April 11, 2013  11:21 PM

IT Evolution follows Historical Patterns



Posted by: Brian Gracely
Budgeting, Cloud Computing, CloudStack, Consumerization of IT, Converged Infrastructure, Costs, DevOps, Hybrid Cloud, Lock-In, Open Source, Outsourcing, Shadow IT, Simon Wardley

This past week, a colleague asked a commonly heard question these days:

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March 23, 2013  12:12 PM

Understanding Cloud Computing Forecasts



Posted by: Brian Gracely
APi, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Cloud Management, Data Center, DevOps, Hybrid Cloud, Mission-Critical Applications, Multi-Cloud, Open Source, Overlay Network, SaaS, Security, Shadow IT, SLA, Software-Defined Networking, Virtualization

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December 17, 2012  10:31 PM

Is IT the Last Major Open-Source Project?



Posted by: Brian Gracely
Big Data, Budgeting, Cloud Computing, Cloud Management, Concierge, Consumerization of IT, Costs, Data Scientist, DevOps, Licensing, Open Source, Shadow IT

Traditionally, internal IT organizations have leveraged proprietary software and public Internet services have been built using open-source software. Some of this behavior was driven by legacy...


December 11, 2012  12:06 AM

Enterprise Cloud Management – Still a Wide-Open Game



Posted by: Brian Gracely
Cisco, Cloud Computing, Cloud Management, CloudStack, Data Center, DevOps, Gartner, Open Source, OpenStack, Software-Defined Data Center, VMware

Sometimes it's easy to get caught up in the Twitter echo chamber , believing that whatever is good for Google, Facebook or NetFlix must also be good for your Enterprise environment. All new applications, built to scale and running on commodity hardware. But the other end of the spectrum is the...


October 29, 2012  9:00 AM

What 21st Century Bit Factories can learn from 20th Century Widget Factories



Posted by: Brian Gracely
21st Century Bit Factory, Cloud Computing, Converged Infrastructure, Data Center, DevOps, Facebook, Google, Henry Ford, Simon Wardley, Software-Defined Data Center

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