Flexible IT and the Path to the Services Future

I’m an IT revolutionary. I talk all the time about the quaint backwards “state of the art” in enterprise IT, what with its (many) decades old protocols, paradigms, and practices. What we call modern is really just a charade of faked-out old-fashioned open systems infrastructure: Pretend servers talking to fake disks over frankenstein networking technology.

The Cry of the Grump!!

All providers of infrastructure need to understand the importance of requirements; nothing will destroy the credibility of Cloud Architectures quicker than the inappropriate and unplanned deployment of applications into the Cloud.

VMware’s cloud strategy

It’s obvious VMware and virtualization are playing a huge role in cloud computing from the perspective of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). VMware’s lead Cloud Architect, Mike Dipetrillo, was gracious enough to provid some great insight into VMware’s strategy.