Posts Tagged ‘cloud computing’

Cloud computing is undeniably hot right now. Gartner’s latest report on public cloud computing adoption, Forecast Overview: Public Cloud Services, Worldwide, 2011-2016, 4Q12 Update (2/8/13) finds that global spending on public cloud services is expected to achieve a CAGR of 17.7% from 2011 through 2016 and is expected to grow from $76.9B in 2010 to…

"Leaving aside the proliferating startups in ServiceMesh's sector, Cisco, Dell, VMware and the Big Four enterprise systems management vendors can't lose the battle for cloud management without losing the war – and their lives."  This is what 451 analyst Rachel Chalmers wrote when describing the competition to ServiceMesh’s Agility Platform 9.0, and just one reason…

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…

IT Transformation is becoming a top priority for most enterprise organizations. The goals are driven at the executive level, and tied directly back to shareholder value. In the past, such bold initiatives would suffer an inevitable and often deliberate death--succumbing to corporate anti-bodies, bureaucratic roadblocks and shortsighted execution. Today enterprise CEO's recognize that the processes…

I was interested to see a recent InfoWorld post by David Linthicum discussing the rise of bare metal cloud offerings, "Going native: The move to bare-metal cloud services." In the article, David says I've been saying for some time that virtualization and cloud computing are not mandatory partners. Certainly, virtualization is a tool that makes…

In eastern philosophy, "yin yang" is the concept that polar opposite forces are really interconnected and interdependent. These forces exist in relation to each other and cannot exist in isolation. There are many examples from the natural world, including darkness and light, male and female, and cold and hot. These forces are opposites but not…

Customers frequently ask ServiceMesh what we think is the best way to build an IaaS cloud. "Well, you need more than just a hypervisor," we say. "That just gives you the basic virtualization layer. You also need a cloud layer that organizes those virtualized resources and exposes them to the outside world as a cloud,…

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…

Everywhere I look, I see clouds and virtualization mentioned together. They seem to be the peanut butter and jelly of the technology world. Certainly, clouds and virtualization taste good together, but surely we can separate them, right? Can you build a cloud without virtualization? Does peanut butter taste good without jelly? The short answer is,…