Andrea Eubanks who was one of the key people who drove the Journey project with me a VMware, pointed me at this site tha EMC built around the journey. It is a quick self-assessment tool that allows customers to position themsleves on the journey… http://www.emc.com/microsites/journey-private-cloud/index.htm?CMP=KNC-SITELINK-GOOGLE then presents content that it relevant to them based on… [Read more…]
July 16, 2010
Forbes just published my second article on Cloud Computing. They are forcing me to 700 words which is hard for me but it is a good forcing function to get to the point quickly I will still use this blog for more details Vittorio
July 13, 2010
In this previous post I talked like there are some customers that do start their virtualization journey virtualizing mission critical databases. They are the exceptions, not the rule but that post raised a lot of interest as many customers are looking at virtualizing mission critical application and databases as their next step in the virtualization… [Read more…]
July 13, 2010
I have been quiet on this blog lately as I got busy with my new position at VMware. I also took a quick break over the 4th of July week. The pipeline of articles is in good shape though. I am very excited about finalizing an interview with a customer on how to virtualize Oracle… [Read more…]
April 15, 2010
In previous posts, I covered the 3 main stages of virtualization adoption and the key elements driving the virtualization journey. Just a reminder that most of the material in these posts comes directly from our customers through a primary research project that we carried out last summer. Let’s now double-click on the Business Production phase.… [Read more…]
March 26, 2010
The journey framework that I have been covering in the posts of this blog is applicable to both large and small and medium enterprise, say less than a 1000 people. The main difference between small and large enterprises is the speed at which SMBs move. Most of the ones we interviewed said they went from… [Read more…]
March 23, 2010
Today I met with two more CIOs, both with a pretty mature virtualization environment. One is aggressively virtualizing in-house built customer facing applications, the second one is stepping up the virtualization of their SAP implementation. Virtualization Business Metric Best Practice They both brough up a business best practice that I heard before: Define and track… [Read more…]
March 22, 2010
I am in Phoenix at the Gartner CIO Leadership Forum where tomorrow I will be introducing a customer of ours to talk about their virtualization journey. Today I hosted a lunch with 4 CIO and took some random notes. Resistance is Futile Three of the CIOs at the table are >80% virtualized, in other words… [Read more…]
March 12, 2010
In my previous post I talked about some of the main best practices that customers use in the IT production phase of their virtualization journey. I dug some more into the archive of customer interviews and found these additional ones. Some are interesting. Virtualization Friendly Chargeback Many, many customers use this best practice to foster… [Read more…]
March 2, 2010
As I discusses in this post, IT production is the first phase in the virtualization journey. Here are some of the IT Production best practices we learned from our customers. Don’t Skip IT Production The first best practice is not to skip this stage as it helps the team build up the expertise and experience… [Read more…]
December 16, 2010
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