April 14, 2013  4:35 PM

What Do Enterprises Expect from OpenStack?



Posted by: Brian Gracely
AWS, Cloud Computing, Enterprise, Open Source, OpenStack, Rackspace, VMware

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March 23, 2013  3:43 PM

Big Data Thoughts from Structure:Data



Posted by: Brian Gracely
Big Data, Data Scientist, DBaaS, Facebook, Google, Hadoop, NoSQL, Open Source, Pivotal, Platform, VMware

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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...


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,...


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...


November 12, 2012  11:00 AM

Why the Hype about SDN?



Posted by: Brian Gracely
Cisco, Cloud Computing, Costs, Data Center, Open Source, OpenFlow, Software-Defined Networking, VMware

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November 5, 2012  11:00 AM

Two Views of OpenStack – From Beginners to Experts



Posted by: Brian Gracely
Cloud Computing, Data Center, Open Source, OpenStack, VMware

This past week I had the opportunity to have two very distinct conversations about OpenStack, the evolving open-source cloud computing project. One from the