by Tom Bittman | September 24, 2012 | 13 Comments
Just when you thought you were starting to understand cloud computing, and private cloud computing, here comes hybrid cloud! Vendors are already flocking to the term – it means everything from remotely managed appliances to a mix of virtual and non-virtual servers to traditional applications using cloud services, and everything in between. So what is [...]
Category: Cloud Hybrid Cloud Private Cloud Tags: cloud computing, hybrid cloud computing, private cloud
by Tom Bittman | March 22, 2012 | 15 Comments
Private cloud computing continues to heat up, and there are several key trends defining private cloud computing in 2012: 1) Real Deployments: We’ll see about a 10X increase in private cloud deployments in 2012. Enterprises will find where private cloud makes sense, and where it’s completely over-hyped. We’ll see successes – and there will also [...]
Category: Agility Cloud Private Cloud Tags: agility, cloud computing, private cloud
by Tom Bittman | February 28, 2012 | 3 Comments
Sitting in my hot tub with my wife in central Wisconsin in February made me think about private cloud computing. Why? I was perfectly comfortable where I was, but I knew that eventually I was going to need to get out and make a run across the deck through below-freezing temperatures. I was going to [...]
Category: Agility Cloud Future of Infrastructure Private Cloud Tags: agility, cloud computing, private cloud
by Tom Bittman | May 19, 2011 | 2 Comments
On May 17, 2011, HP, IBM, Intel and Red Hat (as governing members) joined BMC Software, Eucalyptus Systems and Suse to announce the “Open Virtualization Alliance”, or OVA (which means “eggs” in Latin, right?). Their stated purposes include “increase overall awareness” of KVM, “accelerate the emergence of an ecosystem” around KVM, and so on. Sure, [...]
Category: Cloud Future of Infrastructure Virtualization Tags: cloud computing, private cloud, Virtualization
by Tom Bittman | April 7, 2011 | 9 Comments
In the past two months I’ve spoken to an audience of channel partners, had 6-7 lunch roundtables with channel partners in the U.S. and Canada, and I’ve met with a few channel partners in Europe. Two things are becoming increasingly clear to me: the channel will be critical in broader adoption of cloud computing (and [...]
Category: Cloud Tags: cloud computing, private cloud, Virtualization
by Tom Bittman | April 5, 2011 | 2 Comments
I’m a knowledge worker. I’m in Copenhagen, on business. My laptop is in Connecticut. And I’m OK with that. Now let me preface this by saying as an analyst, I don’t cover client computing, or PCs or tablet computers. I’m writing this as Joe Knowledge Worker. Even so, I’m going to avoid using product brand [...]
Category: Cloud Education Future of Infrastructure Industry Analyst Tags: analyst, cloud computing
by Tom Bittman | February 11, 2011 | 5 Comments
Will virtualization, multicore, and cloud computing trends send x86 architecture server and processor volumes down for the next decade? It certainly is a realistic scenario – and perhaps the most likely. At Gartner, we spend a lot of time trying to understand future scenarios, the likelihood of each, indicators that a scenario is likely to [...]
Category: Cloud Virtualization Tags: cloud computing, servers, Virtualization
by Tom Bittman | February 9, 2011 | 4 Comments
We’re having an interesting discussion inside of Gartner (due credit to Neil MacDonald, Lydia Leong, Cameron Haight and David Cearley for the ideas in this post – I hope they post further on this). The concepts here aren’t new. For example, in 2004, I talked about “the walls coming down” between business, the data center [...]
Category: Agility Cloud Education Future of Infrastructure Virtualization Tags: cloud computing, Virtualization
by Tom Bittman | December 7, 2010 | 2 Comments
Interesting discussions here at Gartner’s Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. While discussing the importance of economies of scale to cloud providers, I pointed out that economies of scale is a double-edged sword. While enterprises tend to have many (often hundreds, or even thousands) IT services that they provide, cloud providers tend to have only [...]
Category: Cloud Tags: cloud computing, GartnerDC
by Tom Bittman | October 18, 2010 | 18 Comments
My first presentation at Symposium 2010 was “Server Virtualization: From Virtual Machines to Private Clouds.” Attendance was crazy – the large room was packed, people were standing at the back, and apparently a few dozen were turned away at the door. This proves that server virtualization is not only a hot topic, it’s getting hotter [...]
Category: Cloud Virtualization Tags: Citrix, cloud computing, Microsoft, private cloud, symposium, Virtualization, VMware
