Examining the Cloud – Private, Public, Hybrid
To shamelessly hack the phrase “it’s the economy stupid”, most hardware vendors don’t get it. It’s not about your spinning disk, your compute density, or your software defined everything. It’s not even about your solutions; especially when those solutions highlight your hardware. It’s about how you can enable customers application. CXO’s don’t care about … Continue reading IT Marketing – Duh, It’s The Applications Stupid
Most progressive CIO’s want out of the IT market, at least the IT market as we have known it for the past few decades. CIO’s desire the autonomous data center; a data center that effectively operates without the constant supervision of storage managers, network managers, database managers, and outlook managers. They want what the public … Continue reading The Autonomous Data Center – CIO’s End Goal
Trend: The momentum generated by Cloud, and more specifically OpenStack, has gained the interest of IT leadership due to the premise of being built on an open standards platform and the promise of significantly reduced licensing fees in the data center. OpenStack nomenclature however can be confusing to the uninitiated and downright a second … Continue reading OpenStack for the CXO
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