Tag: cloud
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More on BMC’s private plans
We’re all curious what Dell and BMC are going to do now that they’re private. I hope a lot of “crazy” stuff, myself, otherwise: why go private? Here are some comments from BMC’s VP Asia Pacific, Chip Salyards: “With a publically traded company you are on these 90 day cycles so you can’t change from…
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Two very different estimates of cloud email usage and forecasts
A while back I posted a quick quote from recent Gartner prognosticating about cloud email. The up-shot was that right now, it’s just about 8% for all types of companies, globally (except India and China for some reason). Someone from SpiceWorks left a comment that arecent survey of theirs indicated something much different, at least…
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People stuck in the email backwoods
Only 8% of office system users employ cloud-hosted email and desktop applications, according to analyst company Gartner Gartner expects that 10% of enterprise email inboxes will be hosted in the cloud by the end of 2014. …adoption will accelerate from the first half to 2015, reaching 33% penetartiong in 2017 and 60% by 2022 –Just…
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Lazy robots, or, Is cloud meeting your expectations?
As I mentioned earlier, Roy and and I had a webinar today about Dell’s cloud portfolio and strategies. Here’s a recording of it, enjoy. And, there’s also one on DevOps, from Barton and Willis.
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Upcoming talk on Dell’s New Cloud Strategy
I’ll have a little cameo on a webinar tomorrow, speaking broadly to Dell’s cloud strategy. It’d a good chance to see what we’re up to now-a-days and how we think about it. This will be one of the first, public overviews of our cloud approach since we announced we were no longer building and running…
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Microsoft keeps fast following to the cloud
In addition to Azure, Microsoft is offering other cloud services through Intune, its Internet-based computer management service. Developed for small offices with limited IT help, Intune provides a set of automated updating and management functionality for keeping Windows-based business computers in operating order. A quiet success for Microsoft, Intune now is used by more than…
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All about SoftLayer
Pretty detailed overview of SoftLayer and their approach to cloud: With over 100,000 servers under management in 13 data centers, SoftLayer has one of the largest IT operations in the world. –SoftLayer sticks with Super Micro servers, ponders Open Compute
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A peek inside AWS
The engineer says for $7,500 a month, Amazon will guarantee they will be on dedicated hardware, and not just have the IP addresses segmented through the VPC. Noisy neighbors are usually only a problem for larger customers though, he says. … He considers Google to be a serious threat to AWS, but not Azure. "Anyone…
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Virtualization Adoption as a Guide for Cloud Adoption
“By starting with test and dev with virtualization, you could ensure that you had a high degree of success, gain your skills and then move on to infrastructure and finally tier-two apps. Then maybe three years later you got to business-critical apps. “Just as it was a big mistake to try to start virtualization with…
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SAP Takes It All to the Cloud
“We will do cloud-based ERP on a massive scale,” said Vishal Sikka, a member of SAP’s executive board and one of the people who oversaw the project. Of SAP’s regular product, he said, “At some point in the future, complex implementations should go away. All of our products are moving to HANA.” —SAP Takes It…
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Building a Great Team (Dell buys Enstratius)
With the Enstratius acquisition, Dell is getting a group of people with deep influence in the community. Founder George Reese is an O’Reilly author and a cloud pioneer. He is supported by James Urquhart, Bernard Golden and John Willis, all recognized as influencers in the cloud community. —Alex Williams, TechCruch cloud strength.Welcome @botchagalupe @davidajbagley @georgereese…
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Forrester: Middle-Aged Developers Driving Cloud Computing – ReadWrite
In other words, as with open source, these developers can’t be bothered with corporate bureaucracy. In an earlier Forrester survey, developers said the primary benefit of the cloud is that it’s the "Fastest way for me to get my project done and deployed." This calls to mind Redmonk analyst Stephen O’Grady’s assertion that "Convenience trumps…
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Some Kind of Hybrid Cloud
Our customers are asking for two interrelated items: federation to public clouds and a choice of public cloud APIs. It’s been very consistent. Customers are all deploying some kind of hybrid solution. Some times they start in public and want to move some workloads back to private, like Zynga. Some times they start in private…
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Cloud is just computers
I get the big data part of the PureData announcements, but after analyzing the announcements and getting briefed by Big Blue, I still don’t get the cloud part. And I don’t get why the names on all of this stuff need to be so complicated. TPM opening on PureData
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