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Coté Memo #29: vRealize almost explained, Compuware gets bought, 1 year at 451
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Cloud == speed, pt. 2, or, Developers moving at public cloud speed driving IT transformation
WTH: How do you see the path towards the software-defined Data centre?
AB: What I believe is driving this trend is that developers and organisations are looking to move extremely fast. Developers are getting used to the paradigm of going on AWS (Amazon Web Services) and getting resources immediately instead of weeks/months of provisioning time. That is the benchmark against which they are now holding their internal IT organisations.
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Summary
We discuss thinking beyond human error as Bill starts to summarize the book Behind Human Error. It’s always helpful to look at how the system and process caused the wrong move. Also, thinking about hardware, and some nice feedback from designers.
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Hardware, what is it?
- Coté is confused about how to think about hardware.
- The IBM “brain chip”
Follow-up on “design”
- Some follow-up from a designer: of course they iterate, dummy!
- The air hockey meat-mallet (actually called the “OXO Good Grips Meat Pounder”)
- Where Good Ideas Come From and avoiding the Ferrari to Pinto transformation.
- Design documentary movies: Objectified, Helvetica, and the upcoming Urbanized.
Human Error
- Bill goes over Behind Human Error, causing us to discuss how various pipelines (systems) in product management work in waterfall and non-waterfall mode.
- How do product managers fit in to a design-heavy pipeline?
Coté Memo #28: Yet another DevOps landscape, webinar tips for analysts
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Hardware is the price variable
With EVO, VMware is pitting the hardware vendors against each other for deals that will likely involve hundreds to thousands of nodes in large enterprises, and the competition will drive down hardware prices and therefore the overall price of the EVO solution. If hardware costs less than it might otherwise without such pressure, that extra margin can come from the software and support in the EVO stack.
It’s rough being a hardware vendor.
Treating OpenStack like a spec, not a stack at #vmworld
Good, thorough piece from TPM on VMware’s OpenStack and Docker stuff this week, inc.:
The lesson to be learned from this is that OpenStack is just a framework for how the components of a cloud are controlled, but it does not prescribe any particular component for compute, networking, storage, or management.
Treating OpenStack like a spec, not a stack at #vmworld
Teradici's remote workstation access product paves the way for a new type of WaaS (451 Report)
As you may recall, I write about virtual desktop stuff from time-to-time. Teradici recently launched a new workstation remote access package for engineers and CAD/CAM types. My 451 report on the topic is out, co-authored with Scott Ottaway.
Teradici is an interesting company in this space as they get most of their revenue (70-75%) from OEM’ing their PCoIP technology to the likes of VMware, Amazon, HP, and many others for embedded use in those OEM’ers products and services.
What VMware means when they say "hybrid cloud"
Gartner’s @cloudpundit has a great way of summing up VMware’s future-proofing problems when it comes to their strategy.
tl;dr: they need to straddle two worlds, pre-cloud and post-cloud infrastructure. When VMware says “hybrid cloud,” that straddling of “legacy” IT and “real cloud” seems to be what they mean:
That brings us to VMware (and many of the other traditional IT vendors who are trying to figure out what to do in an increasingly cloud-y world).
We wore the blue suits, white shirts with button-down collars, striped ties, fedoras and wingtip shoes. The customers felt they could count on us.
John F. Akers, “the 6th CEO of IBM,” as quoted in “John F. Akers, 79, Dies; Led IBM as PCs Ascended,” New York Times.