Posts Tagged ‘ServiceMesh’

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…

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…

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…

Today seems like OASIS TOSCA day in my world. First thing this morning, Sam Johnston (@samj) Tweeted somesuspicion towards TOSCA. Ben Kepes (@benkepes) also blogged his thoughts about TOSCA. I sent Sam a quick "+1" replythis morning (@sandhillstrat), but I wanted to weight in with my thoughts in blog form as well. Fundamentally, TOSCA is trying to address a very large, complex problem. The…

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…

Yesterday, I wrote about the trends pushing developers toward PaaS solutions and away from IaaS. The simple analogy is that IaaS is the "assembly language" of the cloud world, while PaaS represents a higher level language. With IaaS, developers have complete freedom to build and configure anything they want, from the operating system on up,…

Back at Cloud Expo in June, I had the chance to sit down with Jeremy Geelan from SYS-CON for a short interview. If you'd like to understand ServiceMesh and the Agility Platform in a bit more detail, this is a great way to cover a lot of ground in 6 minutes and 45 seconds.

James Urquhart wrote a good piece for CNET yesterday, titled Regulation, Automation, and Cloud Computing. In it, James comments on a blog by Chris Hoff discussing some of the downsides to automation. Originally, Chris had pointed out that heavily automated environments don't leave a lot of room for human intervention when things go wrong and…