by Tom Bittman | February 5, 2009 | 37 Comments
There’s an argument over whether the term “cloud” can be used to describe the changes taking place in internal IT architectures. How silly! Regardless of the term, there is a major trend playing out over the next few years where internal IT providers want to make fundamental changes so that they behave and provide similar [...]
Category: Cloud Future of Infrastructure Tags: cloud computing, Future of Infrastructure, private cloud
by Tom Bittman | January 21, 2009 | 5 Comments
Cisco’s public blog recently announced an architectural approach they call “Unified Computing”. There’s been a lot of speculation about Cisco moving into the blade server business and so forth. I think Cisco just made clear that in their view the network may be at the center of IT, but “unifying” it with computing and storage [...]
Category: Cloud Future of Infrastructure Virtualization Tags: Amazon, Cisco, cloud computing, data centers, Future of Infrastructure, google, private cloud, Virtualization, VMware
by Tom Bittman | January 7, 2009 | 3 Comments
Why is virtualization important? Why is cloud computing compelling? Why is agility becoming so important in data centers? It isn’t simply about saving money – although that does help create a business case. It’s about our inevitable cultural speed shift, and it’s driven by our kids. When I was young, I wanted everything “now”. We [...]
Category: Agility Cloud Future of Infrastructure Virtualization Tags: cloud computing, elasticity, google, Virtualization
by Tom Bittman | December 11, 2008 | 5 Comments
More than half of large enterprise data center executives expect to get some IT services from the cloud within two years. During Gartner’s Data Center Conference in Las Vegas last week, we used electronic polling to survey the attendees on various topics. I asked several questions during my keynote. More than 1,600 attended the session, [...]
Category: Cloud Future of Infrastructure Tags: cloud computing, data centers, Future of Infrastructure
by Tom Bittman | December 3, 2008 | 5 Comments
What a crazy and exhilarating week in Las Vegas! I delivered the keynote at Gartner’s 27th annual Data Center Conference this week. Here are four major points I made. Later I’ll post some key take-aways from hours and hours of conversations – lots of great insights from conversations between our analysts and more than 1,800 [...]
Category: Cloud Future of Infrastructure Virtualization Tags: Amazon, cloud computing, Future of Infrastructure, Microsoft, Virtualization
by Tom Bittman | October 18, 2008 | Submit a Comment
Rather than summarize the entire discussion that Ken Dulaney and I had with Cisco’s CEO and Chairman, John Chambers on October 14th at Gartner’s Symposium in Orlando, I’d like to focus on two key points that many people may have missed, but should prove to be critical opportunities and challenges for Cisco in the near [...]
Category: Cloud Future of Infrastructure Tags: Cisco, cloud computing, Microsoft
by Tom Bittman | October 11, 2008 | Submit a Comment
This week at Gartner’s Symposium in Orlando I will be presenting “Virtualization Changes Virtually Everything” and “The Future of Infrastructure and Operations: The Engine of Cloud Computing”. Ken Dulaney and I will also be leading a Masterminds discussion with Cisco’s CEO and Chairman, John Chambers. Here’s what you can expect: On Monday, my “Virtualization” presentation [...]
Category: Cloud Future of Infrastructure Virtualization Tags: Cisco, cloud computing, Microsoft, private cloud, Virtualization, VMware
by Tom Bittman | September 22, 2008 | 3 Comments
I had a conversation with some folks at Intel today, and they referred to research from IDC on what Virtualization 2.0 looked like. This got me thinking. There is a tendency to take a trend like virtualization and wrap every other trend inside it. That creates a semantic nightmare, in my opinion. Virtualization does not [...]
Category: Cloud Future of Infrastructure Virtualization Tags: cloud computing, elasticity, Virtualization
by Tom Bittman | September 15, 2008 | 1 Comment
I’m getting an interesting question more often every week: “How do I become more cloud-like – what are cloud providers doing that I can emulate?” Several people at our Web Innovation Summit in L.A. this week have asked me the same question. The answer is important – for more than seven years, Gartner has been [...]
Category: Agility Cloud Future of Infrastructure Virtualization Tags: cloud computing, elasticity, Future of Infrastructure, Microsoft, private cloud, Virtualization, VMware
