Let’s face it. Sometimes being an “enabler,” is admirable. However, if you’ve seen an episode of Intervention lately, being an enabler is not always a good thing. VMware’s IaaS strategy was to enable its partners to offer vCloud services and give it’s customers near unlimited (>9,500 partners) choice of cloud providers. There was a big [...]
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VMware Will be a Public Cloud IaaS Provider
by Chris Wolf | March 13, 2013 | 11 Comments
The 90s Called: They Want Their Procurement Team Back
by Chris Wolf | February 4, 2013 | 4 Comments
Today I talked to a client about their private cloud architecture and pending investments. The talk hit on a lot of areas, ranging from software licensing, to vendor support, to orchestration, and finally to standardization. When we got to the topic of standardization and procurement, they couldn’t contain themselves. One member of the organization said: [...]
Category: Cloud Virtualization Tags: cloud
Heterogeneous Virtualization Trends at Gartner Data Center
by Chris Wolf | December 11, 2012 | 2 Comments
Heterogeneous virtualization has been a hot topic among clients and last week at the Gartner Data Center conference in Las Vegas I presented a session on the subject. During the session, I polled the audience on their heterogeneous virtualization plans. Fifty participants responded to each polling question. The first question I asked was about the [...]
Category: Cloud Server Virtualization Tags: citrix, cloud, microsoft, oracle, redhat, Virtualization, vmware
Catalyst 2012 and Mobile Futures
by Chris Wolf | August 3, 2012 | Comments Off
This year at Catalyst we are going out with a bang, with industry heavyweights Brad Anderson (Microsoft) and Simon Crosby (Bromium) offering keen insights into mobility, application, data, and endpoint futures. If that’s not enough, some of my Gartner colleagues (Tom Austin, Larry Cannell, and Ken Agress) will share their knowledge of mobility futures as [...]
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Category: Client Virtualization Cloud Mobility Tags: GartnerCat
Standardization ADD: We are all Hypocrites
by Chris Wolf | June 21, 2012 | 8 Comments
Standardization Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or (SADD): (n) A condition in which one professes to support standardization, yet can’t help but be distracted by the newest, shiniest object – Opex costs be damned. I’m a hypocrite. There. I said it. It’s almost therapeutic. Are you one too? Here’s how I see it. We are all [...]
Category: Cloud Server Virtualization Virtualization Tags: cloud, Virtualization
VMworld 2011: If Amazon is the Benchmark…
by Chris Wolf | September 8, 2011 | 4 Comments
In a recent Gartner field search study, two early internal IaaS cloud adopters noted that if Amazon was the benchmark by which they are measured in terms of cost, then they had to make tough decisions regarding best-of-breed vs. good enough. In particular, the two clients cited whether deploying a third party virtual switch (i.e., [...]
Category: Cloud Server Virtualization Tags: citrix, microsoft, vmware, vmworld
VM/Cloud Mobility Town Hall at Catalyst
by Chris Wolf | July 20, 2011 | Comments Off
Kyle Hilgendorf and I will be hosting a Twitter Town Hall at next week’s Gartner Catalyst Conference. Attendees at the conference will be able to participate in the open Q&A and white boarding session. In addition, we’re looking for folks to submit questions via Twitter as well. The topic is a good one – we’re [...]
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Category: Cloud Virtualization Tags: cat11
Is VMware a Provider or Enabler?
by Chris Wolf | April 12, 2011 | 5 Comments
Today VMware announced the launch of Cloud Foundry – a cloud service that makes it easy for developers to get started with VMware’s Open Platform-as-a-Service (Open PaaS) offerings. VMware CTO Steve Herrod offered good insight into VMware’s plans for Cloud Foundry in this post. In case you missed it, last week Steve Herrod blogged about [...]
Category: Cloud Server Virtualization Tags: vmware
Hybrid Cloud Mobility: Converting the VM is the Easy Part
by Chris Wolf | December 21, 2010 | 2 Comments
This week Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been in the news for offering a tool that imports VMware VMs to the Amazon cloud. You can read the announcement on the AWS blog here. While this is a good and important step for Amazon, the announcement reminded me of a conversation I frequently have with clients [...]
Category: Cloud Server Virtualization Tags: amazon, vmware
Oracle Broadens x86 Virtualization Support, but Work Remains
by Chris Wolf | November 10, 2010 | 9 Comments
Today EMC’s Chad Sakac blogged about a significant update to Oracle’s support policy for VMware ESX environments – Oracle no longer explicitly excludes Oracle RAC from being virtualized. It should also be noted that Oracle’s support is limited to “issues that either are known to occur on the native OS, or can be demonstrated not [...]
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