Posts Tagged ‘IaaS’

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…

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…

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,…

After my previous posts on PaaS, JP Morgenthal (Twitter: @jpmorgenthal) and I have had some offline conversations. The discussion resulted in JP putting together the following blog post. He has graciously allowed me to post it here at ServiceMesh.com. It should be noted that the issues JP identifies below are largely restricted to public PaaS. Private…

Organizations typically conduct a lot of research on cloud providers and enabling technologies before making the decision to embark on their first cloud project. However, sometimes this extensive research and vendor selection effort gets confused with the actual project planning required for success of that initial cloud project. After the decision is made to move…