Posts Tagged ‘ServiceMesh’

I saw a question flash across a social media channel the other day: "What's the difference between an internal cloud and  virtualization?" A different-but-similar question was asked by a ServiceMesh customer the other day: "I already have my server environment virtualized, so why do I need a  private cloud?" Given the confusion around these concepts,…

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…

First of all, Happy New Year! 2010 was a great year for ServiceMesh -- we had huge revenue growth while maintaining our profitability once again. We're ready and looking forward to continued growth and success in 2011. Over the holiday break, I had some time to think about tradition. Are the end of the year,…

I feel fortunate to work for a high growth company in the cloud space.  Think about it, just a few years ago the common refrain was “IT is a cost center”, and “how can we reduce the cost of IT”. While I’ve always disagreed with those statements, I certainly understood how they evolved. The great…

For the last couple of years of cloud computing evolution, people have noticed that enterprises have been hesitating to fully embrace the cloud. It's obvious that enterprises are intrigued and even excited about the promise of cloud computing, but something has been holding them back. The common wisdom was that security was the problem child.…

It sounds overly grandiose to declare the dawn of a new era of information technology. It sounds even more hyperbolic to declare that the impact will fundamentally affect how companies are run and business is conducted around the world. Yes, it would be dramatic to make such statements--but also true. The last time I made…