Contemplating IT

We did research on IT professionals and their major priorities over the last 18 months and all of them emphatically stated that implementing VMware was one of their top initiatives significantly driving down costs and improving operations. These IT prof… more »

Some people believe that private IT clouds are just a different name for the same stuff we already have in the data center. I disagree. Regardless of what we call this new “thing”, a true IT utility or private IT Cloud, it isn’t synonymous with what we… more »

Retiring applications is something that I must confess I haven't thought much about. However, I recently met with the Sai Gundavelli -CEO of an emerging vendor called Solix and he shared with me their new product called ExAPPS. Solix has been selling… more »

I went to the Computer History Museum last week in Mountain View, CA to see the Difference Engine conceived and almost invented by Charles Babbage in the 1830s. Basically this was a computer run by kinetic energy (a person moving a crank) using sophis… more »

My first reaction when Cisco announced getting into the server business was - well let's just say I was a bit skeptical. First , Cisco UCS upsets the IT ecosystem, which is not necessarily a bad thing but it does have ramifications that need to be considered in terms of go-to-market, the impact to Cisco's channels and alliances, and of course it creates natural enemies that are big and powerful enough that even Cisco needs to be mindful of them - including Dell, HP and IBM. Certainly all three are already competitors on various levels but they also have alliances and must live together in the data center. But now Cisco is going after their bread and butter server business, which is a whole new ball game. more »