Chuck's Blog

Be Still, My Beating Heart!

Although VMworld is done, more cool stuff keeps pouring in.

For those of us who love personal communication gadgets, this is not to be missed!

It's VMware MVP virtualizing Windows CE and Android on a Nokia side-by-side.  You just have to see the video to believe this ...

But there's more to this than just a pure geek rush ...

Accelerating TTV For VMware

Sorry to lay YAA (yet another acronym) on you -- this one stands for Time To Value. 

How quickly can a customer get to "good" and start seeing the benefits?

If you're in the IT vendor business, sooner or later you start taking this topic very seriously, not only for your own products, but also how they work with other parts of the ecosystem.

And since the potential customer value of fully virtualized solution is very great indeed, this is turning out to be a very popular topic.

VMware And The Private Cloud

Big day at VMworld today.  Not only did VMware spell out their vision of enterprise cloud computing, but Paul Maritz went into considerable detail during his keynote -- more from Steve Herrod tomorrow.

Watching the twitterfeed and the blogosphere, it's almost like a thunderclap went off.

And maybe it did ...

Charting the VMware Revolution

Yes, this week is VMworld in Cannes, so many of us bloggers will be commenting on the developments and announcements that always are associated with these industry events.

Today's post is chock-full of detail.

Forrestor released a useful survey "Storage Choices In Virtual Environments" that provides a great deal of insight as to exactly where is VMware in enterprise deployments.

I Don't Get It

Maybe I'm slow.  I know I've been called many things by many people :-)

But this last one has me scratching my head.

See if you can figure it out ...

It's Happening Again

This week is VMworld in Cannes -- a big deal in our world, and maybe yours.

I've been in this industry long enough that I can occasionally see very long cycles repeating, and I think I'm seeing another one.

The story is familiar: established ways of thinking are challenged by new ways of doing things.

But this time, the players are different.  And in some cases, there's the irony of role-reversal.

NAS Evolved

Today, EMC announced several major enhancements for the Celerra platform.  Taken individually, they're interesting.

But taken together, I think this announcement shows just how far NAS technology has evolved in the past few years.  If you haven't been paying attention to what these platforms can now do, maybe you could use a refresher?

The Coming Architectural Wars

Much has been made online of Cisco's rumored plans to enter new data center markets.

It's easy to dismiss all of this as just one large enterprise IT vendor poaching on another's turf.

But, to many of us, there's much more here than initially meets the eye ...

Enterprise Cloud Wars

The recent thoughts about how "private clouds" might be the emergent model for enterprise IT has sparked some strong philosophical debate in the cloud-o-sphere.

On one side, the purists.  On the other side, the pragmatists.

Where you stand probably has much to do with where you sit, no?

This Is What Disruption Might Look Like

Much has been made about disruptive technologies and such in our technology world.  Due to its competitiveness, those of us in the storage biz tend to hear the word "disruption" more often than not.

EMC was significantly disrupted back in 2001 when the market shifted abruptly.  As a result, we vowed "never again", and started investing to be the disruptor rather than the disruptee.