Chuck's Blog

The Cloud Rush Has Officially Begun In Earnest

As I sit back and contemplate the last few weeks, I keep coming to the same conclusion. 

The market has clearly expressed its strong interest in all things cloud-like, and just about every technology vendor on the planet -- large and small -- is frantically repositioning themselves just as quickly as possible.

Whatever "tipping point" we all were waiting for, it's clearly happened.  Game on.

And I think this rapid shift has caught many in the IT industry by surprise: technology vendors, system integrators, consultants -- few people are really interested in IT as usual. 

Everyone wants to talk about the cloud.

Consider the following ...

The Power Of Pooling

In my discussions with customers, I often ask the "V" question: how are you doing with virtualization?

Occasionally I get an interesting response: they're an entrenched IBM customer, and they point to the use of virtualization on their mainframe, and perhaps their big AIX boxen, and say they're largely virtualized.  Asked and answered.

I need to ask them a better question: how are you doing with pooling of resources?

Where Does The Enterprise Desktop Go From Here?

Every so often, a well-understood category in IT becomes completely up-for-grabs in terms of answering the question: what's next? 

Clearly, how we think about enterprise desktops and delivering end-user computing is now very much in play. The many announcements coming from VMworld only underscores this point.

What's an enterprise IT planner to do?

Chad Is On A Tear ...

I know, there's a LOT to read and digest coming out of VMworld these days.

As an occasionally proliferate blogger myself, I have to hand it to Chad -- he's turned loose a veritable supernova of meaty and significant technology-oriented posts in the last few days.  I'm impressed, and I don't impress easily.  I know how much work is behind each and every one of these posts.

If you have a moment, please check these out:

vCloud Director and UIM

VPLEX, Long Distance VM Teleportation, and a great offer ...

Mega Caches, Automatied Tiering, or Both?

DRS -- For Storage

EMC Storage for VMware View 4.5 @ $38/client -- and scales to thousands!

RSA, VMware and Intel -- Securing Private/Public Clouds

And, of course, the video from the team that makes much of this magic happen ...

Good Reading!