links for 2008-07-01

• Cisco CEO Chambers: We don’t need to own VMware
  Chambers essentially dismissed speculation that Cisco would make a run at storage titan EMC or virtualization software vendor VMware, of which EMC owns 84%, as it deepens its penetration into the data center.
  (tags: virtualization)
• MyCMDB? What are they smokin’ over at Managed Objects?
  (tags: bsm)
• Gartner IOM Conference: CMDB Success
  33% are currently in progress with a CMDB, 19% will start a CMDB efforts in 6 months, 12% will start a CMDB in 6-12 months, 20% will start a CMDB by the end of 2009, 9% are not planning a CMDB
  (tags: resource-reconciliation)
• Lost In The Category Chasm? Part 1: Deal With It!
  The Web is becoming the defining value-adding distribution channel… Costs are lowered, evaluation is simplified and knowledge can be generated at the coalface, validated in use and refined by the community
• Will EMC join the Big Four?
  So if I were Cisco and had 45bn$ to spend, I definitly would take a deep look into EMC. I guess together with Cisco, we would see the Big Five.