Posts Tagged ‘Cloud’

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

When we talk about cloud computing, those of us "in the biz" often go on and on about clouds themselves. But ultimately, IaaS and PaaS clouds don't do anything themselves. They are merely a substrate on which to build other things, the infrastructure plumbing for the application development and deployment that we really want to…

Cloud is intimidating. If you're a Global 2000 IT department just starting your journey toward the cloud, you'll find yourself faced with a lot of opinions about what you should do. Vendors, press, analysts, and consultants are happy to weigh-in. Most of what you'll hear is theory. In contrast, ServiceMesh is actively working with Global…

A couple months ago, I was having a discussion with a customer. The customer was currently using VMware for virtualization and wanted to know why they shouldn't simply buy into the VMware cloud story and base his internal cloud project on the VMware tool set. "Well," I answered, "VMware makes a great hypervisor, vSphere. If…

Why? It's a simple question, but it's one we don't ask very often. In the IT business, we spend a lot of time talking about what we do and how we do it, but rarely do we step back and really think about why we do the things we do. We worry about all manner…