End User Computing… Central Control or Distributed Safety? On Bromium’s Novel Play
At VMworld back in August, one of the small number of announcements made revolved around “end user computing”, VMware’s term for all the different products that deliver solutions for actual business users. VMware announced a suite of solutions, built around a bunch of different projects (Projects Octopus, AppBlast, ThinApp, VMware
The Bad, The Ugly and The Good Bits :: Sexism, VMworld 2012 & Smart Cool People
The Divide in Technologists… Sexism & Those That are Building Tech There seems to be a pretty distinctive divide in the technology industry today. There are the young, open minded, devop oriented, free-thinking individuals and then there are the old guard of IT. This later group still brings the “booth babes” and finds an incessant [...]
Another Answer for a Safe Hybrid Dropbox-like Solution–MagFS Launches
Two things most enterprise IT folks agree on are that Dropbox is a risky proposition for sensitive enterprise data and that employees are demanding solutions with a “Dropbox-like” functional spec. It’s a big area of opportunity and one that companies like Egnyte and Oxygen Cloud have spent time addressing – Dropbox’s seemingly never ending security [...]
A Preview of VMworld–On VMware’s Cunning Plans
In a couple of weeks I’ll be in San Francisco for VMware annual conference, VMworld. This will actually be my first time attending the even in person and I suspect I’ve chosen the best year to be there – there are some seismic shifts occurring in VMware’s business and I
The Evolution of IT Towards Cloud Computing
I’ve talked about this idea many times and it’s been picked up and echoed by many in the mainstream media. The idea is this: Cloud computing is a new paradigm for IT that displaces the current dominant paradigm, enterprise computing. This is in the same way that enterprise computing (or “client/server”) displaced mainframe computing as [...]
VMware’s Cloud Strategy: Neither Deadwood Nor Sandalwood But More Than A Collection Of Driftwoods
Last week VMworld happened and some of the Clouderati were busy hanging out in the halls of Moscone Center at San Francisco. I was planning to attend the event but had to cancel due to personal reasons. But a steady stream of tweets and blog posts kept me updated about everything from the keynotes to [...]
Perform The Hybrid Cloud Dance Easily With newScale, rPath and Eucalyptus
Cloud Computing is both inspiring and confusing to many people. When you realize the efficiency and cost savings offered by the cloud, you get inspired but when you listen to the marketing folks, you get confused. The reason is pretty straightforward. The marketing folks on the public cloud side wants you to believe that it [...]
VMWorld Spoilers: vCloud Express And VMware Go
This is the week of VMworld, the leading virtualization event to be held at The Moscone Center, San Francisco from today to Sept. 3rd, 2009. This event, used as a platform to pimp the products of VMware, is building quite a bit of excitement among the pundit and others who are interested in virtualization and [...]
VMware Announces Cloud OS And Cloud Interoperability Roadmap
Image by Robert Scoble via Flickr In VMworld Europe 2009, VMware CEO, Paul Maritz, announced the technological roadmap for their new Virtual Data Center OS (VDC-OS) and vCloud API to enable interoperability across Clouds. Slowly, but steadily, enterprises are warming to Cloud Computing by jumping into what are called as Private Clouds, a cloud like [...]
