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
by Tom Bittman | August 26, 2009 | 5 Comments
There’s a big change coming to the server virtualization market, and it has serious ramifications. The midmarket is waking up. At Gartner, the number of midmarket clients who are just starting out with virtualization has been growing exponentially for the last year or so. We just completed a worldwide survey of nearly 1,500 companies with [...]
Category: Virtualization Tags: Microsoft, Virtualization, VMware
by Tom Bittman | March 30, 2009 | 5 Comments
But cloud computing doesn’t need a revolution – capitalism will lead the evolution of cloud computing. With only a few word changes, the opening of the Communist Manifesto could be easily inserted into the Open Cloud Manifesto, announced March 30, 2009: “A spectre is haunting the cloud – the spectre of openness and standards. Amazon, [...]
Category: Cloud Tags: Amazon, Cisco, cloud computing, google, Microsoft, private cloud, VMware
by Tom Bittman | February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment
At VMworld Europe 2009, Citrix made an important virtualization industry announcement – their XenServer package will carry no license price (just support). This package includes centralized management of distributed VMs, and live migration capability. It isn’t everything you need to manage a virtual machine pool, but many smaller companies who might have avoided virtualization completely [...]
Category: Cloud Virtualization Tags: Citrix, cloud computing, Microsoft, Virtualization, VMware
by Tom Bittman | February 20, 2009 | 1 Comment
We spend a lot of time at Gartner looking ahead. But it’s also fun to look at what might have been… What if no one had developed an x86 hypervisor? How well would multi-core x86 processors be selling today? What if Microsoft had acquired VMware in 2001? Would they have snuffed it out (until something [...]
Category: Virtualization Tags: Microsoft, Virtualization, VMware
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 | November 3, 2008 | 15 Comments
I’ve had a number of posts on the structure of the cloud computing market, (Can A Cloud Computing Provider Be Too Massive?, Is Google the Mainframe of Cloud Computing?, Partly or Mostly Cloudy?) and I’m getting more and more comfortable talking about three major phases of market evolution. Very simply, I think they look like [...]
Category: Cloud Tags: cloud computing, google, Microsoft
by Tom Bittman | October 28, 2008 | 9 Comments
Is Azure a hopeful name? An azure sky implies cloudless, doesn’t it? No question, Microsoft would like cloud computing to go away. Selling gazillions of copies of Windows and Office, not to mention mere zillions of Windows Server and Server products has been a nice business. This whole cloud idea is ruining their bright, clear, [...]
Category: Cloud Tags: Amazon, cloud computing, data centers, google, 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
