Posts Tagged ‘External Private Cloud’

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…

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…

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…

You’ve decided to create your first private cloud. This can be both an exciting and complex endeavor. Since you’re asking about hardware and software, let’s assume you’ve already evaluated the business drivers and uses cases: Your use case(s) are not a fit for public cloud. You have internal staff capable of managing and supporting your…

The hero culture is alive and well in IT. They’re sometimes known as the “Firefighters”. These are the heroes who come in at all hours of the day and night to put water on the latest IT fire.  In many organizations a “good” fire fighter is admired and appreciated more than a good developer or…

Mark Thiele, ServiceMesh's resident data center expert, just commented on some cloud predictions from Forrester's James Staten. James points out that many private clouds will be hosted. At ServiceMesh, we think about private clouds coming in different types: Internal private clouds -- These are the private clouds that you're used to thinking about. Typically, the…