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 | 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 | 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 | October 18, 2010 | 1 Comment
Gartner’s Symposium this year is a blow-out – more than 7,500 attendees, and more than 1,600 CIOs. That means a very busy week of presentations and one-on-ones. As an analyst, what I always find interesting is “the buzz”. You get a real good sense of what’s hot based on one-on-one load, and one-on-one topics. I [...]
Category: Cloud Virtualization Tags: cloud computing, private cloud, symposium, Virtualization
by Tom Bittman | May 24, 2010 | 2 Comments
After spending the day discussing IT operations, here are some musings on the future of IT ops. Traditionally, IT ops has been responsible for managing operationally "dumb" applications. These legacy applications are like infants – they need constant care and feeding. They can’t take care of themselves, and they rely entirely on others to survive. [...]
Category: Cloud Future of Infrastructure Tags: Future of Infrastructure, private cloud, Virtualization
by Tom Bittman | April 16, 2010 | 9 Comments
Private cloud computing is rapidly moving up the Gartner hype cycle. In terms of raw market hype, I think we’ll peak late this year. VMware’s “Redwood” won’t be the only announcement – every major infrastructure vendor in the planet will likely put “private cloud” in their announcements, their marketing, their product names. So before we [...]
Category: Cloud Virtualization Tags: cloud computing, private cloud, Virtualization, VMware
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 | 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
