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In the 70’s, Toyota unveiled a great ad campaign that began with the phrase, “You asked for it, you got it.” Little did I know that nearly 40 years later the slogan would be truer than ever when applied to the cloud. For the dangers of building applications on clouds without true decoupling of the…

ServiceMesh was very active at EMC World 2013 last week in Las Vegas. If you couldn’t make it, I pulled together some of the highlights and links: ServiceMesh was recognized several time by the press, including video interviews by SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE on the expo floor. Here's an interview with our CEO Eric Pulier: One of…

Hearty congratulations to EMC on the announcement of their newest offering, ViPR.  It’s truly exciting to hear the buzz here in Vegas about it and to answer questions on the show floor as to how ServiceMesh Agility Platform integrates and supports the new Software-Defined Storage offering.  For more on that, read here.  While the reception…

First, I’d like to say that I am extremely excited to be on board at ServiceMesh. A few people have asked why I made the move from a strategic post at EMC Ventures, so I thought I would share some of the background/thinking that led me to join the company. While at EMC, I had…

We are excited to announce today that ServiceMesh has joined the EMC Select Program.  As the title of this post indicates, we are focused on unlocking XaaS (everything as a service) IT, and the partnership with EMC is an enabler to this mission as ourAgility Platform™ is now available for purchase through EMC® Select, a…

Transforming Enterprise IT from a Cost Center to an Innovation Center Read the Forrester case study now. One of our ServiceMesh customers, Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), has decided to publicly share some of the results of their cloud IT transformation efforts. We’ve been working with CBA for 4 years, and although they have been…

Back in mid-February at Cloud Connect, I had the pleasure of presenting a case study about Commonwealth Bank of Australia's (CBA) use of private clouds over the last several years. The session was well attended and well received, highlighting the industry's overall hunger for in-depth case studies. (UPDATE Mar 8, 2012: It turns out this session was the fifth most popular at Cloud…

As described by President Eisenhower, the Military-Industrial Complex comprised major industries and technology supply chains that grew into a huge, self-sustaining bureaucracy that worked hard to protect its expensive, long-term contracts for non-standard offerings. Unfortunately, there are some similarities with today's enterprise IT. Driven in part by vendor alliances, a lack of incentives to evaluate…

ServiceMesh presented in general and technical sessions at Cloud Computing Expo last week. ServiceMesh’s Anthony Skipper was mentioned for having the best technical session of the week from other bloggers for his presentation entitled, “Cloud Scar Tissue: Real world implementation lessons learned from the early adopters” (download presentation). Anthony shared several enterprise customer experiences and…

Last week, the commercial technology division of the New York Stock Exchange launched the “Capital Markets Community Platform”, which they described as the first industry specific cloud platform tailored for the financial services industry. Among other capabilities mentioned, this new IaaS offering leverages NYSE Technology’s unique access to global market data and low latency connectivity…