multi-tenancy Regarding Private Cloud
I was recently reviewing some sales and marketing materials regarding building out Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Part of these materials included attributes…
Notes From The Field: Inside A Real World Large-Scale Cloud Deployment
I’ve been granted an incredible opportunity. Over the past three and a half months I have gotten to lead a…
If It’s Not Working As Expected, It May Be The Installer
For the 1st time in my life after owning three homes I am in the position of having to replace…
Cloud Should Be Defined By What It Will Become, Not What It Is Today
There’s been a lot of discussion about what makes cloud computing different than other forms of computing that have come…
The Key to Private Cloud Is Removing IT Stratification
One of the leading problems plaguing IT organizations is the high costs of operations and maintenance. The industry average is…
IT-as-a-Service and the Facebook Effect
I’ve recently been theorizing around a new model for IT transformation. There’s anecdotal evidence that, in general, business problems tend…
The Path to the Intelligent Cloud
Let’s face it right now the cloud is pretty immature. The level of automation and management of these environments are…