by Tom Bittman | March 13, 2010 | 5 Comments
Almost all large companies and many small and midsized enterprises are virtualizing. Based on surveys, the majority of large companies consider building a private cloud a core strategy. Surprisingly, that’s even true with midsized organizations – but slow down a bit. While the direction makes sense, be careful about getting too caught up in the [...]
Category: Cloud Virtualization Tags: cloud computing, private cloud, Virtualization
by Tom Bittman | February 9, 2010 | 5 Comments
Do cloud computing providers understand customer requirements? Do customers understand their requirements? No and no, and this is a problem. Today, most cloud computing providers offer one-size-fits-all services – with few options or service level alternatives. As the market matures, there will be thousands of providers, each trying to differentiate by focusing on specific market [...]
Category: Cloud Tags: cloud computing, private cloud
by Tom Bittman | October 22, 2009 | 7 Comments
At this week’s Gartner Symposium in Orlando, there was a noticeable shift in the end user discussions regarding virtualization and cloud computing, and a few surprises: 1) In my presentation on server virtualization on Monday, before I started, I asked the audience how many of them considered private cloud computing to be a core strategy [...]
Category: Cloud Virtualization Tags: cloud computing, private cloud, Virtualization
by Tom Bittman | October 17, 2009 | 1 Comment
Tomorrow I leave for Orlando for our annual all-up IT conference of the year in Orlando, Florida. Attendees see this conference as a one-stop week-long update on all IT industry trends, an opportunity to network with thousands of their peers (including more than a thousand CIOs), and an opportunity to have face-to-face one-on-ones (as opposed [...]
Category: Cloud Industry Analyst Virtualization Tags: analyst, cloud computing, private cloud, Virtualization
by Tom Bittman | October 12, 2009 | 4 Comments
It seems like some hard lines have been drawn in the market over cloud computing versus on-premises computing. On the one hand, the proponents of cloud computing are promoting a massive shift of software development toward cloud platforms, designing for multitenancy and massive scale. No more software packages – just buy software as a service. [...]
Category: Cloud Future of Infrastructure Tags: cloud computing, Future of Infrastructure, private cloud
by Tom Bittman | September 22, 2009 | 8 Comments
I was discussing cloud computing with a client today, trying to find a good market analogy to position how cloud computing would evolve. The electricity utility example doesn’t work. Neither does the water utility. There are two reasons: (1) Computing is a rapidly evolving technology, and (2) Service requirements vary widely for computing. Electricity production [...]
Category: Cloud Tags: cloud computing, private cloud
by Tom Bittman | August 11, 2009 | 8 Comments
Few organizations that I talk to seem to understand the strategic ramifications of server virtualization. They tend to think about cost-cutting – virtualization simply as a form of efficient consolidation. We’ve surveyed our clients – those starting out on virtualization say they are doing it to save money. They are thinking tactically. Hey, there’s nothing [...]
Category: Agility Cloud Future of Infrastructure Virtualization Tags: cloud computing, private cloud, Virtualization
by Tom Bittman | August 9, 2009 | 8 Comments
Summer’s almost over – time for less sun and more clouds! I’ve gotten a lot of client questions recently about how to get started building their private clouds. Their vendors are at their doorstep hawking private cloud computing. Clients are asking about what technologies to use, which vendors to choose, how to build one, etc. [...]
Category: Cloud Tags: cloud computing, Future of Infrastructure, private cloud
by Tom Bittman | May 8, 2009 | 5 Comments
I’m sure I could come up with more than four, but let’s throw a few out there that I continue to hear from people trying to understand the phenomenon. Don’t misunderstand my intention here – I believe cloud computing will be huge, especially for commodity services, especially for small businesses and start-ups, especially for new [...]
Category: Cloud Tags: Amazon, cloud computing, Future of Infrastructure, private cloud, Virtualization
by Tom Bittman | April 8, 2009 | 8 Comments
Is it a private cloud service, or a public cloud service? It’s not quite so binary. I first explored this in my post Virtual Cloud Privacy is Gray a few months ago. There are two relative dimensions that determine how “private” or how “public” a cloud service really is: Service Control/Ownership: There are two ends [...]
Category: Cloud Tags: cloud computing, private cloud
