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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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February 26, 2013  11:11 PM

10 Questions for the 2013 OpenStack Summit in Portland



Posted by: Brian Gracely
Cloud Computing, Cloud Management, CloudStack, HP, Lock-In, Multi-Cloud, Open Source, OpenStack, Rackspace, VMware

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February 17, 2013  3:57 PM

Is a New Journey Needed for Business-Critical Applications?



Posted by: Brian Gracely
Converged Infrastructure, Licensing, Lock-In, Mission-Critical Applications, Multi-Tenancy, Security, VMware

For the past 3-4 years, we've seen tremendous growth in the level of virtualization that has been adopted within Enterprise and Mid-Market data centers. Statistics show that we reached the tipping point for Virtual Machines vs. Physical Machines in 2009, with that lead expected to grow to nearly 2x...

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January 6, 2013  1:16 PM

The Dream of Multi-Cloud is Alive in Portland?



Posted by: Brian Gracely
Cloud Computing, Costs, Dell, HP, Lock-In, Multi-Cloud, Open Source, OpenStack, Rackspace, VMware

As I was getting back into the swing of things after the holidays and reviewing a bunch of news sources, a couple of things caught my eye. The first was the return of Portlandia, which made me think of one of my favorite lines,...

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