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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 16, 2008 | Submit a Comment
At VMworld today, VMware announced two strategic shifts that are as important as they are unsurprising. One pits VMware firmly against powerhouses IBM, HP and Microsoft in the competition for infrastructure control. The other extends VMware’s virtualization story into cloud computing. Are they overreaching? The first, “Virtual Data Center Operating System”, is what Gartner defined [...]
Category: Cloud Virtualization Tags: Amazon, cloud computing, Microsoft, Virtualization, VMware
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
