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Category Archives: Future of IT
It’s all about the content or “What’s in the Case?”
Steve Herrod’s super session was one of the things I enjoyed most about this year’s VMworld. Not only were the technologies and ideas that were introduced inspiring and where I was hoping to see VMware head but there was real … Continue reading
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Tagged Cloud, convergence, Future of IT, Infrastructure, Private Cloud, service catalog
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What is Virtualization?
I’ve been interviewing several people to lead up the Virtualization group of my organization lately and one of the candidates asked me an excellent question, “Well, what do you mean by Virtualization?”. Very good question, am I talking about VMware, … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT
Tagged Cloud, convergence, Future of IT, Infrastructure, Virtualization
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NASA’s 4TB Per Day
I imagine these folks know something about a cloud. That NASA collects 4TB of data per day was actually a little surprising to me; I thought the number would be higher. Still, it’s a staggering quantity on the order of … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT, Public Cloud, Science, The Nature of IT
Tagged Cloud, DBaaS, IaaS, NASA, open government, opensource
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It slices, it dices…
I get e-mail. Like this one from one of our technical sales consultants: Hi, dumb question but I have been asked it a couple of times and I wanted to see how you would answer it. Why would clients choose … Continue reading
Posted in Driving Transparency, Future of IT, The Nature of IT
Tagged service delivery, services, technology, Tools
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Why Information is like Cognac
With apologies to Chuck Hollis at EMC and James Governor at RedMonk I decided to take a crack at this whole “Why Applications are like fish and Data is like Wine” meme by extending it to posit that Information is … Continue reading
The ever expanding Digital Universe
IDC Released their 2011 Digital Universe Study and the results are pretty amazing: data is doubling every two years! This is the fifth year that the IDC has released this study and each year I continue to be surprised by … Continue reading
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Tagged Automation, Cloud, Demand Management, EMC, Future of IT, Orchestration
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Trusted Cloud? Essential, not optional.
I recently wrote about the FBI raid at DigitalOne, where law enforcement seized far more servers than were under suspicion from a data center. This caused unnecessary outages and business disruption. I argued briefly that a company hosting its compute … Continue reading
Not the best reason to move to the cloud…
…but it will do. The details are somewhat sketchy, but it looks like an FBI raid over the ne’er-do-wells at LulzSec at hosting provider DigitalOne got a little over enthusiastic, grabbing several RACKS of servers instead of several servers (or … Continue reading
Posted in Future of IT, Private Cloud, The Nature of IT
Tagged Cloud, DigitalOne, FBI, LulzSec, Privacy
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What Geocaching Can Teach Us About Demand Management
Welcome! As my inaugural post on The Practical Polymath I wanted to make some kind of introduction, maybe a little getting to know you post…you know, something soft. Truthfully, you don’t care about me so let’s just dive right in with … Continue reading
Private Cloud is the new paradigm
Everybody’s talking about Private Cloud these days, and I think that’s great. There have been a number of really good posts and articles about it lately and I think the more people writing and thinking and implementing Private Cloud strategies … Continue reading