Posts Tagged ‘cloud governance’

In my last post, I wrote about trends in IT Management, SDDC, DCIM and the business itself that are creating a new approach to IT operating models and the building process itself.  (You can read that article here.) As infrastructure becomes increasingly consolidated, standardized and virtualized, converged devices such as Vblock, FlexPod, VSPEX, vStartNutanix,Calxeda and the Open Compute Project consolidate incumbent Server, Storage…

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…

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…

What high performing organizations know about cloud-based DevOps  Are you inadvertently robbing your organization of agility? If I were to make the following statement to people from across a variety of corporate business units, I really think there would be negligible debate. “Accelerating the speed at which the business delivers new applications and services is…

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…

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…

Today, Gartner issued a press release outlining "Five Cloud Computing Trends That Will Affect Cloud Strategy Through 2015." Sometimes analyst firms seem to watch the world through a rear-view mirror, but this time Gartner stepped up to the plate and delivered some aggressive, forward-looking advice that every organization needs to listen to and take action…

The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim…

As ServiceMesh works with companies implementing cloud computing projects, we often get asked the question of how the technology will be able to keep up with the shifting landscape of IT governance requirements. Customers working in highly regulated industries are often worried about adapting to future legal changes. For others in less regulated industries, it's…

My morning coffee reading today was Josh Stephens's "Top five virtualization problems: Building a private cloud" over at TechTarget SearchNetworking. I was all set to get some good advice on private clouds. Unfortunately, I stumbled on another Cloud Myth. The article starts off well enough, but runs aground when it gets to what should be…